jayvanguard

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by jayvanguard 3y ago
I agree that a lot of the AI risk pundits are either people with no real AI experience (or very outdated, resting-on-their-laurels experience) or if they do know AI, they probably know little about the complexities of running actual large s
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by jayvanguard 4y ago
Exactly. What's interesting as well is how much this initial point in time will perpetuate forward as future language models are built on the output of the current ones, dampening any potential shifting in the overton window. They may
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by jayvanguard 4y ago
Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should do it.
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by jayvanguard 6y ago
Check out the ACM Tech Packs. They are curated lists of papers organized by topic. https://techpack.acm.org/
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by jayvanguard 7y ago
I followed this link to a SlateStarCodex article on Google Correlate. At the top of the Google Correlate page was: "Google Correlate will shut down on December 15th 2019 as a result of low usage. You can download your data under Manage
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by jayvanguard 7y ago
That was my question as well.
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by jayvanguard 7y ago
I think SOLID is appropriate for the public interface parts of your code but the internals should strive for YAGNI/KISS. So the vast majority of your codebase should aim to minimize lines of code and abstraction. Of course there are ex
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by jayvanguard 8y ago
Vancouver has changed a lot in the past 5 years. There are now two tiers of tech pay: the smaller companies that pay from low to ok and then a handful of SV companies that have moved in and are paying top tier money. The dollar numbers are
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by jayvanguard 8y ago
I don't think you're in the minority. Whenever possible the happy path should be inside the if. The article seems to imply otherwise but on re-read I think he is just building the case for putting the simple, quick pre-condition t
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by jayvanguard 9y ago
Why did they change the name from the Trans Canada Trail? I liked it better.
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by jayvanguard 9y ago
Hah, interesting! Mine is writing a simple web server (sockets, IO, string handling) and an ultra-simple command line browser (args handling, 3rd party libs for URLs, HTML parsing, etc.)
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by jayvanguard 9y ago
It's probably a core part of their scalability that they never have to produce a complete list of posts. Every fetch is on best effort basis within a small time constraint.
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by jayvanguard 9y ago
When you're working in a large company with many developers spaces make more sense. Large companies generally pay more. In a perfect world you'd use tabs for semantic indentation and spaces for stylistic indentation but this is to
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by jayvanguard 10y ago
Good point, the code locality is very important for maintainability down the road. When a single logical unit of functionality is unnecessarily split up across a file or even worse split into multiple classes it makes it much harder to unde
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by jayvanguard 10y ago
The SEI work has been around a long time and it has had very limited success outside of academic or very controlled settings. It had its heyday in the late 90s but never really caught on broadly because it is impractical to collect the leve
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by jayvanguard 10y ago
This article needs to be shown to all upcoming architects, senior developers, and design minded engineers. Too often the balance between abstraction and specialization isn't thought about explicitly but rather dogmatic rules kick in.
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by jayvanguard 10y ago
I'd be interested to hear if he has also looked into any parallels with the pre- and post-telephone generation. I'd imagine that was a similar in many ways, particularly since public airplane transportation came of age in roughly
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by jayvanguard 10y ago
I find TIOBE to be so far from reality I question why it exists and anyone continues to pay any attention to it. It still ranks Delphi higher than Objective-C. Assembly language above Visual Basic. Dart above Scala, Erlang, Haskell, and Bas
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by jayvanguard 10y ago
Is he though? Questions on the most performant way to iterate over something rarely result in flame wars. I believe you are thinking of people arguing over JS frameworks or whether JS sucks or not. Both are identity related. When it comes d
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I'm surprised the outsourcing companies aren't listed on this. They are often huge contributors to the overruns.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Yes, definitely not double. In fact, they aren't actually better than other top end competitors, they are just a bit different, which gives enough wiggle room for fanboys to claim something "magical". http://www.dx
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I quite like Sublime Text 3 as well, but only because it has a vi mode.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Up to iOS 7 at least, there was no way to run in the background without the app being launched at least once. I haven't worked with the latest two versions though.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Evernote is a great product that fits an valuable niche for many people. The only problem is that it got trapped within a venture capital ecosystem that wants it to be more than it should be.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
The article is dubious at best. You hear about the big failures or notice when rewrite releases take forever, but you never hear about the companies that slowly lose opportunities or fail to keep up with innovators because they keep trying
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I thought this was well known enough everyone would get the joke. In fact, I was surprised to see Matt's scripts were still kicking around on a website other than the wayback archive.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I suppose you might want to use CGI.pm for some low level stuff but I find I can still get most of what I need by copy and pasting stuff from Matt's CGI scripts ( http://www.scriptarchive.com/ ).
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
Keeping sticky eyeballs from the first internet generation around.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
A component is is meant to be re-used in different contexts, a view not necessarily.
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by jayvanguard 11y ago
I see it as a gradual thing. Early in the project loosey and then as the software matures add in more typing. But yeah, everyone needs to agree on the right level for that stage in the project.

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