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There are some things that I think become more fun, like dealing with anything you don't actually find interesting. I recently made a quick little web app and I hand-coded the core…

Maybe it's time for me to stop using this website

Is there anything that couldn't be justified with this style of thinking? Would this person support legalizing murder since more murders might raise awareness of how bad murder is?…

I believe the technical term is The Joey Special.

> WE ALL HAVE THE OPTION TO FIND A BETTER JOB! For now most of us in this industry do. This is not a long term solution to anything. > Unions promote individual rights at the expen…

> where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. Anyone know what a 'bang' means in this context? Not sure if it's an Orca-specific thing or more ge…

As is tradition, we managed to get all the downsides of both shutting down and not shutting down, with none of the benefits of either.

How much and what kind of experience do you think someone should have with a language before beginning to form an opinion?

Ah, but you left out the first paragraph which clarifies the second entirely! >riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of…

> That feels like a leadership failure to me. In that case you'd look at the Chief, the union rep, the Mayor and any other folks who can change the culture but don't. Yeah, I agree…

Erlang/OTP is really cool and I found the Elixir language pretty reasonable and even nice but: 1. Elixir is still a pretty leaky abstraction over Erlang. In my experience it's not …

They still ship to the US at least, I've ordered from them recently.

SF weather is unusually consistent and most days it's on the cooler side but not super cold, often a bit cloudy/overcast. If you like that (I do), the weather is great. If not, the…

Speaking from my own very limited experience, I think C++ can be pretty nice if you basically write straight C but borrow from the C++ STL. Smart pointers (std::unique_ptr, std::sh…

I was interested in working at GitLab a couple years ago but the salary calculator changed my mind. It lumped all the cities in Oregon together which gave some weird results depend…

Coding interview books: how to use bit fields to save a marginal amount of memory while making your algorithm work only with values of n <= 64.

I like the Aeron but I prefer the Knoll Generation.

Mostly Haskell-related: http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts.html

That's weird. You should be able to copy the document and then view the source in your copy.

Awesome, nice work.

Yeah I don't follow the parenthesis parser. Plan to do a write-up of some kind on how it works?