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by allo37 4y ago
Did it take an engineering degree? Of course not. But knowing how to write HTML and get it on the internet was harder than, say, sending a tweet is today. I might also just not be remembering all the crappy Geocities sites with perfect cla
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by allo37 4y ago
I think there's another point to consider with older technology: It was hard to use! The technical know-how required to get a site online in the 90's, early 2000's was a big filter for the quality of its content.
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by allo37 5y ago
I wonder how much of this is driven simply by the fact that games are often bought by young people. I remember when I was a kid/teenager I just didn't have much money, so if I wanted a game I either had to save for it or ask my pa
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by allo37 5y ago
I've never worked on large open source projects (except maybe as part of my job), but every new company I join inevitably has some large codebase I have to familiarize myself with. In my experience. - It just takes a long time: I find
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by allo37 5y ago
I don't know if this is still relevant, but around 2007 or so a buddy and I found the source code for a "research" keylogger trojan online. We compiled and ran it for kicks, and sure enough Avira (which I was using at the tim
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by allo37 5y ago
I kind of want to work for a FAANG just to meet these wizards who make you feel humbled by their technical prowess (I assume that's where they all are?). Everywhere I've worked for so far, the senior people have usually: a) Been t
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by allo37 5y ago
Hah, I hear you, and the funny thing is the more I get paid the less I feel they keep me busy. My first job was by and large the most stressful. Sometimes we'll get an interesting bug that requires a pretty involved deep-dive, but I de
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by allo37 5y ago
It's funny, in grade school we used to have "speed tests" where you had to add, subtract, multiply numbers as quickly as possible. I used to always do terribly, easily one of the slowest in the class. Then I remember we got i
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by allo37 5y ago
Keep in mind you're earning a six figure salary doing over double what is expected at a "normal" 40h/week job. If you consider it as an hourly rate, is it worth sacrificing your health over? Not a rhetorical question, bt
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by allo37 5y ago
The video I saw from him recommended the Kryptonite Evolution 4 chain lock (was there a different one?). It's still quite a beast of a lock with a 10mm chain and weighs over 6lbs (standard size, the mini is lighter). Maybe not the stro
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by allo37 5y ago
Yeah, bringing the battery inside is my plan as well, except now there's a nice exposed connector that has to be covered up. I plan on making a little cover out of some tarp and velcro for it... I don't disagree about the automoti
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by allo37 5y ago
Yeah, I'm with you - I just got an e-bike for riding in the winter and it comes with a lot of constraints you don't have to think about with a regular bike: - It's way more expensive so I'm worried about theft. - You can
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by allo37 5y ago
It's such a good idea that they made a special cast that does just that in C++20: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/bit_cast
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by allo37 5y ago
I have been lucky enough to have not encountered automated resume scanning nonsense, or maybe I got past the HR-bots and didn't know? Anyways, I always felt that what helped me get jobs was my personal projects and extracurricular acti
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by allo37 5y ago
My usual approach is a bit like how I wrote essays on loose-leaf paper back in school: Start with a rough draft, and then once all your edits are done, produce a "clean" copy. I think a lot of code that is described as shitty come
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by allo37 5y ago
I was waiting for someone to make this point; It's funny how in other engineering disciplines there are clear repercussions for designing something that breaks the law, but software engineers are somehow exempt. "The client didn&#
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by allo37 5y ago
If you ask me it's due to a confluence of: - People like and expect stuff on the internet to be free; - The companies who produce this stuff have shareholders who want to see their squiggly lines go up. Honourable mention: Because cybe
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by allo37 5y ago
I don't really have any evidence to make a counterargument, so you might be right. I could present an alternative viewpoint though: Cable access has steadily been losing marketshare to streaming services for a while now, so they'r
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by allo37 5y ago
Hey, I remember when the "L" meant "learning" too (I think they changed it to "Life" now). I don't think consuming "stupid" entertainment makes us stupid or is even a solid indicator of intellige
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by allo37 5y ago
Unfortunately, "I know a lot about security, trust me bro" doesn't satisfy the compliance box-tickers, for better or worse. Maybe run it inside a VM?
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by allo37 5y ago
IME reducing iteration time is one of the best ways to increase my productivity. I like Android Studio's approach to running unit tests: It will run them on the host PC instead of deploying them to the target, so you can avoid the ofte
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by allo37 5y ago
I have a hot take on this: Sound only exists inside your head, so if you convince yourself something sounds better because you paid a $shitton for it, then for all practical purposes it DOES sound better. You're paying top dollar for a
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by allo37 5y ago
Last place I worked tried to do SAFe (I think? They kept repeating it and had all the branding on the presentations). To me it seemed like the idea was to replace a dedicated project manager (or team of them) with a week-long meetingfest ev
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by allo37 5y ago
It might be solved for the very basic stuff (spacing, indentation, etc), but there's still plenty of yakyak to be had for higher-order "religious" debates...
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by allo37 5y ago
A big issue seems to be that what is "readable" to one person isn't necessarily "readable" to someone else, and you end up with endless yakyak over whether the braces should be inline with the `if` statement or not.
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by allo37 5y ago
I'm old enough to remember when Napster first came out, and for many years there were all these idealistic arguments over how copying something wasn't actually theft, and how new technology was disrupting the greedy dinosaurs of t
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by allo37 5y ago
One thing I feel is worth pointing out is that in my experience a position that seems really interesting because it's in an "interesting" field...might not be. For example, you see a job posting at AwesomeCorp doing blockchai
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by allo37 5y ago
> To be honest, I don't get the appeal of e-bikes for the type of riding you do. Snow =D I live in Canada and we have quite a bit of snow and ice on the roads in the winter. I'm currently waiting for an electric fat-tire bike (
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by allo37 5y ago
I feel like the big issue in the provided example is not so much the fundamentals, but that the "fundamentals" in this case is just buzzword trivia. Maybe a better question would be to ask about atomicity and isolation specificall
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by allo37 5y ago
Only one 400 page PDF?! You're a lucky person :) But, I do agree with the general point - since everything is "close to the metal", there are no or very few layers of abstractions to dig through to figure out what's goin

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