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   by wellpast 7y ago

   Where can I get one of these?
2. 272.▲
   by wellpast 7y ago

   Is IPFS the answer to this?
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   by wellpast 7y ago

   I’m advocating for improving that efficiency if it is indeed improvable (my intuition says it is by a large margin.) What I’m saying is that the notion of ‘fairness’ should have little relevance to improving this side of things.
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   by wellpast 7y ago

   > The point is, just because a filter allows the right people through doesn’t mean it’s necessarily any good. I define “good” and “right people” to be that which produces efficiency, quality, innovation in the business. So a good filter
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   by wellpast 7y ago

   They must to a significant degree or businesses would tank. The (open) question is, can we do better?
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   by wellpast 7y ago

   Nobody is striving toward ‘hiring fairness’ ... don’t believe any person who says that’s what they are after. Better outcomes, better industry productivity, sure. But ‘hiring fairness’?
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   by wellpast 7y ago

   I love this. I think evaluating/interviewing is hard, should be much more about experience and past projects but so what if the industry has got it wrong, so what you have to study a little to get the job? The world is what it is. I th
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   by wellpast 7y ago

   Pedantically... She has a dream — opens Aliens, I think — and an alien pokes out of her stomach.
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   by wellpast 7y ago

   Advocating programming constructs as a kind of ‘policing’ against bad developers doesn’t work for me. It usually ends up at odds with better objectives & heavily taxes conscientious developers, for whom we should really be optimizing th
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    Interestingly I agree w/ a preference for empty semantics over null semantics, but NOT for the reason "avoid NPE". Rather, I think minimizing branching/forking in the code logic is how complexity is reduced. For this sam
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    Here here. I’ve heard “but null pointer errors!” countless times to justify one’s coding approaches (eg, strong typing, Maybe/Optional invasion, this or that PL, ...) People will murder all kinds of productivity to avoid potential NPEs
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    This truth v. fiction binary is common thinking but far too simplistic. The idea that there is just a set of facts on one side of the fence and on the other is all the lies -- and the dumb hoi polloi just tends to always go for the "ba
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    > No, people have always found a way to justify what want to be right regardless of the underlying ideology. We've just become more explicit about it in some cases. People's beliefs about what is right tend to be very convenien
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    I think there’s a parallel to art. And effective teaching being like art. You can’t formalize the artists process — or dictate a medium preference — without taking away the artist’s effectiveness.
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    Thanks for your reply. The Euclid’s Elements example seems possibly a good anchor for discussion. However I think the difficulty/effortfulness/dynamism of the learning process should signal that the communication/teaching s
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    This guy seems to be searching for that magic pillow that you put the book under and sleep upon and later wake up with all the information & learning you were after downloaded and integrated into your person. He says the key to getting
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    by wellpast 7y ago

    Change it to, Don’t always be the 1st to leave...
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    Hi Chris, that's awesome! My (perhaps idiosyncratic?) priorities in order: - a ui programming model that is thoroughly thought-through. to be honest i think javafx fits this bill, it took long- hard-learned lessons from Swing but rebui
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    They could choose a Saas service (Dropbox, iCloud, WinBin/whatev). Hell, I'd probably do this but encrypted where I like. In this way you'd have the data storage decoupled from the app so the choice would be there.
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    This is exactly what I'm talking about. There are SOOOO many options and all of them fall short. This one falls short in the extreme. I.e, no Windows support & it seems mobile-focused not desktop-focused. Not trying to be harsh and
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    Every so often for the past several years I'll go evaluate options for cross-platform desktop app development and I always come back with an enormous handful of options and all of which fall short on some measure. I would really think
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    To preserve the anonymity of the source of my own ideas, I might write every tweet/post like so: “A friend of mine says, ‘Woke politics are getting absurd.’” I wonder if this would be violation of the law...
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    A problem with our industry in this regard is that we don't understand the difference between learning and doing . A new grad entering industry is going to be doing a lot more learning than doing -- or rather learning while doin
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    With the context you've provided here, this is still an estimate-able task. The steps to do this task are enumerable and would be similar across similar tasks. I believe that the conclusion "software estimation can't be relia
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    > Instead, figure out which tasks have the highest uncertainty – those tasks are basically going to dominate the mean time to completion. From the technical side of things, uncertainty can mean a few things here: (A) I've never do
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    I think you're hitting the nail on the head. It is specific and focused practice. I've been thinking about working on a book or set of blog posts or something to try to flesh out what a regimen would look like. Most writing on s
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    > what is the language and mindset of “objects” with dynamic dispatch providing you apart from an endless stream of bugs that seem to keep reoccurring everytime you try an evolve the software to introduce a new requirement? The only min
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    Curious if your coworkers have looked Eta, a Haskell on the JVM? Also curious how your Haskellers and Clojurers are peaceably coexisting? (I ask this lightly but still curious :)
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    But still relevant, no? You could say that the “hard problem” mentioned has been removed by those abstractions.
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    by wellpast 8y ago

    And then there was Clojure... (defn average [numbers] (/ (apply + numbers) (count numbers))) (average [8.988465674311579e+307M, 8.98846567431158e+307M]) => 8.9884656743115795E+307M