Leftsaidtim

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Some people call me the space cowboy
It's such a simple thing, yet it's been my experience that so few actually say the words. One thing I'll never regret is that I always tell people I appreciate them.❤️

Excel is so wild.

My mind was blown. I had thought, naively perhaps, that circular references in Excel simply created an error. But this data scientist showed me that Excel doesn’t error on circular references—if the computed value of the cell converges.

You see, when formulas create a circular reference, Excel will run that computation up to a number of times. If, in those computations, the magnitude of the difference between the most recent and previous computed values for the cell falls below some pre-defined epsilon value (usually a very small number, like 0.00001), Excel will stop recomputing the cell and pretend like it finished successfully.

https://basta.substack.com/p/no-sacred-masterpieces

No sacred masterpieces

Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"

Basta’s Notes

A former coworker of mine made this and posted to our shared alumni slack: https://doyouneedatruck.autos/

It’s a very simple quiz that asks everything relevant about your situation and provides you an answer personalized to you. I can vouch that it’s actually 100% correct.

Do you need a truck?

tfw u show up and *all* of the splines are completely unreticulated
The Worst Programmer I Know

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

New blog post, in which I argue that work is play, and that jobs should be fun

https://medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/work-is-play-e634882740d3?sk=bfa60e60cc33113ad9bcaaa951fc31aa

This is either obvious and dumb or flame worthy. I’m prepared either way. 🔥 😎 🔥

There was a time when a nation could only afford one person living like a king. It was the king. They had to move around the country because their life style depleted the area’s resources. We have dozens of people living like that today and they are using the our resources such that a large portion of the population are barely surviving. We used to have a tax system and a safety net that helped some. We don’t even have that anymore

Tried the Telescope plugin out this week, it's great.

My favorite feature is that you can use Telescope to search its own command list. A nice touch for discoverability, which is often a challenge with command-line oriented tools. #neovim

https://neovim.substack.com/p/why-arent-you-using-telescope-yet?sd=pf

Why aren't you using Telescope yet?

An extendable fuzzy-finder for all your file searching needs

Mastering Neovim

Still thinking and blogging about #python. There are some practices that python encourages that are ... frankly dangerous.

Turns out sometimes writing more lines of #python is better than writing fewer.

Surprised ?

https://medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/the-curious-case-of-more-code-being-better-than-less-code-18d834e72e5?sk=a23543481bf71377ace092e8963414ba

Been writing a lot more python lately. Decided to take a peek behind the covers of some of the everyday magic behind the #Python programming language.

Curious how python works under the hood ? Let's take a look together.

https://medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/a-peek-behind-the-magic-in-python-a4cd97ce0264?sk=a207818b374683b32d6b54caa1fa9fee