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by beder 7mo ago
Yes, this is absolutely right (for some sufficiently complicated prompt). Borges wrote a great short story that explores this idea, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote", where Menard, a fictional 20th century author, "wrote
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by beder 1y ago
This is how I read it too. What's more, it looks like they're interested in going senior -> staff; at all Large Tech Companies, senior is a perfectly reasonable "terminal" role for a SWE, and many SWEs don't wa
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by beder 1y ago
I agree, and even moreso, it's easy to see the (low!) cost of throwing away an implementation. I've had the AI coder produce something that works and technically meets the spec, but I don't like it for some reason and it&#x
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by beder 1y ago
A very pedantic point, but merge keys are not part of the YAML spec [1]! Merge keys are a custom type [2], which may optionally be applied during the construction phase of loading. I definitely wouldn't say that merge keys are integr
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by beder 1y ago
At one point at Google, there was a huge chunk of code that was hard to understand, probably at the wrong place in the network stack, and stubbornly hard to change. And it kept growing, despite our efforts. We renamed it "[Foo]Sorcery&
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Four Software Engineers(bedaire.com)
2 points by beder 1y ago|0 comments
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Harry Coonce, founder of the Mathematics Genealogy Project, has died(ams.org)
2 points by beder 2y ago|1 comments
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by beder 2y ago
How so?
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by beder 2y ago
Agreed, Dennett hit all of the high points of the who-am-I philosophy in a really entertaining story. It also reminded me of a great Greg Egan story, Learning To Be Me: https://philosophy.williams.edu/files/Egan-Learnin
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by beder 4y ago
This reminds me of the fantastic book, A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter Miller. He has a similarly pessimistic take.
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by beder 5y ago
Here’s an example for chess: I found that I was repeating the same lines and the same ideas over and over during matches. One of the key points in the book is to simply observe what you’re doing without judgment. I realized that I’d fixate
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by beder 5y ago
The author mentions “The Inner Game of Tennis” as an example of how to train in images and feelings, not words, and I highly recommend it to basically anyone, not just tennis players. If you’re doing anything that you might hear “don’t over
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by beder 6y ago
I was on board for points 1 and 2, but completely disagree with 3: > The components might look wrong when rendered. Tests are very bad at this. We don't want to go down the esoteric and labor-intensive path of automated image captur
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by beder 7y ago
FWIW, I turned this option (to not quit on Cmd+Q) a long time before it was the default, and it's saved me time so many times - I absolutely love it. Before, I would constantly try to hit "Cmd+W" and accidentally tap the Q, a
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by beder 8y ago
She was claiming something more fundamental (and less sophisticated) than that. Nigel Boston and Andrew Granville wrote a review [1] of her book that distills some of the problems with her argument. A sample quote: > In fact, her central
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by beder 8y ago
I wrote a semantics doc to try to help on the documentation front: https://google.github.io/dagger/semantics/ It's not intended as a tutorial, so perhaps it won't quite meet your needs, but if you'r
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by beder 9y ago
This reminds me of a time there was some unusual lottery result in my area, like 123456, and a TV station asked my father, a statistics professor, to comment that the odds of that happening were 1 in a million.
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by beder 10y ago
(Disclosure: I work on Dagger in my 20% at Google.) What's more, Dagger gives you (compile-time) insights into the graph of dependencies. For example, we've hooked up our internal code-search tool to give you Dagger cross-referenc
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by beder 10y ago
I'm not currently, but I was doing that for the last couple years with no ill consequences. I'm only not doing that now because I don't have a 20% idea that's particularly exciting to me.
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by beder 13y ago
I understand this confusion, but it totally isn't how research is done. It's very much a community and social effort; it can be very lonely working all by yourself on something.
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by beder 13y ago
This is an incredibly interesting area of mathematics, and it's disappointing that it's dying out. When I was an undergrad, I wanted to go into this field, but I was dissuaded by my advisor because of the direction it was going (f
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by beder 13y ago
I work in the Chicago office and I love it! Our site lead is really passionate about making sure we're relevant, and the team I'm on has a substantial presence in Chicago, so I don't really feel like I'm in a satellite o
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MOOCulus - Massive Online Open Calculus(mooculus.osu.edu)
44 points by beder 14y ago|4 comments
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by beder 14y ago
In that case, you should divide by "expected", so you get a percentage difference for each day. (Normalizing by total for the year doesn't make sense, since imagine that there were 300 days per month instead of 30 - your numbers would be di
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by beder 14y ago
A few comments on the stats themselves: 1. It looks like the total number of tickets in 2009 and 2010 is about 10% that of 2011. I'm guessing that there weren't actually ten times as many tickets given in 2011, so either the data is incompl
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by beder 14y ago
There's plenty of discussion relating to the article he references at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4455225 , and much of the same applies here. 1. He's not comparing apples-to-apples between `std::list` and his intrusive linked list
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by beder 14y ago
You can do a second pass over the list to check that your solution is actually a majority element. This maintains the linear time and constant space properties.
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by beder 14y ago
> On his LinkedIn page, Mr. Milner lists his occupation as “hacker,” and under the category called “Specialties,” his entry reads, “I know more than I want to about Wi-Fi.” While I don't know for sure which use of the word "hacker" Miln
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by beder 15y ago
@ghempton, if you're still reading these comments, it's likely you're passing a iOS 4 or 5 message without checking to see if the message is received. I ran into this recently with a number of simple startup checks, e.g., if the device is a
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by beder 15y ago
There is a touch arcade thread that people occasionally visit, but most of our contact with our users is through email. We're planning to add a direct email link in our "about" page in the game (we already have a link to our website), so ho

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