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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> they're just stating the facts They're stating their projected version of the facts. It's the narrative as they see it. Important details could be missing. Suppose you and I made a few attempts to start a company togethe
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I don't think it's objectively good marketing. But then I guess it depends on what your philosophical stance is on "succès de scandale" (a logical extreme; there isn't much controversy here). My stance on the ethics
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Just look at the comment above mine: "booo on any company that". Some people will perceive his rejection as bad hiring practices on Codecademy's part. Every comeback story needs a bad guy that rejects or pushes down the hero
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> 1. Dodged a bullet I'd argue that Codecademy dodged a bullet. Calling them out by name is in really bad taste IMO. Let's be honest: if he had launched a coding tutorial website thing and it didn't have the "comeback
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I just force killed an Adobe installer running as root in the background. I don't know what it was installing or why.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I could, but I think it would take considerable effort on my part. You know how it is. You end up with a long tail of little things that don't quite work properly. Eventually I could get it to work but I'm so upset with Adobe that
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive an
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
You use exceptions to clean up resources even when there are no errors? Why?
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I think Cue is more aimed at configuration file management. Think Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Salt. There you have tens to hundreds to thousands of YAML/JSON files that describe your server configuration and there's no
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> Which seems to be entirely alien in the enterprise world. There are a few reasons for this. 1) Enterprise is mostly staffed with mediocre programmers. That's not meant to disparage anyone. Even great engineers will produce mediocr
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Heh, yea. Good observation. This reminds me of the ridesharing debacle. Uber was operating an illegal taxi service which upset a lot of local governments. It was taken to the courts multiple times. Uber won but one of the lessons to young f
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> My cousin is an MMA fighter in another country, just today he got a contract from an american agent and asked me to translate it. I was able to throw it into google translate and in under 2 seconds it produced a flawless translation of
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. > The best technology winds up disappearing into the background and is unremarked-upon. Very much agree, but what I've seen is that DL based solutions do not disappear into the background. It&#
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> the key is that the places where it works are narrow domains I've observed that not only are the domains narrow, but the domains of domains are narrow. In other words the real-world applications are mostly limited to pattern recog
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
As a layman I wonder when we're going to start bearing the fruit of all this effort in DL. In the average person's day to day life I mean. I don't rely on DL driven systems and I'm not even a skeptic. I want it to work
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I feel bad for anyone who got sucked into event sourcing for general purpose applications. Like... I'm burning a candle for you right now. The event stream stuff makes sense in some specialized use cases (LMAX?) but for general purpose
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Here's the reality that took me waaaay too long to accept: some companies are optimizing for mediocrity. Mediocrity (often achieved through process) has cold advantages: - It's cheaper because you're paying people less. - I
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Anyone else feel like suspense was a major step in the wrong direction for React? I've noticed so many more cases of applications breaking in difficult-to-track-down ways because of how errors are propagated with suspense. Maybe I just
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I read Wikipedia current events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Sometimes once a week, sometimes once a month. I like being able to opt-in.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Derp. Corrected to 10 gigabit.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Could someone explain to a dummy like me: what are the actual technological bottlenecks for brain-machine interfaces? Like... setting aside all the things that, given enough time/effort, we'll reach some useful maximum. I'm t
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
My guess: Deno would perform too slowly which would hurt the UX. It would also be harder to maintain than a language like Rust. And of course Rust doesn't need a runtime.
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I like this observation. To clarify, I was merely trying to point out that I had a rigid system of personal beliefs guiding me. My desire for success wouldn't override them. Whether or not these beliefs are good or bad -- that's f
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I recently had a... weird... realization. It was that for most of my career I wasn't passionate about programming computers. I was passionate about becoming successful; obtaining a highly marketable skill, making money, and gaining the
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
You're missing the point entirely. Joel's criticism targets PEOPLE not IDEAS. See the blog post title. There's nothing wrong with abstractions as an idea. The issue is when folks apply them in inappropriate and unnecessary wa
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
I'm still holding on to my 15-inch 2014 MBP. I've been using it for work daily going on 7 years now. Never taken it into service. It just keeps going... Fingers crossed for the new MBPs this year. I'm planning on finally reti
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
Hmm... it depends on what exactly you liked about Firewatch. I personally classify Firewatch as a game with great production quality and no pressure so I can take my time. It's the kind of game I can relax/unwind to. The titles be
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
> Quality engineering must always be balanced against the reality of finite budgets. Sure, lots of amazing engineering can be achieved in theory, _given infinite funding_. While this is obviously true, I don't think it depicts the a
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
My issue with ticketing systems is similar to most issues I have with this industry: cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, companies ask me to put all this work into my tickets. Fill out this field, fill out that field, link to this thing,
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by 0xFACEFEED 5y ago
lol! When are we as a community going to move past treating frameworks/languages/tools as a silver bullet? Frameworks don't make teams better; good management, technical leadership, and great infrastructure does.

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