RHSeeger

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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Here in France there is, maybe, a receptionist that sends me to the office where the doctor does everything, including billing. If the doctor is making an order of magnitude more for their time than the receptionist, it's far more
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
My phone plan (Verizon, common plan) limits the resolution of videos I can watch on my phone.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
No, some amount of "free market" leaning is useful. But absolute free markets are catastrophic to society. I'm not aware of any major countries that have an actual free market. They all have laws limiting what companies are a
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> In a free-market economy, the companies that make less optimal decisions will have their lunch eaten by those that don't. And that's one of the reasons we don't have free market economies in general; because they are ext
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
The new editor in Jira is drives me nuts. They replaced a perfectly good, functional markdown editor with the current POS, and it causes me problems nearly every single day.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Sometimes the question isn't "are types good", it's "are the costs associated with static types worth it for this particular use case". And the answer is almost always yes; but the "almost" there is i
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> I'd be happy about it too, but am overwhelmed by guilt when talking to my intern, our newly hired engineer, my younger siblings, and many of my friends who rent at ever-increasing rates. You bought a house and you live in it. Feel
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
My goal is to build things that work, and can continue to be worked on and improved over time; where development doesn't grind to a halt in 6 months because nobody cares about quality. Edge cases matter sometimes matter and sometimes d
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
I trust and respect the people I work with. I also prefer to have code reviews, even (especially) of my own code. Code reviews can point out code that - Doesn't consider an edge case (NPEs being the most common) - Doesn't match up
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> She isn't "forced not to". Google is forced not to. > I'm not sure why you can't see the difference here. Indeed. This is a poor analogy, but it seems kind of like the difference between 1. Aunt Becky is all
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
If you're going to be leaving another job to work at a company, you want to find out if it's a cultural fit _before_ that happens, not during a probationary fit.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
A. "I lost my money while it was in my bank... I got it back, but nobody got in trouble!" B. "I lost my money while it was in crypto... I didn't get it back and nobody got in trouble!" I'm not really sure B sou
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
There is plenty of information about a child that, if made known to the parents, would wreak havoc on the child's life. For example, through metadata alone, it could be possible to identify that a child has LGBTQA interests/associ
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
>But recently I've gotten more sensitive to cases where we acknowledge that something is the government's job (e.g. protecting kids from violence), but then we insist that that job should be done poorly. We don't insist th
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
I had a similar problem, due to an old line running to my house; liquid getting in, etc. And when it acted up, I'd call the cable company and be like "look, I can show you I'm losing packets right now... I need you to run tes
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Whenever I see the email story, I think of the ice cream story. It's another one of my favorites.
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> The plus side from this will hopefully be people reading contracts more closely before basing their income stream on it. I thought the point of all this was that they changed the license. So you sign a license to use the product and sp
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Compiled JIT can be pretty similar to AOT, if the application runs for any real period of time. Generally, a JIT will try to compile any given block of code only once; so it winds up working towards the same state as something AOT. That bei
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Because it's not software you can (reasonably) swap out later. Once you've developed your product, it's part of your deliverable. It's like a company changing terms on their engine once you've already built a car ar
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Linear code actually has a lower burden on one's cognitive load and thus easier to comprehend. But of course it breaks down at certain sizes ... I agree with this, but I think the combination of those two sentences winds up being
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
YEAH, but the moral that should be taken from that is not "it's always better to write huge, linear functions". Rather, "there are cases where huge, linear functions make sense because of the way the code needs to intera
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
>The moment we would have spent effort to make them distinct functions we would have had to recheck our assumptions, generalize, verify that methods work on their own Why? Why can't the functions say "to be used by <this oth
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> There is no expectation that someone will search the chat history At least part of that is that the search in Discord is horrifyingly bad, and isn't available via search engines. I don't mine Discord as a place to ask questio
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> You agree that the information on this website is copyrighted, and you therefore agree not to distribute this information It seems like that's not a logically valid statement. Linking to a page on their website isn't a copyri
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
How do you plan a project without the engineering teams being involved? As far as I'm concerned, both the developers and QA need to be involved from the beginning; otherwise you get people planning things that aren't realistic (or
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> we're replacing a paper process with a digital process It's worth noting that what you seem to be talking about it "replacing a process done on paper with the _same_ process done digitally". If you were actually cha
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
Sometimes it's "for what I am able to pay", because the business doesn't support higher wages (or it won't make a profit). It is unfortunate, but it sometimes mean that the business just isn't viable. Or that &
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> with their minimum wage level understanding Please don't do that; it's effectively turning "makes minimum wage" into an insult. There are plenty of people that earn minimum wage that are good people, doing their bes
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
> Restricting company’s freedom to choose a business model is not the answer. Only, that's not how it works in our (and pretty much any) society. We, as a society, choose what we think is acceptable. And then we make laws to enforce
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by RHSeeger 3y ago
It seems more like the writer is advocating "search configuration included with the results" vs "search configuration as a separate page"; which I agree with. That being said, I don't refer to "search configura

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