brandonhsiao

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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
REST has the same problem as object oriented programming. It's too skeuomorphic. Lots of web applications are wrappers around conceptually monolithic resources, so it's convenient to use a protocol that makes that assumption. Bu
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
Also, you can compile a Lumen file to JS/Lua by running `lumen -c file.l -o file.js`. More info at `lumen --help`.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing! I've been putting off a JS coding project for some interview, which I now think I'll write in Lumen. Another pleasant surprise: it was written by the HN moderators. Have you used this in a
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I used to be the same way. Wake up at 5am, meditate, exercise, and shower before starting your day. Stop eating processed carbs and sugar. Get off the computer at 9pm and sleep at 10pm. Clean your room. Schedule sprints of work for yourself
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
CoderPad is really, really good. I've interviewed using a bunch of alternatives, and CoderPad is far and away the only one that works reliably all the time. It always cheers me up when a company tells me they're using it, becaus
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I used to tell myself I couldn't code or write without the perfect font. I'd spend hours looking for it, and end up not getting any work done. When I finally did get around to actually working, five minutes in and I'd forget
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The Copernican Revolution from the Inside(lesserwrong.com)
3 points by brandonhsiao 9y ago|1 comments
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
It's really important not to skip the math. As a friend once said to me, doing deep learning without understanding the math is like gambling. It's fine to initially take a more practical, project-based approach for the sake of sta
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
3Blue1Brown is a treasure. The production value is excellent, and he's great at taking seemingly uninteresting ideas and painting a beautiful picture to connect them in twenty minutes. I used to go through a video before falling asleep
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
If someone does something wrong, Alice tells them plainly, and they get offended, whose fault is it? Some people say it's Alice' fault for offending; some say it's the person's fault for doing it wrong in the first place
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20060211013646/http://www.paulgr...
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
Am I the only one who finds the VSCode icon generally ugly as sin? This is most striking on OS X, where it sits in a tray alongside a bunch of other meticulously designed icons.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
x is text editing style, y is efficiency.
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Tchig Mono(myfonts.com)
1 points by brandonhsiao 9y ago|0 comments
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
That's fascinating. I'd lumped IDA in with e.g. Photoshop. Was wrong. Did they ever retract their public freaking out?
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
It's expected that hobbyists will pirate it.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
If jobs of all levels of difficulty are to be compensated the same, what then counts as a job? Would I be able to get paid for sitting around thinking? It also sounds like you're basically proposing we give people free money. That coul
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I like how it takes them six paragraphs to say "VR is underperforming." I really need to learn how to speedread...
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The Conversation Google Killed(weeklystandard.com)
9 points by brandonhsiao 9y ago|0 comments
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I think he means the unobfuscated code is proprietary.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
This started out pretty good (and on the whole was fair and measured), but then at one point included this: > Then you seem to make a giant leap from group differences between men and women on such measures as interest in people rather
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
What about first time entrepreneurs who want to become unicorns, or serial entrepreneurs who don't?
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
>recent years >2004 :)
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
People say that most of coding is thinking, but I'm not sure that's even true, and even if it were, it's still possible if you typed faster and stayed in the flow you'd also end up thinking faster. My friend used to type
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I used bash/tmux/vim exclusively for development for about three years. The whole time I felt very pleased that I was minimizing bloat in my toolchain, understanding everything I used, and getting amazing speeds. Six months ago I
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I like the idea, but that Python code doesn't look like "without much real work." The bash script is so much shorter.
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
If getting 30 days shaved off your sentence is such an appealing offer that an optional bargain involving sterilization is considered coercion, surely it's putting people in prison that's inhumane here?
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
Is it taking in raw pixels or reading from game memory? How did they gather data to train for this? (Did Valve give them an API?)
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
I imagine the knee-jerk outrage fizzled out after everyone realized they could just read/judge the source for themselves, and the quiet, thoughtful people who spent a couple days writing substantive articles are now finishing them. Als
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by brandonhsiao 9y ago
To be clear, not stating the people thing as my own belief, just stating the premises of the argument. Grr, too late to edit now. (I read your entire comment, but don't have anything meaningful to add on.)

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