yason

90 ms·

781.
by yason 12y ago
I'm glad they got rid of the 'puts' calls in the end. It was irking me to naively assume that you would always be asked to print the answer sequence.
782.
by yason 12y ago
Before proceeding with the steps to ensure your personal future, spend some time thinking why it's you who's involved in this? Why are you put in such a situation, possibly in the role of a whistleblower? Is there something greate
783.
by yason 12y ago
I don't think it's about education. It's just that software isn't what hardware people mostly work with and you only get experienced in what you mostly work with. And when you're experienced, you gain some insight i
784.
Gun expert: Finland needs to accept it has a firearms problem(yle.fi)
1 points by yason 12y ago|0 comments
785.
by yason 12y ago
My 10AE has over 110k miles on it and has not blown up yet -- probably has another another 40k on it before it'll be ready for a rebuild. That's really low. I don't think I've ever bought a car with only 110k miles on
786.
by yason 12y ago
For the majority of people, mp3s seem to be "just as good" enough. I remember some low-bitrate songs encoded with some very early encoder where you could hear a difference. Not necessarily "the" difference but "a&qu
787.
by yason 12y ago
No matter what you've got it can all disappear outside of your own control. Such is life, and while most of the time it doesn't happen it will if it needs to. No matter how much you own and how much you've got things secured
788.
by yason 12y ago
Give me a dark cave where I can munch my thoughts in private without seeing or listening to anybody else unless I choose to do so, and you've got yourself a winner employee here. Office layout is certainly an area where one size does
789.
by yason 12y ago
And why would you want to redo the idiomatically complex part in Haskell (there are probably thousands of monad tutorials just to explain why I/O in Haskell needs to be wrapped in a monad) also in similarly a complex way in Clojure whi
790.
by yason 12y ago
Maybe it's because by the age of forty you've probably run out of the steam that comes free, mostly from the external expectations of what you should do. It's easy to finish school, go study something, then get a job, get a b
791.
by yason 12y ago
Hint to the developers: summary and overview in plaintext, please. I have no idea what this is beyond the title, but it looks interesting.
792.
by yason 12y ago
I could draw an analogy to short-term memory where a new fact is stored separately from the big neural network and it is gradually self-taught to deeper and deeper levels of the network as long as it keeps making sense and fits into the exi
793.
by yason 12y ago
In my view, a lot of this is just trying to avoid learning yet another system. Learning systems is hard and takes time, and it's only worth it if you're going to be using the system a lot in the future. For example, creating a new
794.
by yason 12y ago
That's simply so genuinely Finnish.
795.
by yason 12y ago
I haven't had ayahuasca but I suppose it's the same as with any mind-altering drug: don't take it for recreational purposes but for spiritual purposes. Take it if you're willing to suffer through mental work in order to
796.
by yason 12y ago
The more I interview the less I tend to give weight to the technical part and the more I focus on evaluating how well I get along with the person, how easily and naturally we can discuss programming topics, and do we happen to converge on
797.
by yason 12y ago
It's the engineers' job to resist with good reasoning. It's the visionary's job to convince them that we people only think the impossible things are impossible. That's basically how I do my internal dialogue. I sh
798.
by yason 12y ago
An alternative, peer-to-peer name resolution mechanism will be in greater demand every year. Currently, DNS records are spoofed, proxied, blocked, and whatnot by the domain name registrars because of legal threats by big money. There should
799.
by yason 12y ago
Hunger has never been a problem of production in particular but of distribution. For decades, there's been plenty of food for everyone on this planet; it just hasn't been distributed, by politics or by markets, evenly and probably
800.
by yason 12y ago
There are passionate programmers who are breathing fire to accomplish something but who have none of the talent. While it's a mandatory quality passion alone doesn't make a good programmer.
801.
by yason 12y ago
That's quite different. She had an option to decline. Maybe it would've a very hard choice indeed, both socially and career-wise but she did have that choice. It might be convenient in some cases to broaden the definition of rape
802.
by yason 12y ago
I cannot fathom how it is possible to get raped by a co-worker several times. This is obviously a sore point socially so I'll emphasize here that that's what I assume has happened because she wrote so . I'm just curious abou
803.
by yason 12y ago
I see mostly ones. Reminds me of http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
804.
by yason 12y ago
Happiness is a metric of internal success. Money is a metric of external success. If money (i.e. the external, material success) played no part and it was all about time you could just retire to a cabin in the forest to have all the time an
805.
by yason 12y ago
What's the point of regretting? For example, I could regret I didn't leave my previous employer earlier because they just didn't pay me more money eventhough my skills and impact had gone way up since starting there. But not
806.
by yason 12y ago
Shipping doesn't always need to mean shipping to the public. I write complex software too but I "ship" to myself early and often. I start by trying to solve a hard problem as fast and as quickly as possible in a naive way so
807.
by yason 12y ago
This is how it's in Europe as well: unemployment rates can be redefined to include or exclude certain people depending on what are the desired results. I usually look at employment rates instead which comes with its own peculiarities.
808.
by yason 12y ago
"None of my fucking business": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WikPtKdffJ0
809.
by yason 12y ago
For me, programming is to build mechanisms. There's something similar there as in building mechanical constructs. That's the juicy bit for me. Building mechanisms of course implies some core problem (i.e. how to model what you nee
810.
by yason 12y ago
Running code when exiting scope is the key to many a things that would be useful, cool, or both. You can simulate some of the cases with a for loop. Other than that, you're out of luck unless you're willing to bite the bullet of c

More ›