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by strait 15y ago
The phrase make good sense. Knowing why the fence was put up in the first place is key. Then "We've always done it this way." is usually defeated with a more appropriate reason. Unless the same type of fences you see are reasonably indicati
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by strait 15y ago
I find it hard to believe that anyone here takes this crap seriously. If you're making good progress as a developer, it can be very taxing on the mind and body. Do I really need to point this out here??
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by strait 15y ago
I'd heard the same about the 15 minute limit. I've experimented with more and less and have settled on 13 minutes, which works well for me, and I'm sure it varies among everyone. If I'm really sleepy (usually from lack of sleep), even a 5
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by strait 15y ago
Meanwhile, in the real world, delivery is not reliable.
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by strait 15y ago
Not a direct coorelation, but there is certainly a dependence on being capable in mathematics. A math wizard does not make a good programmer, but one cannot be hopelessly average in math and be a talented programmer.
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by strait 15y ago
Perhaps you are being too hard on yourself. The majority (more than half) of the well known programmers truly are "superstars". It's all very subjective, though. Where is the standard for complexity or even cleverness? How is it different t
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by strait 15y ago
It's a long way to the top if you wanna Rock 'n' Roll. Won't get fooled again.
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by strait 15y ago
Using LuaJIT with minimal FFI C code to optimize, seems to be the best way forward in maximizing both performance and maintainability. What would be really interesting is to see someone highlight specific cases where this approach ultimatel
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by strait 15y ago
Keep it up, Hari.
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by strait 15y ago
Alan Turing would be 99 if he were alive today.
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by strait 15y ago
Extremely rural is <500 people. No traffic lights, no Subway sandwiches. Just a country store, 7 churches, and 49 horses.
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by strait 15y ago
No, but as I sit here I can feel Putin burrowing his head into Alaska's groundspace.
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by strait 15y ago
He lived long enough into the era where his speech or interview could have been filmed. I couldn't find anything on YouTube; perhaps he was too frail by the 1930's to be doing such things. I like finding these old film clips featuring perfo
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by strait 15y ago
No, no, no. Psychopathy in a leader has a net effect toward organizational mediocrity, at best. Start observing in the real world and this becomes obvious.
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by strait 16y ago
It's not as simple as you would like to believe. Lacking social skills and having self-defeating attitudes are much more likely to keep them poor, assuming they are not mentally deficient, than a simple pursuit of leisure over work. Lots of
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by strait 16y ago
Yes, and anyone can do it. The more the better. Then I'll create a cheat sheet for sites that index cheat sheets.
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by strait 16y ago
There is a hope. Be organized, consider your life needs very carefully if you have the maturity to do so, and schedule your time accordingly. Although there's creative benefits to "flying by the seat of one's pants", it can be a quite haza
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by strait 16y ago
Yes, don't feel pressured by all these comments saying "Why not learn both? They're not that different anyway." You're probably better off semi-mastering one before you focus on the other. There's a lot more to a language with its idiosyn
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by strait 16y ago
The key is that you've got to have a driving desire to improve any project, else it's very likely that you will give up when you get to the complicated and messy bits. Presumably, you use Python based tools whenever it makes sense. If not
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by strait 16y ago
After working through a few of my own Haskell projects, I eventually found the type system disappointing. A better design would have made it even more sophisticated and harder to learn, IMO. That's the price to pay for being purely functi
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by strait 16y ago
I'm wondering what happened to the real mastermind, Guy Steele.
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by strait 16y ago
Yep, be satisfied with who you are today (on the whole) and who you are on the day of your death. Recogonize now, the urge to speculate on what more you could have done as just another urge. Naturally, when one is dying and their own life
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by strait 16y ago
Quite probably he meant S-expressions, but said 'things' to avoid scaring away those unfamiliar.
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by strait 16y ago
I believe that you are ultimately correct about the word 'career' in your well-written post, but the narrow way that it's constantly used in Corpspeak has generally ruined its meaning in that more broader sense. When I encounter the word ca
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by strait 16y ago
In looking through the profiles of some of my past co-workers, the ones who have the most impressive profiles roughly coorelate to the weakest software developers I've ever known. I just have to shake my head and laugh. The absolute least
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by strait 16y ago
Also providing a dampening effect on this transformation, are the weight of both oceans, which are now bearing down at both poles. Water is quite dense, being about 1/3 the density of the earth's top crust. Also, interestingly, it seems l
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by strait 16y ago
I'm not sure that 'untalented' is really a significant concept, since being talented is much more a perception than a definite reality. It's like saying someone is uncharismatic. I guess the severity of such claims would depend on who was
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by strait 16y ago
and then C can still be such a hoop jumping burden, so write some smart C libs for Lua.
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by strait 16y ago
Do you mean shameless and irritating to yourself in the sense that you felt forced to resort to techniques that laid aside technical merit and honest discussion with your target? Or are you refering to devious methods to appear shameless a
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by strait 16y ago
"For a software developer, software development is the easiest job in the world." -should be replaced with- "For a software developer, software development can be the most satisfying job in the world." Maybe his observations are accurate, b

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