tikhonj

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by tikhonj 3y ago
Implying you'd have to be pretty dense to work at Binance.
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by tikhonj 3y ago
More people managers at a sufficiently high level . It's not that there are more managers than junior/mid/senior engineers, it's that there are more senior managers/directors than there are senior staff/princi
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by tikhonj 3y ago
This particularly protest is elegant because it's effective exactly to the extent that self-driving cars are not adaptable—it highlights the brittleness of the system by getting a substantial effect from a small nudge.
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by tikhonj 3y ago
There isn't nearly enough YouTube content about Haskell, unfortunately. I've looked :(
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by tikhonj 3y ago
It's a constructor defined with infix syntax. You can make constructors with custom infix names by starting the name with the : character. Alternatively, you could call that constructor App or something and have the same effect:
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by tikhonj 3y ago
That just makes it easier to hate. Our collective tendency to build atop mediocre foundations just because they got popular first is exhausting .
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by tikhonj 3y ago
My understanding is that this is basically how discrete-event simulations work under the hood. You have a frontier of future events in an appropriate data structure (say, a heap) and then alternate between adding future events into the heap
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by tikhonj 3y ago
> Software doesn’t make or break an organization. This is true... but it's also true of ≈everything else in the organization. An organization that could be broken by any single thing would not survive for long! This includes the t
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by tikhonj 3y ago
There's a rough rule of thumb that you should expect to redesign your system to handle each order of magnitude increase in scale, and I figure it applies here too—gracefully handling that size of repo would require substantial engineer
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by tikhonj 3y ago
Were these apps made possible with VC money, or just made monopolizable ? In a different world, I could see most of these areas spawning smaller companies—on a slower timeline, sure—if VC-backed companies couldn't use massive up-front
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by tikhonj 3y ago
Typing 20 lines doesn't take much more time than typing 5 lines, but dealing with 5x more code thanks to an inexpressive language sure is an ongoing drag on productivity that just gets worse over time—while figuring out tooling/
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by tikhonj 3y ago
You don't have to assume they're idiots, you just have to assume they aren't entirely serious about privacy.
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by tikhonj 3y ago
It would be relevant for transmitting information from different exchanges (NYC ⇔ London ⇔ Tokyo... etc), not going from the trading firm's systems to the exchanges. At a high level, the firms would be making money by helping markets o
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by tikhonj 3y ago
Works fine as long as you went to a top-3 law school or graduated near the top of your class in a T14 school... I've explicitly seen lawyers lay that out as the criteria they hire by. I'd rather deal with obnoxious interviews any
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by tikhonj 3y ago
My pet theory is that this is closely related to the "two cultures" in mathematics with "problem solvers" vs "theory builders": is it easier for you to put more strain on your working memory to solve a problem,
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by tikhonj 3y ago
Very much unlike pre-AI political arguments with real people on the internet.
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by tikhonj 3y ago
A couple places near me have "little art galleries" where people display small art pieces, with some decoration like little action figures or easels. I think one is open so that anybody can put some art up, and another exclusively
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by tikhonj 3y ago
That doesn't mean that learning Emacs would not be worthwhile , it just means people don't do it.
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by tikhonj 3y ago
It's evidence that SQL isn't entirely unusable—but I've worked with too much popular technology to believe it means anything more than that.
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by tikhonj 3y ago
Having used (a lot) of Hive SQL, I absolutely do need your query language. SQL is fundamentally incapable of expressing any sort of abstraction, so non-trivial queries quickly become completely incomprehensible, unmaintainable and bug-pro
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by tikhonj 3y ago
Even on its own, that's hardly a "just" :P But Unison is a lot more: it has a model that makes distributed computing feel like native code, and a content-addressed code representation system that solves a ton of tooling probl
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by tikhonj 3y ago
Right, the article talks about "type Point = Point1D | Point2D | Point3D" syntax at the end... which would work just as well with dataclasses as with structs!
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by tikhonj 3y ago
My understanding is that having that structural separation is part of what is required to be registered as a securities exchange, and Coinbase is being sued for being an unregistered securities exchange. (That's why the question of whe
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by tikhonj 3y ago
I mean, if you value popularity more than any sort of intrinsic quality of your tools then, yeah, sure, it's a "no-brainer". But that rather strikes me as a "no-brainer" way of making decisions.
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by tikhonj 3y ago
I unironically think this is an absolutely legitimate reason even in a purely results-oriented, commercial context... but saying that is not politically expedient :(
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by tikhonj 3y ago
I got my mom a Blue Yeti for teaching online classes and it's been pretty solid. I thought it was around $100, but looks like it's $120 on Amazon right now. If you have a bit more budget, the Shure MV7 seems like a great option. O
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by tikhonj 3y ago
PureScript[1][2] seems pretty alive these days. From my relatively small, self-contained experiments, it's a lot more flexible and expressive than Elm at the expense of (maybe?) being a bit harder to learn up-front. [1]: https:/&
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by tikhonj 3y ago
The equivalent of mirroring would be using a CDN. I understand that NixOS already does this through Fastly. The problem is that the base data is substantial (425 TiB) and expensive to store on S3. Just mirroring the base data would not chan
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by tikhonj 3y ago
My best experiences working remotely—both during the pandemic and with folks in other locations before that—has been with research-oriented work. The reason? We had the time and space to work and communicate the way that made sense to us. W
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by tikhonj 3y ago
We set up https://discourse.haskell.org a few years ago. It's reasonably active, but topics still tend to get more engagement on /r/haskell. I expect it comes down to discoverability and convenience: people are al

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