jinfiesto

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by jinfiesto 5y ago
Was about to type the same thing, am also pianist. Using small muscles to do repetitive things is exactly how you get RSI. Don't do stuff with small muscles that you can do with large ones. Unfortunately, even in the piano community, t
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by jinfiesto 6y ago
You shouldn't swallow errors like that in FP either. You can trap the error in an effect type and throw it at the top level of your app when your effect type gets run after all of the code that processes that error value has a chance t
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by jinfiesto 6y ago
What's the best way to contact you?
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
More or less, yes.
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
> It’s definitely hard to explain an idea like SVM, it’s applications, and how it works/what it does without a background in some linear algebra. I don't actually think this is the case. The basic idea is that you can represent
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
I agree that in a vacuum, zero sum games aren't necessarily a bad thing. However, in our hypothetical economy, the actors obviously aren't at parity for their level of skill at playing the game. In a zero-sum economy, consolidatio
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
Completely agree with the last paragraph. The economy is tilted way too far towards incentivizing value extraction instead of incentivizing value creation. Don't know that I agree with some of the previous stuff though. Even if we assu
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
I used to think this, but I've come around somewhat. The economy as a basic premise is expected to grow at least 3% a year or bad stuff starts happening. Obviously no kind of exponential growth is sustainable, even at a low rate. The b
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
You can be nouns first and still be anti-OOP. I think the objection anti-OOP people have with OOP is the business of folding your verbs up with your nouns, not being "noun oriented."
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
I don't know. I've been slinging Haskell on the side for the better part of a decade and do most of my day to day in RoR (trying to start moving clients over to Elixir/Phoenix.) Haskell is an amazing language. I would totally
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
Was going to say exactly this. Major common misunderstanding about even Haskell. Mutable state has to eventually be a part of basically every program that does something useful. The Haskell philosophy is more about having an explicit and pr
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
Skill-wise, absolutely. Demand-wise, absolutely not. I'm a freelance developer now, but before I was a senior engineer at an international software company. I've considered several times pivoting to productized Wordpress consultin
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
I suppose it's all relative, but at least in Rails, while I suppose it's trivial in an absolute sense, it's much harder than doing stuff "the rails way."
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
I didn't mean to say that SPAs were easier at all. They're not. I think they're under most circumstances much harder than traditional webapps. That being said, my experience is that users and in my case clients are starting t
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
It's been probably 2 years since I've seen a front-end dev listing that doesn't list experience with a SPA framework as mandatory. I'm not going to question that hybrid and traditional apps exist in the wild. I maintain
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
Nuclear is a political non-starter. No one wants to live near a nuclear power plant, and people tend to fight tooth and nail to fight the placement of nuclear power anywhere near them. The result of this is that nuclear power plants get foi
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
You don't want to participate in such a market even if it exists. Your wife is a human being and a professional, not a faucet. Participating in an undifferentiated labor market commodifies her and turns her into the latter rather than
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
Caveat that networking is a slow "long term growth" activity. If she needs work now, researching businesses that fit a target profile and cold calling is the name of the game.
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
There's no magic here. I too am an engineer, and find sales work yucky. If you want to make more than 5$ an hour on upwork and you're not about working a "real job" sales work is going to be an unfortunate fact of life.
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
I don't know what country you're in, but if it's the US, my advice would be to just start a company, throw up a decent looking website and start pounding the pavement. Most of the freelance sites encourage commodified race to
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
Poker is much harder now and it's hard to find tables that will happily pay off nitty play ad infinitum. I'd make a list of concepts you should learn about, but I think it'll be easier for me to make a list of books you shoul
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by jinfiesto 7y ago
I stopped teaching piano for much the same reason. The level of focus just isn't there any more (obviously there are exceptions.) Not that I blame the students, If I'd grown up in this day and age, I certainly would rather be gami
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
My advice would be not to worry about this too much at this phase. A lot of "best practice" is institutional and has to do with how the stack/org/community is structured. There's not a lot that's "best pra
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
Counterpoint, being exposed to other people's ideas within your discipline of choice is important. You learn a lot faster when you're plugged into a network of brains that are all generally oriented in the same direction. College
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
Maybe I'm just old and crusty, but I think motivation and passion are overrated. Just put your butt in the chair and do it. Passion and motivation are important, but no matter how passionate you are, you're eventually going to hav
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
With regard to number 1, I've found that some places that do grocery delivery in house (like Raley's,) apparently keep separate stock for delivery (discovered by asking) and it's often in better shape than what's on the
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
I like Wesley Yang's writing quite a lot. As a 2nd generation Asian American (Korean like Yang himself,) I understand and have experienced quite a lot of his pain. However, I think he and others somewhat misattributes the origin of his
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
> The real solution to carbon is immediate reduction of fossil fuel usage with a very short-term goal of nearly absolute cessation of greenhouse gas generation. The problem is that while this is accurate given the current state of scienc
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
I'd never claim it's not a masterpiece. Both it and the 3rd Liebestraume are in my repertoire. But since it's more in line with the Romantic idiom, Clair De Lune and Suite Bergamasque in general gets compared against the mast
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by jinfiesto 8y ago
Speaking as someone who studied music academically for a while, I imagine they left it out because it's pretty unremarkable despite it's popularity. Debussy was actually reticent to publish Suite Bergamasque (which contains Clair

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