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by thedirt0115 7y ago
I haven't heard about this six tense efficiency thing before, do you have any more information?
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
The author specifically mentions DB choice: "redis can be replaced or complemented by another NoSQL database (such as MongoDB) or a relational database (such as Postgres). Throughout this section, where you see redis, feel free to repl
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
How about this combined with recent advances in text-to-speech like Deep Voice that can sound like you? (Edit: punctuation)
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by thedirt0115 7y ago
Ok, I'm curious! What might such a tool look like or do? Did you have something specific in mind?
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
This is easier with a minimalistic (syntactically) language like Lisp. Check this out, the editor refuses to let you write code that won’t compile: http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-pared
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
I don't know F#, but I do know C#, and it feels like the author is trying to make C# look more difficult/verbose than it needs to be to make F# look better. Here is an alternative version of the "Everything is a function&quo
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
What editor do Go devs use??? Their numbers for Go only add up to 12%! https://d25hn4jiqx5f7l.cloudfront.net/file_attachments/files...
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Yes, it's a gilded cage, but the door is unlocked. It's pretty easy as a software engineer in the Bay Area to take off a few months between jobs, so you can scratch your writing itch during that time. Alternatively, you might be
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
I have a couple L2’s that I mostly speak and read, virtually no writing - my grammar is poor and my vocabulary is limited. Because of this I would feel uncomfortable/embarrassed to translate any tech stuff I wrote to it. However, I cou
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
A better question might be "why not?" I don't believe that it's required or forbidden to learn Assembly before e.g. Python. It's a game that teaches you stuff too -- I want lots of these in the world! Some kids m
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
This is very similar to A/B Experimentation -- Gotta force the user to select a primary metric BEFORE the experiment starts to keep 'em honest.
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
I've heard that called "refucktoring" :)
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
You bet it does! https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/how-to-program-a-calculator-p...
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
If you want to see the exercises before/without signing up -- here's a link to the code/tests (and it's more than just Python): https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aexercism-track+org%3Aexe...
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Anyone have some insider knowledge on the history of this project? I'm curious as to how a big multi-year create-a-language research project like this gets pitched, accepted, and finally sunset -- Was it a full-time project? Were the
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
It's nice for anything with nested scopes -- Example that came to mind since a link to Crafting Interpreters was also on the front page: Variable lookup for for an interpreter. If each scope gets its own set of bindings, you can make
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
I really like two things from the author's system, but I will call out that neither of them require org-mode: 1) Being able to clone the author's blog repo and read it offline (just a bonus that it's already in org mode so no
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Most important part of the linked article so no one else has to pay the penalty of reading for my earlier misquote: "[Quote Investigator] has determined that the author of the quote is not someone famous or ancient. It was crafted by a
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
One of my favorite "back in my day, grumble grumble" quotes, attributed to Socrates: https://www.bartleby.com/73/195.html If you sprinkle "cell phone" in, you can't tell that it wasn't wri
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
I think you're right, "license" could sound off-putting. Maybe calling the movie/music things you buy "tickets" or "passes" might make it more understandable? We still use the word "purchase&qu
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Ok, stupid question time... can you turn it back into regular water, and how? "Just add water?"
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
You have to type in your password WITH YOUR MOUSE??? Wow. Sounds like a great way to make sure everyone uses the minimum allowed length for their passwords...
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
I had never heard of "default mode" before this. Do you have any suggested reading on the topic, especially around creativity?
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
+1. Alternatively, maybe you were born with or acquired some disability that makes it difficult to do what you want in real life. VR games especially can be amazing here for people with mobility issues. See this, for example: https:&#
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
At least thinking about it is important NOW, regardless of what stage your startup is. It can be extremely difficult to try to slot a 3rd party A/B testing solution into your product (or really hard to roll your own) if your infra doe
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Seriously, +1 to this. Defining key metrics is something where you should sit down with a data scientist that is familiar with your domain. In my experience, the problem isn't that people can't A/B test, they don't
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Do they re-encode PDFs too? (I don't use Google Drive) PDFs are a funny file format where you can do some crazy stuff... see here for examples: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ (click one of the "spoil
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Yeah, they do, usually around 2^8 to 2^15 characters total. Assuming < 256 chars is usually safe, but check the docs for your OS + filesystem combo.
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
Tape made out of ducks. They're really sticky.
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by thedirt0115 8y ago
I think it absolutely is hard. Almost everything in life is more complex than most people think. Even in-state vs out-of-state tuition. Kids don't have control over where their parents choose to raise them. Why should Kid A have to

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