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by unoti 11y ago
> The guy running my corner grocery store decided to set up a sit-down cafe without getting a city license. The guy at the corner grocery store isn't discussing my employee's private medical records with me in between slamming
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by unoti 11y ago
I've done three things for emergency preparedness that are actually quite fun and I'd recommend to anyone: 1) Become a certified emergency medical responder. It's a one semester course you can take at your local community col
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> It's actually written entirely by one person; Zach is just an idea man. At some point when you've mastered basic code writing, ideas become the hardest part. This is especially true in game design, but also true even in solv
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by unoti 11y ago
And that is the root of the problem. Normally when a business has the kind of terrible customer service and can't-be-bothered attitude, I just take my business elsewhere. But in the last 15 years I've never had a real choice what
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by unoti 11y ago
This is a very big deal. Thank you for telling me about it! As is so often the case, there's more value in the HN comments than the articles.
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Yes, sorry, I meant compile time!
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> Elixir has also done a good job of translating it for people who like Ruby-style syntax, I prefer the flexibility of the more verbose Erlang. The really big deal about Elixir is the ability to do LISP-style runtime code execution and g
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by unoti 11y ago
The section of interest here about "Don't anthropomorphize Larry Ellison" starts around 33 minutes in.
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Netflix has sponsored all this cutting edge research on recommendation engines, and it can predict very well how much I'm going to enjoy something. Why in the world won't it just show me a list of 4 and 5 star things? Are they a
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by unoti 11y ago
How is mobile support now? I noticed they've got a bunch of promising-sounding mobile upgrades. I'm interested in making simple mobile titles, but last time I checked it out Unreal seemed targeted at making super high performance
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> Will "the rest of us" just give up on automating anything for ourselves and mindlessly become dependent on using the systems operated by "a handful of gods"? I hope not. That day is already here. It'd be easier
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> As I expected, it didn't take long for picture to become a bunch of dicks. In the User Trust and Safety community, this is affectionately called TTP, or Time To Penis. Whenever you launch a service that allows user-generated cont
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> I put a lot more faith in something that’s been going full speed ahead since the 80s than in a Silicon Valley fad startup. That's how I felt during the dot bomb era when I heard that General Electric had been eclipsed in market ca
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I think that's what Stepwells are all about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilWbowNv5PI <- This is a huge stepwell, to give you an idea of why these can
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by unoti 11y ago
I wonder if that incident is an example of their "clear-eyed view of the world and the competition", or if it's more of an example of their "remarkable lack of bravado". More seriously, the cheating incident linked
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by unoti 11y ago
You're totally right: balance is the key. At least where you work there's a deployed product in production, though it is difficult and unwieldy. When you go the architecture astronaught direction, it's very easy to never make
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by unoti 11y ago
There's a dangerous, contagious illness that developers of every generation get that causes them to worry about architecture and getting "street cred" even more than they worry about solving business problems. I've fall
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by unoti 11y ago
When someone is looking at something in the app, I need them to be able to paste a link to someone else, and have the recipient see the same thing. Sounds like a job for react-router, right?
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I've been working on learning React, and finding it particularly difficult. It appears there are a large number of things I need to have in place and pieces of knowledge I need before I can use it. These include some kind of Js compi
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by unoti 11y ago
The message is: write clear code. Writing ambiguous code is a sin committed by the developer, not the language (although it is easier to commit that sin in CoffeeScript).
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> It’s reasonable to assume "foo bar and hello world" will compile to either: > foo(bar) && hello(world) > foo(bar && hello(world)) Feel free to sprinkle in additional operators to increase the
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Here are a couple of resources to get you started. Looking at these might give you ideas of what else to search for. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537101/deep-learning-ma... http://m.youtube.com&
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by unoti 11y ago
For those that don't know-- although Octave is interpreted, the interpreted part acts as an interface to highly optimized vector operations under the covers. Signal processing and a lot of other tasks come down to manipulating large a
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by unoti 11y ago
Beware a typo in this code: search for "mepliles". Unsurprisingly, the error is in an error handler, so it was assuredly never hit. This kind of thing has started making me yearn for type safety and static compilation.
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by unoti 11y ago
Sounds like you're doing great! Be careful about "Am I ignorant" questions: it's usually straightforward to find others who will tear you down for just about any reason you can imagine!
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If you've ever created a user interface in HTML, you've used something that does not have the concept of user controls. Let's say that I want to make a numeric entry user control for entering numbers on a touch screen. This
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A lot of this kind of work ends up being repetitive-- like multiplying two matrices together that have a few thousand entries each. These are the sorts of things that GPU's do very well with. GPU's have the ability to do such t
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The big idea from old school windows that is shared with Flux is the idea of little views that render themselves and manage their own state. In Windows we called those Controls or Window Classes. It is a good idea, and one worthy of prese
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> Also, endless debates on whether something should be a PATCH or a PUT or a POST. An often overlooked technique for handling such arguments is to quit bickering and get back to work solving the business problems.
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Agreed. He's describing an organization where the leaders are not actually interested in doing a good job. An organization that's not a true meritocracy. An organization where actually playing the game is more important than doing

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