badatshipping

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by badatshipping 7y ago
I only ask because the website says "because there just wasn't any free or paid font that I found both readable, effective and elegant" and I can think of several, including the ones I listed. I'm not saying not to do
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Why is this better than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Consolas, SF Mono, Pragmata Pro, and Operator Mono? The reason can be anything, but what is the reason? I don't find that this font outperforms any of those fonts on any of the metrics
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Try getting a refurbished 2015 MacBook Pro (the last good model), as powerful as you need.
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I think deciding to not free your memory or use GC (instead of not) would count as having a different program.
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by badatshipping 7y ago
"The reality is you still have to free resources, so it's not like the garbage collector is doing work that doesn't need to be done." It's common to use stack and pool memory allocators, where this becomes no long
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No Clarity Around Growth Mindset(slatestarcodex.com)
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I downloaded it, connected a bunch of apps I use (Twitter, Google Drive, Gmail, Messenger, Slack) and played around. Sincere question: what's the benefit of using my apps this way? It seems like it just puts each webpage in a different
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by badatshipping 7y ago
The article takes issue with Stallman commenting callously on a sensitive topic, having a view the author finds offensive, and directing those comments insensitively toward the wrong people. She never presents an argument why what he said
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I know she thinks that, but it's not what her post is about. She quotes Stallman, assumes the reader will agree that what he said was problematic, then spends the rest of the article discussing how we shouldn't tolerate problemati
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Did he try to absolve Minsky of guilt? I thought the thesis of his defense of Minsky was: "Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a specific term that avoids moral vagueness about the nature of the critici
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by badatshipping 7y ago
That's my whole issue here. The author's post makes it sound like her problem is with his lack of tact. She complains about his "choice of words," about how it wasn't "appropriate" to send an email to unde
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Fair point, but the expected norm in society, the one that posts like this draw from, centers around outward tact. Like, the whole moral injunction the author is trying to establish here is that he's saying tactless things.
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I've noticed that people who write posts like this like to quote their subject, and then go, oh my, how shocking! what an appalling thing to say! without addressing the thing that was said, which in this case was (among other things):
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Here's an argument that although Myers-Briggs isn't scientific, it doesn't need to be, and is still as useful as it promises to be: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/27/on-types-of-typologies..
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Because you would have to have dozens of such operations, at which point you have to filter through them, at which point it’s faster to just type what you want to do. Seriously, the best thing I ever did was learn to type 140 wpm.
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by badatshipping 7y ago
You realize Vitalik Buterin invented Ethereum when he was 19? The guys who did the Manhattan Project were disgustingly young. Newton invented calculus when he was 21. Hell, Nas released Illmatic when he was 21. The world has a few winners
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by badatshipping 7y ago
The funny thing is that Excel would basically meet this need perfectly if it didn’t take 5 seconds to open.
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I understand the point you’re making here, but having done webdev for about five years now this has just not been the experience of me or anyone I know. Admittedly, limited sample size and all. The simple act of repetitively designing many
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by badatshipping 7y ago
This just shows how shallow web programming is in intellectual content. If your expertise consists of stuff that can be looked up on the fly, all you need to join the field is a high enough IQ to comprehend those ideas at all. There’s no ne
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by badatshipping 7y ago
This general movement has a “screw the system, man” vibe that I think steers it away from reality. It’s already possible to own your platform. The problem that no one else will use it. Facebook/Twitter/YouTube are where everyone e
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by badatshipping 7y ago
You are right that large-scale things happen as the cumulative effect of many small things, but the difference is that in your example the smoker is responsible for all of those cigarettes, whereas I only get one single vote. Incidentally,
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Am I alone in fundamentally not believing in the power of individual action when it comes to stuff like climate change, recycling, voting? People always say that if everyone thought that way then nothing would get done, but that doesn’t cha
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by badatshipping 7y ago
The biggest benefit of remote work is that it directly rewards productivity. At an office if you finish your work early you can’t just go home; you’re expected to do more work. With remote work, if you finish in 2 hours what takes other peo
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I... would too? Startups take over your life, and so does taking care of young kids. Pretty hard to do both at the same time. Not impossible, but pretty hard, which is presumably why he said he’d be reluctant, not absolutely unwilling.
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Wait, his claim is that you don’t have to be from the upper middle class. https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1130121128033300480
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I’m using the word leetcode loosely. The broader point is that doing well on job interviews is how you get a job and thus a worthwhile skill to practice. Leetcode is just what big SF tech cos ask in their interviews.
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Your ability to solve leetcode problems fundamentally determines your job prospects, just as being attractive/rich/famous fundamentally determines your dating prospects. Whether or not this is a fact to be lamented, it's stil
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Every time this subject comes up, someone inevitably says something like "Facebook is a private corporation, the first amendment only applies to the government, and if you want to use Facebook you have to play by their rules. No one is
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by badatshipping 7y ago
I try to ask myself, if I execute this idea really well vs. really badly, what is the full range of possible outcomes? If the range isn’t that big then the problem doesn’t really matter. This has saved me from building a lot of cool, neat s
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by badatshipping 7y ago
Oh wow, I never knew about that. Thanks.

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