zeraholladay

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by zeraholladay 1y ago
I am in a similar situation as you, but in a lot of ways you're asking more sophisticated questions than me. FWIW, I've been building a little toy lisp-scheme like scripting language as a learning tool: https://github.c
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by zeraholladay 3y ago
It's (the original comment) a pretty myopic comment because the same point can be made about the institutions that perpetuate $FOO.
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by zeraholladay 3y ago
I think a lot of developers naively rely on "software design" principles. They often can't state their reasons for adopting these principles and assume these principles are self-evident. This can be a problem when these princ
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by zeraholladay 3y ago
but the time and effort cost of the people producing the videos. Hackers seem to conveniently always forget about these people. FWIW, I tend to find the opposite. Maybe the people I know are just more vocal about things that make them loo
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by zeraholladay 3y ago
I think with ISPs there's an obvious upfront material cost for building infrastructure. In that sense I'm very much the consumer. Obviously, there's substantial infra cost too with social media platforms like YouTube. However
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by zeraholladay 3y ago
Think we agree that blocking ad blockers is in YouTube's immediate, short-term interest. However, I'm not sure it's in their long-term interest because it goes against the principle of reciprocation. Regarding reciprocation,
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by zeraholladay 8y ago
Aesthetics are rooted in civilization, time, and class. It's very difficult to say if these works by Johns will survive 500 years from now given that famous bronze statues were melted down to make bullets. However, if you have time you
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by zeraholladay 14y ago
export CDPATH=.:~/projects export PS1="$(uname -n)$ " alias ltr='ls -ltr' More of a procedure, always list file and edit the command before deleting it: $ ll file.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 zera staff 0 Jan 7 20:28 fil
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by zeraholladay 15y ago
Sorry, my bad. Deleted the post.
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by zeraholladay 15y ago
I've worked in a "tech" department with mostly older folks as the youngest person. It was frustrating. I can't tell you how many times I heard "nobody knows how to do that." There were plenty of older COBOL programs, in 10 years they'll
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by zeraholladay 15y ago
I've been wondering if the perspective won't shift as the current generation of developers ages. When will HN be the old farts site; will perspective's shift then? More of a hypothetical question. Second, and this is a broad statement, so
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by zeraholladay 15y ago
Thanks, you're awesome! This was exactly what I needed. I'm switching jobs and receiving a monthly figure to buy insurance. It's very easy to use, looks clean and PDQ. Great work.
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
I don't know if it even qualifies as "schmuck bait." The Prof's actions are ethically objectionable (and personally disgusting to me) since he actively solicited unethical behavior from gullible students. Frankly, it's not a challenge to
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Copy a string in one line: while (*dst++ = *src++);
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Yes. I've heard of multiple studies concluding employers hire those candidates that are the most "like" them. I read a book called "Money Ball" last year. One of the lessons I took away is that a successful baseball team can be created fr
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Probably none of the above. I've heard the interviewer makes up their mind to hire you in the first few seconds of meeting you. Psychology is a strange, strange thing ... but reality is better than fiction.
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Personally, I would be more inclined to hire a person picking the "throw it in a hash and look it up" solution over any more complex solution. My reasoning is that bad programmers tend to get lost in nuance, or don't understand a problem.
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Yeah, but you could say the same thing about the Nazi party and the civil rights movement in the United States. That statement is vacuous since I seriously doubt anyone reading this thought Reddit might be made of non-people. What's your
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by informed abstainers, but if you mean informed abstainers of Reddit then I can speak for myself. I see Reddit as a self-aggrandizing media outlet. Members generally accept liberal values as status quo. Meaning
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
That's really funny on multiple levels. First, the virus should have been less interesting. Second, the true goal of the virus might not be the actual attack but rather, like the scenes from the Bourne movies spying on Pamela Landy from t
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
As a person who used AOL back in the day, how did AOL get themselves in this branding mess in the first place? I know they lost my business 11 to 12 years ago to DSL provided by SBC (now part of AT&T) but I also couldn't wait to see th
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Consider the difference between math and engineering (at the undergrad level). Math majors learn to solve solved problems, since the solutions are instructive; that is, they could accept a solution as truth but proving it is true has a gre
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
It doesn't work that way (inspire by Voltaire): $ make life easier Your life has been made easier: 70,500,000,000 dollars has been deposited into your bank account. "There's plenty of challenge for anyone who wants to find it." There are p
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Thank you. That was great. Insightful and funny.
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
I think the author's point is that an unfound and irrefutable truth is not interesting. If a person holds a belief and is unwilling to accept evidence to the contrary, then that person is not interested in truth. If a person holds a belie
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
The reality of the situation is that if you want to work for a large corporation, then you're stuck playing their games. I've had a recruiter ask for references upfront. They don't always check them, but references are required for their
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
People with nothing to lose. A good friend, who was a psychiatric nurse, taught me never argue or fight with a person with nothing to lose. There are more than a few in the wold, unfortunately. More common is anonymous people on the net w
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Makes me suspicious if anyone on the net would pass the Voigt-Kampff test.
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
I might be more willing to argue with a bot than some people, since the bot ain't going to track me down an shoot me.
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by zeraholladay 16y ago
Abstract Expressionism was the first art movement I really fell in love with, mostly because it wasn't a household name and sounded cool. For those of you who don't know anything about it, here are some links to a few well known artist: h

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