bitpow

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by bitpow 3y ago
My son started making games in Scratch at around 8 or 9. He eventually graduated to Pico-8 and at 12 that is still his preferred tool for making games. A few threads here recommend pico-8, however, you said he specifically wants the game t
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by bitpow 3y ago
Absolutely not. It’s pretty well established that the skills required for interviewing in the tech industry are not in line with the skills necessary to be an effective software engineer. Anecdotally, I’ve worked with some complete utter do
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by bitpow 3y ago
Dog bites man in Antarctica might also make headlines
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by bitpow 3y ago
> It may not hold in the rest of the South, but periwinkle in Virginia very often co-occurs with cemeteries. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/africanamerican-grave-...
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by bitpow 4y ago
And how is that?
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by bitpow 4y ago
Discarding unit tests is such terrible advice. The author clearly never discovered regression bugs at build time, or developed using a dynamically typed language. Also, I would have expected to see "Use only strongly typed languages&q
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by bitpow 4y ago
> can he offer a reason for why Doordash can be losing so much money Just speculation, but Doordash is obviously loosing some money due to poorly implemented "tests" like these, and who knows what other experiments-at-a-loss th
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by bitpow 4y ago
reminds me of how ninite came up with their name: https://ninite.tumblr.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-name...
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by bitpow 4y ago
Unravel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unravel_Two
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by bitpow 4y ago
You’re basically describing the old Java plugin paradigm.
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by bitpow 5y ago
Will this site be accessible after Chrome forces HTTPS everywhere?
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by bitpow 6y ago
Is this accurate though? Isn’t the number of seconds since 1970 absolute, and it’s up to the library generating the Gregorian date to take into account leap seconds? I suppose if these libraries are not taking into account leap seconds, th
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by bitpow 6y ago
> Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? Worked in sales at a software / hardware company in the HVAC industry. Our software platform had a really easy way to customize the business logic in java. I starte
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by bitpow 6y ago
There’s a typo in the __ repr__ code section
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by bitpow 6y ago
GWMAIN.ASM ( https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC/blob/09ad7bc671c90f0ee... ) BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF
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by bitpow 7y ago
They become managers.
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by bitpow 7y ago
> Learn yourself some TDD. You won’t regret it. How?
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by bitpow 7y ago
> Come the 1980s, Americans were buying low-fat everything – the war against carbs had been won. This doesn't make sense as fat is typically low in carbs. I think they mean the war for carbs had been won.
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by bitpow 7y ago
one grain for females, two grains for males
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by bitpow 7y ago
Storing it would help reduce the peak in the evenings.
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by bitpow 7y ago
What a beautiful, well designed and informative explanation of the complex earth / sun relationship. Well done! One thing I would love to see is the path of the sun across the sky for different times of year, and different locations o
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by bitpow 7y ago
And why pound is abbreviated “lb”
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by bitpow 7y ago
He said once in a "fireside chat" with his brother that if Amazon went all to shit and never took off, he would probably be a perfectly happy software engineer somewhere.
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by bitpow 8y ago
They just launched project zero, so at least they seem to be addressing the issue. https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazon-project-zer...
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by bitpow 8y ago
How does Netflix have one engineering level?
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by bitpow 8y ago
That url is just used to build a link. It uses api.iextrading.com for the quote data
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by bitpow 8y ago
> 15-team project that doesn’t rebase Holy un-scalable code base Batman.
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by bitpow 9y ago
When there’s 1000’s of cars in one area blasting LIDAR and RADAR at each other, will there be interference issues?
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by bitpow 9y ago
It's because there is always lag between the latest .js spec and what is supported by browsers. So transpilers (like babel) have to dumb it down from fancyNew.js to somethingIE6MightRun.js It is not realistic/optimal to try to wr