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Interesting. It’s definitely more abstract and philosophical than books like “Effective C++/Java/etc,” but I personally got a lot out of it and find it to be a really useful resour…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0LVuPQ3GdM

Hi folks, an acquaintance of mine works (like, 100% of their free time) with stray and abused dogs. They use their Facebook account extensively to find homes for the dogs and other…

Also interesting: https://go.dev/blog/ismmkeynote

While it’s true that difficult decisions need to be made, it seems that the point of democracy is that such decisions should have popular mandates. This reform doesn’t seem to have…

from a previous HN submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607187 ): https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...

From the same link: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them inste…

I dealt with a lot of the same issues around meaninglessness vs. golden handcuffs (at Google incidentally) and recently took a job at a smaller company, albeit without a pay cut. I…

Yeah, no argument there. And I definitely like the Go community’s tendency towards straightforward code. But even there (among less Go philosophy-minded engineers, possibly) I’ve s…

Oh man, I read this article a few months back and it immediately resonated with me. I've never used Scala, but this advice has been applicable in every language, project, and team …

Okay, so there is consensus. I guess I was confused. Seems like quite a few people here are confused, though. Seems worth considering!

The commenter I'm replying to uses an entirely different toolchain, and the frequently-recommended Cornell book ( https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2021sp/textbook/ ) uses …

The Cornell textbook is great. I worked through most of it last year and learned a ton.

I've done a few small projects in OCaml. It's a brilliant language that I deeply enjoy using. But the situation for newcomers and those who don't have established patterns is bad. …

I suspect the downvotes are due to a lack of critical engagement. Even the Holodomor link offers a litany of reasons that aren't just "socialism," and we've been interfering in Ven…

No, didn't know about it. Interesting!

I've been working on Google Maps for close to five years now. I somehow missed the previous postings of this thread, but a little hyperbole never hurt anyone :) Your larger point a…

It’s not consistent. It mostly varies with levels of stress and anxiety, but there’s also a strong feedback loop.

Yes :)

My father is also an alcoholic, went to AA for a while, has had two divorces since because of drinking. My sister is an alcoholic, my mother is a prescription drug addict. The way …

Here it is in Python, if that's interesting: https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python (Also responded directly to your comment above, but just in case this is helpful here as well…

What a great book! I translated most of the Lisp code into Python a while back. You can find it on Github: https://github.com/dhconnelly/paip-python The logic programming bits in p…