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by jesselawson 2y ago
Hi team--and hello Fred! You and I had some great conversations about Slack's direction--as well as its missed opportunities--back when we worked there together. I was leading developer education at the time, and frustrated with the de
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by jesselawson 2y ago
Perhaps others may make inferences about what a board appointment to a company with growing influence in government security matters means based on the appointee’s history in government security leadership.
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by jesselawson 2y ago
I’m not sure I understand the analogy. To me there’s a difference between a former intelligence general being courted by a private company that sells services for rapidly and semi-autonomously generating content that bad actors have used an
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by jesselawson 2y ago
Similar experience here, too. Virtually every time I have worked with, trained, or reported to someone with a CS degree from Stanford or Harvard, they have approached their work with a narrow mind and little empathy for others. This has bee
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by jesselawson 3y ago
Apple has consistently made laptops and development environments that creative types enjoy and admire. It’s too mad our economic system is setup to only care about infinite growth and monopolization at Apple’s size. It’s too bad just “being
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by jesselawson 3y ago
All good and great but I think it’s a bit misleading. The participants were asked to do LeetCode—which limits this study to the suggested effects of cannabis on arbitrary and abstract programming tasks.
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by jesselawson 3y ago
I got to the end of your post and realized I’d love to hear more about your thoughts around this. Also you must be proud of building something with so little bugs! Thats quite a feat.
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by jesselawson 3y ago
Additionally, some problems have gone on for so long without any attention to solving them that they’ve created whole new problems—and then new problems, and then new problems… at jobs where you discover over time that management has kicked
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by jesselawson 3y ago
Like remote work vs physically proximate work in software engineering, I’m hopeful that people will remember the value of human cognition so much so that it’s considered, like it is today for some people in some cases, a competitive advanta
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by jesselawson 3y ago
Sam, this is such a wonderful resource that you've put out into the world. Thank you for the time and care you've put into each paragraph and interactive component. You've not only given me a lot to think about in terms of my
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by jesselawson 4y ago
Honestly the best comment I've read on here in a long time. Cheers.
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by jesselawson 4y ago
I'm sorry about all the negativity in the comments. What I see is something that was handcrafted with the careful touch of a craftsperson that represents your individual vision for a specific digital experience. I can tell you put a lo
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by jesselawson 4y ago
I appreciate how optimistic people are about interesting tools like this. I personally am concerned about production use of models in any form that do not have strict oversight rules and accountability of training data -- especially in digi
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by jesselawson 4y ago
PLT and implementing languages is something that's always fascinated me, so I enjoy hearing everyone's experiences in this domain. What makes you call it a "dark unhappy path"?
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by jesselawson 4y ago
Hello! In a previous thread[0], I had shared my online book "Getting Started with Rust by building a Tiny Markdown Compiler." Many folks provided great feedback, and I'm thankful for all the positive energy I've received
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Getting Started with Rust (2022 Update)(jesselawson.github.io)
3 points by jesselawson 4y ago|1 comments
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by jesselawson 5y ago
My favorite front-end framework is [VanillaJs]( http://vanilla-js.com/ ).
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by jesselawson 5y ago
I write science fiction and also work in technology. My days are spent glued to a screen so much that it's hard to want to write on my computer when I have time to write. So I do everything longhand, then wait for long weekends to tran
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Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (2007)(cs.brown.edu)
1 points by jesselawson 5y ago|0 comments
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by jesselawson 5y ago
Maybe not empires per se, but many fiction publications are using Patreon as a revenue-generating tool.
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by jesselawson 5y ago
Hi Dan, I'm Jesse. I work in the public sector and have seen the pains of trying to get regular folk to learn even basic SOQL for Salesforce, let alone the struggles of folks trying to change the way they think to write a SQL query. I
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by jesselawson 5y ago
Thank you!
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by jesselawson 5y ago
The way I describe it to people is like this: some folks like to feel a nicely sanded handle, and other folks like to sand down a handle so that it feels nicely sanded.
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by jesselawson 5y ago
In your last sentence you mentioned that it's unheard of to go from software to anything you'd be interested in. What are you interested in?
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by jesselawson 5y ago
Hey I know you're feeling like giving up, but you have to realize that you've only taken the first step--and the good news is, it's a step that only 10% of people ever make! So congratulations! You published your first novel!
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by jesselawson 6y ago
Calbright College | Oakland, CA | REMOTE (Must live in California) | Full-Time | Technical Solutions Engineer | https://calbright.org/about/careers Calbright College is the 115th public community college in California.
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by jesselawson 6y ago
^^ Most underrated comment here lol
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by jesselawson 6y ago
California's FTB charges $800 minimum annually regardless of whether you made a profit or not.
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by jesselawson 6y ago
Thank you for saying this. It's always so strange to me that there are people obsessed with prolonging the inevitable, as if immortality itself could be an end-state.
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by jesselawson 6y ago
Randy I think that's a great take. I can tell you put a lot into it, Randy. That's great. Books are great resource for learning--I agree, Randy!

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