jorge-fundido

It's not a sampling problem, but more a gambling problem, as in the gambler's fallacy?

Tend to your personal relationships like a garden, especially when you're younger since it becomes much more difficult to establish meaningful relationships the older you get. It's only my experience, but that is my greatest regret. I think the less important things like career are more easily tackled with a solid foundation of personal relationships.

Also, I've found striving for perfection is fool's gold. Yeah, you may be "that person" that friends/family/colleagues will love name-dropping you every chance they get. The others will probably care little that you're an expert and may even resent you for it.

Middleware comes to mind (eg caches, proxies, api gateways).

Throwing this out there for criticism... I use `python3 -m pip install -t .pip -r requirements.txt` and add .pip to my PYTHONPATH. That works for me without having to use any of the python virtual env tooling, basically trying to get something more npm like.

I don't work on any significant python code bases, so I expect it has limitations when compared to the virtual env options like developing with specific (or multiple) python versions.

Why are cases important? Assuming PCR, can get whatever result you want with the cycle threshold (discussion begins around minute 3:50):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Vy6fgaBPE

Want more positive cases? Use a higher threshold. Want to scare the population into compliance? Use a higher threshold. Want to demonstrate that person X or policy Y was effective against stopping spread? Use a lower threshold.

Killer keyboard feature for me is ~/Library/KeyBindinds/DefaultKeyBinding.dict - all text controls honor that. Very nice way to get basic emacs shortcuts defined. I've yet to find something half as simple & effective as that in linux desktop land, probably because of the variety of gui toolkits that isn't present in osx.

> If you're going to rely on a fancy shell anyway, why not just throw make out of the loop altogether?

I think can still add value in that scenario as the standard project entrypoint. Someone completely new to the project should be able to `make help`, `make install`, etc. Even if the make targets are simple wrappers to project specific tooling (npm, pip, sbt, etc). If the Makefile is kept simple, then users can treat it as a form of README and should be able to cherry-pick from it as they see fit.

But yeah, I share your sentiment about quirky, non-portable Makefiles potentially being anti-value.

Perhaps it's just a factual element. Or perhaps the intention is `s/python/pragmatic/`. Yeah, python sucks in many ways but is it really so horrible? I know! Let's ask the reader to get intimate with a static compiler. If they're "smart" enough to satisfy (or trick) the compiler, then they've earned the "reward" of being able to execute their program.

There is value is static typing, but there are many instances where that cost is not worth the reward.

My approach is to copy, paste, & tailor the programmable completion for a command that has similar interface to my mine. Can try browsing /usr/local/share/bash-completions/completions or `set` & search for _FOO. Hopefully the special variables like COMPREPLY will be self-explanatory. Also `help compgen`. I'm assuming bash, by the way.

Try `PYTHON -m MODULE` as in `python3 -m pip` if you want to make sure to use python3's pip, `python2 -m pip` for python2, `~/bin/python -m pip` for a personal python install, etc.

I interpreted that as not making his "intro to ocaml" REPL-centric, so that things like the build tooling gets covered.

For those interested in a lua example, from this article [1], I found & cherry-picked bits from here [2]. The key ingredients (to aid searching) are init_worker_by_lua_block & balancer_by_lua_block.

[1] https://medium.com/@sigil66/dynamic-nginx-upstreams-from-con...

[2] https://github.com/sigil66/nginx-consul-cookbook

VPN companies don't care too much about customers that are concerned about privacy - too small a percentage of their customer base. Catering to those trying access geo-blocked content is where the money's at.

Yes? I think we get more done in the short-to-mid-term but the fruits of our labor are less likely to survive long-term. There's no value judgement there - there are pro's & con's. At 40 years around the sun, I've got one leg in the "Get off my lawn!" and the other leg in the "Damn, these kids are wicked smart!" camp. I find that people over-focus on the seemingly "attention deficit" critiques of modern day, but even if that is the case, I think it's a small price to pay for having orders of magnitude more people in the space - there will be a lot of failures but there will be more successes relative to prior generations.

If we want to blame younger generations for not "thinking deeper" or "solving the hard problems", then we should shift our focus towards the economic drivers that are favoring quick/quantity over quality. I know how to develop software but if an employer is given the choice of fixing a buggy tool at the cost of maintaining a fork (GASP!) vs spending unbounded man-hours working around said buggy tool, my money's on that they will choose the latter since maintaining tool X is not a core competency. Meanwhile, tool X is hemoraging production data or producing buggy results and nobody flinches.

For that flavor, maybe try:

    python3 -m pip install -t .pip ...
    export PYTHONPATH=".pip:$PYTHONPATH"

Use whatever directory name you prefer instead of .pip. Mucking with PYTHONPATH is a bit dirty.

Lack of gossip in zookeeper makes changes in cluster topology much more painful.

I tell people to `ipython; %magic`. For all of python's faults, that REPL is the gold standard and makes for a nice way to learn the language.

All the yak shaving around: room history, notifications, security.

Also, doesn't the +/- sigma rule only apply to a normal (gaussian) distributions?

Are there any tools or sites where crowd-sourced dictionaries is a key feature? As a developer of an app, I would like to have basic actions (eg open, save, login, cancel, ok) translated to all the locales.

I think context/scale/application is important. Classical Newtonian physics takes us pretty far pretty accurately until we get to more micro or macro scales. For example, if wanting to model a physics engine in software and the Newtonian models are considerably more performant, then could make sense to sacrifice the accuracy.

While I view python metaclasses (metaprogramming in general) as a tool of last resort, I have to agree with you. I applaud the attempt - I think it fills an important gap between lists/dicts, namedtuples, and classes. Implemented as a metaclass, I think would be much simpler to get it accepted into core python with fewer backward compatibility issues.

Although after looking at it some more, it bears little semblance to bash - kills my "common denominator" argument. I prefer a more bash-booster approach: bash plus common functions to standardize on.

I see bash as a lowest common denominator for ops & sys admins. There would be too much friction getting the pack to agree on python, perl, ruby, etc., especially since most of the code would be shell'ing out commands to /bin/sh or /bin/bash anyway.

Bash does leave a lot to be desired when it comes to data structures and error handling, but in some cases it makes the most sense. In those cases, better to have some semblance of sanity via a common lib like bash-infinity or bash-booster.

The more popular your preferred tooling, the more opportunities in the job market.

"Blame Canada". PM: "We can't blame Canada for missing our targets 4 sprints in a row."

S3 differs considerably from most SaaS offerings in terms of:

  - data access / control
  - availability & stability
  - performance
  - cost

Not sure how I feel about characterizing this as a subsidy, but... while tax breaks aren't the same as subsidies, they can effectively act like subsidies in some cases. I found this list more informative than the article or even the Metcalf paper:

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2016/05...

The optimist in me wants to believe that our dependence on foreign oil encouraged new domestic oil production via tax policy. I don't think that nudge is warranted any longer. I'm not a fan of governments interfering in markets, but in this case, better to incentivize alternative energy and not fossil fuel.

NPR is my go-to radio station for news but more & more it sounds like National Propaganda Radio, but maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old conservative.

Agreed. As much as I personally would like to see a smaller federal gov't, I think that if the federal gov't is going to concern itself with something big like energy, health care, or education, then it might as well take it over completely. As much as that scares me, it's probably better than this perversion of a free market society that we currently have.