Shish2k

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by Shish2k 8y ago
I wonder if this is a continental thing? I grew up in Europe and everybody always pronounced SNES as "snes", then recently visiting America and chatting to a bunch of geeks, I was surprised that they all called it the "ess en
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> your polished 80s software is running the world. Not Slack, not Discord. Comparing chat apps to shell scripting is apples to oranges - let's compare apples to apples: - Discord: 130 million users - Slack: 8 million (3 million busi
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I assume English is not your first language? If you say "X? But the real question is Y", then it's quite valid to assume that "X" was hypothetical, and the real question was "Y" :)
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by Shish2k 8y ago
If you wanted to know " can you use rsync?" (a technical yes/no question), perhaps you should have asked that, instead of asking " why use dropbox?" (a subjective preference question)? To answer the question of &q
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> why Dropbox when you can rsync I've been thinking about this attitude a lot recently, and realising how much it's holding back open source - - since everybody said "rsync is good enough", we stopped innovating file
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> I don't think Facebook will add them Facebook already has them...
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by Shish2k 8y ago
20 years ago, Clinton tells a lie about his personal life and gets impeached; today, Trump lies about things which have actual life-or-death consequences for US citizens, and that's just ordinary political background noise and you&#x27
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I suspect that that's very team-dependant (in a company with thousands of engineers in tens of offices, most things are). Personally I got promoted based on debugging / code cleanups / reliability work, and I don't remem
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by Shish2k 8y ago
You're worried that when you try to hit ctrl-c you might accidentally type "exit"? I'm not sure how else the addition of exit as an alias for ctrl-d would affect your ctrl-c work...
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> The idea that you should be able to shield or blind yourself to content is a flat out stupid one I'm sure I must be misunderstanding this, because it sounds like you're saying "dick pics and other forms of harrassment ar
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> The needs aren't very exotic [...] a common example is building a daemon While "writing a daemon" is pretty common, I've never seen a daemon written in PHP (I'm sure they exist, I've just never seen one),
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by Shish2k 8y ago
As someone who attends open source conferences, thank you for your efforts to keep talk titles meaningful :) (My pet peeve being "$thing 2: electric boogaloo", which just seems to be filling up space with nonsense words - at least
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by Shish2k 8y ago
For software engineering positions I'd expect you're right - for my own role (production engineering) it's a meaningful metric as we're often hiring sysadmins who have used their coding skills to automate themselves out
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I wonder where they're getting those numbers from, as I didn't spend anywhere near that long preparing o_O If it was rephrased as "successful candidates will have spent an average of 10-15 hours writing code over the past wee
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I think in your rush to be sarcastic you forgot to read the part where I gave "application logic" and "library logic" some practical definitions :) To clarify anyway - "tiling vs free-floating" is an applicatio
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by Shish2k 8y ago
The line I'd draw is application logic (how the WM acts, how it reacts to user inputs, how it feels to the end user, the unique things which make it different to any other WM) vs library logic (the necessary groundwork which every WM i
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by Shish2k 8y ago
So explain the point? In several threads recently I've seen people say "The application's line count is higher if you also count the libraries as part of the application!" - I mean yeah, sure, that's a factually cor
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by Shish2k 8y ago
Not to mention if you didn't use libc - and think of how many loc it'd need if you wanted to implement the kernel and userspace tools too! Thankfully, we live in a world where libraries exist and we can use them to handle the low-
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by Shish2k 8y ago
oxygen toxicity at sea level (1 atmosphere of pressure) would require a 140% oxygen mixture - it's only when you go to higher pressure environments (eg 10m underwater = 2 atm) that it becomes an issue (at 2atm, 70% oxygen is toxic; at
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by Shish2k 8y ago
"the correct solution" implies that there is one particular correct solution - there are a lot of options, and I'd accept any answer if the candidate can come up with a reasonable justification for it. One example would be to
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by Shish2k 8y ago
Working at FB, +1 to all of this. Personally I find that I can get a lot more useful signal from simple practical problems (eg "take a .txt file as input, modify all the words which contain the letter 'q' to be uppercase, wri
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I'm doing a lot of interviewing at a big five company, but speaking personally and unofficially - when it comes to code, I'm looking for fluency more than anything else. At the phone screen level (which I assume is where you'
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> run the various computers Are you saying dropbox works without computers O_o? > provision enough storage to hold everything It's true that on all your clients put together, you need enough space to have one copy of your data; w
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by Shish2k 8y ago
Back in my previous job I was super-stressed non-stop through the week, so I got used to that being the default - and then would wake up with a migraine every single saturday morning as my body didn't know how to handle happiness :P Ev
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by Shish2k 8y ago
I've been doing the same thing, with the same .pdf, and hitting the same errors :) http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Main_Page is my current documentation of choice - which seems to be based on the same .pdf
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You're talking about superiority of experience (product + network), other people are talking about superiority of product, and saying that the network effect should be counted separately
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> You're going to host your own version of Google maps? I've never worked on a service which involves the other things you mentioned, but I've worked on some map-based services, and we went with self-hosted OpenStreetMap i
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by Shish2k 8y ago
> No person shall, without the authority of the copyright owner If the copyright holder is explicitly telling the user to remove all trace of them, that seems like they are granting the authority to do so, no?
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by Shish2k 8y ago
Same question but more specific - what stops two teams from ganging up on the third? When I played 3SF with the "most goals wins" rule it quickly turned into "the two stronger teams take turns beating the weaker one" - I
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> My reading of README.md is that Black inserts spaces around the colon, is that right? I can't speak for the readme, but: $ cat test.py x = [1,2,3] print(x[1: 3]) $ black test.py reformatted test.py $ ca

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