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I've written ~15 of the higher-level reference exercises for Elixir on Exercism, and do try to comment when I can, but my day job keeps me from it a lot of the time. Some sort of r…

Thankfully, it wasn't sputtering on the side of the road out of gas, just the dashboard light coming on indicating that that was 10-30 minutes away.

I'd be curious to see if certain locations trigger surge pricing, too. My wife and I got sideswiped about a month ago, had to go to the ER in Austin. Got out, had no way to get bac…

As a friend of mine said when I was interviewing with her to escape the 100-hour-week death march at the "unicorn" I was at: "You're not a unicorn until someone buys you for $1 bil…

That's when I switch over to emacs and ikea-mode.

I use 'jf' instead of 'jk', so I can type "Dijkstra" occasionally, not to mention they're both on the home row, under your index fingers, typically have physical nubs on the keys, …

Definitely worth it. I had to drop out around week 5 due to a lack of time, but just started a new job that'll take me back to 40-hour weeks (down from 80-100), so I'll give it ano…

Just what I needed. Thanks!

Opening a new buffer. Figured I'd try :new, and wound up getting good at splits. Still don't know how to just open up a new, blank buffer in the window I'm in without specifying a …

One of the best things I've done, though I personally use 'jf', since they've both got little nubs on the keys, and I occasionally have to spell "Dijkstra".

I seem to remember reading they re-used paper a lot back then, scraping off old ink. Paper could've been much older than the author.

I've had similar problems with FluentMigrator, even though it orders things nicely using an attribute on the migration class that has a long value representing the order things sho…

I got one that was my exact name and number showing up on caller ID, which should be unlisted. As in, my home phone appeared to be calling itself. That one pissed me off enough to …

I remember some motivational poster from my old tech recruiter's FB feed that seems appropriate here: "What if we invest in training and our employees leave?" "What if we don't, an…

Not just efficiently parallel, but easily distributable to multiple nodes.

Agreed. Also, I'm pretty sure one of, if not the main point(s) of mocking is "How does this unit of code respond if an external dependency returns bad data?"

If you're not already following it, check out Handmade Hero ( https://handmadehero.org/ ). Great, free video series from Casey Muratori that guides you through building a game from…

I highly recommend it, even if you just want a refresher on C.

That was my assumption, too. They do memoize the length, but I'm sure those bytes add up, having run into OutOfMemoryExceptions building huge amounts of strings before.

That does answer an unanswered question I had on SO about string hashing. If strings are immutable, why isn't the hash code memoized? Seems like it would make HashSet/Dictionary lo…

As mentioned in another comment, I'd probably do a Levenshtein distance between the old and new passwords, and reject if they crossed some threshold. However, only knowing the plai…

Well, they wanted 4 of 4, actually, and yes, I had to do custom validation. Everything except the upper-case character worked in JS, so everything "just worked" if I took that part…

Didn't in either case, because they weren't in the requirements, and the first one, while well-meaning, just further decreases entropy. I got into an email fight with our network s…

Having recently had to implement improved password security for a customer who wouldn't read XKCD #936, the internationalization thing was a pain in the ass. They wanted at least 1…