DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4y ago
You didn't take a job because it's 8.30 to 5 and because of some undefined 'abuse'? That's what you've written? Maybe it really isn't for you. On the other hand I've worked in this industry for 30 y
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Also on Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/dodo-bird... and https://twitter.com/VictorVescovo/status/1620504852802699265...
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by DrBazza 4y ago
What's not mentioned in this article is that capital investment in the UK is governed mostly by an 'equation' that calculates where the largest return on investment is, followed by political lobbying to get investment in pl
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by DrBazza 4y ago
There was or is, a mode 7 version of Elite too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2emwRygvEAA
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The pile of cash just reminds me of Carl Icahn and others. It's "fortunate" that Apple is so highly valued that a corporate raider can't purchase a controlling interest and pay out to investors. [1] https://e
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Semiconductor companies are of national strategic interest. Some countries have been slower than others to realise this. Politics moves at a glacial speed when it comes to technology.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
It’s not hiring though. It’s overhiring. I’ve forgotten which FAANG it is. But one of them still has more employees than last year even after layoffs. It’s offensive.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I'll make an extreme comparison: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror" If you make some idiotic financial decision near the bottom of the management tree, such as... over hiring
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by DrBazza 4y ago
It probably lends itself to tasks where CPU time is much greater than network round trip. Maybe scientific problems that massively parallel. Way back in the 90s I worked with plasma physics guys that used a parallel system on "slow&q
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I hope circle is the thing that makes the committee realise there is an alternative to their attitude of 'we're not versioning files, we're not giving you opt-in features, we're not giving you new keywords, we're no
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by DrBazza 4y ago
No, but the least-bad choice clearly isn't Windows.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Interesting to also see that Billingsgate has also moved from Canary Wharf as well, also opening up a large amount of lucrative land adjacent to yet another Elizabeth Line station. I had to search for 'what', and it seems 'h
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Management have control over that already. They can just disband a team and move the team members elsewhere at any time. That is often more than enough for people to voluntarily leave. Imagine if google disbanded the golang team and moved
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by DrBazza 4y ago
No, but you can give zero bonus, zero payrise, and negative annual review as a clear indication that you're not wanted. In fact, don't many of the Megacorp companies have a 'cull the bottom 10% annually' policy anyway?
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by DrBazza 4y ago
In the tech industry the best employees are going to leave regardless, especially if they're bored. Also, like banks, the FAANGs pay bonuses. And also like banks, if you want to 'suggest' to someone that ought to leave, rega
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by DrBazza 4y ago
This all happened in the dotcom crash - all the companies shed staff. It happened again during the credit-crunch. It (used to?) happens in reverse every year in the banks - everyone watched Goldmans pay out bonus before xmas and then adjust
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> I’m becoming more and more convinced that they’re preparing for a global recession. The tech industry famously over inflated once before in the original dotcom boom. This just seems like another correction. I don't think the tech
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Another multi-billion dollar company making billions of dollars of profit dumps thousands of staff on the streets. There are two approaches here. Firstly, attrition, simply don't replace those that leave. Given the sheer size of the c
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> The first task is to reactivate the project and the community around it What does that mean, when there's active development of the github repository? It's never been deactivated has it?
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Is that 1 in 1000 for all C++ written since 1985, or is it "like for like" and all C++ written since 2010 when Rust first appeared or later when Rust stabilised? Chrome was 2008. No idea if the code base has been completely &qu
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> I can almost guarantee that you’re just at the wrong company. You're at the wrong company if you're unhappy regardless of the size. I've worked at a very small company which was miserable because the owner didn't ha
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by DrBazza 4y ago
There aren’t just rogue waves, there are rogue holes too. Imagine being in a boat and it just drops a 50ft.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
From what I understand, Australia has a lot of temporary lakes that only fill after extreme rain, then dry out soon after. So if you could keep lakes such as Lake Eyre (though it's salty) and others full, that would encourage plant gro
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by DrBazza 4y ago
They are both directed graphs that support dependencies, i.e. if you run `make a` or `just a` and they depend on b and b depends on c, both tools will build c first, then b, then a. What often happens is that people should use `make` (or
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> "what if I removed all the constraints, what would I do differently and how would things change?". Eg: Suppose nuclear fusion is successful, and you can actually power whole of earth for 800 years with 1 cup of hydrogen. Buil
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Well, for languages that are now touting interop with C++, and the emergence of a mainstream memory safe language like Rust, Carbon seems like a retrograde step to me. Val is probably the next language that fleeing C++ developers should get
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I've said many times that C++'s tooling is a dumpster fire of epic proportions. No-one that wants to use the language should have to spend a non-trivial amount of time a) downloading a build system in addition to the compiler and
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by DrBazza 4y ago
For whatever reason “learnings” is being used instead of lessons.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Also, https://www.val-lang.dev/ seems more interesting. And http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2022_02/article2.pdf > Safe by default: Val’s foundation of mutable value semantics ensures that ordi
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Had I answered that survey, I would have added a 0.1% or so to the sanitizers. Everywhere I've worked (now) runs sanitizers over the build. > So the social aspect matters a lot, and we keep losing there. Unfortunately. For example,

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