spiffyman

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by spiffyman 6y ago
Not really tech related, but the most memorable for me is "Tense Present"[1] by David Foster Wallace in the April 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine. It's a beautiful exploration of language and dialect. It taught me at a y
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Ask HN: Layman's reading about dark matter?
4 points by spiffyman 6y ago|0 comments
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by spiffyman 6y ago
> when you struggle on a freaking leetcode problem I'm all for the message of "get help if you need it," and it sounds like OP needs the help of a professional, so I upvoted your comment. But minimizing the triggering even
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by spiffyman 6y ago
Some friendly feedback: I clicked through to your article about the two pointer technique and, AFAICT, there's nothing for me to do or read here. It says "In this guide, we'll cover..." but it's not clear how to act
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by spiffyman 6y ago
Very nice! Is there a way to provide feedback on a given item? For example, this[1] seems to have a typo in the title (and thus the URL). I'm sure you've already thought of this, but it's pretty easy to see how to monetize th
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by spiffyman 7y ago
There is also https://expediadotcom.github.io/haystack/ , an Open Tracing-compliant distributed tracing system.
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by spiffyman 7y ago
Actually, even God couldn't beat dollar-cost averaging[1]. [1]: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...
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by spiffyman 9y ago
I'm friends with several philosophers since I took it fairly seriously in undergrad and befriended several grad students. From my perspective, the "trolling" is generally just pointing out interesting entailments of another p
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by spiffyman 9y ago
Really good point. By the same token, someone should let Dan Patrick know that it's already illegal to surveil and harass people in bathrooms.
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by spiffyman 10y ago
First, this is a good thing for the community. The ecosystem has been pretty well prepared for 3.x adoption for a while, but we just haven't done it. Still, when Django switched its default docs to use 3.x instead of 2.x, it noticeably
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by spiffyman 10y ago
Seriously? Was this a professional program or something? Maybe I was a particularly poor undergrad, but I can't imagine being able to afford a separate computer, even a shitty one, with a month's morning. Nor could I justify the e
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by spiffyman 10y ago
I'm uncomfortable with how willing I am (and others are) to just make/accept claims about how terrible the JS community is without evidence. In this thread there are tons of people saying JS devs don't understand CS fundament
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by spiffyman 10y ago
I have a question. Our first child is due this week, and we also got a box from babyboxco. What did/do you use as sheets for the box's pad? We noticed this week that the sheet that came with it is just a non-fitted one that fits a
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by spiffyman 10y ago
It's important to note that you can often "go prove it to yourself and get a developer to believe in your potential company" without coding a thing. For example, a non-technical friend that I'd worked with a few times ca
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by spiffyman 10y ago
Or create your own junior devs and turn them into mid-levels in a couple years. Take a look at the University of Texas's Software Developer Training Program[1]. They have similar problems with respect to hiring, with the additional pro
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by spiffyman 11y ago
I think you're using the wrong standard here. From Wikipedia: > Hate speech - outside the law, is speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual
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by spiffyman 11y ago
> all of its rounds after seed funding were debt rounds, including one at the end of July This surprised me. They burned through a round in just a few weeks? And looking at their funding history[1], they closed $2.6M back in June. So tha
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by spiffyman 11y ago
This is critical. IME, you're probably not going to get very good at programming while in school. That only comes with doing it several hours a day for a long time. So, certainly work on being efficient so that you can finish up the
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by spiffyman 11y ago
This is a great story. Thanks for sharing. If you don't mind my asking, what materials did you use to develop your curriculum, and have you shared the curriculum anywhere? (Apologies if this is on the site. Didn't see it but might
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by spiffyman 11y ago
That article was published today. I'm guessing this is just a cheeky swat back at the SEC. Especially since the original article prefaces the link with "Your tax dollars at work."
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by spiffyman 11y ago
Looks great. One thing I loved about HackerNode was the fact that I could send an article to Chrome. (Maybe I'm blind, but I can't figure out how to add Chrome to the iOS 8 activities sheet.) The in-app browser is nice, but this i
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by spiffyman 12y ago
FWIW (and I know I'm beating a dead horse), I did an informal survey on Facebook about this. The question was, simply, "Are dresses formal attire?" The universal consensus is "no." Dresses can be easier than pants,
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by spiffyman 12y ago
Eh. "Accepted" is probably a relative term here. As in, she was probably not "accepted" the way a man would be in casual attire. She just had slightly fewer hurdles to jump. In any case, the point here is that men's
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by spiffyman 12y ago
I don't think this is about whether it's natural to have assumptions. It's that the "tiny minority" (although I think your numbers are wrong) are consistently saying that those assumptions are offensive, exclusion
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by spiffyman 12y ago
You're making the mistake of thinking that dresses are formal attire. I'm not a woman, but I don't think that's a valid assumption.
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by spiffyman 12y ago
I don't think that's true. You might get disregarded as a "business guy" if you show up to a meetup in a suit. But it's just as likely that people will just assume you're in financials. One of the better Pyth
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by spiffyman 12y ago
I posted this on FB last night and had quite a discussion ensue. I really like what the author has to say about assumptions. As a user group and conference organizer, time and time again I have seen men approach feminine people in the crowd
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by spiffyman 12y ago
GitHub has this issue, too. Try doing a PR on GH when the diff is reasonably large. We get 500s from them when trying to review anything worth doing. That and the inability to set permissions on branches have prevented us from moving from s
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by spiffyman 12y ago
Not sure about what you're saying here. In no way did Martha bring vision, set direction (see note below), or provide motivation. She sat and read the code for a while until she found the problem. Without any more detail, it seems like
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by spiffyman 12y ago
Maybe I'm being selective about my memory, but I don't remember the awful linkbait titles being nearly so popular in 2007 when this was written. I don't think there's even the hint of imitation of Buzzfeed-style titling

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