wmccullough

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by wmccullough 8y ago
As someone who is XXY, I can’t help but wonder what, if any issues would be caused by a pregnant mother taking a lot of this.
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I hear ya. I'm definitely not saying that ideology is right, I'm just saying that I don't think that any side really has a good understanding of the impacts of either decision. I've been careful to not express my own opi
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I think you have a wonderful observation. I don't think so lot of people know what is right. I think most people's definition of right is totally driven by political ideology consumed via mass media and social network echo chambe
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by wmccullough 8y ago
Maybe I misunderstood, but I could swear they reworked a ton of their algorithms as part of this effort.
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I'm actually tempted to do a PR against dotnet to see if they'd accept this improvement. My guess is that just like with Roslyn, customers have come to count on the implementation, bugs and all, and it may not be accepted.
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I cannot divulge my sources, so take it for what it is, but in talking with people at the top of several very large private insurers (as far back as 2016) they were sick of how providers weren't healing people and bleeding them out. I&
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by wmccullough 8y ago
> "It out performs Microsoft’s generic SortedDictionary<TKey, TValue> (which is actually a red-black tree) by a factor of 2 for inserts and a factor of 4 for searches." I may have missed it, but I'd love to know the
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I’ve always heard the saying “stones are the bones of dead mountains” Turns out it could be true.
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I’m inclined to agree. For ten years we’ve seen companies have unfathomable growth, yet wages haven’t really grown. The public is being taken advantage in almost every industry—from pharma to tech. Anytime regulation is brought up, I see so
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by wmccullough 8y ago
Thank you for the explanation! If someone such as myself wanted to understand the philosophy of functional languages, do you have any book you'd recommend? Learning the languages is easy enough, but if I ever tried them I'd want t
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by wmccullough 8y ago
Serious question about this line: "Reusing code via inheritance is fragile. Inheritance also couples interfaces to implementations, which makes reuse more difficult. This is its own topic, but even OO programmers will tell you to prefe
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I think you may have missed the goal of the exercise friend. I think this is a larger metaphor about walking through the waking life without really observing what’s going on. Disclaimer: I meant this constructively in case it comes of wrong
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I consider it professional development too. Something I like about HN is that the comments are typically fact based or coming from a constructive place. Very little have I received the Reddit or Twitter discussion responses of expletives fo
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I appreciate how dedicated GitLab is to continuously improving the product. Thinking about moving my projects from Bitbucket to GitLab for that reason.
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I agree completely. I think that regardless of whether microservices works for anyone or not, they came about to address a real issue that we still have, but that I’m not sure anyone has fully solved. I think that microservices are an expre
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I’m not fully willing to accept the plumbing analogy myself. While I do agree that most of our work is CRUD over REST, I think there’s another element of skill that isn’t uncovered in the article. If we are humble plumbers, why does it take
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by wmccullough 8y ago
A lot of people who take L-Theanine with Caffeine are taking it at a higher dosage than what you can from even a few cups of tea. I’ve read about this combination quite a bit and from my personal experience, you have to get the mixture just
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by wmccullough 8y ago
>“but it’s all irrelevant unless the software meets the needs of those using it” I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but TDD does just that. I tried to read the rest of this, but the logical fallacies are strong with this one.
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I think this is great for them. I think that depending on national culture, a person may want to die with what they came into this world with. I know that some world religions are against the practice. I say this with full realization that
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I think there’s something important to glean here. We’ve always seen Facebook driving trends in social media (or re-appropriating features from lesser groups). We are starting to see a near constant reactive Facebook. This is the beginning
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by wmccullough 8y ago
Wait, we’re on 6 now??
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by wmccullough 8y ago
Disclaimer: This is an opinion and I’m not purporting this as fact, since folks don’t know the difference these days. Based on his reactions to social situations, I truly believe he was on the autism spectrum, and that he suffered from life
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I keep seeing this general attitude about frontend, but I have a serious question: What’s the better alternative? I’m not asking this rhetorically because I have an answer, I just keep seeing the same remarks with no decent solutions. Is it
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I think the person above you gets what OOP is and quite frankly, you’re being a condescending prick.
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I see, I see. Thank you for the advice! I tend to want to learn how things "on the other side of the tracks" work mostly because I get tired of the heated debates around tooling and I'm determined to learn as much as I can so
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by wmccullough 8y ago
This is true for me :( I'm a career-long .NET dev and I've wanted to step away and begin learning C++ on a non-Windows platform with VIM and my only attempts were met with so much frustration that I gave up. To be clear, I believe
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by wmccullough 8y ago
I am Jill’s complete lack of surprise. Disclaimer: since some folks can’t separate explaining something vs agreeing with something, this is just me explaining based on observations and having read Thiels’ book Zero to One. I’m still forming
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by wmccullough 9y ago
I don't think it is as simple as just looking inside and boom, there it is. Discovering yourself I think is a long process. I think it begins when you learn to quit lying to yourself about who you are. I hate to go all "woo woo&qu
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by wmccullough 9y ago
I would like to add another viewpoint from my own real world experiences. Many people know who they really are deep, deep down. I find that most of the life long struggle is just to be, and express who we know ourselves to be. I'm sure
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by wmccullough 9y ago
> “The ones where people sound smart but aren't actually designing anything useful.” I’ve been part of lots of teams and teams composed of great and poor levels of talent and I’ve never seen this type of behavior which you describe.

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