spenuke

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by spenuke 1mo ago
> It's really every category of commercial activity. I'm not going to defend capital's ability to ruin things, but this is framing is not helpful. Enshittification as it was described by Cory Doctorow, who invented the ter
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by spenuke 3y ago
It's the same story with Express as a web server framework for Node. I've always felt that the biggest problem with the Javascript ecosystem is that it's entirely too preoccupied with syntax. Remember CoffeeScript!? Some of t
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by spenuke 6y ago
Yes.
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by spenuke 7y ago
For a very informal tour, The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu is a science fiction novel where the history of mathematics, physics, and computation play a large role. So much so that I think it puts many people off the book and its entire
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by spenuke 7y ago
Did you all ever open source your emacs tooling? I’d like to see that.
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by spenuke 7y ago
I work on a similar team, with a mix of people who want to use functional styles and those who want something more imperative. I lean toward the pro-functional style, but I also put a few strong constraints on when to use reduce. Namely, I
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by spenuke 7y ago
Thanks. Ok, so is he creating strawmen everywhere, then? I know people working in government, biotech, climate research, and none of them seem to think that the normal distribution is the only model out there, or that the mean is a very mea
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by spenuke 7y ago
Can somebody please ELI5 his whole phenomenon? I don't really understand who are the targets (other than Nate Silver) of all his polemic. From my limited exposure, he's basically making age-old conservative points, arguing that th
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by spenuke 8y ago
Five Books just published a list this week. https://fivebooks.com/best-books/dr-patrick-porter-on-the-ri...
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Does philosophy still need mathematics and vice versa?(aeon.co)
2 points by spenuke 8y ago|0 comments
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by spenuke 8y ago
100% agree with this here. I have had to push for leveraging postgres for data validation (including typing columns with enums where applicable), and sometimes it's hard to convince people, but all you have to do is (a) poke around you
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by spenuke 8y ago
That's the website's stock in trade! https://fivebooks.com/?s=russia&post_type=interview
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by spenuke 9y ago
No, that hasn't really become necessary yet. We'll see once we do a house remodel. :)
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by spenuke 9y ago
Totally fine, so long as you know that makes you an "advanced user". I can't imagine you'll find a sane place to work where senior people are only capable of learning something after consuming a tutorial or a manual. The
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by spenuke 9y ago
I'm always surprised that reading source code is such a rare occurrence or suggestion in this world. If you consider yourself even in the vicinity of "advanced", I think you're capable of learning great stuff by looking
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by spenuke 9y ago
Very similar story here. We got married a month ago. We did everything ourselves (plus friends & family), and we started too late. We started using Asana so that we could stop having nervous breakdowns every week. It worked. Now we use
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by spenuke 9y ago
Any chance your school makes its exercises available? I've been trying to go through CS:APP myself, but the exercises aren't included and I believe I'd need a .edu email address to get them.
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by spenuke 9y ago
I was, um, inspired to make this one: https://imgur.com/a/cKC4f
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by spenuke 9y ago
Not even close. The only contender is Deadwood (RIP).
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by spenuke 9y ago
Hey there — AT is a well-known brand (surprised to hear you support it well with such a small team!) so I imagine HR will get a lot of applications. Would you be open to me sending you a couple questions directly via email?
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by spenuke 9y ago
Hey there — the careers page doesn't have any indications which (or any) positions are remote friendly. Do you know which of the engineering positions could be filled by US-based remote people?
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by spenuke 9y ago
Thank you for illustrating my point by conflating the political spectrum with the epistemological spectrum. :) As for "self-congratulatory", I was responding to the old chestnut that mainstream media is too far to the left. Next t
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by spenuke 9y ago
I think the main problem is that we conflate the political spectrum (what are the responsibilities of the State?) and the epistemological spectrum (how do we determine what is true and not?). The "Western World", for better and wo
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by spenuke 9y ago
I for one would be interested in seeing the C book even in draft. :)
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by spenuke 10y ago
This exchange is pretty interesting. Cybiote – do you think it's possible for a person to do interesting work without formal graduate-level education?
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by spenuke 10y ago
> Usually, the "liberal" response I get from my more left-leaning friends is somewhere along the lines of "POC have been mistreated, they can't be racist... You should have asked your friends why a black person can&#x
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by spenuke 10y ago
Hi there! Any chance you'd allow folks in Baltimore to avoid two beltways and work remotely the majority of the time?
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by spenuke 10y ago
Can you expand on what math you're talking about that is both necessary and not that hard? "Not that hard", to me, indicates that a reasonably intelligent person could teach themselves without university instructors (present
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Today is special day if you like marijuana and odd radixes
5 points by spenuke 10y ago|4 comments
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by spenuke 10y ago
It's hard to completely generalize for the clobbering reason you point out. Assuming that you essentially want to keep your hooks coupled with your source code (or, at least, it's ok to do so), I've found that Make works pret

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