scottrogowski

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by scottrogowski 1mo ago
The main bottleneck as an engineer is no longer writing or testing code. It is how long it takes to understand complex systems. This is a really nice approach that, if you have the tokens and the patience, feels like I great way to learn so
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My one weird trick for managing my internet addiction(scottrogowski.com)
6 points by scottrogowski 3mo ago|1 comments
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by scottrogowski 3y ago
This sort of thing has not been at all uncommon for Google over the past few years. I’m looking forward to the day when they no longer have this level of power to make or break tiny companies. With any luck, they will either stumble with LL
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by scottrogowski 3y ago
I think this is a more compelling idea than people in the comments are giving it credit for > The problem is that you can easily come up with 100 different hypotheses for what’s going on. Ok, so you run 100 different studies to test each
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Artifacts from the future - coparenting(medium.com)
1 points by scottrogowski 4y ago|0 comments
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Index teacher pay to the 80th percentile(medium.com)
3 points by scottrogowski 4y ago|3 comments
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by scottrogowski 4y ago
Would suggest checking out pyquery. It uses JQuery-like syntax. It's been around a long time and in my opinion, it's way easier to use https://pypi.org/project/pyquery/ .
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by scottrogowski 4y ago
This is actually really helpful. I'd be concerned that deleting the browser would result in other apps breaking but that's probably a risk worth taking.
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by scottrogowski 4y ago
I'm currently reading Digital Minimalism from Cal Newton and have started preparing for a 30-day digital declutter. So I was really excited to read this title and immediately disappointed after clicking - the Cat phone has a web browse
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
The two are very similar. I wrote the first version of this almost 10 years ago and only became aware of the existence of Sourcetrail while doing the rewrite a few months back. On the surface - there is a difference in languages. Sourcetrai
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Wow. Seeing your open source project while scrolling through hacker news is something that really brightens your day. I’m happy to answer any questions people have.
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
If we are judging by one completely objective measure (high school graduation rates) California is currently the lowest-ranked state in the country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/high-school...
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
I maintain a similar (but less popular) open-source CLI that generates flow charts for dynamic languages (Python, JS, Ruby, PHP) - https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow/ The thought has crossed my mind to try
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Yes. This is a "Very Online taxonomy". While I think it's useful to think about mechanisms of collapse, the author seems to have a clear bias towards the belief that collapse will happen which feels very non-objective. In my
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Oh man this brings back memories. I must have been 6 years old. My dad came home with a computer that they were getting rid of at his work. He set it up that night and, having never seen a computer, I wanted to play with it. Well, for some
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Ah. I think I understand a little better. Knowing nothing else about what you're doing, the way I would structure that would be to run multiple fastmap tasks with crawler + processor code and then pull down just the processed data. So
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Hey, a couple of thoughts: I think you identified the tradeoff correctly. What I'm building is designed for when compute needs outweigh the data transfer overhead. This works for some applications and not others. In particular, I think
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
ONSITE - Location TBD I'm a solo founder and am interviewing next week in the final stage of a somewhat well-known tech incubator. The open source framework / SaaS I'm developing is called Fastmap https://fastmap.i
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Not a biologist but I understand that isolation is an important factor of diversity and by default, this simulation wouldn't have that. So it makes sense to evolve in different areas and put them back into the same area.
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Very cool. Interesting to hear that they actually managed to evolve. Would be curious to see what happens when they can eat each-other. Though I recognize that might be significantly more complicated
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
This is amazing. My question is whether there are emergent structures in a long-running sandbox environment? The videos that were posted appeared to have quite complex structures but it was unclear whether they were designed or if they &quo
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Interesting concept! Personally, I'm not seeing much in terms of a practical application here but possibly a recreational one? I'm imagining a game of clue where you follow the notes to some sort of geocache location.
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
"scientists like me and my colleagues are on the threshold of gathering data that may be relevant to the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. But this evidence involves subtle findings about phenomena far away in the galaxy&
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
I really like the duck-typing analogy for addiction. Addiction is a complex set of causes, symptoms, and consequences and every addiction is different.
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
It's nice but it's no Mongita ;) https://github.com/scottrogowski/mongita In all seriousness, it seems like there's a lot of demand for embedded Mongo-like databases. Congrats on a successful Show HN pos
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
This should be the top comment. Social media companies can either be monopolies or they can put limits on the speech of their platform... but they can't do both. While not against the law of freedom of speech, political moderation proc
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
My argument was not about one person being disappointed by expecting value and getting none - it was a broader point about the cultural encouragement - prevalent in engineering circles - of working for free. To be specific - I think a good
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
As someone who has fallen into the idealism trap, I couldn't agree more. Here's another opinion I've been mulling - the emphasis on FOSS is actively damaging to our community and we need to take steps to end it. We're hi
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
This is a manifestation of the general rule, "don't do things that scale" - at least if you're not the absolute best in the world at what you do. Whenever something has high fixed and low marginal costs, this sort of win
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by scottrogowski 5y ago
Often lost underneath the privacy debates is a problem that is just as pernicious - social media is an addictive and harmful product that is being sold to us for money. For both factors, addictiveness and harm, there are large piles of scie

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