dhconnelly

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by dhconnelly 2y ago
Interesting. It’s definitely more abstract and philosophical than books like “Effective C++/Java/etc,” but I personally got a lot out of it and find it to be a really useful resource in code reviews. Particularly when commenting o
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Google I/O 2012: The Art of Organizational Manipulation [video](youtube.com)
2 points by dhconnelly 3y ago|0 comments
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by dhconnelly 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LVuPQ3GdM
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Help: FB closed account of dog rescue volunteer
3 points by dhconnelly 3y ago|0 comments
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Things Unlearned(scattered-thoughts.net)
1 points by dhconnelly 3y ago|0 comments
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by dhconnelly 3y ago
Also interesting: https://go.dev/blog/ismmkeynote
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by dhconnelly 3y ago
While it’s true that difficult decisions need to be made, it seems that the point of democracy is that such decisions should have popular mandates. This reform doesn’t seem to have anything close to a popular mandate
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by dhconnelly 4y ago
from a previous HN submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607187 ): https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
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by dhconnelly 4y ago
From the same link: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment
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by dhconnelly 5y ago
I dealt with a lot of the same issues around meaninglessness vs. golden handcuffs (at Google incidentally) and recently took a job at a smaller company, albeit without a pay cut. I specifically resisted switching jobs for several years for
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Welcome to Aladdin Enterprises(major2nd.com)
2 points by dhconnelly 5y ago|0 comments
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by dhconnelly 5y ago
Yeah, no argument there. And I definitely like the Go community’s tendency towards straightforward code. But even there (among less Go philosophy-minded engineers, possibly) I’ve seen crazy abstractions built using interface{} that didn’t n
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by dhconnelly 5y ago
Oh man, I read this article a few months back and it immediately resonated with me. I've never used Scala, but this advice has been applicable in every language, project, and team I've ever worked with, and I very much regret that
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by dhconnelly 5y ago
Okay, so there is consensus. I guess I was confused. Seems like quite a few people here are confused, though. Seems worth considering!
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by dhconnelly 5y ago
The commenter I'm replying to uses an entirely different toolchain, and the frequently-recommended Cornell book ( https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2021sp/textbook/ ) uses ocamlbuild and utop
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by dhconnelly 5y ago
The Cornell textbook is great. I worked through most of it last year and learned a ton.
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by dhconnelly 5y ago
I've done a few small projects in OCaml. It's a brilliant language that I deeply enjoy using. But the situation for newcomers and those who don't have established patterns is bad. It's hard to do anything nontrivial from
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by dhconnelly 6y ago
I suspect the downvotes are due to a lack of critical engagement. Even the Holodomor link offers a litany of reasons that aren't just "socialism," and we've been interfering in Venezuela for decades, not limited to: hars
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
No, didn't know about it. Interesting!
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
I've been working on Google Maps for close to five years now. I somehow missed the previous postings of this thread, but a little hyperbole never hurt anyone :) Your larger point about the inability in our profession to take a step bac
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
It’s not consistent. It mostly varies with levels of stress and anxiety, but there’s also a strong feedback loop.
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
Yes :)
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
My father is also an alcoholic, went to AA for a while, has had two divorces since because of drinking. My sister is an alcoholic, my mother is a prescription drug addict. The way this manifests in me is that I'm obsessed with Not Bein
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
Here it is in Python, if that's interesting: https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python (Also responded directly to your comment above, but just in case this is helpful here as well :)
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
What a great book! I translated most of the Lisp code into Python a while back. You can find it on Github: https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python The logic programming bits in particular (the core of the Prolog inte
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
https://www.usegolang.com from Jon Calhoun, who is well-known in the community, could be useful
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
Re: alcohol - in my experience, it depends. For the first year or two of learning German, a beer or glass of wine helped me relax and speak more effortlessly, as suggested. But now, as a fluent speaker -- I've passed a C2 exam, i.e. &q
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Why Google Employees Are Donating to Warren and Sanders(vox.com)
3 points by dhconnelly 7y ago|1 comments
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by dhconnelly 7y ago
From the article, without comment: 'He’s a big proponent of his own ignorance, saying he doesn’t choose to learn more than a smattering of Japanese because he needs mystery and “a sense of open space in life, something to offset the se
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by dhconnelly 10y ago
Awesome stuff, but please let's not pretend that tmux is an important piece of the applied deep learning puzzle that needs to have anything to do with the intensiveness of the course.

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