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by thekiptxt 4y ago
> When caught doing something they’re ashamed of, people say things like, “That’s not who I am” or “That wasn’t really me.” They are implying that reputation-damaging acts are not reflective of their true self. This doesn’t mean they are
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
One time I needed to sort some data arbitrarily — the resulting order did not matter, it only mattered that it was the same for the same data in different orders. My senior engineer advised me against using Java .sort() because “we didn’t w
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
This reminds me of how chess tactics feel so obvious when I’m on a tactics trainer, yet I can’t identify them in games where they actually happen. Or code that “obviously” has a bug only after it caused an issue in production. Would be nice
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
I didn’t question the math, but what made me intuitively believe the Monty Hall problem was this: Me: I am thinking of a number between 1 and a million. If you guess correctly, you get a prize. you make your guess Me: Ok, I will reveal th
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
> YOLO releases are common with: Side projects. Early-stage startups with no customers. Mid-sized companies with poor engineering practices. When resolving urgent incidents at places without well-defined incident handling practices. Whoo
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
I’m (cautiously) optimistic about this. I’ve found that magic of writing code evaporated for me when I joined the industry and spent most of my time fiddling with environments. Your workstation crashed? Be prepared to spend an entire day do
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
I too have been wondering if this is mostly placebo. For familiar words, don’t our brains automatically read entire words as a single fixation point? I.e. we don’t read in terms of letters, but see the word as an atomic unit? I would guess
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
And on iOS, _every single time_ I share a link from HN, that website persists in screen time. E.g. if I were to share the link to TFA in WhatsApp, my screen time tomorrow would say “21 hours on apple.com” Only clearing browser data fixes th
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
I’m guessing it doesn’t need to be all that accurate for certain use cases. Even just knowing the length of the password, estimating which keys in the sequence are capitalized (if Shift behavior is fairly easy to pin down) and being able to
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
The leading number is one thousand. In many cultures, the period `.` delimits thousands, the comma `,` delimits fractions. E.g. the price of the salad is €12,70.
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
Yes, you’re right. I was presuming you were referencing users who know how to work with files/folders, but couldn’t describe them precisely when put on the spot. For example, I’d consider “Well, folders are containers for files and oth
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
I can relate to this, and it gets worse. Sign-off would take 24 hrs to process, and the mysterious entity that signed off would have no context of our product or the changes, and no way to assess the risk. Then, due to our lack of trusted r
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
I don’t think a definition-first approach is all that relevant for most users. People also can’t easily _describe_ the difference between a dog and a cat, but most can distinguish between a dog and a cat and have an intuitive understanding
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
> Google Docs uses a "Markov Chain" to predict the next word for autocompletion purposes. In this case, of course, since we've already written "And" 5 times, the only logical next word would be "And", a
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
Step 1: find one Step 2: emulate them I’ve never gotten past step 1.
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
I’m trying to figure out how to leave the industry without taking a 50%+ pay cut, since I’ve found out that a) I am bad at software engineering and b) I don’t particularly enjoy it (in the professional setting)
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by thekiptxt 4y ago
This is so cool. I’m a few years out of college at a major tech company and have taken to reading some books about this era. I find myself envious of the seeming purity of the time when it was all getting started, and notice how scrum board
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
What a fun idea! Didn’t get today’s just because I didn’t know the song and don’t really listen to that genre. But I DID guess that artist choosing an arbitrary song. Could the yellow tile of wordle mean something like “correct genre or ar
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
I’ve always been really curious about how other developers visualize our system. I know that we tend to use architecture diagrams as a common language for major components, but I don’t see the system in boxes and ovals, each of the componen
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
The relationship of wordle to cheating is underrated. The fact that it’s so astoundingly easy to cheat (the daily word is global), and falsify your game board (just text) makes dishonesty completely undesirable. If you post 1/1, people
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
> Let other people say no for you. Wow. Upvoting because this is such a succinct and powerful way to say this, and I’ve never heard it before. i. e. It’s not our job, domain, or in our interest to reject ourselves from a job we’re inter
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
I had the same thought. It only recently hit me how much of the world around me is sneakily driven by individuals wanting to strengthen their resume. I had underestimated how often the frameworks/languages chosen was influenced by a de
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
Sure, but criticism comes in different flavors. “This software is difficult for me to use because of X” is a valid and fair take. “This software/development team sucks” is uninformed criticism if someone doesn’t know the full context
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
Lots of good advice here, here's how I kept sane: Focus on your strenghts for the two components of getting an entry-level job: (1) landing the interview and (2) landing the job. Landing the interview is some percentage of the number o
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by thekiptxt 5y ago
Would you say this is the case if one speaks German (or French) already?
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by thekiptxt 6y ago
I've always thought that recommendation services would be better of this logic were layered in. E.g. I'm on YouTube and 1 in 10 recommendations are popular/trending videos that the algorithm doesn't think I'll enjoy