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by zengid 9y ago
Minor side-note, but I think that 'skill vs urgency' graph underestimates the skills required for delivery service providers. Source: I work for UPS.
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by zengid 9y ago
Genuine question: Aren't locks a quagmire in terms of lock management? Why start there?
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by zengid 9y ago
Video with more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JLhwsbMvjQ
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by zengid 9y ago
I think time is spent trying to map Logic to English because its our more familiar framework for thinking through logical problems. We do it everyday when problem-solving and weighing options, so its only natural that we want a way to make
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by zengid 9y ago
I take a cheap men's Daily Vitamin with: Amount per serving: % Daily Value: Vitamin B6 3 mg 150% Vitamin B12 18 mcg 300% which seems about typical for
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by zengid 9y ago
If this is your first stint, you've got a lot riding on this reputation-wise. You need to hit every deadline you set, and it needs to work the first time. It would be best to use the most familiar (and yes, boring) stack you can possib
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by zengid 9y ago
> Rewrite algorithms and core concepts in simple language with lots of swears to make them easier to understand and remember This is bit-flipping great, man!
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by zengid 9y ago
The thing that's interesting about Haskell is that lazyness had a payoff of leading to the discovery of monad-based IO [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/re96UgMk6GQ?t=31m22s
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by zengid 9y ago
Funny how I was just looking for something like this. Just finished a whirlwind summer semester using Gentoo in a course on Linux admin, so I've been wanting to dig in a bit deeper.
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by zengid 9y ago
Now combine this with mircosofts off-shore under-water data-centers: https://news.microsoft.com/features/microsoft-research-proje...
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by zengid 9y ago
Wasn't Austrian culture (it mentioned that Beethoven lived in Vienna) distinguishable from 'German' culture? I think I read about that in Nassim Taleb's Antifragile when talking about Gödel having to leave during the Naz
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by zengid 9y ago
Cool talk by Leijen about Koka and algebraic-effects: https://youtu.be/hrBq8R_kxI0
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by zengid 9y ago
It should be noted that the previous sentence before your quote is: "For now, we mainly see the library as a target for library writers or compilers."
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by zengid 9y ago
UPS hq is in Atlanta, too.
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by zengid 9y ago
No, not inherently more secure, but probably more developers around who already understand the core semantics. Also, tools.
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by zengid 9y ago
Looks like it needs some work, anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008
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by zengid 9y ago
> Parity is the fastest and most secure way of interacting with the Ethereum network. Why start from scratch and not use something like Haskell or ML? I don't understand why they're reinventing the wheel when there's a cha
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by zengid 9y ago
TIL "IANAL" means I Am Not A Lawyer.
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by zengid 9y ago
Please excuse me for relating an experience, but it's relevant. To get into my IT grad program I had to take a few undergrad courses (my degree is in music, and I didn't have all of the pre-reqs). One course was Intro to Computer
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by zengid 9y ago
Down-voted because research into language features is useless, I suppose?
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by zengid 9y ago
No more experience than reading the docs and watching an old talk from Andrey Breslav [1] where he explains how a DSL for HTML generation could work in Kotlin. I like what I see and look forward to experimenting with it once I have more fre
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by zengid 9y ago
Support for DefinitelyTyped is what I really appreciate about Kotlin-to-JS.
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by zengid 9y ago
Your argument sounds like Stockholm-syndrome. Its not so much "faster" as it is latency. Any time the feedback between idea and execution starts to lag, it becomes painful. Also, performance is important in the same sense that eff
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by zengid 9y ago
Whats your perspective of the activity around the Dart VM? Is Google actively maintaining it? As a JS dev I always wrote it off as being a non-starter, but your project has intrigued me to taking a second look at the VM. Thanks!
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by zengid 9y ago
The original article is better at explaining things: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/06/05/andr...
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by zengid 9y ago
So is Lightsail really worth jumping into?
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by zengid 9y ago
The Witness is pretty fun. Some of the puzzles take me a while to grok, so I play it every now and again.
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by zengid 9y ago
Your game is amazing! I'm particularly intrigued by the 3D-ness of the sprites and how smooth all of the animation is. Can you suggest any resources for learning more about the process of making similar content (without giving away you
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by zengid 9y ago
What was the clunky scheduling software mentioned around 7:00?
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by zengid 9y ago
>How many languages can you name that were built with IDE support from the ground up? Visual Studio Code is pretty nice with TypeScript. I've enjoyed having the autocomplete for my little Phaser game.

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