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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
> Minimum wage low skill jobs pay more than this in the US. No, they don't. $7.25 * 40 * 52 = $15,080. Before taxes. (40 hours, assuming you are lucky enough to get full-time, which is often not the case, esp. at fast food places an
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Iyashikei: the genre of catharsis(reddit.com)
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
You have a point, although technologies don't necessarily win because of merit either. In fact, they often don't...
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
Latin has no native speakers anymore, but that does not mean nobody speaks or writes it. It is still often used within the Catholic Church.
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
Is it just me or does kristopolous's script no longer work? (It worked fine in the previous months.)
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
Location: Jacksonville, FL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Delphi, Javascript, Android, C#, Xamarin, Scheme, Prolog, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres Résumé/CV: http://aquila.blue/misc/resume.h
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
They are offering $1125 for a MacBook Pro (in good condition) that I paid almost $3000 for last January. Doesn't sound like a good deal at all.
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
To me, 0.x version numbers suggest that a project is not stable and can change in incompatible ways at any time... or be abandoned, even. 0.0.x, even more so. That said, some projects stay in 0.x territory for so long that this no longer ap
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Why a career in computer programming sucks (2007)(halfsigma.typepad.com)
3 points by zephyrfalcon 10y ago|0 comments
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Three Hundred Mechanics(squidi.net)
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Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?(flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com)
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
Really? What language allows you to encode business logic into its type system? I'm talking about things like, what happens if you press this button; is this calculation correct; does this lookup give me the desired results; does X get
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
Python is not "weakly typed", nor does it ever automatically convert strings to numbers or the other way around.
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
> Unit tests don't magically save you from code bloat. No, but the idea is that such a method would be hard to test, considering it (presumably) does so much. So in order to test it properly, you are encouraged to break it up into s
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
> A very high percentage of unit tests in a dynamic language are written to catch type errors. I'm not sure where you got that information. You don't actually write tests to catch types. You write tests to check behavior . Whi
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
Here is a long critique of the language: http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
The VVD is traditionally right-wing, but I think the article uses "right-wing" here to mean "extreme right" or perhaps "new right" or "non-traditional right" or whatever you would call it. Not sure re
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by zephyrfalcon 10y ago
Most, if not all, of these parties seem to make a point of scapegoating immigrants and refugees (and certain religions). In fact, that seems to be their main point. Trump is no exception. Sounds pretty far to the right to me.
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
"But making people feel like they like you is pretty easy." For an extrovert, yes. :) Or for the introvert who knows these things and knows how to do them credibly. For some of us, it's neither easy nor obvious. I have, of co
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
"The truth is that classical education has always been designed for the introvert: students were required to sit quietly at their desks, wait to be questioned, do work in silence, etc..." True, although I think that had more to do
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
"Speaking in front of people and working in groups are extremely valuable skills, even for introverts." Yes -- and the problem is that very few places actually teach these skills to introverts. Rather, you are supposed to alread
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
I think the highest OS X version you can install on a clamshell is 10.4. I have it on one of mine (with memory maxed out to 576 Mb). As you say, it's not real fast, but ScummVM works, and so do C64 and GBA emulators.
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
I think the main problem with "coding on a whiteboard" during interviews is not that you have to reason about an algorithm without the help of a computer, but rather that you have very limited time to do so. You stand there, looki
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
I tried the online test a few weeks ago, and while it confirmed my colorblindness, it also said there was only a 30% chance that the glasses would work for me. :-/
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
Um, the title of the article is "Why I’m NOT ready to switch from Mac to Windows 10"...
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by zephyrfalcon 11y ago
"""When starting a new project from scratch, I see no reason NOT to use python 3. Maybe if a few libs you depend heavily on are still not ported.""" wxPython comes to mind... :-/ Also PyGame, although it
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Why women aren't having children(theatlantic.com)
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by zephyrfalcon 12y ago
Location: Archer, FL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, unfortunately this isn't an option right now. Technologies: Python, Prolog, Scheme, C, MS SQL Server, AngularJS, Delphi, Postgres, SQL, Linux, OCaml, HTML/CSS, etc Resume&#
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?-Prolog, a Prolog Compiler by the Author of Chicken Scheme(call-with-current-continuation.org)
1 points by zephyrfalcon 12y ago|0 comments
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by zephyrfalcon 12y ago
Looking for work, part-time or full-time. Location: Archer, FL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, unfortunately this isn't an option right now. Technologies: Python, Prolog, Scheme, C, MS SQL Server, AngularJS, Delphi, HTML/CSS,

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