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by wainstead 1mo ago
> you have enough interactivity to warrant a single-page-application as your frontend. however, you also want people without javascript enabled to be able to read the bits that don’t require interaction. I think at this point it's n
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by wainstead 4mo ago
Read this over a decade ago and it’s been on my mind a lot lately. Very timely. The notion of the inner solar system being converted into computronium sounds less and less far-fetched with each passing month.
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by wainstead 8mo ago
Is it just me or is this a giant red flag? > My team has a sandbox where we create, deploy, and run AI-generated code without a human in the loop.
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by wainstead 2y ago
> Banks are a good example. I don't think they are losing much money with their software experience. > Corporate websites (also mentioned in the article) is another thing that just doesn't matter that much. The opening point
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by wainstead 2y ago
And, it's a great picture book as well. https://www.davidspilmanfinebooks.com/pages/books/13948/caro...
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by wainstead 3y ago
Now’s a good time to post your resume here since you’re getting this attention! Edit: doing it for ya… https://www.ryanmercer.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmercer317 https://issuu.com
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by wainstead 4y ago
"For the purpose of this report, Hired examined software engineering candidate interview requests (IVR) and salary data from January 2021 through December 2022 inclusive. The data included reflects over 68,500 candidates and 494,000 in
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by wainstead 4y ago
Had to look up “motivated reasoning”… https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-97...
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by wainstead 4y ago
I will add that sites like Roll20.net solve the problem of online gaming for D&D (and many other TTRPGs), but your points still stand.
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by wainstead 4y ago
I think this company is highly optimistic, but this might fit the bill: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/space-hotel-orbital-assem...
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by wainstead 4y ago
This. I recall most predictions saying 2024 would be the tipping point, but even then I doubt regulations at the local and national level will change that fast.
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by wainstead 4y ago
Or even more extreme, perhaps, TAILS on a stick and you just yank the stick when you're done. As long as you don't connect via Tor you're all alone.
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by wainstead 4y ago
Ah memories. My first machine was a Classic ii. I think it might be in a friend's garage in Ohio, will have to check with him. Thanks for the great post!
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by wainstead 4y ago
"The goal is not to be better than someone else; the goal is to be better than you were yesterday." (to paraphrase the Dalai Lama)
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by wainstead 4y ago
I recall seeing my first PHP/FI page in the middle 90s. PHP was a godsend after you'd suffered with Apache's "server side includes" [0], which is largely what it was used to replace. Python's origin was as a te
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by wainstead 4y ago
I guess you could describe it that way, but it reads more like a journal.
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by wainstead 4y ago
> I'm also curios to know if it depends on the career, maybe a ML Engineer need more note taking than an electrician who wire cables I started keeping a “log” back in 1999 just for work (I too am a software engineer). I note what I
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by wainstead 4y ago
A few years ago I pulled out Higher Order Perl and started playing with some of the advanced features/techniques available in the language. And it was really fun! I think Perl was the first popular multi-paradigm language.
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by wainstead 4y ago
For me it’s any kind of text processing; especially code generation for some one-off task, like churning out SQL or bash scripts/shell commands. Faster than doing it by hand. __END__ is one of my best friends because I can dump the inp
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by wainstead 4y ago
Agreed, and the cpan shell too.
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by wainstead 4y ago
CPAN was definitely the envy of other languages for many years but I feel most have caught up by now.
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by wainstead 4y ago
Perhaps OP meant Pascal programmers arguing among themselves, rather than arguing with anti-Pascal programmers? I'd expect such a smallish community of developers to find plenty of common grown in such a stable technology, so no need t
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by wainstead 4y ago
> I've got the voice of doubt in the back of my head always wondering what I'm missing, what if they're right, etc. It's a serious bummer. There's probably a saying somewhere along the lines of "There are tw
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by wainstead 4y ago
> Would you mind sharing some things that juniors have forced that you think are bad? Nested ternary operators... though, because of how TypeScript does constants, I saw why they used this way of doing things so often.
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by wainstead 4y ago
It’s worth learning in its own right… high time someone reposted “TCL the Misunderstood”…
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by wainstead 4y ago
Line editors for the win.
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by wainstead 4y ago
I’ve often likened it to “Emacs is a place you go, and stay there a long time.”
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by wainstead 4y ago
A number of the ideas here are given chapters in “Search Inside Yourself.” For learning/remembering things try the free “Learning How to Learn” on Coursera. It builds on a lot of cognitive science research and is only four weeks.
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by wainstead 4y ago
Had to look this up… here’s a starting point: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5575449/
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by wainstead 4y ago
Gotta 2x this comment: hire a trainer. It’s changed my life. You are accountable to someone who is invested in seeing you make progress and get better. Because I work out three times a week my life is better on multiple fronts, including my

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