turaw

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by turaw 10y ago
Augh, I've been trying to like Perforce for a year and have hated it at every turn. I invariably wind up having ~3 workspaces open so as to map to different parts (or different views of the same) of the depot, constantly swapping back
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by turaw 10y ago
Yikes. Fair enough; that would definitely trip it up!
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by turaw 10y ago
> ...this is solved by the named branches in Mercurial... I'm not super-familiar with Mercurial (and only somewhat-familiar with git), but couldn't you get the same effect as named branches by just not deleting fully merged bra
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by turaw 10y ago
For comparison, I would normally define an 'x' developer (depending on specialty) as anyone who writes code and a software engineer as a developer whose job description involves engineering, per the American Engineers' Counci
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by turaw 10y ago
Gah, sorry about that :/ fwiw, it looks like your explanation has more upvotes, so it worked out alright! :)
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by turaw 10y ago
Recording and playing back input events, at least, shouldn't be that expensive unless you're emulating the entire stack up to the application. If the logic is written in some portable manner (Xamarin [1], etc.) you could just re-e
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by turaw 10y ago
How do you signal goodness, though? I wound up with a cushy position (largely by luck), but practically everyone else is barely scraping by. Side projects? Prestigious internships? l337 hax0r skillz? Maybe the 80/20 rule [1] applies an
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by turaw 10y ago
> most programmers I know receive several offers a month :'| Could you take a look at how they're receiving offers and perhaps put some suggestions together on how to duplicate that effect? Most programmers I know have had extr
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by turaw 10y ago
Essentially, I agree with everything you said -- the core of my complaints about this book excerpt is that it seemed to confuse the areas of responsibility for caches (and their structures) and efficient storage data structures. I do think
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by turaw 10y ago
I don't use it, but have you tried out Sameroom [1] for real-time chat? They seem pleasant enough. No idea what to do for video chat, though. [1]: https://sameroom.io
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by turaw 10y ago
I guess, when it's an excerpt from a different source, I feel like it's advertising? Like, if Wired were a journal I were paying for, having excerpts makes sense -- the editors found some piece they thought would work well in that
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by turaw 10y ago
I'm going to do the thing where I quote sentences from your comment and respond to them individually, which IMO is normally pretty aggressive -- just wanted to say I'm doing that for organization's sake, not for any other rea
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by turaw 10y ago
By the way, that article is an advertisement for "Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" [1] in case you're triggered by native advertising. That out of the way ... As the article states, caching is u
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by turaw 10y ago
My first instinct was to post a message on HN about how yet another company is fetishizing overtime. It's not even productive to work at that pace; IIRC, most if not all people wear down too quickly for that to make sense. If anything,
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by turaw 10y ago
Just digging through the fact sheet released by the European Commission [1] to gain a more concrete understanding of what the investigation is trying to turn up. Quotes are heavily edited; please read the full document before forming opinio
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by turaw 10y ago
Fair enough :/ it just feels like 'misusing' words is disrespectful to their source, as though a lack of effort was taken to use it 'properly' (air quotes since those are highly subjective terms). In a detached sens
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by turaw 10y ago
Augh. Almost 100% unrelated to the article, but: "There are ramshackle _cement_ rectangles squatting under rain clouds..." It's concrete [1] not cement . Even the word cementing can mean "settle or establish firmly&
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by turaw 10y ago
Don't you feel that way on most sites? I mean, conceivably, HN could be manipulating your feelings as well by fingerprinting your browser and using a different ranking algorithm.
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by turaw 10y ago
I've been using Animation Policy [1] to only play gifs through once and it's worked pretty well so far (in contradiction to the reviews on the chrome store). edit: Except, apparently, on that site. [1]: https://chrome.g
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by turaw 10y ago
If anyone read this line: "And that is this: our studio has not yet seen a single dollar from sales." and also wondered what they're talking about, this excerpt from the Wikipedia article on their game [1] might help: "R
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by turaw 10y ago
Aah, that's excellent, thank you very much! I'm always on the lookout for interesting course ware and that's quite the strong recommendation. And those look like excellent exercises as well; thank you doubly :)
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by turaw 10y ago
XD okay, fair enough. I was thinking of the ideal candy bowl, which is self-refilling. Do you grade undergraduate stats quizzes, by the way?
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by turaw 10y ago
You don't have to talk about yourself in a conversation :P this probably feeds back into the 'don't interview someone' mentality, but just talk about something in the news or other recent developments. Have they watched
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by turaw 10y ago
Easiest way to do this is to roughly time how long they spoke for and contribute back the same amount. If you do it right, you'll wind up spending 50% of the conversation talking and 50% listening, which is a reasonable split :)
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by turaw 11y ago
Did anyone else learn how to compute probabilities by drilling through the algebra? Like, if asked how to convert a plain English probabilistic query (e.g. "what is the chance of picking two red candies from a mixed bowl") into a
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by turaw 11y ago
You're probably thinking of "Crickets Are Not a Free Lunch" [1]. For reference, the search terms to find that study were 'cricket farming efficiency' :) [1]: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art
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by turaw 11y ago
Do you think that sort of a problem (incremental changes eroding an initially sound structure) could be fixed with better refactoring tools? It seems like the issue you're describing is that logic is leaking from some parts of the code
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Ask HN: What are some common industry problems?
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by turaw 11y ago
In practice it seems to be hovering at around 1-2 anyways. On a side note, I really hate that the JVM requires users to be aware of its heap tuning parameters :/
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by turaw 11y ago
Well, startup time aside, it seems like increasing the memory has done the trick? Or it may have all been some subjective nonsense to begin with. In any case, it is at least practice at being patient :)

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