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by greenyouse 2y ago
That approach sounds similar to the Idris programming language with Type Driven Development. It starts by planning out the program structure with types and function signatures. Then the function implementation (aka holes) can be filled in a
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by greenyouse 2y ago
It feel silly to say that AI is curing cancer. Normally a phrase like that would sinal the apex of the hype cycle but I guess it actually has some meat in this situation. Using AI more like statistical inference to screen for medical condit
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Ask HN: Does Anyone Use Prompt Books for Developing with GitHub Copilot?
1 points by greenyouse 3y ago|0 comments
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Here's a fun project that you could try. Use TTS to transcribe books but make the transcriptions feel more realistic. Give each character in the book a unique voice. Leading characters should have voices based on their personalities. U
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by greenyouse 3y ago
That would depend on the culture of your team and larger workplace. Healthy teams should be checking in frequently to talk about ideas, reviewing big things, scoping upcoming work, etc. If there's time reserved for deeply technical but
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Check out the Upwind section of this PG essay (and the rest of the essay). http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html What do you want to do with coding? What's going to give you the most leverage in the long term? That course
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Polymer powered a few other things at Google too. Look at the DOM for YouTube, that dev team started with Polymer for Web Components and talked about how they built an internal library of custom HTML for the site. Doing that shared library
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Ah, this missed the mark since the domain is all political/state related. I saw the mental liquidity story from today and it reminded me of an old book they published about how to think. That one has better theory based talk. This arti
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Wallaby.js is a no-brainer tool for writing frontend unit tests. I see a lot of people at work struggle with unit testing. For the productivity boost it gives, it's easily worth the cost.
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A Tradecraft Primer (2009)(cia.gov)
64 points by greenyouse 3y ago|45 comments
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Shows some helpful ways to reason about open problems with incomplete information.
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Pair with ChatGPT 4 to set up the project design. I try to give as much context as possible. Stating goals and risks of the project. The more info you give it, the better it does at helping you. Around 500 words for an initial prompt gets g
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Hey would she want a laptop for free? I have a 2007 macbook with lubuntu that works great. I used to use it for trips and it's a total workhorse. The computer architecture is funky so it makes installing some distros a pain in the butt
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by greenyouse 3y ago
Part of it probably comes down to company culture. Working at a place full of people that are engaged and fixing/reporting/debating things is healthy. It's a good environment for people to learn and grow so you can move ahead
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by greenyouse 4y ago
- getting used to designing abstractions before coding - laying out how I'm going to program before starting - using TDD for most bug fixes and refactoring efforts - learning how to steal the best parts of code from other people - code
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by greenyouse 4y ago
Honestly, hire a personal trainer to help you stay on track. Keep with it for at least 6 months. I started this back in December and it has been great! Left to my own devices I would have done one or two sessions and then quit. Now I do two
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by greenyouse 4y ago
This is a great idea! With everything on the internet trending towards instant gratification, it's counter intuitive for some of the most rewarding things to be slow. Building new relationships with people in your community takes time
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by greenyouse 4y ago
Yeah, the world goes through cycles of sucking. It's not all one problem. It's just a bunch of problems piling on at the same time over the last few years. Most of it boils down to economics. You can still be yourself and make the
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by greenyouse 4y ago
There are some market inefficiencies that have been documented but they seem rare. The post earnings announcement drift (PEAD)[0] is a thing that exists but shouldn't if markets were totally efficient. That gets used for gains pretty c
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by greenyouse 4y ago
Some tea or fun books like "Hyperbole and a Half". Also, sharing Christmas with my family.
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Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software(codesimplicity.com)
25 points by greenyouse 4y ago|2 comments
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by greenyouse 4y ago
Since we're all speculating, I would guess that ocean acidification could be at play here. The arctic regions are carbon sinks so they experience acidification earlier than other parts of the ocean. When the CO2 is absorbed into the oc
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Ask HN: What are your favorite resources for modernizing legacy systems?
2 points by greenyouse 4y ago|1 comments
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by greenyouse 4y ago
> The resulting idea is excellent but it's technically hard. I've put all the resources of my company and myself into getting it made. I'm with you and want you to crush it! Playing devil's advocate for a minute, ther
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by greenyouse 4y ago
It's a tough environment for investing right now. If you leave it idle in the bank it loses 8.3% per year. The big index funds like S&P 500 haven't done well because most sectors have been down. In that case you would have los
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by greenyouse 4y ago
I can't answer the part about what sets off a crash. AFAIK, it seems to vary slightly for each crash. They all share similar valuation problems though. If a company is worth $10 but it's trading for $50 then there's a risk th
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by greenyouse 4y ago
You could rip digital books into audio format and listen to them on walks. I did that during the last couple years of quarantine and found it nicer than reading physical books. It works for soft reading but dense, technical subjects were st
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by greenyouse 4y ago
I don't really know anything but I like investing and tracked this for a few years. Here's a best shot explanation from someone that's also not an economist. For the current 2022 problems let's zoom in on what happened o
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by greenyouse 5y ago
There are some fascinating practices which have all but ensured racial segregation in some major US cities. In Minneapolis there was some good reporting on how racial covenants split communities and our city's culture.[0] There was a l
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by greenyouse 5y ago
Here are a couple for sure: - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/08/miss/ - https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/13/firewall/ maybe these too: -

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