CoolGuySteve

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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
It's a good story but it kind of ignores something fundamental. Most early writing systems were created for accounting, like Bob gets 5 wheat, Doug gets 5 sheep, etc. In a world where computers are some ancient artifact, they would st
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
> "Every time they would unblock one pinch point, then they would just discover the next one," says Librande. "You were unblocking the dam and then the flood goes and hits the next dam. Then everybody scrambles, tears that
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I find it ironic that Google’s search results have been gamed to the point that they’re about as useless as their competitors were 20 years ago but companies are still cargo cult copying a hiring process that has also been gamed to the poin
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
It's an interesting plane to use when considering the USSR shot down a U-2 in 1960. This history even rhymes: the US initially claimed the U-2 was a weather device like China did with this balloon. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I don't know, why did x86 beat PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC, and whatever else in the desktop and server space? Seems like node size for the price beats everything else which is what we're talking about here. Apple's anticompetitive
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
History suggests we will see obnoxious hacker news comments about how the M-series processors are some unrivaled alien technology that will be forever unbeaten when it comes to performance followed by AMD releasing a low wattage CPU with be
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I suspect the language used by the USA/Canada concerning these devices is meant to obscure an uncomfortable truth. These balloons are significantly cheaper to manufacture and operate than the stealth warplanes that are being used to sh
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Decent test coverage and ASAN should be all you need to never have a memory leak in C++. ASAN will even tell you what backtrace allocated the thing in the first place.
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Yeah but then you go in to interview at these places and someone who only programs javascript or python will ask you to answer a contrived whiteboard question by hand that involves manually writing out verbose C++-isms like "std::unord
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Everywhere I work seems to settle on CamelCase but reading/writing it is annoying because: sSkKcClIwWxXzZvVoO0 Goldman Sachs' Slang language allowed spaces in tokens which was actually much better but I guess your grammar has to s
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
CEOs currently get paid either way, either by golden parachutes and retention bonuses when the company fails or by big paydays when the company grows. It's in the best interest of the shareholders that the CEO of a failing company eith
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Yeah, how about if you lay off more than 1% of a publicly traded company, top level executive compensation must be 0 for the year. Right now there's a misaligned incentive to perform layoffs in order to appease investors (including th
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Well here's what the people who said reddit is great and Twitter sucks yelled at me: - They went down in Australia for a day. - The "For You" tab keeps selecting itself. - The Twitter feed keeps injecting randos that aren&#x2
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I feel like there's a systemic issue in modern software that HN is immune to. After an initial success, companies will hire tons of project managers and engineers to build new features and continue their growth. The result is a corpo
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Yeah, I find so many bugs in reddit that it's surprising to me that a more streamlined replacement hasn't arisen. But I get shouted down if I say my experience with Elon's buggy Twitter 2.0 is about on par with how my reddit
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Unless it's changed since I was there, Spotlight is more or less a sqlite3 database so it has about the same complexity as navigating a filesystem tree but probably with better cache affinity. But also this concern about loading the he
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I used to work on this part of CoreMedia. Opening the mp4 header is fast enough that spotlight does it in the background for every supported media file on your system. For tens of thousands or even millions of files, inspecting the header
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I don't think it was mild, they more or less implied I was an asshole at work because they didn't like a single adjective I used years after the fact. Sure the phrasing was gentle, but the actual statement was quite offensive, pre
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
You seem to be extrapolating a lot from a single turn of phrase but the fact remains that while Apple's kernel is satisfactory, it's not really considered best of bread in anything other than maybe dtrace support. So I'm sorr
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I don't think it matters as much any more now that we don't have spinning disks with slow seek times. For things like Final Cut/iMovie with lots of video/audio/misc tracks, it was trivial to saturate the disk with d
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
When I worked on video systems at Apple I got dinged on a performance review for negatively comparing their kernel to Linux too many times. I’m pretty sure they still have a dogshit IO scheduler but I haven’t used a Mac in ages. I suspect
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
It's funny because Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings almost all have leaky roofs but he kept building them to the point that flat roofs with odd joins are an inseparable part of his aesthetic.
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I think using language-provided async calls everywhere will be the next mistake. Instead of callback hell, you get callback hell along with weird async race conditions and a contagion of async functions.
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
GP's core argument is that a passing fad led to a poor technology decision. I see it all the time as well, the MongoDB example is far from the only case. This industry fetishes anything that's new and if it turns out to be a bad
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
IQs are normalized by country. For example, Canadians are culturally similar enough to take the US test (including some US-specific general knowledge questions and mathematical notation) but score higher on average due to a variety of soci
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
The main advantage of FTX's exchange was that it was far better than Binance's but that's barely saying anything. I'm not sure why crypto exchanges have such lousy technology. Lost acks, weird parser errors, missing ord
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2021/03/ls223.2.pd... Labor Standards cannot accept every claim. Labor Standards will not accept claims if you: - Worked as an executive, administrative, or
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
I wish federal law would just abolish non-competes completely. When I gave advanced notice to Tudor Investment that I would be quitting they threatened to fire me with cause so that they could still enforce the non-compete without paying me
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Yeah if they can use the foviated rendering feature and iOS compatibility to make it look like my head's surrounded by various application windows with a sufficiently high resolution to read text in a browser/termina/slack&#x
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by CoolGuySteve 4y ago
Apple also uses Radar which is more effective than other bug trackers. You can file a bug with some product and someone from the other side of the campus will typically reply within days. I think part of it is a user interface issue, intera

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