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This is the article you referred to: https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/the-hidden-danger-of-shippi...

I think this is an eggcorn/mondegreen for “all of a sudden”. Seems weird for the WSJ.

There are, in the simplest terms, two hurdles you have to overcome to get hired. 1. Get an interview 2. Interview well enough to get an offer There’s various approaches to either, …

System76 used to be rebranded Clevo/Sager laptops. I’m not sure if that’s still the case. You can buy them in various places, customize them, and have them put Linux (or nothing) i…

We write away the status part of our syncs. Just write it down, we don’t need to hear it. One thing we used at the last two companies I worked at was what we call SWATH—something I…

Vaccines!

I’ve been through this a few times over the last many years. In one case, joining a team with 3–4 people who have been with a product for 10+ years. And the product was much, much …

Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information . It’s probably smart to browse his other titles, Tufte is the Knuth of his field.

We make videos that are exactly 10 seconds in length. Less than three or five at different moments during the day, whatever is happening. It works for us.

Use YouTube and set them to be private.

Can I see it?

Designer of what?

How much money do you need? I have a small web project that I could use some help with that’s due before the end of the month. If you can do it mostly by yourself, I can offer you …

Not the GP, but I read "Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion" by Jay Heinrichs this year, and consider it an e…

I moved from OSX to Linux-only laptop in 2012. I'd intended to dual-boot, but re-installing Windows[1], even by itself, was much, much more pain than I expected; I eventually gave …

Video of rob giving the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs Also, this makes use of the excellent "Golang Present Tool", which makes most of the code on the slides executable…

Page "Selling Haskell for CS1" Joostena, Van Den Berga and Van Der Hoeven "Teaching functional programming to first-year students" Chakravarty, Keller "The risks and benefits of te…

There was a good popularization of this (or similar) technology on NOVA Science Now: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0302/02.html Definitely cool stuff. That different arti…

I applaud the effort, but this is far from complete. As far as I can tell, you can only do standalone expressions, to the exclusion of anything interesting. Type Haskell expression…

More about HM, whose brain it is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0407/02-cork.html You can watch a ten-minute video feature at the site below: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova…

If you're asking "are there potentially awesome applications of this?" then the answer is probably "yes". If you're asking "is there anything in the wild that I would know of and u…

Basically what's going on is this, but with lists: 3 + 5 = X? X = 8 3 + X = 8? X = 5 5 + X = 8? X = 3 In most programming languages, you can't infer a parameter by specifying a res…

In this case, the password field doesn't hold just a password, or a rot13 of a password, or even a digest of a password. user_password is a concatenated md5 hash of user_id, a hyph…