DrBazza

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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Speak for yourself; most phones I see still take 2+ seconds to open some apps. Why is that though? I've written code since the 8 bit days of BBC micros and ZX Spectrums. Casey Muratori's (who has been on here a lot lately) t
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Flipping this, in the C++ world, "garbage collection", is more than just freeing unused references. "Resource release is destruction" Try-with-resources is ok, but not great. Ultimately developers, especially those conc
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> How did deployment become such an arcane skill? Prior to industry wide "solutions" such as Docker, or rather linux namespaces and cgroups, there was no obvious process isolation, so "deployment" was copying tarballs
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by DrBazza 5y ago
There was no single person that introduced python at Citigroup that I am aware of. It came in via a variety of teams mostly because of the fact that the alternative was perl, and no one wanted to write perl (yet somehow kdb was acceptable
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Reminds me of the investment banking dev cycle in the 2000s: * trader writes a pricing "app" in Excel * trader discovers MS Access db * traders (plural) start copying around Access db files * problems * "IT" gets involve
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Not impossible, just very uncommon as it is not energetically favourable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion#/media/File:Bin...
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Possibly because they didn't add themselves into their modelling?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Did Zillow factor themselves into their algorithm telling them to buy/sell? We had the same thing in our ML trading system. The first few iterations worked well because the system was set to run on small positions and volumes, and t
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by DrBazza 5y ago
That just instantly makes me think 'what are the attack surfaces, and vulnerabilities of such a service and how can I abuse it?'
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by DrBazza 5y ago
It depends what you're comparing it to. If you look at every computer language, then perhaps, but C++ is still leagues ahead in complexity.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
The Dave Abrahams comment in the questions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raB_289NxBk "We got a lot of mileage in Swift, saying no to things" and "You're not going to get to a simpler language by
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I'm wondering more about accessing hardware primitives - if you spend a dozen lines marshalling unsafe code around and ultimately writing the equivalent C code in Rust, and slightly slower (perhaps the compiler optimizes anyway?), is i
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Where doesn't Rust 'compete' with C, and where is C the better choice in a kernel? Sometimes an OS rewrite, even in a different language, can be faster for some tasks (IIRC Singularity and/or Midori outperform(ed) Window
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I wish people would go back to cutting out letters in a newspaper and gluing them to a bit of paper and sending that. It took thought, effort, and wasn't a spur-of-the-moment thing. But in all seriousness, there are a lot of women (an
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by DrBazza 5y ago
We had to pay for school meals in the 70s and 80s. In fact my school had closer to 1500 pupils, and we managed to get served, pay, eat, and play football in our lunch hour. I wonder what new problems there are in 2021 that it takes "
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Unless lunch hours are different in Scottish schools, they're talking about the 25 minutes the canteen staff are serving the kids. There's another 35 minutes to eat the food.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
This is really interesting. My grandparents were born in near London Bridge around the turn of the 20th century, and their accents were nothing like London/SE accents are now, even my parents (if you consider current London accents to
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I'd still argue that they're supremely familiar with their toolchain, and have a deep understanding of the problems they're trying to solve. My comment said they've usually so
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I wish I could upvote this more, because it's proven by a couple of the other replies to my original comment.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
That's a bit of a strawman. My full comment is that being familiar with your language of choice, and having a deep understanding of a problem means that can produce a solution faster than someone that doesn't. I used the phrase
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by DrBazza 5y ago
> Is this a bad thing to discourage? No. It's what I encourage people in my team to do all the time. In fact it's something I was also encouraged to do. The full quote was: "Become an expert in at least one thing in your
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I really wish people would stop idolising so called '10x' developers. Anyone that is comfortable and familiar with their toolset (e.g. go, .NET, Java, C++) and has a deep understanding of a problem (and has likely solved it once a
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Can (presuambly) crude oil "explode" if it's not mixed with air? It's been many years since I did chemistry but I have a vague recollection about "rapid exothermic" reactions requiring certain conditions, and
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The deadly viruses that vanished without trace(bbc.com)
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Is this meant to be "code is for the reader, not the compiler", or "people are the ultimate end users of your software"?
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by DrBazza 5y ago
21. is that management cannot, will not, and will never understand why open plan offices are the worst for reducing productivity. You don't want the plebs to also have their own offices.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
SQL = structured query language. NoSQL typically means non-traditional non-relational database. How many of those actually have truly unstructured data where SQL would genuinely be useless? It doesn't always mean that the vendor of a
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I have a PhD (physics), and I worked in a quant team with maths, physics, engineering and comp sci PhDs, and I can assure you the bell curve demographic is identical there as it is in a department of non PhDs. There are some very good deve
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by DrBazza 5y ago
Interesting. I probably would. Though I haven’t knowingly done so, so far.
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by DrBazza 5y ago
I've been approached by FB recruiters 3 times and turned them down 3 times. I've removed FB from all my devices except one. The only thing keeping me on the platform is that my sports clubs use it to organise matches and runs.

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