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by B-Con 2y ago
The industry predominately rewards writing code, not designing software. I think the results of bad code aren't as obvious. A bad bridge falls down, bad code has to be... refactored/replaced with more code? It goes from one text f
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by B-Con 2y ago
Technically no, but I get why it feels like this. :-) I think the confusion stems from the fact that Go hides the distinction of "dot" access vs "pointer dot" access. (eg, the difference between `foo.Bar` and `foo->Ba
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by B-Con 2y ago
This reminds me of the "systems vs goals" mentality, which emphasizes focusing on having a good systematic process for the journey rather than fixating on specific outcomes. Some prior discussion: https://news.ycombinat
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by B-Con 3y ago
There were a lot of incompetent parents, but they pushed ahead blindly. Today can recognize when they'd bee a pie parent and choose not to do it anyway.
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by B-Con 3y ago
> but I'd rather learn SQL than whatever custom-flavor-of-ORM-query-language some ORM tool created This point is worth emphasizing! When you application carries non-trivial business logic, it will create non-trivial DB access patt
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by B-Con 4y ago
This is an incredibly realistic and pragmatic take on how large companies work. > You're both getting what you want, but you are different businesses, so you are optimizing for different things. [...] > The difference between 30
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by B-Con 4y ago
I think that it is fair to say Go considers error handling to be signal, not noise. This position has obviously prompted a philosophical war and not everyone agrees, but the two statements are consistent under Go's philosophy.
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by B-Con 4y ago
I reinstalled Arch once since 2009, and it was to resolve a long-standing bug that I could not fix for the life of me. FWIW, it worked. (This was probably 6-ish years ago, I don't remember what the bug was.)
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by B-Con 4y ago
Not every product is in the experimental phase. Google has a long history of experimenting with a product and then shutting down once they've learned enough. Maybe they learn it's not as lucrative, maybe they learn how to build
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by B-Con 4y ago
I did a quick Google search for pdqsort and found this HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14666710 > I think it's fair to say that pdqsort (pattern-defeating quicksort) is overall the best unstable sort a
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by B-Con 4y ago
You joke, but real world problems have been solved in analogous scenarios, such as homework assignments where the author simply didn't know the problem was yet unsolved and banged their head until they got it.
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by B-Con 4y ago
This guidance is specific and explicitly calls out some dos and don'ts. Your comment implies that there is one flavor of utilizing generics that applies across all languages and that is most certainly not true. Other languages don&#x27
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by B-Con 5y ago
This was my first thought. How is this not everyone's first thought?
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by B-Con 5y ago
Because the rank algorithms are subjective heuristics, not absolute metrics. All rank algorithms always have been. It started with the link metrics, then people started gaming that. It's been a signal/noise war ever since. It&#x27
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by B-Con 5y ago
That would have allowed people to artificially chase rankings even faster and more efficiently. It makes the problem worse, not better.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I think that in the ls->read workflow, Nextcloud shouldn't normalize the response from SMB and should issue back to SMB whatever SMB returned to Nextcloud.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I've been using this as my Linux GUI calculator for a while (maybe a decade?). It's a good blend of functionality and simplicity and after I started using it I literally haven't looked for anything else.
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by B-Con 5y ago
Engineering skills are easier to teach, particularly if you have an established culture and some senior personal who can spare a couple cycles to onboard new hires. If you don't, that's a sign the engineering culture needs some TL
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by B-Con 5y ago
In today's world, almost all jobs are moving more and more toward specialization. Being great at something is how you work and make a difference. You can outsource many of your weaknesses, from the mundane (ex, spelling: spellcheckers)
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by B-Con 5y ago
> That would mean 37% of the global Netflix subscriber base watched this movie in the first few days after release. That is literally unbelievable. That was basically the estimate for Squid Game that I recall. Estimated about 1/3 of
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by B-Con 5y ago
Do people dislike wireless or do they dislike Bluetooth? Because Bluetooth sucks. It's a shame it's the industry standard. Bluetooth support is still spotty on Linux, which to me is continued evidence that the stack is complicated
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by B-Con 5y ago
I also find the love=sex equivalence very strange. IMO it stunts the development of close friendships who feel as if they can't form emotional bonds without also forming physical ones. Then it also acts as a false forcing function to c
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by B-Con 5y ago
You can send a small, semi-official "thanks for a job well done" to someone else and it comes with a few bucks attached. People joke about using them nefariously (as people tend to joke), but I've only seen them used appropri
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by B-Con 5y ago
I think this kind of philosophy is what ended up driving Go's simplicity. Less infatuation with the tool, more focus on shipping maintainable code the first time.
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by B-Con 5y ago
That is a difference in grammar, not vocabulary.
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by B-Con 5y ago
I don't understand the point of adding this: > because : by reason of : because of — often used in a humorous way to convey vagueness about the exact reasons for something. This preposition use of because is versatile; it can be use
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by B-Con 5y ago
I'm wondering if Facebook will try to spin off another network, or maybe a different frontend on top of the Facebook/IG networks, to get rid of the Facebook branding problem altogether. My (outside) impression is this is what PayP
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by B-Con 5y ago
Young users are we're the growth is, older users actually have money. Facebook is a top 5 market cap USA business. They have to think about boring things like, you know, revenue, not just user base growth. Considering that FB et al mak
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by B-Con 5y ago
Disclosure responsibilities for Federal judges extend to spouses and any family living in the home IIRC, I would imagine this restriction would have similar coverage.
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by B-Con 5y ago
Could you explain the expression at the end?

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