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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Shitty monorepos that measure hundreds of GB.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I've found "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink good for getting into the mindset of managing up without a nagging / second guessing touch.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Forking a process on Linux uses the same clone() syscall as creating a thread The conclusion to be drawn is "Linux threads are costly", not "Linux processes are cheap".
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> I want my applications to feel like they belong to the platform and not identical on every platform As does everybody sane except every product manager in existence.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
You just change the way they are handled; the knowledge about the special case is now hidden in the setup code, which might be better in some cases and worse in other cases.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> The security of package managers is something we're going to have to fix. Inclusiveness and the need for Jeff Freshman and Jane Sophomore to have a list of 126 GitHub repos before beginning their application process for an intern
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Yes it is, but you aren't going to solve it without rolling back women's rights. Framing it as "rolling back" plays into the feminists' hands. Yes, your rolling back, but you're rolling back what's ef
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I've never seen an answer on the weird social.microsoft site that had anything resembling a remotely usable technical response.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> We've been investing heavily in our user experience and our CI/CD experience, so I'm sad to see that we've disappointed here. Maybe you should start investing smartly.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
This was actually the last time I rented a DVD.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
BeOS is peak UI design for me. I'm actually working with Haiku OS sometimes to feel this vibe.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> And then we sneer at them for having the audacity to try to stay open but stop these giants from using them and throwing them away. I'm sneering at the bait and switch. For what it's worth, MongoDB may have taken away busines
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
You can do that, or you can let priority of business requirements drive your testing efforts. For each project, I have a certain set of hard requirements that will never be used in the field. We deliver these half-assed and fix bugs if 2 ye
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> This seems to imply it's doing something to the battery chemistry? Maybe a brief pulse of high-rate discharge every now and then to help balance things out? That's usually within the domain of the battery management system. T
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Has anyone felt that Netflix’s UI has deteriorated massively? That's inevitable when you have resident designers who must make things different to justify their tenure. Once you have reached a local optimum, they can make only thi
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
My mother in law warned us that we cannot go to Warsaw because it's the criminal capital (she moved to Germany 30+ years ago); turns out it's probably the safest capital city among Berlin, Paris and Rome by such a large margin tha
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I watch the evolution (and evolution is the right word here, given the complete lack of intelligent design) of Android APIs with a kind of morbid fascination; a ritual dance between inept API designers with the foresight of a two year old s
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> C++ is explicitly unsupported Given that C++ now has a defined memory model, it might very well be that it's now impossible to implement C++ in a standard conforming way on exotic architectures.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
It's missing the Google Assistant Ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRHdhj-imA
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Not so long ago Epic was selling their Engine for hundreds of thousands of USD while Unity was already way more accessible to indie devs. Please enlighten us as to why selling software is worse than giving it away for "free",
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
If you conveniently define conservative viewpoints as fake news, then yes.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Thanks; as someone who has never played "hardware" DnD, this looks very interesting!
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I honestly think the comment was not intended to be rude.
654.
by _pmf_ 8y ago
This would just increase the levels of strawmen in between the politician and its industrial handler.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Very secret.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
> Is agile the Brazilian jiu-jitsu of software development? Agile is the franchise karate chain from the 80s: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzh9koy7b1E
657.
by _pmf_ 8y ago
Targeting existing projects has the advantage of creating fewer perverse incentives. EU funds for open ended projects are notorious for being leeched.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
Also, the # is traditionally the "protected" modifier in UML.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
I hate to think what will be lost when Twitter goes belly up.
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by _pmf_ 8y ago
One counter example; time will tell whether this will be sustainable: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/morphcat-games/micro-ma... (Keep in mind that 150000 EUR might be "beer money" in the US, but th

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