fiveoak

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by fiveoak 7y ago
"This simplifies the code a bit because ElementAccessHasExtraIndexedProperty checks for length-overflow and sparse-indexes so the callers don't have to do that anymore." simple code best code, the less opportunity you give pe
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by fiveoak 7y ago
It's easy to say that but kids (yes, kids) that are age 17 aren't really the best equipped to make great life altering decisions in the first place. People fuck up all the time and our response as a society shouldn't be &quot
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by fiveoak 7y ago
What's interesting is that some of my best friends have been people that society would judge as unsuccessful, not smart, and not cool. Mutually feeling accepted by one another is a big part of it I think, but I never really thought abo
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by fiveoak 7y ago
That's an awesome story, did/do you find it hard as an entrepreneur to get off the ground with a lack of social proof from the ivy league degree? I guess after achieving some level of success from your entrepreneurial endeavors th
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by fiveoak 7y ago
Honestly I really appreciate tools like this exist but I'll probably keep using Medium out of laziness. I don't want to have to worry about maintaining my own blog and I'm cheap so I don't really want to pay for hosted G
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by fiveoak 7y ago
Probably lower them, which is bad if you're part of that demographic, but better for everyone else outside that very small group (which admittedly is probably a significant proportion of HN readers but a small proportion of the entire
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by fiveoak 7y ago
It's annoying how often status pages for various services (when they even exist at all) show that things are working when they really aren't
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Any kind of ads are annoying to me and well worth the couple of $/month alone, but I also like being able to skip songs I don't like and having in general a better set of songs that I actually enjoy
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Anecdotally I use Facebook to coordinate social events with friends and find that it's been a helpful tool to easily keep in touch with friends. I've reconnected with friends through it too. I try and avoid political things and po
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by fiveoak 8y ago
A lot of people have a hard time showing empathy for others. Part of it can be due to immaturity or being overly sheltered, lack of social skills, etc. It's easy to be critical of others that make bad decisions but EVERYONE makes bad d
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by fiveoak 8y ago
No one is forcing you to read it... I'm a self taught developer and I lack a lot of low level data structure/algorithms knowledge. I really enjoyed reading the article myself and learned something from it. Sorry that you didn&#x27
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Definitely agree with that, it's a tough balance between code quality and efficiency. But at least as a beginner that is trying to learn new things, you usually don't have to worry much about things being supported later on compar
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Ahh thank you, I've never been good at accepting compliments and don't really feel like I did anything too special since many people each day are able to handle their nutrition/weight in a much better way than I can. But I ap
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Very true, in the end everyone has limited time and it's impossible to learn everything. However, I do personally like roadmaps/guides like this since, as a beginner, it's hard to figure out what you dont know. So being abl
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Same here, I actually lost 200 lbs in my mid-late 20s and it's amazing how many positive ways it has affected me beyond the physical health benefits. Growing up I never had an interest in sports/physical activities but I wish I ha
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by fiveoak 8y ago
I don't really think there are any negative effects to having good social skills. If anything, being able to effectively communicate with others probably helps with coming up with new/unique ideas. Very few great ideas are created
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by fiveoak 8y ago
I never thought I'd have to worry about bowling alley equipment DDoSing my servers, or having them mine monero
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Not sure if your insurance has it, but my health insurance has a website where I can login to it to view my EOBs/etc and also has a section to lookup doctors in the area that accept my insurance. Either way, sending positive thoughts y
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by fiveoak 8y ago
Yeah, I know the spirit of the term. I'm really not trying to play dumb here or anything. I agree that other people can be more productive than others on an individual basis. I just disagree with using a "10x" quantification
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by fiveoak 8y ago
For the sibling comment, are you referring to this comment? "10x developer is absolutely a thing, in the easily observed phenomenon that some developers are 10x more productive than other developers. The "other developers" ar
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by fiveoak 8y ago
I don't even think there is a clear definition of what the "10x" is measuring in terms of output. Features/story points (velocity)? well.. this is a productivity metric of the team rather than individual. Without a doubt
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by fiveoak 8y ago
The article says "A 10x engineer isn’t someone who is 10x better than those around them, but someone who makes those around them 10x better." I'm guessing you disagree with the author's definition of a "10x develope
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by fiveoak 8y ago
The importance of soft skills is underrated. Technical skills are important, sure, but I would much rather work with an "average", friendly teammate than an insufferable genius.
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by fiveoak 8y ago
I don't really think this is true in practice. There is a risk to scamming, plus even with zero risk not every customer would choose to scam them (given morals/etc).
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by fiveoak 9y ago
Personally I think more people would be turned off by the fact that someone thinks they are a "loser" for having a Facebook account. Though it's a bit harder to quantify personality.
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by fiveoak 10y ago
Lifting heavy while dieting actually is helpful for not losing muscle, as long as you eat enough protein: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2016/01/26/ajcn.115....
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by fiveoak 10y ago
Yep, and by calling Trump a bigot, racist, sexist, etc, they're inadvertently calling his supporters the same thing as well, causing a lot of them to just become more entrenched in their support for Trump.
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by fiveoak 10y ago
I'm a 27 year old programmer that was in a similar situation as you when I was 25 (although with much less lines of code written). I still struggle a bit with motivation for working on personal projects, but I did eventually get a job
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by fiveoak 10y ago
Eh, my opinion is probably an unpopular one but I would've preferred to have my main social network integrated with my email, my phone, etc. The main problem for me was pretty much no one else used it. I'm not a huge social networ
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by fiveoak 10y ago
It's too bad that Google+ never really caught on, but I'm not sure if redesigning it is enough to fix that.

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