techiferous

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by techiferous 9y ago
> we'd find our "genuine" selves Maybe think about it this way: what are your very _deepest_ values? The things that you think make a life worth living? That's starting to touch your genuine self.
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by techiferous 9y ago
"dangerous", "worse", "rotten"... The tone of your response has piqued my curiosity more than the content of your response. Why such a strong, negative reaction?
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by techiferous 9y ago
Just delete your account and don't look back. I did years ago and have no regrets. It's junk food.
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by techiferous 9y ago
That place has some sad history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Chagossians_fr...
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by techiferous 9y ago
That's a simple take on a very complex system.
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by techiferous 9y ago
Here is a source: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/28/how-many-...
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by techiferous 9y ago
> population to have topped 23 million by now Assuming an error rate of about 4%, this means that about 900,000 Americans have been wrongly convicted -- about the population of San Francisco.
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Ask HN: Who is not betting on Elixir and why not?
69 points by techiferous 9y ago|96 comments
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by techiferous 10y ago
You're assuming all the questions are being presented to the user at once. Imagine a UI that presents questions to a user one-by-one. If the user bails out of the survey early, the rest of the survey answers can be null.
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by techiferous 10y ago
It's the difference between "this value is unknown" and "this value is known and empty". It's similar to why JavaScript has both null and undefined. Here's an example. Let's say a user is taking a s
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by techiferous 10y ago
> prevents, to some extent, them taking part in a normal life > In a way, it is kind of like blood pressure. Everyone has blood pressure, some higher than others. Isn't this defining mental health as distance from societal mean r
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by techiferous 10y ago
> The current practice of "move fast and break things" very well could be a better approach. It's all about context. What's the cost of "breaking things"? Does your not-yet-monetized social network startup
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by techiferous 10y ago
Great tool for this: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
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Ask HN: Whiteboard-driven development?
2 points by techiferous 10y ago|1 comments
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by techiferous 10y ago
Well, sometimes you have to hit a problem both at the source and where it manifests.
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by techiferous 10y ago
> it is very easy to anthropomorphize animal behaviour It is also easy to assume that an animal's internal life is dumb and uninteresting.
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by techiferous 10y ago
> I find that I often have a 2 week ramp up for any given programming language. I agree that a competent, experienced developer can do this. What's worth noting, however, is that it takes two weeks to cross the bar of "can cont
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by techiferous 10y ago
Agreed. Some health problems are reversed by making healthy diet and lifestyle changes. If your body is unhealthy because you eat too much sugar and refined carbs, and you take a pill for that, you now have two problems.
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by techiferous 10y ago
> Children wouldn't mind taking medicines so much. This assumes children can only tolerate maximally-sweet foods like fruit juices, soda, cookies and candy. This fundamental assumption that kids won't eat healthy foods is very
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by techiferous 10y ago
I came here to say this. It's not fair to criticize Go as not optimal for web services if it wasn't designed to be optimal for web services.
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by techiferous 11y ago
I think this oversimplifies it. I didn't grow up Amish, but I grew up in a tiny Anabaptist denomination that had a lot of cultural similarities with the Amish (but technology was allowed). While it could be true that "those value
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by techiferous 11y ago
Yes, exactly! Thank you for expounding. Yes, this post was indirectly inspired by LEAN, as I picked up this idea from a conversation I had with someone who used to manage manufacturing.
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Do Not Treat Quality as a Separate Activity(techiferous.com)
5 points by techiferous 11y ago|3 comments
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by techiferous 11y ago
Thank you. I think the sociopath meme is getting a bit tired.
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by techiferous 11y ago
> You can also compare yourself to other developers, aka a leaderboard. That's a feature with negative value. Top developers, at least in a business context, are those that help business realize their goals for their web product.
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by techiferous 11y ago
Yes, as a matter of style you could just use let everywhere, and know that var is there for legacy compatibility reasons.
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by techiferous 11y ago
True, I see your point, but you also can't just hand-wave away our results. I've been on many development teams that did not have a strong technical screen like this, and those teams suffered from having some technically weak mem
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by techiferous 11y ago
Our exercise can't be cheated on because we discuss it with the candidate during the in-person interview and even ask them to change the code in a simple way. Also, the exercise is designed to be original and so a solution can't b
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by techiferous 11y ago
I've had a different experience on the hiring side of the table. The coding exercise that we provide as part of the interview has been very successful in surfacing the skill and talent of the programmer. By using that screening devic
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by techiferous 11y ago
I disagree. If you look at what happens to the brain when it gets angry, nuance is lost in favor of over-simplified black-and-white thinking. I do agree with you that sharing conflicting points of view is good. Too much passion, however,

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