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by Boxxed 7y ago
> Why do we need both . and -> ? The compiler is always able to know which one makes sense from the type of the variable anyway. I've often wondered this myself. The best I can come up with is that the underlying code generation
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by Boxxed 7y ago
In my experience, if your tests require lots of mocks then that's a sign that IO is coupled too tightly to application logic. Refactoring your code so this isn't the case isn't always obvious, but it's a breath of fresh
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by Boxxed 7y ago
> I'm a big fan of integration tests though because they lock down the code based on high level features and not based on implementation details. I've found this to be a dangerous mindset. Integration tests are great, but they
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by Boxxed 7y ago
Isn't that just a normal, non-direct flight with a layover?
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by Boxxed 7y ago
Systems and Technology Research | Software Engineer | Boston area | Full time We solve hard problems, usually (but not always) for the government. We’re not some stodgy defense contractor but rather small teams of engineers, mathematicians
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by Boxxed 7y ago
Okay, I kind of want to question the "just throw it in Postgres," attitude I've seen throughout this thread. I've dealt with similar sizes (maybe 750GB, number of rows in the small billions) and as much as I adore Postgr
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by Boxxed 7y ago
I've worked in startups for fifteen years and not once have I been in a situation with compulsory overtime. Maybe I'm just lucky? Maybe Boston area startups respect work/life balance more than most?
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by Boxxed 7y ago
To add my anecdotes to the pile, my experience is that those going into software jobs as a backup plan make significantly less and do significantly different work. They generally just don't have the skill base nor experience to command
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Who said anything about microservices on the local network stack? You don't need to do that to separate the layers; just have them be separate logical layers in your application. This is common enough that I almost think we're tal
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by Boxxed 8y ago
It sounds like you're assuming the SSR is not well architected and then using that assumption to prove your point. It's pretty easy to have an API layer interal to your application -- have your view templates consume that API. N
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by Boxxed 8y ago
I feel like this line of thinking is very analogous to the whole microservice craze -- you shouldn't need to introduce a network boundary to write well architected software. There's no reason you can't have a clear separation
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by Boxxed 8y ago
> I would go so far as to say that I never actually learned anything in my undergrad CS classes. I'm not sure whether to think your school had an awful CS program or you went into your classes with the wrong attitude. There are lots
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Well, I guess it's stuff like that that makes me want to make sure I'm getting a fair salary.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
"Reasonable" here means "roughly market rate". But salary survey sites always have such a wide range as to be useless. I mostly evaluate similarity in terms of responsibility (both tech-wise and human-wise), which yes, i
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Personally, I never really trust any of these sites because the all claim to have good data, and yet they all report pretty wildly different salary ranges for similar jobs. I have absolutely no idea if I'm actually being paid a reaso
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by Boxxed 8y ago
This piece is so obviously written as satire / hyperbole that I'm tempted to think your response is as well?
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Maybe you didn't read the article? He presents a pretty nice visual alternative to Venn diagrams.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
The radioisotope power plants? Very, very low. I think they output a few hundred watts of power. They're mostly used because they're very reliable and consistent over a long period of time.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
I found the same thing. There are oddities in the non-async library too -- for example, rows are returned as a tuple without any column metadata, so you can't do a "select *" because you don't know the column order. I th
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by Boxxed 8y ago
So? That means it will take more than one day to write, by this metric.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
I'd like to hear the logical conclusion of "Large Modules Considered Harmful." Is he implying infrastructure code (e.g., terraform or ansible or cloud formation) should be split between the repositories for each component? Or
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by Boxxed 8y ago
We can't adapt to an ecological collapse. It's not the few degrees of extra warmth we worry about, it's how major extinction events will threaten nearly everything.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Well, the quote you reference says, "one of the first," doesn't it?
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by Boxxed 8y ago
That's a little pedantic, even for HN, don't you think? "Oh, it's not the exercise that's important, it's the stuff that happens BECAUSE you exercise."
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Just because the program is running doesn't mean it's using any appreciable amount of CPU. Most applications spend their time waiting for IO, and when you're not interacting with them, there isn't any.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
No, you're right. The canonical way to store a map in capnp is to use a List<Pair<key, value>>. Personally it doesn't bother me that much (mostly from an aesthetic standpoint) because it is not meant as an in-memory, w
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by Boxxed 8y ago
I don't even think it should be considered an API. The python "API" is just all the interpreter internals.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Arguing over the definition of Pedantic. I think we've reached peak HN.
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by Boxxed 8y ago
But doesn't that mean the article's point is kind of moot? That when people blame slow languages / VMs, they actually are slow and it has nothing to do with warm-up time?
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by Boxxed 8y ago
Last I used Gitlab CI I remember being somewhat infuriated at the fact that I couldn't use the Gitlab docker repo as the source for my build images. That was about a year ago though so that might be old news.

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