mjlawson

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by mjlawson 8mo ago
Do any of the books you read on the topic stand out as something you'd recommend?
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by mjlawson 8mo ago
Not sure if I read this the same way you did. At least, this didn't read at all to me as "talking shit," but rather sharing their professional opinion on the (un)likely success of the project. Keeping thoughts to yourself isn
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by mjlawson 9mo ago
I think that misses the point though. C trusts you to design your own linked list. It also trusts your neighbor, your kid, your LLM, you, your dog, another linked list...
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by mjlawson 10mo ago
Zero technical debt certainly is... ambitious. Sure, if we knew _what_ to build the first time around this would be possible. From my experience, the majority of technical debt is sourced from product requirement changes coupled with tight
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by mjlawson 1y ago
I think the difference here is that Penn and Teller are just as much historians of magic as they are magicians themselves. Accepting the honor is also accepting that the history is still relevant and worth celebrating. Making this into an e
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by mjlawson 1y ago
More like that it's politically defined when the numbers become inconvenient.
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by mjlawson 1y ago
My rule with Cursor is that unless I know exactly what I want it to do, I have it stay out of my way. If I have a general idea, I may turn on auto-complete. I reserve the agent for things like tests, UX, and rote programming that saves me t
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by mjlawson 1y ago
I played the second game, and your dictionary might need to be adjusted. Asse is certainly not a word. Pretty fun game you got here though. I would like a retry capability so I can try to find another (read: the real) solution.
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by mjlawson 1y ago
It's rather telling that you group substance abuse together with rather common and generally benign human conditions such as anxiety and neuroticism, and I find that your rather heavy-handed generalizations of people's capacity to
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by mjlawson 2y ago
> Either way you are going to throw it all away once you have settled on what should be the final iteration anyhow. I think this needs to be highlighted, because while I completely agree, I think it's often implicit, taken for grant
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by mjlawson 2y ago
I find myself agreeing with much of your point, but I feel the need to nitpick a bit of your comment myself :) I don't think your code base needs to be very large, or very legacy in order for comments to be valuable or even the best wa
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by mjlawson 2y ago
My take is that maybe we shouldn't paint all of SV with the same brush. Not every SV company is Philip Morris.
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by mjlawson 2y ago
One of the things that's often not considered with these kind of interfaces, is whether or not they're actually possible. For instance, arg3 might only be true if arg1 is also true. Or arg3 may not be false if both arg1 and arg2 a
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by mjlawson 3y ago
"The pencil is really coming through." I really wish chili mongers would optimize for flavor in addition to heat.
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by mjlawson 3y ago
> Is it bad for [...] people to have too much money or not? Yes, by definition. The question is, how much is too much money? And in what context? Put another way, in a given economy, how much do the wages between the top and bottom earne
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by mjlawson 3y ago
I'm quite happy it didn't keep going, though not for lack of trying.
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by mjlawson 3y ago
I'm excited about the title, but I have to say that my initial impression has left me frustrated. The main README on GitHub[1] smells of corporate-speak. So far I've learned that: - OrioleDB is a new storage engine for PostgreSQL
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by mjlawson 4y ago
Also note that the prior large spikes were due in large part to multiple banks failing as well [1]. It's also notable in that this is the second largest bank to fail in the data I've been able to track since 2008 [2]. [1] https:&
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by mjlawson 4y ago
It depends on the state of the market. During the banking crisis, 157 banks were closed in one year[1]. [1] https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/
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by mjlawson 4y ago
I think that these kind of reviews can potentially be squashed by building consensus around what kind of feedback is right for PRs, what conventions you agree upon using, etc. Far too often, these kind of "best practices" only exi
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by mjlawson 4y ago
I would argue that this too is part of software development. You ought to have a robust process that can accommodate hotfixes while minimally impacting ongoing work. That fix requires you to get buy-in from all of the right stakeholders, an
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by mjlawson 4y ago
> But breaking down tasks provides (1) some certainty that you know a thing is achievable, (2) gives you a strong idea of what can be started immediately, and what can be run in parallel, and (3) hidden dependencies on other teams. This
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by mjlawson 4y ago
I've been using act[1] as a tool to develop/test actions locally, which has helped a lot for creating new actions and debugging existing ones without incurring additional build costs. There does appear to be some solutions on the
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by mjlawson 4y ago
Github Actions supports heavy parallelization and fan-in/fan-out jobs just like CircleCI does, so I'm curious if there's some limitations that I haven't ran into yet. I'd go farther to say that their documentation i
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by mjlawson 4y ago
From a development perspective, Stripe is by far the fastest/easiest to integrate with, the most featureful, and has the best documentation. As I understand it, other payment providers will often require underwriting up front before yo
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by mjlawson 4y ago
I'm no expert here, but I wonder about the economics around the 13MW of heat that it outputs. There are certainly applications around the world where that could be hugely beneficial. Take Reykjavik[1] for example. How much are they pay
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by mjlawson 4y ago
I don't think that this is always possible. For one, I've yet to meet anyone who can meaningfully predict: a. What features are going to be added over the course of your application b. What features are going to be popular c. How
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by mjlawson 4y ago
I agree with this, mostly. I've worked at many a company where I've inherited the work of developers who built towards an expected view of the future. That expected future, of course, never quite lined up with the future that did
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by mjlawson 4y ago
That's the purpose of the Abstract. > According to our findings, low doses of psilocybin mushrooms can result in noticeable subjective effects and altered EEG rhythms, but without evidence to support enhanced well-being, creativity
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by mjlawson 4y ago
It is. The results section indicate that BCS performs better than Dr. Fill by a significant amount. I'm curious how well this performs on the New York Times Thursday puzzles, and specifically whether or not it can handle rebus answers

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