tedyoung

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by tedyoung 4y ago
Don't forget about diagrams! Words are important, but diagrams can really get concepts across. And not just the "technical" diagrams (sequence diagrams, flowcharts), but conceptual ones. I really like Abby Covert's new b
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by tedyoung 4y ago
It depends on why you're reading a book, no? Are you reading it to find an answer to a problem? Then you'll probably skim, search, scan, and then closely read the part that (may) have your answer. Are you reading to be exposed to
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I think it's more important to ask: how much have you _learned_ from reading technical books? There's also different reasons for reading technical books: getting answers to current problems (though most people would just search th
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by tedyoung 4y ago
It has a bit about Web caching (and mentions caching proxies), so that's a _form_ of distributed caching. It is a high-level overview, though.
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I prefer self-checkout because I pack my own groceries: I _know_ in which bag and in what order I want things packed so I can optimize unpacking when I get home. Here in SF Bay Area, Safeway has great self-checkout, and Costco recently adde
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Isn't spending less time waiting to pay and leave the store a discount?
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I prefer "habitability" over either term. "This place is a mess, we're constantly tripping over things, how about we make it a more habitable codebase to work in?" No matter what you call it, though, if teams aren&#
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I'd love to see a more technical article on what the "badly formatted command" looked like. How do their systems allow "badly formatted" to be created?
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by tedyoung 4y ago
You can also wait until September and then renew for 3 years to keep the current pricing through 2025. By then, inflation will have caught up and it'll be just as cheap in 2022 Dollars.
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by tedyoung 4y ago
If you're coding in Java, is it really not worth a few hundred dollars to be incredibly more productive in a tool design for Java instead of a fancy text editor? IntelliJ IDEA is incredibly powerful, and it's worth learning things
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by tedyoung 4y ago
The price still goes down every year, it's just at a higher price. (Not sure about your "high initial price" — was that a perpetual license?) Note that you can renew for 3 years at a time at the current pricing. And if you&
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Seems like since it's not _really_ a Pro, is there really a market for this particular model? Enough Touch Bar fans to purchase the last remaining model that has one? Otherwise, why not get the Air?
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Apparently procedural generation and constraint solvers are AI now? I thought they were just algorithms. (I love Townscaper, btw, but this article—whew.)
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Here in the SF Bay Area some meetups have resumed in-person events, but I'm not attending them yet. I still attend lots of online ones. People aren't going to offices as much, which is where many meetups used to be held, so we&#x2
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Bjork's research is all about forgetting under the Theory of Disuse (along with desirable difficulties, which is what helps us remember). See https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/research/ for more.
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I think your question "how do I remember stuff I don't use often" is not a useful question to answer. Why do you need to remember things you don't use often? You don't. Memory is not binary: you will have easier or
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Same. Discords (and open Slacks) are great places to discuss very focused topics. I belong to a bunch and run my own (focused on Java, Spring, etc.), because I couldn't find forum for experienced developers instead of only new and juni
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I have a dozen Spring Boot apps deployed on Heroku, only a couple of which I need instant response from, so pay $7 for the hobby level for those. The rest run on the free hours that you get each month. Deployment is almost trivial, as it re
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by tedyoung 4y ago
After a long time trying out different static-site generators (Gridsome, Hugo, Jekyll, etc.), I finally settled on 11ty (and TailwindCSS). Mainly because I could understand almost everything it does. I did find that I needed to start from s
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by tedyoung 4y ago
What's the catch? It's currently free, but given that it's VC-backed, somewhere there's gotta be money made. Ads? Selling my community members' data? And I also have questions about syncing: message deletions, chann
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Lots of things might be thought of as "distasteful", but that doesn't mean one can't be motivated to do it. You might not like exercising, but there are still ways to be motivated to do so. Saying that it's not a ma
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by tedyoung 4y ago
> If you’re taking documentation really seriously, put it on the scorecard. Look for good writers. ... Then put it in your career ladders too. It’s a competency that individuals need to develop if they’re to move to the next level. Exact
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Except for the 2nd year in a row, TurboTax fails to understand how to handle short put positions (of which I have many, many trades). It doesn't understand how the cost basis could be 0. I'll have to short-circuit it _again_, and
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I think the comparisons on the site (e.g., vs. Heroku) are misleading. With Heroku (and true competitors such as Railway.app), I don't need to create configuration files for my app, for Redis and the PostgreSQL database I want to use,
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Because Heroku is a PaaS and the headline said "with Heroku-like experience". If it's not a PaaS-like experience, then Heroku shouldn't be mentioned.
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by tedyoung 4y ago
I created "Kid Money Manager", a tool to help manage my son's virtual account. He wasn't old enough to open his own bank account when I started, but we needed some way to track his "earnings" (returning bottles
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by tedyoung 4y ago
Sigh. Another article on "Agile" that makes it read like "SCRUM" == Agile (Sprint, Stand-Up are Scrum terms, not Agile). Scrum doesn't work without good technical practices. Also, no developer/team-level proces
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by tedyoung 4y ago
> tracking work efforts Why are you doing this? How does it help improve delivery of value to those who are paying for the product/service? Agile was intended to have people discover better ways to deliver something of value. This i
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Came here to say this. And not just preventing patient access to the data, but locking the ability to change settings in a reasonable manner, without having to con$ult with a "doctor" (really an admin at the doctor's office)
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by tedyoung 5y ago
Is Meld aware of the programming language when it does diffs? The problem I have with many diff tools is that they'll detect block moves without regard for things like method boundaries. Instead of showing the change as moving a method

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