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First-Class Citizen(en.wikipedia.org)
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US lawmakers warn Apple on using Chinese group’s chips in new iPhone(ft.com)
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> Learning how to effectively use the command line. Unix philosophy. Pipes, scripting, and tooling. This is a complaint I used to hear about young software developers even a few decades ago. It's the same today, but those accused th
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The Lost Art of System Administration(matt-rickard.com)
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by tapanjk 4y ago
TLDR (listed under "key findings" in the post): - Generics has seen quick adoption. - Fuzzing is new to most Go developers. - Third-party dependencies are a top security concern. - We can do better when announcing new functionalit
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Go Developer Survey 2022 Q2 Results(go.dev)
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> I think the sheer size of Amazon has allowed them to build a really pro-consumer platform I thought it is the other way around. Because they are really a pro-consumer platform, they became this big.
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> This has implications on how we use large language models like GitHub Copilot to autogenerate code. Our ability to write code will even further exceed our ability to read it. In other words, our ability to modify existing code will deg
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It's Harder to Read Code Than Write It(matt-rickard.com)
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Happy to Be the Tortoise in the Race to Fitness (2010)(nytimes.com)
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The Product Culture Shift(skamille.medium.com)
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How Many Equations of Motion Describe a Moving Human?(arxiv.org)
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by tapanjk 4y ago
A bit off-topic but since many Seinfeld fans are here... Here's something I discovered here on HN and want to share: https://watchseinfeld.net/
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Mary Kenneth Keller: First US PhD in Computer Science [pdf](arxiv.org)
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Code katas taken more literally(johndcook.com)
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by tapanjk 4y ago
This was posted earlier, first by the author, and then by someone else. It was a long time ago so I thought it may be worth a look again. [1][2] I like the way the post ends. > My conclusion is that if I want more points there's no
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How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (2012)(blog.jgc.org)
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> The last one is when you read the book, then think about it, then read it again, then read about it, then keep reading it over and over for the rest of your life. Agree. Would love to see examples from people of books that fall in this
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English literature vs. the digits of pi (π), which has more entropy?(twitter.com)
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by tapanjk 4y ago
'You tell us what you want, we show you what you need.' TM
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> Never felt as anxious and isolated as when hanging around with privileged art students. I am picking up a broad brush but bear with me for the moment. It is likely that half -- if not more -- of those 'privileged art students&#x27
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Caring about something whittles the world down to a more manageable size(cs.uni.edu)
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> Once you've tried it, you'll never go back. Whenever I try this, I keep checking if something is waiting for me. For me, it is not as simple as turning off notifications. I also need to train my brain to stop thinking about n
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> Today, you can reasonably expect a system to be done booting in a second ... Unless you work for a large enterprise and your laptop is managed by IT. Not sure what goes on but getting from power on to the point where you can start usin
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> They underpay in general which is why their product is buggy I understand the sentiment but I am not convinced that underpay is the cause of buggyness. They compete with a behemoth and it is quite a feat to stay in the game in spite of
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by tapanjk 4y ago
True that. I deal with this by applying the Robustness principle [1] where possible: "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." In other words, be forgiving of bad design while setting a high stan
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Why I Love RSS and You Do Too (2013)(inessential.com)
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Ah, I missed that, and now I can no longer edit the title.
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> being proficient with Vim might help you not be as distracted with backtracking Can you share why you think so? Vim is my go-to editor for most things, except when I am coding (sorry, hardcore Vim users!), and I find myself backtrackin
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by tapanjk 4y ago
> [D]o not be seduced by slick marketing and a new device to solve what is at its heart a self-discipline problem. I should print this quote, frame it, and put it on my desk.

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