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by xavdid 4y ago
CS programs prepare you first and foremost for a PhD in CS. They're great for learning the theory and fundamentals, but teach practical Software Engineering skills as a side effect.
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by xavdid 4y ago
Mermaid's single biggest value prop for me is its ability to connect nodes "well enough" without me needing to fiddle with it. Sometimes I want to ("if I were doing it by hand, I'd put that over there", etc), b
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by xavdid 4y ago
There's additional info on the company announcement: https://pydantic.dev/announcement/
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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic(techcrunch.com)
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by xavdid 4y ago
Same! I looked into how pytest worked and got bogged down in its plugin system (which is great, but very distracting when trying to read the code). I've always been curious how the assertion rewriting works.
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by xavdid 4y ago
Probably because Valve explicitly came out and warned people against using certain parts: https://www.engadget.com/valve-warns-against-steam-deck-ssd-...
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by xavdid 4y ago
I guess that begs the question - if Go was an independent project (totally unattached from google) and had the exact same telemetry plans, how would you feel?
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by xavdid 4y ago
There's a lot of strong reactions here, which I don't think are generally unfounded. Telemetry has certainly been misused and will continue to be, but it can also be an invaluable tool for product development. For example, we had
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by xavdid 4y ago
I wasn't in Japan, but I did something similar in the US for about 6 months before the pandemic cut our (planned 12 month) trip short. It was far from perfect, but it was super rewarding! Your experience will vary wildly based on what&
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by xavdid 4y ago
I'm not sure how to read the post and come away thinking any of this is "super trivial", but I'd imagine if it were that easy, they would have done it already.
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by xavdid 4y ago
> since its only purpose is to potentially hide opinions you disagree with People can certainly use it that way, but I think it's useful for de-emphasizing irrelevant or inflammatory comments as well.
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by xavdid 4y ago
Side note: > I’ll never find the post This a big pet peeve of mine on linkedin and twitter - doesn't matter if I navigate away from the page for just a second; if the algorithm reshuffles my feed at all, there's a good chance I
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by xavdid 4y ago
The problem you run into is that people can do legitimately harmful things, and claim it was "just a joke". It ruins it for everyone, unfortunately.
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by xavdid 4y ago
On the one hand, it's great to know what's happening (deep) under the hood and this probably makes for very interesting reading. On the other hand, if you want to be a productive Python programmer, don't feel like you need to
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by xavdid 4y ago
+1 RSS. In the meantime, you can use https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to get an RSS for newsletter items.
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by xavdid 4y ago
Same! I rarely use it anymore, but was always very pleased at the Deckset functionality.
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by xavdid 4y ago
This is a weird take, since most end users have no idea what React is. They just access websites (always have, will continue to do so). I think it is an interesting exercise to think about the worst thing to happen to web development in t
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by xavdid 4y ago
It's from Salesforce/Heroku. The documentation is definitely lacking, but it's battle-tested and under fairly active development. I moved the Zapier CLI to oclif a few years ago over a bespoke version, since it handles a lot
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by xavdid 4y ago
That's totally fair! I'm glad you enjoyed it. At its core, Magic is a great game and I really do wish for its success. I just think WotC is compromising the long-term health of the game in the name of short-term profits (which is
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by xavdid 4y ago
Yeah absolutely! Hard to say anything with conviction at this point. Anecdotally, many friends and I played religiously from middle school through college. Nearly all of them have stopped, most have sold their cards. Of course, we got older
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by xavdid 4y ago
It's a fair question, and one I don't really have the answer to without internal WotC metrics. I really think it depends on how we define "game health" (and whether we, the players, define it the same way that they do).
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by xavdid 4y ago
This is disappointing, but not surprising. I don't play Magic anymore, but it's been clear for years that WotC is prioritizing profit over game health.
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by xavdid 4y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I find the Goodreads UI _incredibly_ busy. Here's what I saw when I logged in just now: https://cdn.zappy.app/76d7cba6b409f0aa9310214401d11db9.png It's nice to see what my friends are
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by xavdid 4y ago
For the most part, whether a book has DRM is a per-publisher decision, not per-storefront. e.g. TOR books are DRM-free everywhere (including Apple). That said, ebooks.com is great! Clean interface, easy to download old purchases, etc. It&#x
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by xavdid 4y ago
Of course! They're an awesome project for people who enjoy high quality ebooks. I also like that I can submit typo fixes. :D
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by xavdid 4y ago
Yes, much more readable now! Dates on posts is nice because knowing when a post was written (and/or updated) gives a lot of context. For instance, your timeline is super cool. Knowing where a given post fits into that is useful.
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by xavdid 4y ago
Thank you! I've thought about it. Honestly the most likely thing is that I'll make a standalone site for media reviews and consolidate everything. That's what I did for this ( https://github.com/xavdid/ker
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by xavdid 4y ago
I like the color scheme a lot!
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by xavdid 4y ago
Very cool! Very clean and I love the level of technical detail in the posts.
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by xavdid 4y ago
Hey Ivan! I like your site. I might swap the homepage picture out for one that's a little less... aggressive though? That picture is pretty stern and it's on every page/post.

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