mjt0229

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by mjt0229 10y ago
Oh, great! Something else my daughter can blame me for.
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by mjt0229 10y ago
I work remotely, and I use Slack to keep an open dialog with my team. I used HipChat before that. They both have their upsides for this use case, but I think that it's basically a great tool for what I'm doing. I can easily see ho
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by mjt0229 10y ago
It doesn't use S3, but you can do something similar with Coursier: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier#launch
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by mjt0229 10y ago
A coworker of mine used to ask job candidates (usually folks with PhDs) with HMMs on their CV "what's hidden in a hidden markov model". Lots of people couldn't answer that question.
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by mjt0229 10y ago
I for one freely obey our new robot overlords?
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by mjt0229 10y ago
Perhaps. The TSA is obviously a big problem for American airports. I'm just saying that I can't think of a major airport that I've used and felt like it was a good experience, and the major airports I've been in outside
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by mjt0229 10y ago
Fair, but Heathrow and Tegel and De Gaulle aren't exactly paradise.
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by mjt0229 10y ago
I was there at the beginning of Ion back in my Amazon days. We may well use it in my current job, too!
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by mjt0229 10y ago
I would strongly suggest that at some point in your career, you take the time to learn either vi or Emacs, even if you still use VS Code everything.
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by mjt0229 10y ago
What I'm taking issue with is the description of VSC as "changing the way we code on Unix/Linux". Given your interpretation, Atom and SublimeText and other tools predate VSC and fill much the same role. So I don't s
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by mjt0229 10y ago
Agreed. I don't see anything in VSCode that's not present in any of the vast array of alternatives. But then again, I live in IntelliJ and Emacs land. I don't mind Atom but don't really use it for anything. Light Table m
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by mjt0229 10y ago
Really? VSCode has already transformed the way code was written on Unix/Linux? I beg to differ. 10 years ago (when I discovered Eclipse, not sure when it was originally released), Eclipse was a staggering leap forward for Java progr
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by mjt0229 10y ago
Can I compile it myself? I don't know why this isn't clear, but the pages don't really say any of this.
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by mjt0229 10y ago
The download page there has me downloading Xamarin Studio. How do I get just MonoDevelop?
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by mjt0229 11y ago
I wonder if maybe instead of asking people to code on the fly, it would make more sense to ask people to review, analyze, and explain some existing code.
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by mjt0229 11y ago
Really? Rust was harder for me to adjust to by far. It seems like a moving target and the documentation I found was still lacking.
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by mjt0229 11y ago
Imagine practicing a scale on the guitar. You could just repeat the scale over and over, but you could also add rhythmic variation, or play two notes up and one note down. Based on the article, it doesn't seem like moving the goalpost
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by mjt0229 11y ago
I just (more or less) duplicated your comment somewhere...jinx.
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by mjt0229 11y ago
Did his statically typed language include reasonable type inference? Because if not, then of course it took longer to write static types. If so, then, well, that's interesting. I'm not sure I'm ready to take the training whee
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by mjt0229 11y ago
+1 for a Chuck Traeger reference on HN. I'm also a double bassist. Agreed about instrument modifications. It's common in the bass world for a big-sounding instrument to be described as a "cannon". That doesn't speak
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by mjt0229 11y ago
Agreed.
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by mjt0229 11y ago
The comments on the blog post are hilarious to me. "And why do you need type safety? Because you are used to?" Er. Well, if you like driving a car with no seatbelts, crumple zone, or airbags, I guess that's fine with me. Bu
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by mjt0229 11y ago
I'm no anti-government activist (far from it), and in general, I think safety regulations are a good idea. But I'm having a hard time getting worked up over this. Are the sort of train accidents that this technology would prevent
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by mjt0229 11y ago
I worked at Amazon for a while, and I was in a number of meetings with a number of senior executives, and I heard them ask, "What's better for the customer?". This move makes me think they've gotten out of the habit of a
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by mjt0229 11y ago
I don't think the author makes a good case for the problem with, for example, noun-verbers, other than that they aren't very OO. If OO means putting lots and lots of state into objects, then I'm happy to be the lunatic fringe
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by mjt0229 11y ago
I have a 2014 Jetta TDI, and the thing I'm wondering is what the cost of the fix will be - not to me in dollars, since it would be covered by the recall - but rather, will this affect my fuel economy or performance in some other way? I
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by mjt0229 11y ago
That quote addresses a separate (but very real) question. Issues of diversity in hiring and promotion are really important, and clearly affect lots of companies. I agree that Amazon should release those numbers, and I would not be surprised
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by mjt0229 11y ago
I don't disagree. I only point out that people should not assume that this is the norm based on the single anecdote.
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by mjt0229 11y ago
A coworker of mine at Amazon was diagnosed with cancer, and as far as I can tell, he was treated with the utmost respect and decency. His team and managers made a lot of accommodation for him while he underwent treatment. Unfortunately, he
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by mjt0229 11y ago
Neat. You should know that cats is also the name of a Scala library [1] that includes a lot of similar concepts. [1] https://github.com/non/cats

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