tudorpavel

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by tudorpavel 5mo ago
The one phrase that irks me as overly dramatic and both GPT and Claude use it a lot is "__ is the real smoking gun!" I'm a non-native English speaker, so maybe it's a really common idiom to use when debugging?
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by tudorpavel 1y ago
For me it was available today on one laptop, but not the other. Both logged into the same account with Plus.
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by tudorpavel 4y ago
Ruby's Integer type works like BigInteger under the hood.
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by tudorpavel 5y ago
Working Backwards [0] is the actual name of the book on this subject. [0] https://www.workingbackwards.com/
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by tudorpavel 6y ago
If you aren't, try using the Firefox Beta version, or Firefox Nightly which I'm using to be on the bleeding edge.
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by tudorpavel 6y ago
It's pretty impressive to see the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement [0] construction beginning around 2010 and its final movement over reactor 4 being completed between 2016 and 2017. Link: https://earthengine.google.com/t
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by tudorpavel 6y ago
Most of the steaming platforms use HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) because it avoids all the networking NAT headaches that come with p2p connections and it handles variable quality better because each client fetches the best quality for their ban
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by tudorpavel 6y ago
+1 to self code reviews, I almost always find stuff I've missed or could have done better.
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by tudorpavel 6y ago
Could you expand on the Ruby part? I'm not sure if you hate all programming or programming in anything other than Ruby.
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
I recently read "An Introduction to General Systems Thinking" by Gerald M. Weinberg [0], which may or may not be in the same vain. These concepts are hard to wrap my mind around but they are appealing. I'll try your recommend
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
DRY is good but like any abstraction it has tradeoffs. It might give you a warm feeling to do the refactor, but you might end up with code that's harder to understand and harder to replace.
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
Not really and Dan didn't invent React, he is currently on the core team. Just ignore trolls such as GP, it ain't worth it.
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
For me AoC was perfect while learning a bit of Rust last year, but tread carefully if you want to have 2 mutable references to the same value like a circular or doubly linked list. Good luck and have fun with it!
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
I'm so excited! I discovered AoC in 2017 and I've participated last year as well. In 2017 I used it as an excuse to practice my JavaScript chops using ES2015 classes. Last year I learned me some Rust while doing the problems, at l
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
It's unfortunate that not every diagram contains the legend from the first diagram in the GitHub repo [0] which explains yellow as "Personal recommendation" and orange as "Available Options". I think grey was "
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
Me third, I would definitely want to read more about your motivation to pursue a PhD. I guess from where I'm at today I don't see the point in pursuing one, but your comments definitely sparked my curiosity!
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
"I'm working from home today because I need to be able to focus on this project." I'm going to start using this as a reason on my Work From Home request. Ever since our company has started requiring to add a reason, I ke
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
Don't send an embarrassing company-wide email about how someone ate your lunch. I'm still working there after 6 years, but I get reminded about it now and then. But seriously, focus on learning from your peers as much as possible.
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by tudorpavel 7y ago
The post mentions using Google speech-to-text for transcription which seems to be even cheaper? I'm not sure where you got the $4/hr price, but indeed kudos to OP for building a business around reselling cloud services for profit.