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by unoti 7y ago
> In the meantime, though, every single older developer I've met has been extremely knowledgeable and frankly much better at the craft than myself. While this is true for you, there is a lot of selection bias and survivor bias invol
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by unoti 7y ago
The Michael Crichton novel Timeline is basically about this. It’s good. Spoiler: saltpeter makes an appearance, as suggested by someone elsewhere in this thread.
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by unoti 7y ago
1. “Shooting from the hip” or saying exactly what’s on your mind isn’t always a virtue. 1b. Seize every opportunity to give an honest compliment 2. Look for a way for everyone to win. 3. Build people up and help them succeed. 4. Pick your b
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by unoti 7y ago
I did assembly on 6502, 6809 family, and 68000 for quite a few years. While I did enjoy Tis-100 and other zachtronics titles, those are actually quite a bit more challenging than real assembly programming. In real assembly you’re pretty muc
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by unoti 7y ago
Any language is fine. The callsign has to be understandable and that’s it. If people want to talk in Esperanto they totally can. People talk in Spanish on the ham bands all the time!
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by unoti 7y ago
>They asked what we could do with it and I told them we could talk to people anywhere in the world! They looked at me like I was nuts because they do that all day everyday online It’s more like why you would want to learn to do any of a
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by unoti 7y ago
The idea is there shouldn’t be encryption. The ham spectrum is intended to be for educational and hobby use, and for emergency communications. If the message is for commercial use or for something that needs to be encrypted then it should b
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by unoti 7y ago
> either everybody is remote or the team needs to be co-located entirely. The middle ground results in entrenched warfare between the 2+ parts of the team. Are you sure? I’ve worked remote and worked not remote, and trench warfare betwee
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by unoti 8y ago
I usually put multiple document types into a single collection and have a “type” field to get around this. The fields are indexed so this is efficient. To decide when to use a different collection I look at the scalability and other settin
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by unoti 8y ago
Lotus Notes. Easy to put together multi user databases with multiple views, security levels, authorization, and signatures.
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by unoti 8y ago
> I have yet to actually speak to anyone because i don't feel like there is anything i would want to say. A lot of this probably has to do with where you are, or more specifically, where the people you're hearing are. I first
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by unoti 8y ago
> It makes sense that audiobooks have less comprehension... And yet, interestingly, their study didn't find any significant difference in comprehension.
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by unoti 8y ago
It's possible what you're doing takes too much higher order thinking. Try it while driving or walking, instead of housework!
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by unoti 8y ago
Pitch is stabilized by the tail. When the nose points down, air hits the top of the tail and pushes the tail down, bringing the nose up. And when the nose is pointing up, air hitting the bottom of the tail pushes the tail up. The V shape th
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by unoti 8y ago
To get a VFR license, yes, you have to know about everything you mentioned. You must learn about all the instruments. What kind of instrument scans to do in various kinds of situations. Ascent/descent, climbing turns, level turns into
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by unoti 8y ago
They’re referring to Depth First Search
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by unoti 8y ago
> Instead it stutters along from one step to the next. Like counting off steps when dancing. My dance instructor, a master dancer, said that for dancing the key is you need a MAP: 1. Memorize 2. Automate 3. Personalize Memorize the steps
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by unoti 8y ago
> they don’t really seem to solve the problems I have with concurrency. They feel like baked-in message queues. You’re right about the baked in message queues. But that’s actually one of the key ingredients to designing simple scalable c
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by unoti 9y ago
I used to use Firebase. I was ecstatic about the fact that I didn’t need a server. Then I spent months where Whenever I needed to solve a use case I’d spend more time thinking about how to structure my data, how to secure it. I’d spend a l
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by unoti 9y ago
The author mentions that messages cost more memory, because shared data must be copied. This can be avoided If you base your classes in immutable data. Then you can pass references around without worrying about modifications.
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by unoti 9y ago
I’m cursed with some kind of attention disorder and can’t keep track of what the heck is going on when I context switch. So over the years I developed this system: I keep notes of what I’m doing and what I’ve learned as I do my work. I kee
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by unoti 9y ago
I’d reach for SQLite. It’s a great and fast way to do the joins. It also would make for a much better way to transport this data than a collection of interrelated text files. If the data will be transmitted and refreshed periodically this
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by unoti 9y ago
Seems a shame the article didn’t mention Anathem , the amazing novel that focuses on the clock itself and the Long Now concept in general.
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by unoti 9y ago
Software keeps working after the work is done. That’s the key differentiator, not the brain power. This leads to economies of scale on two fronts. 1) scale for the low end. As an engineer, I’ve made a game where I have customers worldwide t
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by unoti 9y ago
how About a space game where you move cargo ships around and manufacture and trade goods. You could teach about coordinate systems and math. Players need to figure out optimum things to haul for their amount of available funds. Different pl
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by unoti 9y ago
In the original article the author said: > I've never had an interview that tried to evaluate my ability to work in a team or prioritize tasks... I found this interesting, because there are some good ways to look for this that I alw
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by unoti 9y ago
The feature we’re talking about here is an easy to use version of doing memory layouts like you’d do with C structs and unions. And combined in with that is automatic number formatting. And all of it uses a clean concise layout that’s sel
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by unoti 9y ago
Anathem by Neal Stephenson, along with Seveneves.
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by unoti 9y ago
There’s a classic book called The Goal [1] which is an outstanding example of teaching using the Socratic method. The basic lessons of the book can also change the way you think about business in general and software engineering in particu
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by unoti 9y ago
> and you have some function that can re-build the current state from that list... You can be far mor efficient than that. The trick is to use immutable data structures to represent your state. When something changes, return a new state

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