Tagged “tech”

1. The Question of LaMDA's Sentience

   2022-06-13 tech

   TL;DR The question of sentience and consciousness is irrelevant.

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2. Simple Manual Reading

   2022-04-17 tech

   Yesterday I wrote, for the first time in a while, about my (re) discovering the super-power of RTFM (reading the fine manual).

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3. Reading the Manual

   2022-04-16 tech

   It took me way too long in my career to understand this, but reading the manual is a relatively easy way to boost programming super-powers.

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4. Quest Driven Development

   2021-03-15 ideas tech QDD

   Quest Driven Development is an expressive approach to writing game stories and interactive fiction that leaves coding and implementation to software, so writers can focus on narrative and world-building. This approach can highlight inconsistencies or problems as potentially clashing narrative branches are woven together, allowing a writer to correct errors or inconsistencies as they go.

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5. Process and Flow

   2021-03-03 tech code

   As a Finnish language learner, I find Wiktionary to be invaluable.

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6. Twitter 'Likes' Hider

   2021-02-14 tech code

   I like Twitter. For the most part. I like that there is immediate access to information, thoughts and musings from around the world, from everyday individuals. I dislike that mobs attack and bully individuals on Twitter, and while I am certain that Twitter as an organization abhors this, I believe that it is an inevitable result of deliberate design decisions.

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7. Lazy Sunday Musings

   2021-02-07 finnish meta tech

   In which your humble author muses on due diligence, translates a Tweet, learns about the best-selling Finnish band of all time, and mentions a fellow Finnish-language-learner

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8. Using filter, map, reduce and forEach

   2020-01-22 tech code typescript

   I have a simple rule of thumb when choosing to use array methods, and I'd like to share it with you. The array methods I'm discussing here are:

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9. Thoughts on Technical Interviews and Challenges

   2019-04-23 tech recruiting

   A technical interview can be a learning experience for all, or it can be a grim, soul-sucking grind. The first path will lead to an effective team, and the second will lead to a dysfunctional team; this is an exorable, near-mathematical inevitability. Think deeply about how your interview process will lead to the team your company deserves.

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10. Database vocabulary: ACID

    2018-12-21 database glossary tech

    Databases are often described in terms of their ACID properties (e.g. "eventual consistency"), so knowing the vocabulary is useful when considering a database solution. Some contemporary database management systems intentionally disregard ACID properties in a tradeoff for other gains.

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