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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
I would guess he might be talking about how integers are objects in python, and stored in heap, rather than being stored as values directly on the stack. I haven’t looked, but it could also be in python that all numeric types are stored ac
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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
Service Fusion|Engineering Manager|Remote (US)|Full Time https://servicefusion.com Service Fusion provides an All-In-One Field Service Management SaaS application. I'm looking for Software Engineering Manager to run a team
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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
I'm really not one to proseletyze (I promise). Ten years ago I could barely understand how someone could be vegetarian (much less vegan), but I started cutting meat out of my diet a few years ago, as well as most dairy. I still occas
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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
My biggest hurdle was being too impatient to learn how to code with immutable data. I banged my head on the desk for two days to get through what I felt was a trivial problem (something with updating files in S3), which I eventually rewrot
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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
If I had to guess, it's overzealous middle management layers wanting to show Jamie that their teams are proactive and doing more than the minimum. You know, because of their exceptional leadership qualities.
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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
I like Sanderson, I really do, but I wish he would aim for a bit more brevity. He has a really interesting story to tell, and built an incredibly creative world, but it's like he gets distracted by all the other stories he would like t
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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
The Dark Tower is one of my favorites, probably because King doesn't feel constrained by convention or genre. And if you have read King's other works you will appreciate the connections to his universe throughout, particularly Th
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by oldprogrammer2 5y ago
I traded out my Apple Watch for the Garmin Forerunner 245 (2019), and couldn't be happier. The newer Apple Watches may have improved on these since I had an Apple Watch 3. * The 245 locks GPS really, really fast. I never have to wait
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
Agree, largely because AirBnB tends to have higher platform and cleaning fees. I also have a hard time understanding why AirBnB is treated as crown jewel of success for using $6 billion in raised capital and more than 6,000 employees to cop
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
I went through three phases of shoes. Phase 1 was a moderate shoe on the “more stability” side of things. I would get injured with regularity. So then I went to a running shoe store and had them analyze my gait. They “prescribed” a very e
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
I have a Garmin 245 that reports respiration without a chest strap. It tracks throughout the day. You can view on a line chart, or view awake/asleep averages. No idea how it measures, or if it’s accurate.
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
Unfortunately, many engineers will consider themselves “blocked” after doing only 5 minutes of research and deciding they needed to interrupt someone else’s work for help. They are concerned only with their own productivity, not with the p
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
As an executive, your calendar will fill up fast with meetings, planned and unplanned. 1:1’s with direct reports, 1:1 with your boss, your staff meeting, your boss’ staff meeting. Meetings to manage down, meetings to manage up. Meetings
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
I would not. I've experimented with it enough to know that I am much more comfortable executing with flask, rails, or dotnet. As a manager, I would dread trying to find engineers (I'm not in SV/SF), and I definitely would n
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
This was my experience with Xamarin. It was easy to get started, but then it was nearly impossible to get the "finer points" working just right. Instead of just doing "x" I was fighting the tools to get "y" t
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
My kids are in 2nd, 4th, and 6th grade. They all work very independently, and seem to enjoy school more than they did in person. We always hear about the negative aspects of virtual education, but I think a big positive effect is that they
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
I graduated from college with an Economics degree. I was working as a Business Analyst. I started looking at database schemas so I could write better documentation, and then started writing SQL to deliver reports myself instead of waiting
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by oldprogrammer2 6y ago
This looks like a standard Department of State advisory message. A fairly moderate one to “exercise caution”. The purpose of these advisories is to make sure travelers are aware of any situation. The article on France, for example, has
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by oldprogrammer2 7y ago
No, just stop eating meat and spread that message to everyone. You don’t need big acts of legislation. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7
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by oldprogrammer2 7y ago
They have details here: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... Lots of caching, lots of RAM, SSD storage, and a low-level ORM for SQL.
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by oldprogrammer2 7y ago
The trend is to move to 10-year exercise windows. Plenty of arguments to both sides, I suppose.
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by oldprogrammer2 7y ago
1. Setting the exercise window to 90 days instead of a more reasonable window (measured in years) should be a strong indicator that whoever is structuring their deals is not at all interested in the welfare of your equity. 2. You no longe
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by oldprogrammer2 8y ago
I am also optimistic for this reason, too. In the 1980's, I had nightmares about a nuclear armageddon. We were told that by the time we were teenagers we would no longer be able to play outside: because of ozone depletion, air pollut
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by oldprogrammer2 8y ago
It wasn't so easy for all the boomers. I remember my dad losing his business after he lost a loan during the S&L crisis, and I remember my parents struggling to afford a 3-bedroom house in 1983 at something like a 16% interest rat
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by oldprogrammer2 8y ago
To be fair, there are plenty of state universities in the US that are considerably cheaper than private schools. Students entering college are generally making two bad decisions: 1. Selecting a very expensive, non-prestigious private schoo
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by oldprogrammer2 8y ago
Beyond the cost/benefit analysis, and apart from the programming element, are you up for 3 semesters of calculus, linear algebra, and discrete math, and differential equations? Are you prepared to start calculus in your first semester
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by oldprogrammer2 8y ago
From Wikipedia: He left in 1992 to study business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with an undergraduate degree in economics and stayed for a second bachelor's degree in physics. After leaving Penn, Elon Mu
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by oldprogrammer2 8y ago
In the spirit of making the best argument for an opposing viewpoint, I think the better argument that would be made is that climate science is the only scientific discipline that seems predisposed to a certain, predicted outcome. The argume
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by oldprogrammer2 8y ago
Dallas native here... and a runner and weather nerd constantly monitoring for the best running conditions... In July and August it will often stay above 90F until midnight. There’s usually a few evenings in August where it will still be 1
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by oldprogrammer2 9y ago
I live in a rural area (only 2 neighbors within a mile), and have a 50/5 Mb internet plan through a fixed wireless provider. The tower is about 5 miles away and is uplinked to another tower at least 20 miles away. This, along with Ve

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