Shish2k

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by Shish2k 4y ago
I’ve been at Meta for a few years and would say similar - I’m pretty sure that at any company with tens or hundreds of thousands of employees, you are going to get some horror stories - but in general it used to be an amazing place to w
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Building 5 apps using totally separate APIs for 5 different kinds of sandboxes, and then jumping through the arcane and hostile hoops of 5 different app stores (or 50, if you want to support all the linux distros), does not exactly count as
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> Yes, but that's not the point I was arguing with I believe the commenter you’re replying to is willingly overlooking things hoping for a different reality. It’s a pretty human thing to do ;)
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> To me, it's just like any other data, licensing it to someone is no different than licensing the source code to something you wrote, if it's revokable the whole concept doesn't make sense, and you don't really own i
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by Shish2k 4y ago
If you can give me some native APIs which solve distribution and sandboxing, across the three major desktop OSes and two major mobile OSes, as easily as the web, then I would be more than happy to go back to native dev :D
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> A lot of startups have highly compensated CFOs -- what are they doing? Cocaine, mostly :P
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> I do wonder though how did people deal with these problems in the past Children get beaten for not sitting quietly, men who can’t hold down a job become homeless and die on the streets, women become dependent housewives and get beaten
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by Shish2k 4y ago
You can tie network and power cables in really annoying ways that make it seem as if you welded the rack together after plugging the cables in and you can’t pull them out without an angle grinder :D
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> The original Gameboy ran on two AA batteries for 12-20 hours (depending on whether the light was on) I wonder if you googled for this? Googling for “original gameboy battery life” gives nearly this exact quote, but then reading the wik
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Being surveiled for advertising purposes is fine
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users. I am horrified yet morbidly curious how an IM protocol plugin ended up being OS-specific in the first place o_O?
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> Social media companies can't decide that a warrant is "invalid". Only a court can decide that. They can, however, decide “this is worth pushing back against” vs “this is not worth pushing back against” - that 30% represe
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> Don't collect more data than you have to, limit the power of any systems you implement, and always design things under the assumption your enemies will take control of it in future. This is great advice if you want to design Good
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> GraphQL is a huge burden I’ve recently been bolting graphql support onto a midsize legacy webapp with the goal of making native mobile apps easier, and so far I’ve been finding it remarkably simple and delightful — In fact implementing
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> You get sued - so what? Would I be right in assuming that you’ve never been on the receiving end of a government-scale lawsuit?
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> it just makes the body of code a lot uglier I’d suggest learning a couple more languages - after you’ve learned a few, you get used to it - you don’t even see the code. All I see is assignment, variable, parameter… (But seriously, the
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> Google threw the weight of their top C++ engineers behind Carbon. It's happening. Google throws their weight behind a lot of projects. You can find a list of 282 of those projects here: https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Not quite - youtube is not an emergency service, so should not be expected to act like an emergency service. However, the european cookie law says that opting-out should be as simple as opting in, and so the news website should be expecte
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by Shish2k 4y ago
I wonder what the wasm-backend people are doing that the embedded-backend people aren’t — I’d have thought embedded was even more particular about small size, but I just started playing with rust-esp32 and found that “hello world” is 15MB (
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> You chat with people online because you think, you know, that people exist on the other side. A fairly large portion of social networking isn’t so much “chatting with people” as “Finding an Us so that we can get together and yell at Th
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> This stuff “just worked” in the late 90’s I see you have repressed the memories of editing modelines in xfree86.conf :P
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by Shish2k 4y ago
I think that’s what they meant - “rocket science” as in “way too complicated for 99% of down-to-earth jobs”
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by Shish2k 4y ago
A large part of ditch digging is cognitive work (a human operating heavy machinery), so I’m not sure that backup career is going to last very long either
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Yup, I’ve read it again, and I’m still pretty sure that you’re responding mostly to your own assumptions and not really responding to what was written :)
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> For me (and inv2004) Nim, runs faster than Rust on your RosettaBoy project I didn’t spot that it had improved that much; I guess I need to hurry up and brute-force my way past the installer issues to try it out :D
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by Shish2k 4y ago
I think HN has a very varied audience - some work in the industry, others want A/B testing to be made illegal on the grounds that it is non-consensual mind-control experimentation :P
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> I find the whole C++ bashing bizarre. […] You can explode your code in any language you desire Some of us have spent decades working as sysadmins, getting woken up in the middle of the night to deal with whatever the latest CVE is... D
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by Shish2k 4y ago
How big does a program need to be in order to stop counting as a microbenchmark?
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Neither of those paraphrasings seem to line up with their source material
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> what does Rust do better than Nim? I can install Rust, for one thing (I’m on an M1 mac; trying the three main nim installers, one gives me an out of date version, one gives me the x86 version, and one segfaults) Also Rust’s error messa

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