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austinpray | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)

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austinpray | 7 years ago | on: WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality

I brought this up with my Japanese friend. He told me there are so many homophones in the language people are desensitised to stuff like this. For example: シ (shi) can mean both 四 (four) and 死 (death).

austinpray | 7 years ago | on: How I Judge the Quality of Documentation in 30 Seconds (2014)

It’s toxic and lazy too. You should first go look and see if the actual code is high quality/does what you want.

If your idea of shopping for dependencies is looking at the amount of GitHub stars and the quality of the documentation: you are going to miss some real diamonds in the rough.

austinpray | 7 years ago | on: Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

I use zsh daily but type `xonsh` any time I do something in the shell that would normally require a google.

“Uh ok so I have this JSON file. When I pipe this to `jq` I forget: to pivot an array of objects to an object keyed by array[x].id is it like `to_entries` then chain it to `map`? Uhh let’s look at the docs...”

However in Python I can write that function at the speed of thought. It may be a couple more lines of code but I’m also 100% confident in the output.

Like I understand some people can legitimately program in bash [0]. But I just can’t bring myself to practice. Why would anyone inflict this language on themselves?

[0] https://github.com/docker-library/python/blob/master/update....

austinpray | 8 years ago | on: A supercomputer often won’t make your code run faster

I was to “go to person” for my university’s natural language processing research group. I built a database and accompanying REST API for bulk loading audio and transcription data for one of their projects. I was quite pleased with it.

When it came time for the researchers to submit transcripts I had the pleasure of reviewing probably the worst python program I have ever seen.

1) The request JSON was manually built using strings and string substitution. One immediate bug I saw was that the researcher forgot to wrap one of his keys in quotes. `{key: “val”}` is not valid JSON of course.

2) The python program did not actually make the web requests. It generated curl commands as strings and then printed them to std out.

3) The researcher then took all these generated curl commands and evaled them.

You seriously can’t make this stuff up.

austinpray | 9 years ago | on: Tmux and Vim – better together

On my mac I used tmux and vim for years. However, only after building a little arch linux box did I realize I actually wanted a tiling window manager and an ide all along.
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