irridiance

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by irridiance 1y ago
I transform hundreds of tabular sources. For the cleaning / transformation, I found that a very small number of transformations is required, and that we need to review them as a team including business owners. So, I wrote a simple gram
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by irridiance 2y ago
I think most of these are extremely poor. They can only be interpreted in many cases if you already understand the data, such as by reading the table first.
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by irridiance 2y ago
I write a lot of documentation, knowing that it may be nobody else who reads it. Why? Because when I take the time to write clearly, I think clearly. It’s for my productivity and effectiveness, first.
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by irridiance 2y ago
We’ve been developing niche medical software successfully for some decades. First, it helps that it’s niche—it avoids the “make healthcare better with electronic healthcare records” space, which can only but descend into making a much of te
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by irridiance 3y ago
My mosquito net. One of the best things I ever bought.
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by irridiance 3y ago
Limbo. One of the most moving games I’ve ever played. King’s Quest III. I think, as a young boy, I related more to the character than in King’s Quests I and II. I really got lost in the world. Infocom’s Planetfall. Also, lost in the world.
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by irridiance 3y ago
Good fun. I think, though, that precision in language might be a challenge. Some previous comments I concur. Over and above those, I was very strict not to infer anything outside the minimum of what was said. For example, “I was in bedroom