xamuel

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by xamuel 10y ago
I like working from my office even though I have a long commute. It's because I have a toddler at home, so it's hard to get work done there. The commute is the most peaceful time of my day and allows me to get a lot of studying
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by xamuel 10y ago
The thing about looking up tricks is you can only look them up if you remember they even exist to look up.
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by xamuel 10y ago
In a non-Typescript project, they're a shoddy half-baked type system duct-taped together. In a Typescript project, they're almost completely redundant, they add a huge maintenance burden for basically no gain.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Happy to see propTypes getting shelved. Too many people stubbornly use propTypes even in Typescript projects. Hopefully this change will usher in the final stamping out of that.
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by xamuel 10y ago
The paradox of the heap[1] shows that vagueness is an inherent, inescapable part of reality. Machine learning would provide a way around that paradox: a heap is what a neural network says is a heap! If this worked, it would be too good to
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by xamuel 10y ago
As a mathematician who successfully made the leap, I think the biggest requirement is ability to swallow your pride and "lower" yourself to seriously study professional coding. There's too much temptation to hack something in
907.
by xamuel 10y ago
mikegerwitz is technically right. As an illuminating example, consider a hash-algorithm in which there's at least one hash that occurs precisely once. Then a 2nd-preimage attack is formally impossible no matter how much computational
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by xamuel 10y ago
This is really great. It would be even greater if it could be used offline. Instead of hitting the server every time I choose one of the elements to view.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Three years ago, Machine Learning on a resume meant: "Good candidate." Currently, it means: "Jumps on bandwagons, caution." In three years, it'll mean: "Brainless buzzwords, avoid."
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by xamuel 10y ago
Ever tried hunting for a job in academia? There are hundreds of super-qualified U.S. candidates for every opening. If your friend's so amazing she beats all of them, 130k is a steal.
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by xamuel 10y ago
>The judge was visibly surprised I would be too. What you said is rather arrogant. If you had based it on their having specific physics knowledge, that would be one thing. But to say that logic and reasoning is the exclusive realm of
912.
by xamuel 10y ago
I'd like to share sometime but it'll take work to filter out copyrighted and personal material.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Helps that I have an hour commute each way, 5 days a week. Public transport FTW! Aside from that, patience is key. 10 or 15 cards per day adds up over a period of years
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by xamuel 10y ago
I use Anki for code. Here's why Anki beats Code Cards. Code Cards's differentiating feature is the ability to type the answer before viewing it. But I've found it's crucial that each card be fast . Typing the answer w
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by xamuel 10y ago
>no map, no filter, no flatmap, no reduce ES6 generators pretty much solve this, especially once you learn "yield*"
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by xamuel 10y ago
>"When we originally added asynchronous exceptions to Haskell ... was shortly after Java had removed the equivalent feature, because it was impossible to program with." >"...if [Haskell wants] to be able to interrupt ..
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by xamuel 10y ago
Too-simple RNGs can qualitatively change games. Example: In Final Fantasy 3 (SNES), a certain item was supposed to be obtainable, but it required RNG sequences that never occur.
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by xamuel 10y ago
You've got the mathematics 180° wrong! In standard mathematical foundations, ∈ is the only primitive relation, from which all others (including ⊆) derive.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Wish more people knew about dict comprehensions, it's maddening the contortions people go to because they don't know about it.
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by xamuel 10y ago
I have a toddler, so no rest at home. I'm either coding or babysitting. Hence, for me currently, more hours is always more productivity.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Each minute writing deserves at least two minutes deleting.
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by xamuel 10y ago
>My biggest complaint about python is how easy it is to learn This X 1000. Some Python candidates declare themselves professionals when their code is unsuitable for production. If you're gonna spend many thousands of hours using a
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by xamuel 10y ago
If you store N variations, a random guess has N chances to hit one. Once an attacker knows a variation, they may be able to use it to narrow down on the real password.
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by xamuel 10y ago
An intermediate developer knows how to abstract things. A senior knows when not to.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Helps if you have a daily commute on public transportation (like in NYC or London or something). Perfect way to make that time productive :)
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by xamuel 10y ago
>I retained You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to continue using the deck , indefinitely or until you're okay with losing it all. When a deck's life is measured in years, most cards' appearance frequency al
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by xamuel 10y ago
>Most rarely needed facts can be looked up as needed Unless you don't remember they're there to look up. Whenever I make cards about a programming language feature, I suddenly find myself in situations where that feature is per
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by xamuel 10y ago
>C is also not based on solid foundations C is based on the solidest possible foundation: the actual hardware CPU.
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by xamuel 10y ago
Apologies to the author, but rants serve a purpose. They comfort those of us forced to use a framework we don't like. If they demotivate you, that's your problem, not the world's. Move your site to Facebook if you want not
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by xamuel 10y ago
Interesting observation. If brains routinely cracked RSA, that could be evidence that P=NP. Still it wouldn't help us find the P-time algorithm in question. We could say "it seems to exist", but that would not imply &quot

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