mmatants

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by mmatants 3y ago
Yeah this kind of stuff makes my blood boil. One can shame and belt their kid into compliance, and it might even get them (barely, only if they're lucky) all the way through university but holy shit the lifelong damage of self loathing
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by mmatants 3y ago
To add a data point, I used to do Pomodoro timing (25+5 min) but now switched to 15 min timer with a loose 2-5 min break. It's still hard to actually pull out of hyper-focus/anxious perseveration sometimes, but the shorter timer p
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by mmatants 3y ago
Reminded me of one of my favourite text-art/PETSCII adjacent creators I follow - Mrmo - who creates satisfying retro stuff like this custom font/tileset: https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmotext
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by mmatants 3y ago
Suburbs are not the only place to raise kids though. Probably not the best place for it either.
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by mmatants 4y ago
One clever hack I've seen is Yield Prolog ( https://yieldprolog.sourceforge.net/ ) which basically translates the querying/backtracking execution model into mainstream language syntax - such as JS, Python or C# - us
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by mmatants 4y ago
I also want to mention the Lichee Pi Nano, though it is much smaller and targeting a different use case: https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/17/licheepi-nano-cheap-... . Made an embedded distro Buildroot conf
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by mmatants 7y ago
I'd say for 95% of data fetches https://github.com/slorber/react-async-hook works really well without needing generator syntax or explicit promise cancellation boilerplate. I'm not the author but a satisfied
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by mmatants 7y ago
At least for parsing PDF into table I had decent success with Tabula.
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by mmatants 7y ago
The fact that choosing to use Uber represents a certain amount of trust in the driver (basic background check, identity information, etc), makes it more than lead generator or transparent broker.
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by mmatants 7y ago
Law as an industry is pretty dysfunctional. Plenty of data governance issues, losing track of documents, etc. A lot is at stake there, for sure, but that's actually the thing that process helps with - reliability and safety. And law is
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by mmatants 7y ago
I had some success with https://www.beeminder.com/ in my short time of using it so far. Essentially, it moves items from "important + not urgent" quadrant to "not important + urgent" one: by dinging your
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by mmatants 7y ago
Apparently, Peter Naur (the N in BNF) wrote this up nicely back in 1985 in "Programming as Theory Building": http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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1890s New York Street Photos by Jacob Riis(museumsyndicate.com)
2 points by mmatants 9y ago|0 comments
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by mmatants 9y ago
This is a really neat looking project (and the GH readme references the original HN discussion). For folks who are generally into TTY UIs and dashboards, I also want to point out the Blessed terminal rendering lib and its ecosystem (which e
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by mmatants 9y ago
Rules like DRY or keeping line counts low are based on surface metrics and definitely lead people to over-fit the model based on incomplete information. Underlying principle of maintainable code is "simply" that it is a concise an
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DeepDream for voice – Artificially intelligent impressions(youtube.com)
5 points by mmatants 9y ago|0 comments
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by mmatants 10y ago
This is an impressively thorough walkthrough.
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by mmatants 10y ago
I think one of the biggest saps of motivation in that situation is that even successes are meaningless. Because one instinctively doubts the whole thing then (even a broken clock is right twice a day, but it still doesn't make one fe
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by mmatants 10y ago
Re #2: - patio11 recently fired off a few tweets about doing away with comments on his blog: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/813895918692876289 Can't say I would disagree. A lot of folks these days just se
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by mmatants 10y ago
I became so much happier when I realized how much my education-minded parents and my environment gave me a leg up (even in the economically declining Eastern Europe of the time). Helped me chill out a lot and feel less pressure (and hence h
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by mmatants 10y ago
Most performance problems with websites/webapps out there are just due to sheer nastiness of the shovelware that they embed. No need to have fine-tuned debugging and profiling when the main fix is "don't accidentally run this
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by mmatants 10y ago
People need to be reminded of obvious things. In this case especially because there is active pressure to collect things - from your typical BigBoxCo flyers, sales, TV doorcrashers, buy-one-get-one events, etc. I know too many people who ar
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by mmatants 10y ago
Every approach has ups and downs, but my fundamental gripe with ORM as it exists is that it does not match business data model very well. Here is a shameless link to something I wrote on that topic; it complements the above article: http:&
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by mmatants 10y ago
One thing to remember, too, is that the original Facebook was quite different from what we have today. It focused on personal profiles, and had features of almost like a dating site. A huge use case was organizing parties (I know that bec
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by mmatants 10y ago
It makes sense to have centrality of vision for how code should be laid out. This is software architecture (as skill and role, not title though!). And as people have a limited focus span, it makes sense to segment - by business topic, by AP
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by mmatants 10y ago
It feels like the early language wins were due to the languages themselves introducing new concepts , not just syntax changes. Allowing higher-level reasoning. Then, past a certain point, most of the new concepts started coming in via fram
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by mmatants 10y ago
I'm sure that you are not getting a lot of upvotes for that comment, but you hit the nail on the head regarding programming being the translation layer between entropy of the real world and automated efficiency of computers. That is a
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by mmatants 10y ago
I think the gist of the first point is that there is a lot of communication that needs to happen. Talking is not the point; understanding others and making yourself understood is the point. And for most situations, currently, that just ha
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by mmatants 10y ago
I really like the philosophy you describe. It pains me to see folks disenfranchised from the concept of real teamwork. Isn't the whole point to be working with each other? Even if the person is signing my paycheque, they are still an
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by mmatants 10y ago
What really helps me stay engaged in conversations with strangers is directing my genuine interest in their "story". What drew you to get into computer science? How did you end up enjoying accounting? Why did you choose NYC over T

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