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by laughfactory 7mo ago
Frankly, it sounds like you have a lot to learn about agentic coding. It’s hard to define exactly what makes some of us so good at using it, and others so poor, but agentic coding has been life changing for myself and the folks I’ve tutored
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by laughfactory 8mo ago
I completely and utterly disagree. Simon is no gifter. Intellectually lazy snobs think that any time someone has genuine delight and excitement about something that they’re “grifting.” Also, for anyone who is trying (regardless of whether t
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by laughfactory 7y ago
Agreed. As a data scientist myself, I can't imagine Julia getting much "mindshare" among us with the JIT experience it has. Perhaps we're not the real target audience for Julia? But if that's the case then adoption
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by laughfactory 7y ago
Yeah, this has been my experience as well. I really _want_ to like Julia. But so far the JIT experience has been exceptionally miserable--and unfortunately for me, my typical approach to development is quite interactive. I'm on 1.1.1.
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by laughfactory 7y ago
Julia's compiled code might be super fast, but developing (or, God forbid, doing any sort of analysis) is painful because of how brutally slow the REPL/interactive environment is. Pretty much every little snippet of code you'
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by laughfactory 7y ago
Ugh. MBAs? No thanks. Usually it's interactions with MBA-holding folks that gives me heartburn. They try to mechanize everything. I agree that an MBA education is probably fairly useful for developers, as long as you can retain your pe
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by laughfactory 8y ago
https://www.pluralsight.com/tech-index
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by laughfactory 8y ago
Yes, this is why it's critical to adopt an output/outcome mentality. When you can't see if or when we're working the only signal of status is whether shit is getting done. This should be the only thing you care about, an
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by laughfactory 8y ago
Agreed. I would summarize modern society the same way. In some ways life is vastly improved over prior generations, but I think that masks an alarming amount of b societal decay.
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by laughfactory 8y ago
Your listed Do's are great, and I'll add the following: Do: - Read my profile and make it clear in your email or message why you think the position is a good fit (referencing details from my profile) - Be personable and real with
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by laughfactory 8y ago
Oh I think it'll help you successfully quit smoking, but man, quitting vaping is another animal in itself. The problem being that vaping is cheap (especially DIY), and it doesn't smell. So there's less incentive to quit, and
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by laughfactory 8y ago
https://www.pluralsight.com/tech-index Java might be old, but it's still a long way from dead. And actually it could be argued that it's done a fantastic job keeping up with the demands of modern development. Kotl
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2 technologies you can’t ignore: JavaScript and blockchain – Pluralsight(pluralsight.com)
1 points by laughfactory 8y ago|0 comments
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by laughfactory 8y ago
Swift? Um, okay... Good language, yes, but it's still very iOS-centric. I generally agree with the assessment of Python, but I'll stick with R for everything it can do. I use Python for everything else. If Swift breaks out of the
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by laughfactory 8y ago
I'm unclear from the website what exactly the pitch is. I really like the idea of a grayscale medium intelligence phone which helps counter the addictive nature of smartphones and is focused around the essentials: maps, camera, calenda
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Announcing the Pluralsight Technology Index(pluralsight.com)
2 points by laughfactory 8y ago|0 comments
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2 technologies you can’t ignore: JavaScript and blockchain – Pluralsight(pluralsight.com)
1 points by laughfactory 8y ago|0 comments
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Pluralsight Launches Technology Index(pluralsight.com)
3 points by laughfactory 8y ago|0 comments
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by laughfactory 9y ago
$0 demand? Are you kidding? If there was no demand then Bitcoin's price would be $0. It's not zero therefore demand is also not zero. This is basic economics. Come on, man. No intrinsic value? How about how it is truly stored ener
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by laughfactory 9y ago
Excel is remarkable, yes, but I'd argue that given its nature pretty much every reasonably complex workbook can be expected to have at least one bug. Having worked with them a lot in many different contexts, I've seen just how eas
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by laughfactory 9y ago
The TLDR; is that roughly 2,000 more people in the 25-34 age group started farming, which is a roughly 2% increase. Doesn't really sound like news to me, not yet at least. I'd like to interpret it as the younger generation getting
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by laughfactory 9y ago
What intrigued me most about the article was that it played the whole "adjunct professors get paid like shit because university funding has fallen dramatically." The truth is that this is nothing new: adjuncts have always been pai
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by laughfactory 9y ago
Great idea. I'll keep this in my back pocket for future use. The wiley and expensive way is to alter your page
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by laughfactory 9y ago
This is very true. My scraping efforts have become vastly more sophisticated after running into explicit attempts to block me. Now I've got all kinds of bells and whistles, and validate the data returned.
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by laughfactory 9y ago
As someone who who does a fair amount of scraping for my job, it's always vastly preferred to simply pay for the data. It's generally more efficient and cost effective then scraping. Scraping is always the last resort: we need the
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by laughfactory 9y ago
Yeah, but if you can use ML to pick out the differences between real users and bots then you can also use ML to mimic real user behavior. Both sides spend a lot of time and money trying to overcome each other, and end state is the same it w
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by laughfactory 9y ago
And this is why it's an excellent idea to always scrape behind proxies. Never scrape from your own IP, or one easily traced to you.
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by laughfactory 9y ago
I would not make the assumption. I've been working for corporate America long enough to know that there's an astonishing level of incompetence many places. I'm sure Twitter is no exception. I'm sure _someone_ at Twitter
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by laughfactory 9y ago
I do it using rotating proxies, stripping cookies between requests, randomly varying the delay between requests, randomly selecting a valid user-agent string, etc. It's a pain in the butt. And to scrape more than I do, faster than I do
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by laughfactory 9y ago
I would never tell my employer that I had another offer and was going to accept unless they met my demands. I'd keep it in my back pocket and then if they didn't respond to my treating them like an adult then I'd just inform

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