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by thom 3y ago
It was very much of a time and place, and obviously people are welcome to take or leave it. I certainly cringe that every language now seems to need its own twee, jokey, book-long tutorial, like Learn You a Haskell for Great Good and Clojur
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by thom 3y ago
I’m one of these signups, but the purely algorithmic timeline is a dealbreaker for me. Obviously you need to optimise for the day one experience for as many people as possible so maybe a bunch of influencers and brands is what they want to
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by thom 3y ago
Ahem, my calculation was that I once googled it and remember the number. My point’s more about having complete control of your vision rather than the specific number, but I assume that will one day be strictly better than any possible scree
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by thom 3y ago
Feels like that's the endgame, even if it's decades away. Being able to arbitrarily address a human's supposed 576-megapixel visual resolution trumps basically anything else. Don't think this is relevant for this next ge
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by thom 3y ago
What do you think will be the keys to any future battle between this, something like Apple Vision Pro, and traditional desktop metaphors? I have to admit, on first viewing every single component of this looks unbearably clunky but presumabl
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by thom 3y ago
Shame about their financial package but it feels like the system mostly works. People should be free to be their whole selves at work and in public and they shouldn’t want to work anywhere that fires them for that. Obviously many people don
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by thom 3y ago
Well sure, if you hand wave away the main benefit of sexps then there aren’t many benefits.
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by thom 3y ago
I don't like the name. Probably because I'm from Sheffield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
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by thom 3y ago
StatsBomb | Data Platform Engineer | REMOTE, or Bath (UK), or Cairo (Egypt) StatsBomb is a sports analytics startup, covering football (both the soccer and American varieties) and soon basketball. We sell data products as well as analysis t
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by thom 3y ago
A spiritual successor to the Cluetrain was Hugh McLeod's Hughtrain: https://www.gapingvoid.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-hughtrain-mki... If you read it in the most cynical possible way, it actually came
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by thom 3y ago
Noteworthy if true that Twitter's Google Cloud renewal date was June 30th and they were attempting to migrate away as quickly as possible: https://twitter.com/RiverTamYDN/status/1675164339274240001
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by thom 3y ago
Yep. I put off migrating a bunch of domains with mail that I had on Google for almost a decade, thinking it would be torture to sort it all out. Took a couple of hours and a few clicks on Fastmail to bring them all together. Been a delighte
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by thom 3y ago
And yet despite the naivety of their youth, his engineers still spoke out against his contraption and were fired. I don’t think an old man in the room would have helped.
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by thom 3y ago
Apologies, I’m hallucinating features here. In our codebase we also have lots of JDBC extensions to map PG objects to language types and back, and this is the easiest way to handle queries over enums. But obviously some type info has to tri
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by thom 3y ago
You can create an implicit cast to and from text with CREATE CAST and it becomes transparent.
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by thom 3y ago
Nice, yeah, I am not a fan of retraining models on my workstation in the UK’s current heatwave.
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by thom 3y ago
Ah so it’s not just rerunning too to bottom each time? It just works out changes and runs from there forward?
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by thom 3y ago
I do like the idea of more hierarchical notebooks. Traditional top to bottom notebooks are a recipe for bugs and reproducibility issues, but so is working too much in the Clojure REPL so I’m surprised to hear it here. But obviously you need
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by thom 3y ago
It was probably a couple of years before this that I first understood how powerful the internet could be, when my dad showed me a picture taken by a satellite, and in the background you could see the stars. Here was a crummy beige PC on my
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by thom 3y ago
Just a quick plug for the marvellous Landmark edition of Xenophon’s Anabasis: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Landmark-Xenophons-Anabasis-Shane-B... Beautiful book with lots of maps and illustrations covering the journey mentioned
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by thom 3y ago
Most of the people working on a film aren’t Keanu Reeves spending four months learning to fight. Most of them are very similar to the distracted, fungible office workers mentioned in the article and nobody would have seen these films withou
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by thom 3y ago
You are correct about my spelling, apologies and shame! Things that make low level code easier to understand and manipulate make whole systems harder to understand and manipulate. More abstractions make larger systems easier to reason about
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by thom 3y ago
It can have a slightly larger effective resolution, and requires slightly less movement to navigate.
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by thom 3y ago
There is no level of abstraction at which you can write code that won't simultaneously be too obstruse for some, and an impossible maintenance burden to others. There is no programming paradigm, language, framework or tool that is goin
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by thom 3y ago
People don't want DSLs though. There's an enormous contingent of programmers these days who seem to object to literally any form of abstraction at all. They just want to see - imperatively - what something does from top to bottom.
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by thom 3y ago
Sure, but that's still you having to go to lots of places to understand what individual functions do, which doesn't seem different to the original complaint about OOP.
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by thom 3y ago
Are there programming paradigms for which this isn’t the case?
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by thom 3y ago
I personally like not having to move around too much, but beyond CapsLock for Ctrl I’ve never stuck with anything fancy. That said, I don’t understand how typing speed doesn’t matter - I agree that’s mostly the case for code, but everything
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by thom 3y ago
I think Python and R are generally superior (in terms of developer experience) when you have to do end-to-end ML work, including acquiring and munging data, plotting results etc. But even then, the core algorithms are generally implemented
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by thom 3y ago
This pops up from time to time in the UK and I was always quite fond of it after a trip to San Francisco over a decade ago. Sounds like UK and US craft beer culture have suffered similar fates of exploding numbers of IPAs, very few of which

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