indoorskier

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by indoorskier 3y ago
Google phone interview long time ago. Can’t remember what I said or did wrong, but realised I wouldn’t get a call back when the guy asked: ”do you know what a set is?”
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by indoorskier 4y ago
My 2c is to try the funky ideas to get a foothold/differentiator I think your implicit intuition that indie gamers are keen to explore more titles than they currently (reasonably) can, is valid. I suspect they’re also keen to be involv
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Is this region dependent? In us-east I can’t get them to approve a quota for GPU instance families (G,P) for anything more than 4 CPUs. At one point they rejected my request citing “unprecedented demand”. Of course this is small time, just
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Take risks, say yes to all opportunities, try to fail often. I don't mean risks in the sense of things that put you physically or mentally in harm's way, but trying ideas, learning new things, new activities etc. Some reasons: the
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by indoorskier 4y ago
I agree, esp with ML models being where they are. For people writing blogs/articles it’s a similar problem - how do you stand out against the noise? Honestly I don’t have answers but here’s a few ways I’ve found cool people: - via “slo
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by indoorskier 4y ago
A beautiful book, written in the "The Little..." series' question and answer format. A challenging topic but just about as accessible as I can think anyone can make it. Warmly recommended if you want to know what dependent ty
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by indoorskier 4y ago
I have an MSc in CS so biased, but I think on balance it's worth it, if only because you'll be confronted with subjects outside your comfort zone. Even if you don't "like" them they'll broaden your perspective,
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by indoorskier 4y ago
With your very limited runway I'd get another offer with another employer first. That immediately strengthens your negotiation position with your current employer, even if you have zero intention of taking the offer. Basically start do
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by indoorskier 4y ago
https://research.google/pubs/pub43146/
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by indoorskier 4y ago
"We have a time every morning when the team gets together and reviews all of the code and designs that were developed the previous day." That seems much better than the mandatory code reviews that are pervasive nowadays. Most of m
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by indoorskier 4y ago
It’s getting harder and harder in practice because of the huge mountain of accidental complexity programming needs dealing with. I remember writing a very small single user OS for a course in uni over maybe 6 months. When it booted for the
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Two things stood out to me: 1. So many caveats and excuses before raising some valid criticisms! People in the cryptocurrency space sure seem easily offended. 2. Most of the article deals with how cryptocurrencies have no real applications.
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by indoorskier 4y ago
I quit and am pursuing my own interests with the nest egg I’ve built up over the years (am also mid 40s). It’s been incredibly invigorating to finally be able to think for myself again, and have time to explore. Just my experience, don’t un
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Interesting idea. Seems pretty comprehensive too: https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade/wiki/Step-list Where do you draw the line between updating OS and global tools and code repositories?
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by indoorskier 4y ago
I didn't, but plenty of friends and family did in the hype cycle. Initially I was just kinda too lazy, then started to see some red flags. Unsuccessfully trying to convince friends to stay away from crypto did give me loads of empathy
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by indoorskier 4y ago
That reminds me of when I was working in finance - an equity analyst came over to the developer aisle and started asking questions like "what is COBOL? what is Visual Studio?" because he was looking into Microfocus. We - hipster p
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by indoorskier 4y ago
As others have said, this is all for SEO - quick "content marketing". With the advance of AI this is only going to get worse. There's a whole cottage industry of companies that generate posts and even entire youtube videos gi
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by indoorskier 4y ago
I am obviously biased as one of the maintainers, but this is exactly the kind of thing we built Meadowrun for! See https://meadowrun.io It takes your local code and environment (we support pip, poetry and conda) and runs python
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Improving https://meadowrun.io by reducing startup time for EC2 jobs - Linux distro makes a lot of difference, Clear Linux starts very quickly compared to Ubuntu. Discussing marketing to figure out how to best get the project o
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by indoorskier 4y ago
This GitHub Copilot thing is pretty polarizing. According to one of the expert papers they sollicited, it's unlikely MSFT/GitHub is breaking any copyright laws. What they're doing does feel icky, and they could have mitigated
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by indoorskier 4y ago
"As an Atlassian founder, I would like to make money, so that I can sell and never look at a Jira ticket again" tag, estimate, assign, add to epic, put on next sprint
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Very nice, and well done on building an active community around it. I like the integration with the cached data, makes it feel like a build system :) We were unaware of ploomber until now, but have been building meadowrun https:/&#x2F
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Paper has been removed?
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Property-Based Testing: Shrinking test failures automatically for easy debugging(getcode.substack.com)
1 points by indoorskier 4y ago|0 comments
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Property-Based Testing: How It All Started – QuickCheck(getcode.substack.com)
3 points by indoorskier 4y ago|0 comments
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Great to hear you mention that. PyWren was one of our inspirations. Other inspirations are its successor NumPyWren [1], and gg [2]. We've looked at the code for PyWren and in our opinion it's not practically usable as-is, even if
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Hi HN, We're two programmers who have worked in core/platform engineering roles for most of our working lives. During that time, one of the main problems we've solved time and time again is to let people run their ad-hoc jobs
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Show HN: Meadowrun automates the tedious details of running Python on AWS/Azure(meadowrun.io)
56 points by indoorskier 4y ago|20 comments
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Property-based testing: What is it anyway?(getcode.substack.com)
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by indoorskier 4y ago
Looks cool. Maybe it can also search by signature like https://hoogle.haskell.org/ - would be a killer feature for me, but niche :)

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