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by treebog 6y ago
I read the Great Gatsby in high school, not too too long ago, and it instantly became my favorite book. I would guess that English teachers pick it because it’s a short, fun read with lots of issues to discuss and lots of literary merit. I’
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by treebog 6y ago
Debugging by David Agans is great. It’s my #1 book recommendation for software engineers. https://amazon.com/dp/0814474578 The lessons from the book are especially helpful when I feel stuck in debugging; I’ll think th
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by treebog 6y ago
With medical information on the internet, it’s a quality over quantity situation
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by treebog 6y ago
I think Rust will continue to gain more traction, but it has a looooong way to go to catch up to C++. Regardless, if someday all the jobs are in Rust, you can simply learn Rust and you’ll be good to go. Knowledge of the fundamentals is 10x
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by treebog 6y ago
I agree with gregjor, and I’ll just add that I recommend checking out these (highly entertaining) videos by Alex Stepanov, creator of the C++ STL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHxtyCq_WDLXFAEA-lYoR... In the first
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by treebog 6y ago
Absolutely, this is one of the reasons that environment variables are a nightmare to work with
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by treebog 6y ago
One thing I learned in getting my engineering degree is that it’s unethical to practice engineering in an area you don’t understand. No way would I ever try to apply my software engineering skills to a materials problem
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by treebog 6y ago
Do I think I’m better at social distancing than my neighbors? Yes. But when I’m asked to rate my neighbors, I immediately think of the one neighbor I always see out socializing on the street. I don’t think of all the neighbors I never see,
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by treebog 6y ago
8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0979303605 This book fixed my posture. After reading it, I understood for the first time what it actually means to have good posture.
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by treebog 7y ago
I shopped on bookshop.org’s main page, so 10% went to bookstores. I believe you have to shop through a specific book store’s page for them to get 30%.
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by treebog 7y ago
I bought a book on bookshop last week. It was $5 more than on Amazon, and bookstores got $1.80 from my purchase. I should have just bought the book on Amazon and mailed four dollar bills to my local bookstore—everyone would have come out ah
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by treebog 7y ago
Quick summary: this talk is about how to use design patterns to build well-architected, robust mobile (iOS) apps
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by treebog 7y ago
The DSM-V describes three kinds of ADHD: 1. Predominantly inattentive 2. Predominantly hyperactive/impulsive 3. Combined So yes, you can be diagnosed with ADHD without symptoms of hyperactivity
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by treebog 7y ago
If they demand you know SOLID then they must be “Uncle Bob” acolytes, which is a strong signal that you should run in the opposite direction as fast as possible
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by treebog 7y ago
> Have any politicians pledged to solve the problems? Much the opposite, unfortunately. The governor, Andrew Cuomo, is in charge of the MTA. He 1. Falsely claims that he is not in charge of the MTA and denies any responsibility for its p
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by treebog 7y ago
To a large extent, alcoholism is by chance, accidental, and without any known cause.
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by treebog 7y ago
I’ve never found a book on software I agreed 100% with. Even my favorites have some bits I think are dead wrong. It doesn’t mean the other parts aren’t valuable.
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by treebog 7y ago
The Art of Software Testing by Glenford Myers has an excellent language-agnostic checklist. See the chapter on “walkthroughs”
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by treebog 9y ago
I'm not okay with letting brilliant people be harassed. Even from a purely cost/benefit standpoint, allowing a toxic environment will drive out more talent than we'd lose by eliminating the harassers.
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by treebog 9y ago
I liked those comments, and I thought they reflected well on Raymond. It's a sign of a healthy technical organization that contributors are willing to disagree and still heed decisions made by those higher in the decision-making chain.
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by treebog 9y ago
Not a googler, but I have heard that most of the python at google is under Youtube, which Google got in an acquisition.
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by treebog 9y ago
This is not quite what you asked for, but I've been going through this distributed systems course and I highly recommend it: http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2017/schedule.html It's mostly a collection of
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by treebog 9y ago
I'm approaching an intermediate level in Haskell, but I don't really see how writing a program in Haskell is any more like writing a language than writing a program in, say, python. Could you elaborate or point to some DSLs writte
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by treebog 10y ago
wikileaks.org is now a propaganda arm of the Russian government
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by treebog 10y ago
The idea is that willpower is depleted through use ("ego depletion"), but the research seems to be divided on whether this is actually true. Some recent studies have found "a growing body of evidence suggesting ego-depletion
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by treebog 10y ago
Twitter has a huge harassment problem. This has serious implications for their business; as we saw the other week, Disney passed on acquiring them in part because of the harassment situation. This seems like a good and necessary move to str
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by treebog 10y ago
Some sites which are contain nothing but blatantly false fake news: christ wire dot org daily currant dot com (claims to be a "parody" site, but does not attempt to be funny) If you use facebook, you have probably seen these and s
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by treebog 10y ago
They're not taking a stand on which news stories are true and which are false. They're targeting sites that exist only to spread false information and make no attempt to be truthful in any story. These aren't news sites that
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When the CEO helps you find your next gig(wsj.com)
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by treebog 10y ago
This "study" is yet another spurious correlation with no evidence of causation. It observes that paper trails are negatively correlated with support for Clinton. As it happens, the states without paper trails happen to be mostly i

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