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by RogerL 13y ago
Performance is important in another way (I'm referencing the C++ vs go performance discussions here, more than the OP). The more performant you are, the fewer watts you burn. This means phone batteries last longer, and google data cent
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by RogerL 13y ago
Templates do help with performance. Look up the performance characteristics of qsort (C) vs std::sort (templatized C++ sort).
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by RogerL 13y ago
just another holy war on something that doesn't have one right answer This article is in reaction to a scientific study , one of many, showing that in fact there is a right answer.
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by RogerL 13y ago
So you've self selected for people that thrive in noisy, distracting environments (and plenty of such people exist), then conclude that open offices are the right way to go? You conclude that because somebody likes something, in the ab
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes. I am in my own office. I've more or less been in a single office since, oh, 95 or so. It's impossible to think in bullpen/cubes. Well, that's hyperbole, but it is both wearying and distracting. I'm sure there a
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by RogerL 13y ago
I haven't thought about this deeply, I'm thinking out loud... What are the energy cost implications of this? Okay, I drive my car to work, and it sits there until I go home. If it was part of a fleet, it would leave my work parkin
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, I would really like to hear from people that program in this type of environment. It strikes me as a madhouse. On the other hand, I have worked in labs on things like embedded computers, and sometimes having a lot of people around rea
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, now make it faster. I'm not trying to be obnoxious, but your answer is not optimal. Which is not a big deal, and it would give us a chance to talk about ways of optimizing code. Sooner or later we'd figure out if you knew wh
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by RogerL 13y ago
I just wanted to chime in and say how righteous this app is. I've recommended it at work, though, as usual, no one listens.
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by RogerL 13y ago
phil already answered you, but to expand a bit, programmers are asked to do anagrams all the time. Except it is not 'does this word have the same letters as this other word, just perhaps in different order', it is "is this li
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by RogerL 13y ago
C++ gives you fine grained control over the machine, which is something these fields often need (I am in the computer vision/AI segment). When you are using Intel Intrinsics, MKL, etc., just to get enough performance to barely do the j
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by RogerL 13y ago
That fits my interviewing experience for computer vision. Tons of people that work in MATLAB or OpenCV, throwing it over the wall to 'production'. That's not terribly appealing when you are already limiting what you can do be
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by RogerL 13y ago
Love the content, but my hand can't take it.
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by RogerL 13y ago
So, today, when I searched for a notary public in my area, expecting to have to trawl through yelp or angie list type crap to just find a local place, and instead I was pleasantly surprised with an ad for a place very close to me that offer
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by RogerL 13y ago
This blog post was not written by Joel, nor does not sound like Joel. I think the comments are justified; the blog post feels quite abrasive to me. It's a little hard to put my finger on it, but the repeated distinction between work an
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm 47, been using computers since high school, and find flat a disaster. I'm in Firefox right now. The forward/back buttons take slightly different shades of gray depending on whether they are currently disabled or not. I
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, I agree with this. Google touts that they 'dogfood' their designs. Well, have you been on campus? It's like the Valley of Clones. I have no doubt a sea of 20 something, somewhat bright people find flat gmail and the like
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by RogerL 13y ago
Native, baby! Computer vision, robots, avionics, flight planners, 3D simulations, ... From where I'm sitting, the web is a fad. (Obviously it is not, it's just how it feels to me)
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The woman behind the Netflix culture(firstround.com)
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by RogerL 13y ago
Ours are closed Sunday and Monday, close at 6 on fri/sat, and open at 1pm on Tue. For me it's pretty hard to get to the library sometimes, but I suspect the hours work well for the people that need in-library time the most (school
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't think restricting access to information to the wealthier population will result in a society you want to live in (I may be wrong, and I am straying close to politics, so I will leave it there). As others have noted, libraries a
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by RogerL 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing; in such a case a // coded this way for cache coherence goes a long way.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Thank you so much for this, I'm just getting going in deep learning. I've been viewing and reading Hinton's stuff, and found it tough to get traction (I am just starting, that is not intended to be a comment on Hinton, but on
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes. I understand the OP point about not fostering a culture of negativity - that makes a lot of sense. But I've never seen negativity take down a product, just make it a bit more unpleasant working environment. The culture of 'go
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by RogerL 13y ago
That is not my experience. There is a ton of good to extremely good code out there. I'm rather dismayed by the amount of "well, what can you do" hands-thrown-up attitude here. I've always found clean code to be faster
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by RogerL 13y ago
Why would you bet that? We have a broad understanding of how to structure and write software. These ideas have been collected together in books. I refer to books like Code Complete, Debugging the Development Process, Clean Code, Refactoring
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by RogerL 13y ago
So, the people you hire, they will be dealing with the devil?
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by RogerL 13y ago
Empiricism trumps theory. You theorize people don't type fast enough for it to matter, but a large number of programmers, including me, report that ergonomic keyboards help them. Why are you arguing against the evidence?
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by RogerL 13y ago
I like that! I'm appropriating that term!
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by RogerL 13y ago
Right. I do not argue that rewrite is always the right thing to do; indeed, I argue that very most often it is the wrong thing. But, answer me this. How many companies have imploded because their software was not maintainable? That's t

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