zhxshen

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by zhxshen 3y ago
> "The owner/CEO of a small to medium company won't hire you because, given your experience, they will be afraid you will learn their industry and become a competitor. The manager at a medium to large company won't hi
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by zhxshen 3y ago
If you look at recent layoff numbers, their coastal brethren will be joining them soon. It's America! One man copes with food, another with money, another with sex. You are all degenerate!
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by zhxshen 4y ago
http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/the-unix-programming-e...
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Not just readability; trade-offs in every conceivable dimension: time efficiency, memory efficiency, developer efficiency, readability, maintainability, correctness, etc, etc... Adopting the features he values is not free. A toll would be
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Coley's Toxins(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by zhxshen 4y ago|0 comments
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by zhxshen 4y ago
The combinatorics of full-text search are astronomical. A dashed-off comparison like this is pure noise. There are so many knobs to twiddle, and a nudge to any one of them can yield remarkably different results.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
HN is written in Arc, which is a lisp derivative that runs on top of Racket, which has the same runtime inspectability as almost every other lisp, and for PG's public relations board, it was a good choice. Rusher is full of s** though.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
It's like three steps--four if you count the verification. https://go.dev/doc/install
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Oi, you gotta loicense for that guv'nah? https://preview.redd.it/mmksakh888t21.jpg?auto=webp&s=f4dc90...
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Best comment I've ever read on this awful site.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Under present circumstances, I believe the Germans have much bigger fish to fry, and possibly no fuel to fry them with.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
peak hackernews: the best answer is at the bottom
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by zhxshen 4y ago
All of these have been around for a long time, but just like well-maintained software, 7 years worth of incremental improvements add up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor https://en.wikiped
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by zhxshen 4y ago
This puts me in the mood for a Diet Shasta.
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How to Legally Own Another Person(medium.com)
2 points by zhxshen 4y ago|0 comments
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by zhxshen 4y ago
https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Didn't tell him to write one from scratch. Just suggested boning-up on the lingo: grammars, tokens, lexing, parsing, etc. An understanding of the first 2-3 chapters would be more than sufficient. Getting a firm grasp on such things m
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by zhxshen 4y ago
There are plugins for vim/emacs/vscode to aggressively lint/highlight various errors as you type and/or save. Since two of the languages you've mentioned are compiled, they should be giving you specific line/co
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Here's Ralph (Baric) giving us market tips for the next pandemic (discusses coronaviruses earlier in the video): https://youtu.be/UuERPvBFfco?t=1944
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Bush made the agency, & now budgets must be justified. With a lull in terrorism, they'll either have to fund new terrorisms (i.e. CIA funds making their way to ISIS[0]), or define it downward (like dropping the N-word in call of d
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by zhxshen 4y ago
Dzhanibekov effect / tennis racket theorem. The flippening is nigh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x5UiwEEvpQ
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by zhxshen 4y ago
I use aerc, which is similar to this, but written in Go. Most of these TUI mail clients have a configurable filter option for different MIME types. I've found that this program does a great job as an HTML to text filter: https:&#x2F
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by zhxshen 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but if this puts the screws to social media, it is a beautiful thing.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
> because the spec is a little complicated Patching over the old work--hopefully without breaking anything--always is. I'm just stating that much of the hostility toward C++ comes from the fact that we have so many superior options
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by zhxshen 4y ago
The text-include compilation model is broken, larger projects pay dearly for this, and thanks to C++'s very long history & very long feature list, there is a veritable Babel of feature subsets & compiler opts to choose from. A
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by zhxshen 4y ago
This is beautifully typeset.
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by zhxshen 4y ago
We had a guy from toptal for a while. He was okay, but nothing extraordinary. The odd thing is that nearly everyone they sent our way was of Eastern European extraction, with a demeanor & grooming more military than nerd, which I foun
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by zhxshen 4y ago
" The Unix Programming Environment " by Kernighan & Pike
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ShellCheck: Shell script static analysis tool(github.com)
2 points by zhxshen 4y ago|0 comments
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by zhxshen 4y ago
> the frictions (e.g legal fees, time, access) prevent small everyday externalities from being reasonably addressable Small infractions by small operators, perhaps so. Small infractions by big operators, hell no. Thanks to class action

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