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by pk2200 3y ago
The two URLs I provided don't convince you that this isn't a fad? Of all the SWEs I know, every single one who previously used Eclipse, Atom, or Sublime is now using VSCode. Some of my Emacs & Vim friends have switched, too.
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by pk2200 3y ago
I'm a long-time Emacs user, but VSCode is definitely not a fad. Microsoft is all-in on it, and it appears to be by far the most popular text editor. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t...
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Go 1.21 Release Candidate(go.dev)
337 points by pk2200 3y ago|225 comments
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by pk2200 3y ago
Nice! Years ago I added home row chording to a simple text editor I was writing. It worked so well that I wondered why it's not common practice. You should write more about your project! :)
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by pk2200 4y ago
The tournament Carlsen withdrew from today isn't an online event. All the games are played in person at the St. Louis Chess Club.
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by pk2200 5y ago
For time management, the rough approach is to allocate a fixed % of the remaining time and increase or reduce it, mostly depending on the stability of the evaluation with increasing search depth. Games are played on the same computer, with
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by pk2200 5y ago
Capablanca preferred playing quiet, positional chess, often patiently nursing tiny endgame advantages into a win. It's generally much easier to play accurately in simple endgames than complex middlegames, and that's a big factor
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Google Research: Machine learning accelerated computational fluid dynamics(arxiv.org)
3 points by pk2200 6y ago|0 comments
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Trump Pardons Anthony Levandowski(theverge.com)
16 points by pk2200 6y ago|1 comments
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by pk2200 6y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for many years of fantastic work on both Stockfish and Leela. The computer chess community owes you a huge debt of gratitude!
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by pk2200 6y ago
Possibly Craig Silverstein, but my guess is Urs Hölzle. He was Google's first VP of engineering and a huge advocate for everything mentioned in the article: "design docs, audited code reviews, early design reviews, readability re
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by pk2200 6y ago
There was a recent thread about challenging projects every programmer should try, and I think writing a chess engine would be a nice addition to that list. Chess programming is a refreshing change from modern software development, because y
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by pk2200 6y ago
Digital Ocean, probably.
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by pk2200 7y ago
He wrote about this more detail in an earlier blog post (about halfway down the page). http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161
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by pk2200 7y ago
He evaluated Rust and Go a few years ago and strongly preferred Go. https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/01/18/rust-vs-go.html
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by pk2200 7y ago
The chess channels you're visiting are grossly overstating Alpha Zero's impact. AFAICT, it hasn't made any impact on opening theory at all. AZ's strength is in the middlegame, where it appears to be slightly better tha
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by pk2200 8y ago
One use case I haven't seen mentioned is note-taking. Apple Pencil is a truly amazing device. I use it at work all the time, especially in meetings. It's quieter than typing and because I don't have my laptop open, I'
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by pk2200 8y ago
I can't remember what Senior VP equates to on the tech ladder, but in terms of his overall impact on the company, Urs is definitely an 11.
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by pk2200 8y ago
You definitely can't force a draw against a higher rated player, but you can make one more likely by choosing quiet openings and simplifying in the middlegame. But it's often tricky to pull this off. If you make too many second
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by pk2200 8y ago
Svidler and Grischuk at chess24.com are fantastic, but they're both world class players and beginners will find their commentary and analysis difficult to follow. I'd recommend chess.com - Danny Rensch and Robert Hess are a bit m
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by pk2200 8y ago
Urs Hölzle (engineering VP) and Eric Veach (AdWords) also don't get nearly as much recognition as they deserve.
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Building a company around TypeScript(medium.com)
2 points by pk2200 8y ago|0 comments
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The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November(blog.rongarret.info)
203 points by pk2200 9y ago|176 comments
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by pk2200 9y ago
I have a similar Google lunch story. A guy sat down, introduced himself as Rob, and told me it was his first day at Google. We had a nice chat, and later I told my office mate that the new guy seemed really smart. He laughed and told me I
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How the New Math of Gerrymandering Works(nytimes.com)
3 points by pk2200 9y ago|0 comments
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A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub (2014)(cacm.acm.org)
189 points by pk2200 9y ago|66 comments
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Kotlin 1.2 beta is out(blog.jetbrains.com)
1 points by pk2200 9y ago|0 comments
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Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There(nytimes.com)
2 points by pk2200 9y ago|0 comments
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by pk2200 9y ago
Gogland is great, and especially easy to learn if you've used other JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, etc). https://www.jetbrains.com/go/
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by pk2200 9y ago
No, and that's a shame, because the right half of the spacebar would make a perfect enter key. FWIW, when I had right-pinky pain years ago, I remapped semicolon to enter with good results. If you don't mind non-standard layouts,

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