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by yomly 7y ago
It's a bit fuzzy whether people from CS backgrounds acquire this skill organically, but the style guide / format of the x-pager docs felt very familiar to scientific publishing. The main value of it felt that enshrining factual ob
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by yomly 7y ago
>You can see what is happening in a piece of code just by looking at the local context ^ This. A thousand times this. When I read this article, all I could think was _this_ is what object oriented code is meant to be about, aka message p
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by yomly 7y ago
I recall some clip from the Ronaldo movie where he takes the camera crew to his bedroom and points at his bed and says something along the lines of "this is my bed, it is very important - I spend almost 12 hours a day here: I sleep for
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by yomly 7y ago
>Is that path accessible to everyone I don't think so, although I feel like it is sometimes constructive to believe it is (from a personal perspective). From what I know, the 10 hours a day usually starts before teen years (it is c
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by yomly 7y ago
The life of a virtuoso musician is a curious one. The first 20-25 years of their lives is intensely stressful and gruelling. Practising their instrument for 10+ hours a day isn't uncommon, and their lives are usually dominated by chasi
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by yomly 7y ago
If you prefer stories about sports people, the rags-to-riches story of Jamie Vardy is a personal favourite[0] Here is someone who never gave up despite apparently lacking the "talent" when young and yet went on to win the Premier
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by yomly 7y ago
People blossom at different stages of their lives - sometimes it's physical/technical, other times it's emotional, but in any case sometimes these advantages/head starts end up evening out after the first 30 years for pe
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by yomly 7y ago
IIRC both Mozart and Schubert have fallen in and out of the repertoire and had to be "rediscovered" by musicologists in the 20th century as people didn't "get" their music - at one point people thought Mozart was on
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by yomly 7y ago
Yep, much like Japan, Europe somewhat rested on its laurels in the tech boom... I've heard various explanations - fragmented markets/culture means it's harder to scale. There's less appetite/precedence for undermini
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by yomly 7y ago
This is so informational thank you so much!!! >QQ the most popular messaging app from Tencent in the early 2000s had 6,000 Android developers (still does). WeChat (also run by Tencent but under a different management style) has only 50 d
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by yomly 7y ago
Yeah so this is my hunch too (which I want to prove/disprove) When you think about it, there is almost a unidirectional knowledge transfer: plenty of Chinese people will study and work abroad and then go back to China. By comparison, h
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by yomly 7y ago
Had a quick skim - bit ashamed I didn't think to have a glimpse beforehand! Thanks for sharing these are great. Just to add to it, I remember now that JD.com(?) made a library that targets the React API but is IE8 compatible: https:&#
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by yomly 7y ago
Is anyone here a dev working in China? Would love to know a bit about what dev culture is like in China, for instance: What are dev practises like - do people do Agile / Scrum? Is "post-agile" (sorry) scepticism a thing? What
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by yomly 7y ago
Oh whoops - I just remembered that once upon a time in Orlando you could get them at like half a doller an oyster. Here in the UK you can easily spend up to £5 a shuck
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by yomly 7y ago
As is with all things, once you start getting down to the details most our mental models are just that - mental models. I am guessing other people have downvoted you for adopting an ignorantly confident tone on something you are not a speci
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by yomly 7y ago
Oysters and clams are cheap????
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by yomly 7y ago
The word itself is a touch cringeworthy but the fact that the term is now ubiquitous should really be a hint of how big this phenomenon is. If you are unable to see the value in influencers (from a business perspective) it would simply sugg
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by yomly 7y ago
Do Naughty Dog still use Racket? Anyone from there able to give some insight into what tools/dev environment they use there?
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by yomly 7y ago
When you collect as much data as Amazon, you can start attributing incremental worker time spent picking/carrying down to the SKU level. This means that cost of worker time is less for things like books (a picker can carry many and mov
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by yomly 7y ago
Piggybacking on this (as I do it too) how robust is this method?
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Oracle to layoff around 1k employees in China R&D center(technode.com)
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by yomly 7y ago
> it would be the instant death of one personality and their replacement by a different one. And that feels very uncomfortable to people. That's a salient observation, but it's a definitely a curious aversion and possibly linke
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by yomly 7y ago
What even is "personality" - leaving aside technical and dictionary definitions, if you --the person-- are the sum of your life experiences, can you ever truly not be you? I pose this because I encounter resistance from people to
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by yomly 7y ago
> Poverty: It is now known that there is a rising gulf between subjective and objective well being. A majority of millionaires do not think they are rich. I think this psychology will make it impossible to solve poverty. I'd argue (
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by yomly 7y ago
Really liked this post and really hit me deep, given that I grew up hating all "arts"-based subjects only to discover in my 20s that I loved them, but lacked the correct mental model to appreciate them growing up. The concept that
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by yomly 8y ago
Isn't the act of sharing these logs vulnerable to a similar problem to site maps? Not everyone will do it and those that do may not do it to 100% completeness: people may not keep their http logs in good order, for example.
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by yomly 8y ago
Whoops s/"can be sensitive with reaped to"/"can be sensitive"
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by yomly 8y ago
Weirdly, as a scientist by training, I am quite unscientific when it comes to these kinds of things. Nature is exquisitely subtle and it can be really hard to "measure" these things when you may not even know what to measure for.
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by yomly 8y ago
Right so under the hood do you normalize to romajii? How do you deal with kunyomi vs onyomi - do they even matter? Even if you had a stream of kana, how do you tokenize when they're not delimited? (don't know much about NLP beyond
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by yomly 8y ago
Clojure Applied (Alex Miller) or Programming Clojure 3rd Ed (Alex Miller / Stuart Halloway) would be my picks but I don't know how beginner friendly they are. They're certainly not as colourful as brave but found the pace and

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