vjdingdong

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by vjdingdong 10mo ago
I second your experience with Python. I've been coding in Python for 10+ years. When I get passed down some 'data scientist' code, I often it breaks. With Rust, it was amazing - it was a pain to get it compiled and get past t
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A structural pattern for Legible Modular software(arxiv.org)
3 points by vjdingdong 11mo ago|1 comments
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
True. His ignorance proved fatal.
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
German unification was unthinkable until the soviet union collapsed. Maybe in 25 years, the 2 Koreas will be reunited, making Korea an even bigger power on the global stage.
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
The author describes a context while he's debugging. I think an analogy would be a chess game, where the player has built/planned your stack of several 'look ahead' moves. And then you get interrupted. That can be indee
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
That's a pretty disfunctional state of affairs you describe in Health-care. A little bit like what we have in Tech. Where career managers/MBAs/PMPs control execution of projects with various levels of technical complexity - e
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
Looks like you discovered where your motivation knob is, and come to think of it, being dis-satisfied with something is a very common, and rational way to be motivated.
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
> gained insane last minute skills Nice way to put it.
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
Your interruptions/work-context are way out there in terms of stress/impact etc. APL and J : Agreed. Haskell is my refuge when Python starts getting verbose. Even if you're interrupted, there's a slim chance with concis
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
Re. the darker possibility becomes the bias, since the organization (maybe due to its size), with its focus on success, has a low tolerance for an employee who is struggling.
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
That would be true. However, the word excellence, especially in IT companies is a relative term at best. We have seen others in this forum refer to Amazon's work as fixing broken code that's hardly maintainable. Hardly what one w
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by vjdingdong 5y ago
I recently left my employer after about an year and half. I was on the edge of a PIP - so I thought - and constantly felt like an imposter. Making it past the year-mark surprised me.. and it was getting better when I quit. My manager would