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molly0

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About molly0

Working as an engineer at a fintech company.

Interested in Cognitive science.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46034908

    We had a quarter, where each Monday we spent most of the day fixing bugs. It greatly improved the product.

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    Comment #42865525

    It took me 10+ years to realizing I’m the opposite of a discovery coder. I’m much more efficient with thinking through the problem with pen and paper before even touching the keybo…

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    Comment #42621578

    Thank you! I just listened to this episode and the added context of ”Ryle's notion of theory” was a great contribution to understanding this paper better.

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    Comment #40630503

    If this can help people switch to Linux it’s a good thing.

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    Comment #40378241

    I still have this 90s' feeling that the internet connects me to the world, news, science and culture. I really miss it when I don't have it. But I never use social media, so maybe …

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    Comment #40215022

    I hope it’s more than a historical fiction person portrait. Reading the summary I’m not convinced… yet.

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    Comment #40187298

    I have this Book sitting on my bookshelf. It will be my next interpreter book after “Writing an interpreter in Go” - it’s only ~200pages and I really like it.

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    Comment #40096286

    As many others have pointed out, “sleep as much as you need”, my brain is on a completely different level after a good night’s sleep - especially after having kids.

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    Comment #40021325

    Finally an article I can reference when explaining my problems with the “modern” frontend stack.

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    Comment #39720276

    This reminds me of my first real dev job, 10y ago, making small facebook games with https://phaser.io it was actually kind of fun now that I think back.

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    Comment #38984084

    Hope you are doing okay, stay strong.

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    Comment #38738427

    Im currently taking this course without having the book and it works great. I might buy the book later but for me it’s important to have the imposed weekly deadlines in order to no…

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    Comment #38409088

    As a non-native English speaker, Austers’ “The New York Trilogy” got me into reading (and enjoying) English books in high school.

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    Comment #38316511

    Bravely done by the board - it shows that they are actually trying to build something like AGI and not just talking the talk.

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    Comment #38159564

    This blog post was perfect, It reminded me of why I'm so fascinated about philosophy of mind - brings back memory's of reading about it in university, back when I had time for this…

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    Comment #37978746

    I’ve been running Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude for about two years. Works good and is cheaper.

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    Comment #37965401

    Asking yourself: “Is the abstraction I’m using optimal for what I’m currently doing or could another type of abstraction be even better?” Forces you to at least admit to yourself t…

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    Comment #37634983

    The way Twitter has changed in the last year is so I can no longer read threads since I don’t have an account.

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    Comment #37533869

    Working a day job and then spending your nights working on an engineering project (like Ludgate did) will always be the most inspiring part for me.

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    Comment #37519500

    Testability matters more than readability - please separate different parts into different functions!

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    Comment #37478546

    If 3, And The are truly advanced we should consider not communicating with them. Maybe they are hiding from someone else... ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

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    Comment #37477432

    Been working for 6 month at a company with ~150 engineers that uses Microservices. As a simple software engineer I love it, It allowed me to easily get right in to parts of the sys…

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    Comment #37173429

    The best way to remove the GIL completely is switching language to Go, unfortunately this is not always possible.

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    Comment #37119364

    An ORM makes sense if you need to make very dynamic SQL queries, ie advanced logic at runtime. If your app can work well with static queries then you should not add an ORM.

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    Comment #36904398

    You only hear about folks praising mindfulness, this is an interesting observation.