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enjoylife

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I write at: https://mdc.life
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enjoylife··on A Philosopher Reviews Judea Pearl's “The Book of Why”
> “but given my own background I could not but wonder how much farther Pearl would have gotten had he had the training I did as a philosopher.”

The review had some good call outs but given the above quote and a few surrounding criticisms, this review is more pretentious than anything.

enjoylife··on Claude Shannon: The Bit Player
Unfortunately it would be hard to ask him directly as to why but a good proxy is to listen to one of his colleagues, Richard Hamming explain. https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw. He mentions Claude around the 4:30 mark.
enjoylife··on How I negotiated a software-engineering job offer in Silicon Valley
I took some notes on the book, https://mdc.life/books/never-split-the-difference, check out the "Ackerman model" section.
enjoylife··on Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud
Doesn't replace context, and neither is it alone in terms of being a DI library, [1].

[1] https://github.com/uber-go/fx

enjoylife··on A Career Cold Start Algorithm
I would agree if the person was only working on the exact same project each time. However I would also find that hard to believe. I bet if we replaced career with team, we could then all agree its relevant.
enjoylife··on How to GraphQL – A Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL
In a side project of mine, I leverage https://github.com/neelance/graphql-go, which is one such implementation written in Go.

It might appear verbose at first, with it needing exported method names all over the place, but I've grown accustomed to it now. The repo has a full star wars example which helped me to get oriented quickly.

enjoylife··on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test
What the heck is a "Quicksort big-O score"? I've never heard anyone use the noun score when talking about complexity analysis.
enjoylife··on Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
I just came back from an extended trip in Barcelona, and I saw first hand how there is plenty of wasted space in neighborhoods.

Many intersections between dense housing areas are overly large hexagons where you must annoyingly walk around dedicated parking spaces to cross streets. https://www.flickr.com/photos/16nine/22802717995

Hopefully the city will have buy-in from the residents, as this plan seems to also modify the bus routes. And from what I saw, the locals have ingrained those stops in their daily routines, which might cause some backlash when those drastically change.

enjoylife··on Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud
Besides the obvious scale differences, what have you seen to be big differentiators between google and other ad exchanges?
enjoylife··on JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams
d3 is sure useful and I have used it for displays of custom seismic data, but I wouldn't use it for all situations. Furthermore, To base a decision on which to use soley by star count would be ignoring all the more advanced and use case specific features the other libraries bring.
enjoylife··on Mathematics for Computer Science
Seems like you need a MIT certificate.
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