Areading314

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by Areading314 4y ago
I've been coding professionally for about 10 years but I'm absolutely humbled every time I stumble on Justine's blog
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by Areading314 4y ago
If the Fed "loses" money by buying high and selling low, it means dollars have been created with no mechanism by which they can be retired, because the Fed has no corresponding assets they could use to exchange them for. This crea
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by Areading314 4y ago
Wouldn't this be extremely dangerous if a form of "plastic rot" was created? Things like PVC sewer pipes, or any long-lived plastic parts in cars/equipment could now degrade over time, which could create huge costs to fi
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by Areading314 4y ago
wouldn't removing the GIL cause all sorts of sudden race conditions and regressions in existing python code? I think there is a valid argument to keeping the GIL just for simplicity's sake
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by Areading314 4y ago
you don't need consent but you still have to notify users of all their functionality, often this is done with a banner. Still a burden to everyone involved.
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by Areading314 4y ago
EU has laws that threaten millions of euros of fines for not having things like cookie banners. They are required by law for even the most basic user-customizations. And no allowing users to save state on your page is not unethical.
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by Areading314 4y ago
The most unethical thing about cookie consent windows is that website developers have to develop them in the first place. Cookies are fully opt-in from the client side, it would be trivial for a browser to have settings to ignore or adopt c
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by Areading314 4y ago
This is pretty basic "running a business" stuff. If you think paying a few hundred to an accountant is a nuisance, you're probably not that serious about running a business anyway.
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by Areading314 4y ago
Seems like the writer hasn't actually seen that many episodes. Plenty of excellent sci fi episodes in addition to the less serious "monster of the week" ones. "Measure of a man" or "the offspring" come to
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by Areading314 5y ago
I think its a sign of the times when super highly paid individuals like VCs have to navel gaze about what the "optimal" amount of time working should be. Business is fundamentally a competitive game and when the free money tap sto
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by Areading314 5y ago
Absolutely true. Hard truth for some but tenure at a big company working in some internal framework is often next to useless at another company with a different tech stack (thinking in a custom C++ library framework instead of thinking in w
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by Areading314 5y ago
Code review has been done "remotely" via Github or other online tool at every place I have worked, I have _never_ seen it done in-person. I also find that doing this in person would be incredibly time consuming and frustrating. Th
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by Areading314 5y ago
A secure, encrypted, containerized microservice to store personally identifying (pii) data (contact info, names, govt id info etc). The idea is for it to be a drop in microservice that can keep all PII in one place for compliance, security,
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by Areading314 5y ago
It is exactly that
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by Areading314 5y ago
100% agree. Everyone knows Amazon is toxic but I sure as hell wouldn't hire someone who posted this
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by Areading314 5y ago
I remember several years ago, I was considering pushing for some changes to our application to use a database like sqlite instead of a proprietary flat file format. I remember reading through the source and realizing how beautiful C source
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by Areading314 5y ago
A huge problem with this industry is the inflexibility to pay current engineers LARGELY increasing comp each year. The thought is that there is a market rate for an engineer and that pay can increase with the market rate, but this is a fall
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by Areading314 5y ago
The bottleneck is always. The. Database.
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by Areading314 5y ago
This seems like a totally unrealistic and impractical way of organizing a codebase. Living, useful codebases under active development need to be searchable and well tagged rather than laid out in "chapters" in my experience. In mo
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by Areading314 5y ago
myself am partial to silver searcher (brew install ag)
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by Areading314 5y ago
Surprised they didn't call it YAYAML
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by Areading314 5y ago
Thanks for writing this fantastic book. I think it is a must read for any software PM or engineer looking to "disrupt" healthcare. That chapter about paper-based workflows was really eye opening for me as someone who has never wor
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by Areading314 5y ago
I find excalidraw to be vastly superior to a whiteboard
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by Areading314 5y ago
A lot of devs don't understand this, but can save a lot of time, especially when the code is all python. Especially if you questions are off the beaten track
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by Areading314 5y ago
Does anyone actually use Copilot day to day? How much time does it actually save?
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by Areading314 5y ago
I have seen it happen, if a candidate is asking for so much that they seem entitled in the eyes of the hiring manager.
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by Areading314 5y ago
I would not bring it up as it would actually make you a less desirable candidate/employee because you could just quit at any time.
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by Areading314 5y ago
The federal reserve was able to intervene in much the same way in the US post lehman by being a lender of last resort and getting credit flowing again. The bigger problem with the 2009 crash was the massive recession that followed as the ec
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by Areading314 5y ago
Microsoft delivered all time high earnings for 2020. Seems like maybe a lot of "collaboration" is just people wasting time?
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by Areading314 5y ago
This is a really interesting idea. It would be very useful to be able to lego together some components and get a rough estimate of how it would scale and what the technical performance would be (to first order).

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