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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Ha, there's at least as many fanboys here. It's not a lopsided discussion. In this particular discussion? Do you see the amount of vitriol? I am genuinely surprised to see the behavior in this thread. As if Elon Musk were some
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I mean, you can do a very general audit of things like “is there CI” or “do they use horribly unsafe serialization everywhere” but I don’t see anything beyond this without a huge amount of effort. Do we know what is or isn't being
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Issues such as what? Such as those which do not meet the standards defined for the particular audit.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>You seem to have fooled literally every person replying to your post, then. Fooled? No. >Perhaps consider that your reactionary post was not quite as "rational" as you'd like to believe, or at least that you haven&#x27
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Ack, and thanks for your comment. I am choosing to disengage from this conversation, have fun! Sorry, what was it about my comment you vehemently disagree with?
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>If that line itself isn't enough to tell you he's full of shit you have hopelessly fallen for the myth of his Tony Stark-like brilliance. Do you honestly think he contributes any meaningful engineering work at SpaceX? If he di
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Still, the issues you'll likely encounter inside a car are very very different from the ones you'll see inside [...] There are many systems involved in those cars, there's also many people working for those kind of compan
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I'm not missing the point. "Searching for and recognizing issues" is not somehow completely independent from the domain of the code in question. More importantly, different domains often have completely different primary
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>At Twitter's scale the issues are far less about "this code smells funny" but how dozens of systems interact together. Ain't nobody gonna figure out problems by simply checking out a repository, and specially in a fe
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I implore you to consider that auditing code is more than just big-O analyses. That isn't at all what I said nor implied.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Bullshit. I'm a web engineer, and I wouldn't be competent to audit code that runs Space X's rockets, nor would anyone I know in my career space. You're still missing the point. It isn't about knowing how rockets
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Would it? Would it not?
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Oh please, that's a ridiculous assessment of what was said. Coding giant distributed web apps is a very different domain than coding for cars. I wouldn't put much stock in Twitter engineers assessing self driving car code eith
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>The hubris is thinking Tesla engineers (who are offered worse pay and wlb relative to Twitter) are coding masters of every domain. I won't even snipe at their own software here. Who is thinking that?
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Which facts, specifically. Please go on the record. This is incitement.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Meanwhile in the US we have a huge rash of thefts of Hyundais and Kias and neither the police nor the manufacturers are interested in doing anything about it. Is there a reason why it's specifically Hyundais and Kias? Are they just
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by Nicksil 4y ago
> Your definition of engineer doesn’t apply to how the word has been used for the great majority of history but it is what some paper pushers would like you to believe. I don't think this is correct. There is no shortage of professi
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>If you hold software devs to the same standard, require them to sign off on projects and be criminally liable if it collapses later, you're going to create shortage of such engineers, and would also give them immense power. They&#x
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>This seems reasonable for something like software for cars or civil projects. Your typical fart app can't really afford to make strong guarantees. Indeed. Those interested in such a career would have something to pursue and, at com
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>It’s not really the specific employees making that call. Being a “principle engineer” is the job title in the contract. If it's your job title and you're not working for yourself, then it's likely there's little-to-n
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by Nicksil 4y ago
> Maybe because some of us are really Engineers Well, yeah. If you're an engineer then call yourself one if you'd like. My comment concerns folks who are not engineers yet refer to themselves as such.
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by Nicksil 4y ago
I've never understood why some people use the term "software engineer" when there are many, more appropriate titles for this profession. Something as simple as "software developer" conveys the same thing and better
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Sublime Text. Hands down. https://www.sublimetext.com - Instant startup. - Very fast. - Well-built software. - Handles everything I throw at it; a lot of which would render other editors unresponsive. - Great plug-ins. I've
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>If buying wrong aluminim for consumer grade vehicles is such a crime, then you may be interested to know where USAF gets steel alloys for fighter jets. OK, curiosity is killing me. I've got no dog in this fight but would like to kn
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by Nicksil 4y ago
Holy hell. Look how many people are commenting about their production environment being affected by this issue. All these folks had not even the simplest test/checks in place before pushing changes to production. And they're openl
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Websites are absolutely someone's intellectual property. Just because I've watched a Disney movie on my phone doesn't mean I'm allowed to download Disney movies from Disney+ and start my own competing service. I wasn
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Or, it's like watching you add stuff to your shopping cart, walk around the store, then remove some items, pick different items... and finally walk to the self checkout, scan and buy the goods. It's their property. A website (
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by Nicksil 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>Most people are just meme posters. >Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse >Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this >Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon >Appl
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by Nicksil 4y ago
>I have the same TV and have literally never thought about the ads on it except when reading articles on Hacker News. >It seems like a huge benefit these days to be the sort of person who just isn't bothered by ads, like you can

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