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by valbaca 5y ago
I'll share mine. 2011 - Graduated with double degree B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Texas Tech University Software Engineer @ Raytheon II&S in Garland, TX 2011 $61k/year (all # values are in $k) 201
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by valbaca 5y ago
The "<center> cannot hold" is a beautiful reference to "The Second Coming" by Yeats https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
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by valbaca 5y ago
> Again: I like the language a lot. I also like Ruby a lot. But when a new project with serious complexity requires me to pick language I go with something that has: no implicit nulls, strong type safety, sum types, exhaustivity checks.
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by valbaca 5y ago
The idea is that compost is used as fertilizer. That fertilizer is used to grow plants, and plants reduce greenhouse gases.
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by valbaca 5y ago
I use a Durgod Taurus K320 TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard 87 Keys, Cherry Silent Red keys, Space Grey: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QK16RDQ Despite the "gaming" in the name, it's not a &quot
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by valbaca 6y ago
Neat project! thanks for sharing An example of when sonic communication is useful is to bootstrap other communication. During setup, Amazon Dash buttons would listen for data sent over ultrasonic to get network information. https:/&#x
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by valbaca 6y ago
Instead, just don't brainstorm. There's never been a study showing brainstorming is effective. If innovative, useful ideas could be spontaneously plucked from thin air, then they would've already been thought of. Brainstormin
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by valbaca 6y ago
This is fantastic! Could use a "report bugs" feature as I found an issue on the first category I looked in, Keyboards: https://recorank.com/review/drop-entr-mechanical-keyboard I'm pretty sure that doesn
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by valbaca 6y ago
For once a site that I wish was asking for my email. I'd love to be notified when this book is finished.
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by valbaca 6y ago
A few more text replacements that I have as well: Johnathan -> Jonathan // or whatever common misspelling you have for your manager or coworker. I don't need it now, but can be a good stop-gap teh -> the // Fo
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by valbaca 6y ago
std is the namespace for the C++ standard library
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""" .. This introduction is an Easter egg and is not intended to be taken seriously. .. Please don't remove it :) """ So much for that
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by valbaca 6y ago
I expected the redpill to be popular on HN but this is just absurd and disgusting. "The bottom of the male market has just fallen out completely." It's not a market. People aren't commodities. "you could be the only
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by valbaca 6y ago
100% agree that it's undervalued. Was just in a software design meeting where they were trying to figure out how to represent exactly this: a time interval. I had to repeat "Just read ISO 8601 and use it" like a dozen times.
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by valbaca 6y ago
Interesting there's absolutely no mention of its unique utility in the modern era for computing based on its high conductivity. Copper is good enough for most applications but for where quality matters more than cost, it's irrepla
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by valbaca 6y ago
> Perhaps the question should be, “Why do women value gold?” No, it shouldn't. Gold has been worn by just as many men as women. I thought the blue-pink divide was arbitrary, but now gold is "only for women"? Based on what?
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by valbaca 6y ago
HEY BHM1 DOERS, why pay almost $500 in dues? We’ve got you covered* with high wages, health care, vision, and dental benefits, as well as a safety committee and an appeals process. There’s so much MORE you can do for your career and your fa
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by valbaca 6y ago
Who cares? If you need one, then you'll learn it
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> some engineer deems How dare the engineer decide what's best for the engine? Literally every automatic has the ability to shift into first gear as needed. Hell, my automatic 4-banger Dodge Neon had first gear and that thing couldn
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> I dont want ANY of my candidates studying for my interviews. This contrary to the explicit advice that most Big companies give in preparation for interviews. For example, my last interview round with Google included an email "Goog
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by valbaca 6y ago
Yes. Chapter 8. Pulls from several studies. See Notes, page 229
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by valbaca 6y ago
My pet peeve is the incorrect definition of the "10x dev" The "10xDev" is one that's 10 times more effective than the least effective developer; NOT 10x the average dev nor 10x the median dev. The 10x is the absol
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by valbaca 6y ago
Scale: wrapping all fiber optic cables in a protective metal sheath would be cost prohibitive. Whereas adding a metal sheet to prevent a house from flooding or someone from getting electrocuted makes sense. One idea, borrowed from some chai
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by valbaca 6y ago
more perfect does not imply 'perfect' is the goal nor should it be. "More perfect" in this context is effectively "better." Perfectionism, ironically, stunts improvements.
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by valbaca 6y ago
"likely going to cost you >$2000, and it's going to need a dedicated room of your house" Sounds exactly like the requirements of the very first home TVs.
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by valbaca 6y ago
What "charade"?
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by valbaca 6y ago
The way I was taught was that "disk" is when you don't touch it directly (disk drive, floppy disk) and "disc" is when you can (compact disc, frisbee disc).
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by valbaca 6y ago
fyi, TD = Temporal Difference "Temporal difference (TD) error is a powerful teaching signal in machine learning"
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by valbaca 6y ago
From the research I did, here's how languages stack up in Lambda runtime (lowest first): 1. Python & JS 2. Go 3. C# & Java I couldn't find any data on Rust. The understanding at the time was that Python & JS runtimes
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by valbaca 6y ago
Just to set some context, I'm of the "OOP Generation" where I learned to program when OOP was at its zenith. Every major language was Class-based OOP (C++, C#, Java, Python, Ruby) and it was just THE way to code for all thing

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