ebjaas_2022

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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
It's the nature of most types of volunteering work. If you sign up to be the conductor of your local choir, you have the same thing. People start expecting you to do stuff. If you're going to be in that role, as ploxiln says, you
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
It's a person who applies engineering principles to the design and implementation of software. It's about the "rigidity" of the methods that are used to construct the software. If the software is just cobbled together, i
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
I had a colleague some years ago, who consistently said 'add hook' instead of 'ad hoc'. I never had the heart to correct him.
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
Usually it does have all the information, it just isn't able to put it all together. If you for instance ask it to name the female tennis players who have won the Wimbledon tennis tournament twice, but not more than twice, it will give
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
That's a prediction you'll make only if you're not a programmer yourself. The entire purpose of a programming language, as opposed to a natural language, is to be able to communicate precise intent to a computer. A programmin
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
44200 hits on Google, for that particular misspelling.
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
Dave Cutler is, seemingly, a good example of this. If you have not read it, I recommend the book Show Stopper! by G. Pascal Zachary, about the development of Microsoft Windows NT under his leadership.
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
I don't agree with this article. I write hundreds of lines of notes each day, as a part of my coding and work routine. I do it all digitally, in Visual Studio Code, as pure text. I think, as long as you can write fluently on a keyboard
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
I think you just have to make yourself do it for a prolonged period of time, all the while making sure that you do not overexert yourself. Make it pleasant on every occasion, and lower the intensity once it starts feeling like a struggle. T
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
> rather than on the finding and promotion of undiscovered geniuses. There's a catch in it as well, which is that you cannot really identify a genius up-front. A genius is, by definition, someone who thinks differently. A lot of peo
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
Software development is inherently hard, and many software developers suffer from impostor syndrome. It's easy, within software development, to start doubting your own work, because there are so infinitely many ways of solving each and
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
How did it affect you?
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
> most of the hard problems were solved in 1960 to 1980 Yes, if you're talking about sorting algorithms and similar. But there are, of course, still many, many even harder problems waiting to be solved. Harder, because they are comp
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
> abandoning engineer culture in craft of software development I think it's just a function of the rapid growth our field has seen over the past few years. With 'everyone' becoming software developers, and new frameworks b
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
> I can "literally" see how people think about software when reading source code and pull requests (I say literally because these things are... objects I can manipulate in my mind? it's hard to describe, and it took me a w
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
100% agree. The most important point is to make exercise enjoyable; the more it feels like a chore, the more you will not be getting out there doing it.
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
> What I don't know how to handle (as evidenced by some comments here) is when to divulge how much I study / what fields I have a lot of experience in. I never understood where the boundary is between people thinking you are a
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
It's my personal experience from interacting with people who are on the spectrum. I generally find it very difficult to make sense of the communication that I have with people who are autistic, especially socially, and especially if I&
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
Repost of an earlier comment I made, on a different thread: I think the difference is that an autistic person will see reality like this: | O O | | ----- ( inner landscape (fact) ) ----- | | |
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
I agree. They're pretty in the same way as fractals are pretty, but still boring and bland. I would not have any of the ones that I've seen this far on my wall, or as my blog icons.
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
Beautiful!
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
What is the most common attack vector to fear? I thought maybe auto-run had been disabled by default, in most modern versions of Windows, for the past 10-15 years at least.
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
I think the difference is that an autistic person will see reality like this: | O O | | ----- ( inner landscape (fact) ) ----- | | | | | | / \
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
It seems that this should be a feature of the software too. You should be able to tell the software where your camera is, and you should be able to tell it to move the picture of the talking person (or a person that you select, manually) cl
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
That might be true. But I think a good reader, such as a news anchor or a voice actor, will know where to put the emphasis and the pauses, in order to help the listener along. It's value-adding. I think most people who do it profession
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
You can hear that the human readers place emphasis based upon an understanding of the meaning of the text that they're reading, and also based upon an understanding of the humans at the receiving end. It seeps through that they're
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
There are still finger based services online. For instance: finger new_york@graph.no Which will give you: [graph.no] -= Meteogram for New York, United States =- 'C
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by ebjaas_2022 4y ago
I'm not sure about good short poems. A short poem is so condensed, that it allows the reader to project his own meaning into the text, even when there was no meaning to begin with (which, arguably, is the case with all current AI g