riboflava

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by riboflava 10y ago
What sort of help would you want or expect? A severance package or help by having the employer pay a recruiter to pimp the former employee? Or something else? In any case I'm totally fine with the idea of no help being offered provided
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by riboflava 10y ago
What people actually do is write their long text, put it in an image, and tweet the image.
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by riboflava 10y ago
The goal is precisely feel good charity tourism as a safe adventure you don't need to quit your job over, so it seems like good advice to me. Remember, the top comment is looking for a 'safe' adventure, not trying to be maxim
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by riboflava 10y ago
My favorite version is from http://hpmor.com/chapter/64 ... MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo? NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about
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by riboflava 10y ago
Rich people contribute more to society, so the second order effects of benefiting rich people end up benefiting the larger population as well.
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by riboflava 10y ago
Practice your softer skills for interviewing. Do you get anxiety over other aspects of the interview, like the fact that there's an interview itself? Work on that. Many times candidates get hired even if they bombed some aspect of the
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by riboflava 10y ago
Have you looked into commercial real estate at all? One of the factors that scares me off from residential real estate is that one bad tenant can really screw me over, especially as I'm just getting started. It intuitively seems like i
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by riboflava 10y ago
Placebo effect.
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by riboflava 10y ago
The return of the Ranger will be very welcome to me, if they don't screw it up...
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by riboflava 10y ago
For me, age 26, I'm already slower than I was when I was 18. I write better code though and can wade through harder abstractions, so on hard, novel material I'd likely win against my old self. Still, I really detest the "work
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by riboflava 10y ago
I go back and forth on the singly-called function as a code smell. It really depends. What annoys me are the private method refactors that then can't be unit tested unless the 'private' keyword is removed. For an instance of
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by riboflava 10y ago
It can still be non-obvious with an optimizing compiler, or with non-Lisp. I don't see the point in having beginning students think about tail call optimized recursion vs normal recursion unless they're going through SICP. In the
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by riboflava 10y ago
I find the pen and paper method of visualizing invaluable. Make a small sample input that hits full coverage and trace it through step by step, writing out each call point with its values. Then you see the shape of your recursion ( https:&#
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by riboflava 10y ago
As soon as you have to buy something that takes up physical space, the "skills", or maybe better put the "mindset", becomes quite different. I don't think I can explain it very well. In principle someone who can und
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by riboflava 10y ago
I'm a fan of the out of the box immutable data structures and like the sugar, though you can get both in Lisp if you want. (Presumably Racket as well.) Lisp has everything, and more, though sometimes you have to work for it. I do enjoy
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by riboflava 10y ago
Giving specific benefits often ends up going along with requiring specific proof of need for the benefit. I had classes in college where attendance was part of the grade. Additionally if you had to miss a class due to being sick, you had to
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by riboflava 10y ago
"Work", yup, I see this too. To fully pull it off though you still need to be somewhat responsive to emails / IMs for the 'normal business hours'. Sometimes it's worth burning a PTO day to just go back to sleep
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by riboflava 10y ago
http://clojure.org/about/spec
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by riboflava 10y ago
"They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when not actually threatened. How very nice for authority. I decided not to learn this particular lesson." -- Richard Stallman ( http://www.donh
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by riboflava 10y ago
Every so often someone will do a "what editor do you use?" poll here, vim is the top choice. Maybe it's not the most common in the industry, especially if you include the hordes of Java or C# only developers, but at least amo
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by riboflava 10y ago
Not the parent but I have the same reaction, and I wouldn't describe my experience in big IDEs as "comfort", just less pain. I use them with Java only out of necessity, and only on huge projects I didn't have a part in d
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by riboflava 10y ago
It's still a lot better than not having the source. There are tons of other benefits too. The one downside is CPU cost to compile everything yourself.
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by riboflava 10y ago
"Want to grab some (Starbucks|Blue Bottle|Peetz|etc)?" Maybe they'll just get a cookie.
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by riboflava 10y ago
They're going to have to play that game anyway since the compiler/interpret won't spell out the exact issue every time. But they'll get through it anyway because their goal is something else rather than that game. A lot
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by riboflava 10y ago
At least he knows who the lord is and in principle the lord can set things straight. A step above complaining to the void or casting a throwaway vote.
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by riboflava 10y ago
It's also serving as a good signal to Nintendo that this path is indeed what people want. The price will probably correct, good chance to short.
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by riboflava 10y ago
http://www.gnumeric.org/ is pretty good.
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by riboflava 10y ago
If you own the hardware I imagine much of your PHP/html stuff will be served from the file system cache much of the time so you probably wouldn't see much benefit...
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by riboflava 10y ago
No, it was just the last gen of consoles lasted so long. The bigger benefit is on the dev side by having a single hardware target and also hardware that can be put together much more intimately than a PC to really milk its performance. Thou
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by riboflava 10y ago
It depends on the headset. Of course with an audio jack the other end would have to be doing something very wrong to induce a comparable lag.

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