briansteffens

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by briansteffens 8mo ago
There are some things that I think become more fun, like dealing with anything you don't actually find interesting. I recently made a quick little web app and I hand-coded the core logic since I find that part fun. But I vibe-coded the
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by briansteffens 1y ago
Maybe it's time for me to stop using this website
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by briansteffens 2y ago
Is there anything that couldn't be justified with this style of thinking? Would this person support legalizing murder since more murders might raise awareness of how bad murder is?
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by briansteffens 2y ago
I believe the technical term is The Joey Special.
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by briansteffens 4y ago
> WE ALL HAVE THE OPTION TO FIND A BETTER JOB! For now most of us in this industry do. This is not a long term solution to anything. > Unions promote individual rights at the expense of the customer, product, and company. Individual r
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by briansteffens 5y ago
> where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. Anyone know what a 'bang' means in this context? Not sure if it's an Orca-specific thing or more general.
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by briansteffens 6y ago
As is tradition, we managed to get all the downsides of both shutting down and not shutting down, with none of the benefits of either.
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by briansteffens 6y ago
How much and what kind of experience do you think someone should have with a language before beginning to form an opinion?
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by briansteffens 6y ago
Ah, but you left out the first paragraph which clarifies the second entirely! >riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. An
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by briansteffens 6y ago
> That feels like a leadership failure to me. In that case you'd look at the Chief, the union rep, the Mayor and any other folks who can change the culture but don't. Yeah, I agree 100%, and this is why the "few bad apples
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by briansteffens 6y ago
Erlang/OTP is really cool and I found the Elixir language pretty reasonable and even nice but: 1. Elixir is still a pretty leaky abstraction over Erlang. In my experience it's not enough to learn just Elixir, I regularly had to di
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Hello World from a Bootloader(briansteffens.com)
1 points by briansteffens 7y ago|0 comments
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by briansteffens 7y ago
They still ship to the US at least, I've ordered from them recently.
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by briansteffens 7y ago
SF weather is unusually consistent and most days it's on the cooler side but not super cold, often a bit cloudy/overcast. If you like that (I do), the weather is great. If not, the weather will be bad almost every day.
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by briansteffens 7y ago
Speaking from my own very limited experience, I think C++ can be pretty nice if you basically write straight C but borrow from the C++ STL. Smart pointers (std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr, etc), collections (std::vector, std::unordered_map
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by briansteffens 8y ago
I was interested in working at GitLab a couple years ago but the salary calculator changed my mind. It lumped all the cities in Oregon together which gave some weird results depending on which city you live in. I can't imagine how wonk
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by briansteffens 8y ago
Coding interview books: how to use bit fields to save a marginal amount of memory while making your algorithm work only with values of n <= 64.
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by briansteffens 9y ago
I like the Aeron but I prefer the Knoll Generation.
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by briansteffens 9y ago
Mostly Haskell-related: http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts.html
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by briansteffens 9y ago
That's weird. You should be able to copy the document and then view the source in your copy.
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by briansteffens 9y ago
Awesome, nice work.
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by briansteffens 9y ago
Yeah I don't follow the parenthesis parser. Plan to do a write-up of some kind on how it works?
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by briansteffens 9y ago
Wow this is cool and you did this really fast! So you did kind of a functional style where each row represents an instruction being run with a full copy of the state of the VM at that point in time. Then each subsequent row is based on the
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by briansteffens 9y ago
Awesome! I originally wanted to use only cell formulas to do this but couldn't figure out how to modify cell contents from other cells. Can't wait to see what you put together.
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Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets(briansteffens.github.io)
6 points by briansteffens 9y ago|0 comments
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by briansteffens 9y ago
I wonder at what point the complexity of interacting security systems hits dimishing returns? Not trying to be negative, I'm a fan of how much power AWS gives you. But seeing how many systems have interacting security implications laid
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Split buffers: a variation on the gap buffer data structure for text editors(briansteffens.github.io)
1 points by briansteffens 9y ago|0 comments
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by briansteffens 9y ago
Thanks, I wasn't sure of the terms.
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by briansteffens 9y ago
One thing I found really interesting while playing around with gdb on a program with dynamic linking is that functions are linked lazily when they're first called. So rather than hooking up calls to printf/fopen when the program s
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by briansteffens 9y ago
It's so cool how similar the contents of the arith function are to actual x86 code. The relative offsets were also handled really cleanly.

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