maxFlow

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by maxFlow 6mo ago
Coding in the flow state has always been appreciated, it's just been surpassed by a new technology. Your brain can still "just click" with agentic coding. But it will have to be at a higher level of abstraction. Perhaps the &
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by maxFlow 2y ago
Getting Lovecraftian vibes.
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by maxFlow 2y ago
Anthropic Investors: Amazon.com – $4B Google – $2B Menlo Ventures – $750M Wisdom Ventures Ripple Impact Investments Factorial Funds Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic#Investors
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by maxFlow 3y ago
CS already is the super-degree.
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by maxFlow 3y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'm reviewing the curriculum for the program [0] and it looks great. Do you know if any of these courses has been opened sourced? It would be great to have access to part of the material. [0]: https://www
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by maxFlow 3y ago
Hi Peter. Thanks for your AMAs, always a source of great value. A couple of questions from me: 1. Which would you say are the top spececializations within tech that employers are most willing to sponsor visas for nowadays? 2. Would you say
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by maxFlow 3y ago
As a side note, Godot's Development Fund [0] is currently sitting at 51.1k euros/month. Does anybody know where it was at before the Unity pricing revamp announcement? [0] https://fund.godotengine.org/
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by maxFlow 3y ago
GeeksForGeeks is the bane of my existence and IMO a symptom that the entire system has perverse incentives. Fortunately, I've moved 90% of my code inquiries to LLMs, to great success.
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Magna Carta(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by maxFlow 3y ago|0 comments
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Parable of the Broken Window(en.wikipedia.org)
21 points by maxFlow 3y ago|15 comments
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by maxFlow 3y ago
Currently listening to the LOTR audiobooks narrated by Andy Serkis. Highly recommended. His characters are heavily influenced by Peter Jackson's movies; it put me off a bit at first, but I've really come to like it now.
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by maxFlow 3y ago
> It would be useful to give more clarity around your thoughts on the "Data Engineer" role. Is it also in decline? Is the market as a whole in a relative decline? My thoughts: the tech job market as a whole has been in decline,
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by maxFlow 3y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. I don't get to do much writing in my time off work, since that time is devoted to (more) coding to try and make my side project into a business. So what I do to compensate is I make an effort and write all c
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by maxFlow 3y ago
Pick two books at random and start building as you read them. Do you want to build a profitable business or do you want to theorize how to build one?
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by maxFlow 3y ago
I'm in a similar situation to yours, and I've kind of settled on a similar approach: put out the most pressing fires and reassess 3-6 months down the line. At first I had thoughts to refactor but now I just don't want to deal
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by maxFlow 3y ago
What's the plan, full (parallel) rewrite or refactor?
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R for Data Science – C18. Pipes(r4ds.had.co.nz)
2 points by maxFlow 3y ago|0 comments
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by maxFlow 3y ago
I've found that Statistics is one of those topics that changes your world view about everything. You can consider pretty much any issue statistically, and that will enrich your perspective significantly. In that sense, Statistical Reth
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Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1(merriam-webster.com)
1 points by maxFlow 3y ago|0 comments
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by maxFlow 3y ago
> I speak four languages out of necessity, not by choice. I also speak four languages and mostly agree with your take. I'm native in Spanish; English I learned gaming, and reading Tolkien as a kid. The other two, German and French d
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by maxFlow 3y ago
> We are already looking to move to other places and created a university-wide google sheet where we compare different countries and cities around the world for those kinds of categories. Could you share a few places at the top of your l
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by maxFlow 4y ago
> These days I do 20 minutes a day of mind control which involves nothing more than counting down from 9 to 1 repeatedly. If it works for you that's great. However, I would say approaching meditation from a "mind control"
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Would you mind sharing your thought process to get from `daily_users` to `reqs_per_sec`? I'm playing with some estimations of `concurrent_users` for a basic website, and I'd be quite interested in the breakdown.
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2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU (Taught by Brandon Sanderson)(youtube.com)
2 points by maxFlow 4y ago|0 comments
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by maxFlow 4y ago
And also the monster investor happens to be a university. Why does a university need to manage such a huge endowment ($150bn of assets)? Further, why does a university end up investing in the rental market? Seems to me these are both standa
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University of California invests $4B in Blackstone’s real estate fund(ft.com)
2 points by maxFlow 4y ago|4 comments
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by maxFlow 4y ago
Brilliant, I'll be playing with these once I reach the more advanced material in The Book. Ty.
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by maxFlow 4y ago
I'm a Python dev, learning Rust out of interest, but also considering its viability for Data Engineering. It would be helpful to know the equivalents of the following libraries: Pandas (Polars), Prefect/Airflow/Orchestration,
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Robot Landlords Are Buying Up Houses(vice.com)
21 points by maxFlow 4y ago|2 comments
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by maxFlow 4y ago
1. Could you share a bit about your stack? I'd be specially interested about the data engineering side of things if possible. 2. As a SWE, how deep into biology/genetics concepts have you had to go during your tenure?

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