nnythm

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by nnythm 12y ago
Engineer on finagle, used to work at tumblr when we started running into problems with finagle. In large part it was because we didn't understand how it worked, and were doing things like reinventing different pieces of finagle, like
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Show HN: pirate, a dsl for parsing CLI arrrrguments in Scala(github.com)
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by nnythm 14y ago
MVCC has been around for at least thirty years, but it's interesting that we have seen more databases with this feature recently.
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by nnythm 14y ago
This is good advice. Another good tool to better yourself is reading code. This lets you think about why people have written code the way they have, and whether you agree with how they did it.
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by nnythm 14y ago
I have also had this happen to me--I am part of a fairly large company on github, so this means that suddenly I don't see anything in my strema except for posts about that company, so I had to unwatch nearly everything in it, which I would
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by nnythm 14y ago
I feel like a large percentage of hacker news is posts exactly like this. "Want to be productive? Stop reading about how to be productive!" I personally feel like Hacker News would be better if these posts stopped being bubbled up to the t
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by nnythm 14y ago
It seems like you get most of this stuff from a basic abstract algebra course. How does category theory help me beyond what I got from modern algebra 101? edit: this is from the perspective of someone who knows a little abstract algebra, a
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by nnythm 14y ago
this is the correct pronunciation.
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by nnythm 14y ago
I had a similar experience, where I found that none of my computers, neither my six year old laptop, nor my one year old laptop (!) could support GNOME 3, which has essentially prevented me from upgrading my fedora from 14. Since Fedora is
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by nnythm 14y ago
Yes, for example Foucault or Derrida is not meant to be skimmed, and part of the point of reading Hegel is to struggle with it. It doesn't make sense to make the reader struggle with an opinion piece, since you are generally trying to pers
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by nnythm 14y ago
I was skimming this article and thought that the premise was that first person shooters were switching to using the up, left, right, and down arrows instead of wasd. I felt the lede + nut graf (was there even a nut graf here?) was misleadi
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by nnythm 14y ago
Using a language with static typing means that there are a lot of tests you don't have to write. Do you remember the units trick from physics? If you forgot which equation you're supposed to use, keep on using identities until you're in t
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by nnythm 14y ago
I generally disagree with what this guy is saying. This is reasonable from the perspective of, "How to pitch yourself to a non-technical founder." A. Programming languages do matter. Talking to other programmers, a good way to find peopl
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by nnythm 14y ago
I agree, writing Java without powerful refactoring tools is a bore--that's why it's great to use Eclipse's "Generate Getters and Setters based on Fields" refactoring tool. Interestingly, I've never really felt the pain of not having a good
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by nnythm 14y ago
Interesting. My experience with Java is that the only thing that gets in the way of programming in Java is the verbosity, which an IDE with powerful refactoring tools (eclipse, IDEA, eclim) gets around nicely. I would argue that in many w
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by nnythm 14y ago
If the point is to learn front-end development, it seems like you're still sticking to your strengths instead of challenging yourself and delving into actual front-end DOM manipulation stuff.
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by nnythm 14y ago
I wrote something vaguely similar a while back, I imagined it would be useful in a hackathon context for people who had never used git before. The biggest problem was that it doesn't help people understand git, whereas all of the regular g
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by nnythm 15y ago
The idea of encouraging the term of "man logic" is man logic. Misogyny is clearly a problem, but saying, "oh but men are dumb too" is not the right way to go about fixing it.
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by nnythm 15y ago
it's man logic to promote denigrating terms against men in an effort to better the plight of women.
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by nnythm 15y ago
I was about to ask this question. I also can't figure out if the powerups stack or if they're distinct. I wonder if it's possible to win if you get all of the powerups without dying.
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by nnythm 15y ago
how do you negotiate equity?
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by nnythm 15y ago
on the other hand, things like "nlogn is a lower bound for comparison sorts" can't easily be reduced to counting your for-loops.
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by nnythm 15y ago
Taj Mahal doesn't seem like a strong counter-example, in that although it seems to have many non-standard lego pieces, it still has a high pieces per type value (or as the author described it, few types per piece).
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by nnythm 15y ago
Interestingly, I recognized the handle DGG from the article partially because he is a notable inclusionist.
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by nnythm 15y ago
I think that more than the content of your post, siculars is responding to the somewhat inflammatory title. As soon as I saw the title I thought, "Someone is going to be complaining about mongoDB having a slow operation, and it is going to
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by nnythm 15y ago
the idea that LaTeX has a messy codebase is almost mindboggling to me--I had assumed that TeX--practically the only code that's published as a book (see: The TeX Book) would be clean. I guess the complaint is mostly about the Pascal + C th
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by nnythm 15y ago
it is disconcerting to have your password emailed to you. are you storing the passwords in cleartext? Would definitely prefer if you didn't.
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by nnythm 15y ago
I hope you've held onto your shares!
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by nnythm 15y ago
this is not an example of validating your hypothesis. the question you should be asking is, "Do people want this service?" The people who want this service are the people in the 21-40 range. The people who don't know are not the people w
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by nnythm 15y ago
look into mongoDB's geospatial indexing, don't reinvent the wheel.

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