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by xbpx 4y ago
I went back to school in sciences at age 27. This is after flunking out of maths when I was younger because I never understood the point and had challenges outside of school that distracted me... Graduated with a masters at 32 with advanced
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by xbpx 4y ago
When the team doesn't talk synchronously. So many times I've seen folks post a question that needs swift response to some issue tracker and then act indignant when they are held accountable for the thing not getting done. The answ
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by xbpx 4y ago
Hey cheers, I bet I'm around a decade on the same install of Arch too. That spans 3 machines. The trick for me is hot swap backups. I do an rsync backup of the drive to an identical disk (nowadays a 1TB 980 Evo) and then immediately sw
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by xbpx 4y ago
Lisp code is written in those parenthesis because in lisp, that is how you write a list. This means that your code is data that you can easily compute. It's trivial in lisp to quote some code and operate on it, also it means the macro
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by xbpx 5y ago
I identify with much in this blog post. One novelty argument: Managing is hard because it embodies the dialectic between capital and workers. Therefore a deep understanding of the Marxist critique (and exposé) of capital will help provide a
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by xbpx 5y ago
In my fantasy world this is a useful screed. The world I see is different. You have your dominant companies and their web apps. They set the standard and cultural forces (what's cool, modern, high quality) push everyone to adopt or get
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by xbpx 5y ago
This looks promising
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by xbpx 5y ago
"As the coroner's inquest reached a verdict of an act of God, Meux & Co did not have to pay compensation." The good ol days, sometimes a lot like these current days... Yes we're all looking at you Sacklers https:&#x
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by xbpx 5y ago
Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology. It's like a master class in historical political relations all in a single (large) book.
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by xbpx 5y ago
I see it as calling a function with the link as the Arg stored in some structure. [SomeFunc](CalledWithLinkArg) Not sure why that one stuck for me.
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by xbpx 5y ago
I enjoy browsing around and reading comments. Probably 30 mins a day on average. I don't use Facebook or Twitter (not much anyway) and I rarely watch TV. I listen to podcasts every night as I fall asleep. 30-45 mins avg on HN in evenin
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by xbpx 5y ago
Fourier Analysis. Knowing how easy it is to go from time to frequency (fft), how there is an uncertainty principle at play between resolution in time and frequency and interesting use cases such as pulling out periodic patterns from data se
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by xbpx 5y ago
Ha indeed, s/Humility/Hubris. Thanks Brian for the link. Looking forward to watching where Open Firmware community / Oxide / Rust take embedded. Exciting stuff.
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by xbpx 5y ago
Oh awesome thanks, I'll take a look
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by xbpx 5y ago
I've ordered the STM32F3 & thinking of ordering the audio dev STM32F4 board to try out Humility. I read all the docs and I understand Humility as an OS, it's extremely simple (for a OS) and it is going to be fun to develop aga
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by xbpx 5y ago
If you enjoyed the effort but ultimately failed anyway... I guess it works if you manage to die relatively happy instead of miserable.
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by xbpx 5y ago
This logic can also apply to hobby projects and interests. "There are amazing artists or software programmers building world class stuff, what can I add?" is a common enough refrain I've encountered here on HN. It's not
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by xbpx 5y ago
Another point that is often lost is how mathematical Julia code can look, especially for matrix functions. Yeh this is superficial, but so are 200 dollar sneakers and they do just fine. Honestly there is a real pleasure writing code that lo
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by xbpx 5y ago
Ha it's still going strong. Now bifurcated between node+next and the rise of Deno. It won't stop either because the road between between JS client dev and JS server dev is so smooth. Path of least resistance type thing.
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by xbpx 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. X instead of reasonably-similar-Y isn't convincing in and of itself. I'm not even convinced Julia will be the dominant numerical programming language. That said I'd like it if it develops a robust and
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by xbpx 5y ago
Java has a massive ecosystem yet we continue to see rapid replacement of backends in JavaScript (Node now Deno) and Golang. Each of those language ecosystems rapidly became both large (arguably too large) and robust. Rust has been eating C+
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by xbpx 5y ago
I'm going to be controversial and say this has a marginal impact on educational outcomes. Probably skewed towards better as I'm assuming they've done their homework. Look, kids who love math and nerd out in their spare time w
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by xbpx 5y ago
I'm working on some music synth stuff because I learned to play piano (rudimentary) and know how to write code. It's a great creative outlet. I am not, and never will be, the next Kraftwerk or author of SuperCollider or whatever.
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by xbpx 5y ago
I've been running Arch Linux for about a decade to avoid exactly that. I mean, I put up with some crap... GPU drivers, Alsa to Pulse to Pipewire, terrible or non existent Slack, Teams, Zoom apps, bizarre overlapping partially redundant
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by xbpx 5y ago
I've declined PRs in the past (and had mine declined) over boolean flag args, magic numbers etc. When you work in a team readability is an important factor. Still, I do wince sometimes at the Everest sized heaps created in JS to do eve
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by xbpx 5y ago
Lot's of people have ideas, great ideas even. Ideas are not particularly rare nor hard. Luck, expertise, privilege (for those not born into it) and timing are more difficult. More importantly, to help ensure maximum impact, one needs t
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by xbpx 5y ago
I'm looking forward to something like the brilliant rayon parallel operations library https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon We won't get data race free guarantees but if built into pandas or Vaex we can have a ne
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by xbpx 5y ago
There are plenty of countries that have higher minimum wages than the US and don't experience greater inflation. One reason is that the money for these higher wages comes not from higher prices, but from executive and investor compensa
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by xbpx 5y ago
Clickhouse went corp a couple weeks ago, Timescale goes fully managed, Snowflake, Dremio, DBX ... :popcorn: Apache Arrow, K8s, ML analytics have given rise to another DB War. The end of NoSQL was the realization that SQL had a good reason f
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by xbpx 5y ago
Since you're a software dev you may have explored supercollider and other environments where you can employ great tools. I've been looking for a hybrid UI/UX + Audio programming environment that would combine the freedom of

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