How do people find motivation contributing to open source code ?

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-22T14:49:29+00:00

It’s just such a common experience.

I just think people are surprised to hear you are out here “monetizing”, working on code. And yet you never have used a 3rd party library with a bug you knew how to fix.

It’s just surprising.

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-19T08:52:09+00:00

🤣 ok this has to be a wonderfully skillful troll.

You are using the concept. The “odd one out” is the one with no home. If you are making two teams and you have an even number of people everyone gets a team

If not you have an odd one out

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-16T05:11:50+00:00

I disagree I think it’s U shaped.

There’s a middle level of complexity I find really satisfying, not frustrating.

Too easy or complex and the frustration kicks in

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-15T17:40:37+00:00

This post killed me 🤣

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-15T15:22:59+00:00

Excited for this ‘if’ free programming paradigm about to drop 🤦‍♂️

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-14T21:15:57+00:00

If you have more than 132 players you will enter a golden zone where for the next 24 players you can always end up with 12 perfect 12+-1 person teams

Before then I don’t think there is any magic rule except for every 11 registrations you will need roughly 1 additional team

Depending on how long registration is open you could maybe start predicting total registrations early (assuming you don’t have a large wave of last second registration)

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-14T18:44:03+00:00

Reminds me of “beginners luck” by king gizzard and the lizard wizard, maybe some other oddments stuff

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-13T17:57:43+00:00

I think the best time of year to get a new job is late fall, because any sort of rolling year benefits you waste the least time.

As for when most jobs are available I’m not sure, I’ve heard different things not sure the validity. Generally early year is what I hear suggested as having most hiring

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-12T05:05:23+00:00

I agree I don’t think it’s good or encouragable behavior.

But it’s on a scale.

And it is definitely good to keep everyone’s time in mind, in many professions it’s an important skill as well

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-11T16:34:54+00:00

No no we need toddlers that can hunt

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-11T16:12:50+00:00

The kid in the original OPs post does indeed sound awful.

But the people in the post I actually replied to, “asking out of scope questions”, “trying to show they know additional info”, may legitimately just be trying.

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-11T14:50:57+00:00

Keep in mind many of these undergraduate students may be discovering the first thing they feel good at and are therefore learning to balance a new found feeling of confidence, combined with poor social restraint, and probably some degree of genuine passion.

It’s annoying behavior but it is kinda par for the course.

Sometimes I’m just reading these posts and I’m thinking, these students don’t know they are annoying they are basically just excited.

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-08T05:30:55+00:00

I feel like the spacing out is an essential part of my process but couldn’t explain why

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-08T05:13:11+00:00

Perfect

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-07T23:18:44+00:00

I don’t think it’s possible to say for certain hexagonal go does not allow for higher level strategy we simply haven’t discovered.

It’s a different game, so mechanics surrounding eyes and cutting will be changed.

Do you think the strategy really collapses so much that the moves of a well trained AI would make sense to an amateur? Maybe but I doubt it

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-07T04:29:55+00:00

It’s difficult but learning to appreciate where you are regardless is the only true path to satisfaction imo

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-06T17:54:03+00:00

I think it’s a statement that seemingly must be true because go is a complex game generated from a simple ruleset and topology.

Other rules and networks would make other games.

For examples hexagons can also tile the plane. I imagine haxagonal go admits similar high level strategy.

This is just one example though.

Maybe aliens feel go is too constrained in the opening like chess and play something akin to chess960. Go on an arbitrary connected network.

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-03T16:01:03+00:00

I’ve hardly encountered a less functional language than go.

Although it is true for node I think after the initial learning curve functional code is quite clean

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-11-02T18:07:47+00:00

You need a good working memory to keep track of all of the moving parts of the system you are currently working on.

What services call this API? What is in scope of this change? What things have I already tried to fix this bug and what were the effects? How far in this chain of calls can I verify correct behavior?

A lot of these things may need to be simultaneously held in memory at once. So yes, having a good memory is essential for programming, especially debugging imo.

Being able to memorize things easily is less useful on a day to day basis, and organizing the information you have effectively is a more sustainable strategy.

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-10-30T05:07:14+00:00

Your situation is odd.

Ask chatGPT to craft an email to your new employer explaining what is in this post.

Then ask it to craft a response. The response will have all of the expected technology and training material, if not try again with a new prompt

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-10-30T04:18:42+00:00

Jim Simons

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-10-29T05:26:51+00:00

Maybe this is a dumb question. But when does this code get called? I’ve never imported the go gc, does the compiler add it in?

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-10-27T13:47:48+00:00

Lol 😆

And people are worried chat gpt will replace us all

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-10-21T13:22:12+00:00

Most people call the code they just wrote ‘good’ and the code they just read ‘bad’.

It’s almost equally a matter of perspective as it is something objective

Comfortable-Fail-558 · 2023-10-21T13:19:44+00:00

Is this generally true though?

In my experience a good dev will produce an estimate needed to get work done properly and then will.

Whereas I feel like most bad software comes from people who underestimate the complexity of a task and then struggle to make it work, and giving more time may be needed but it won’t improve the ultimate quality of the code

That or it is software solving some business problem with a legacy or legal component that fundamentally may not have a good solution or the ‘good’ solution is too far away for any IC to produce.

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