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by Olumde 5y ago
Oh gosh I hate this about wondery business wars[0]. Very informative but also very annoying when they conjure up complete/narrated conversations between people e.g. a tech CEO and an investor or customer. This happens a LOT in the show
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by Olumde 5y ago
I properly started my software engineering career at the age of 40, after 7 years of grad school. I turned 50 last week. I recently accepted a software engineer position at Microsoft. You can do anything you want -- if you really want to.
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by Olumde 5y ago
Sounds scaringly similar to the ludicrous mass redundancies imposed on the pure mathematics department at the University of Leicester, in order to create funds for AI. And pray tell on what foundations the field of machine learning and AI i
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by Olumde 5y ago
Yup, I find time estimates to be very difficult for anything but routine tasks, especially now we've moved away from the big design upfront. But maybe we should estimate anyway and routinely revise our estimates, and bear in mind that
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by Olumde 5y ago
Dirty code will work until it becomes an unwieldy mess that is almost impossible to debug or improve. Then the competition will eat your lunch.
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by Olumde 5y ago
This is precisely the point I made in my comment [1]. The lack of a C++ API is a huge let down in every Blender release. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26921528
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by Olumde 5y ago
Maya's grip on the VFX companies is, I suspect, in part due to how Maya has been built into the pipelines and tools that many companies use, which is only possible because of Maya's fantastic API. I haven't used the API in an
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by Olumde 5y ago
I wonder if there are any published proofs or theorems that, directly or indirectly, relied on this conjecture being true.
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by Olumde 6y ago
I don't mind ads. I do however mind seeing the same Gra*erly ad 48,000 times over. Why does anyone think this is a good idea. Showing me the same ad so many times makes me not want to buy the product. Cut it out!
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by Olumde 6y ago
Thanks for making that point. You are right. I was just concerned some organizations would take naming a repo as "job done".
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by Olumde 6y ago
I'm African and I think these name changes are ludicrous. Why not fix the (hopefully unconscious) hiring biases that surely exist in big tech that ends up hiring overwhelmingly male candidates of European and Asian origin? Reminds me o
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by Olumde 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEjvgGxHD8
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by Olumde 6y ago
I once argued with a colleague that this collection is akin to our software patterns. They are solutions to recurring sub-problems and are a mark of a mature engineering discipline.
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by Olumde 6y ago
I think Shell has decided that it is in the energy business, no matter the source of that energy. Surely its executives can remember seemingly invincible incumbents in other industries that failed to cannibalize their products. That or they
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by Olumde 6y ago
I almost fell prey to one such ad. A friend asked me to buy him a communicator device that came in two modes that were poorly differentiated. The seller wouldn't answer my emails about the differentiation and the contact number was not
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by Olumde 6y ago
Electric supersonic flight you mean.
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by Olumde 6y ago
Mathematician
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by Olumde 6y ago
In my opinion daily standups are pointless when there is no short term delivery goal. In my dream company standups, or better dev meetings, would peter out to about once a week and then ramp up as the team approaches a delivery. I once ca
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by Olumde 6y ago
You can grow by 15% even if you have 20 or 25 users :-P . I am a huge Haskell fan though. The 'problem' with Haskell is that, because of its roots in academic research the language will not chase success at any price (read hacks);
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by Olumde 6y ago
Reminds me of the velvet bean found in parts of Africa and Asia. It too has hairs and is maddeningly itchy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucuna_pruriens (On the last day of the term in junior secondary school some nau
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by Olumde 6y ago
Trump probably okayed the deal, or made it happen. Now Tiktok has to please not one but two authoritarian governments.
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by Olumde 6y ago
Are you in the UK? Such terms are common in tech here in the UK. I also had a job offered with pretty much identical terms. I planned to disclose and negotiate this clause after negotiating the salary (they offered less than I used to make)
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by Olumde 6y ago
Trump will scarcely do something like this unless he thinks it will benefit him. Does he think millenials will love him for it or does he think Snowden has dirt on Obama? Time will tell.
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by Olumde 6y ago
Pick a technology that (1) interests you, else you will ask the same question again in N years and (2) is in demand by prospective employers.
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by Olumde 6y ago
Watched it. Not bad but I hated the re-enactments.
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by Olumde 6y ago
https://function.xkcd-excuse.com/media/5245414c-434f56494420...
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by Olumde 6y ago
I always thought Microsoft did this in order to make inroads into the high-end graphics market, which they did.
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by Olumde 6y ago
I hate, Hate, HATE grammerly ads.
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by Olumde 6y ago
As someone trying to start a company of my own, I really enjoyed that talk he gave on the steps, where he talked about how nvidia was born and grew up. Highly motivating. In fact I curate such entrepreneur talks.
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by Olumde 6y ago
Consultants are the often the first people to get axed when the going gets tough. Then again you may have some super specialist skill in very high demand (e.g. Windows device driver writer, or COBOL expert), in which case you should find a

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