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by amag 10y ago
> "most code is worthless, there is very little that really should be protected" I think a better analogy would be that most parts of software (i.e. functions) can be thought of as words in literary works, it's not how you
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by amag 10y ago
For me, one thing is the feeling of being constantly watched (even when you're not) that's detrimental to both health (stress) and productivity. So even if I'm less likely to browse HN when in an open office (compiling!) my
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by amag 10y ago
While it works to decide to check email only 2-3 times a day, it doesn't work so well with IM. IM discussions are typically much faster and there's a big risk you miss out on giving your POV before everyone has moved on, if you on
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by amag 10y ago
Yay! Let's make miserable workers even more miserable! We can also implement a policy that any software developer who writes a bug gets a $100 fine, that should teach them! I wonder why no one has thought of this before? Hey HN, I ha
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by amag 10y ago
Yeah! And then burping loudly in between the loud chews. Gotta love your open office!
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by amag 10y ago
The problem is that management thinks it's more expensive. But if we're 15% less productive (as the article suggests and I think is a low estimate) it's actually more expensive with open space.
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by amag 10y ago
But it's so unnatural. If I need to discuss something with a colleague and (s)he's sitting right there, I have to hit myself not to just blurt out loud what I wanted to say. A lot of times the mouth is quicker than the mind and
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by amag 10y ago
> My commute is 20 minutes. Wow! Good for you, but you're truly a minority then. > When I leave, I leave the job behind Also good for you! As a software developer I find it quite hard at times not to think about how to solve a
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by amag 10y ago
Email and slack are interruptive.
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by amag 10y ago
I disagree. I've worked in 1,2,3,5-7 and 30+ ppl offices and my view is that 1 is superior in every way, 2 is possible (but it's quite easy to talk away hours if you have common interests), 3 starts to be quite disturbing (esp
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by amag 10y ago
I find any kind of headphones to be painful/disturbing after a while. On-ear are the worst (who the F * * * thought pressing your ears into your head was a good idea?), followed by in-ear. The only ones I can wear for any amount of t
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by amag 10y ago
And for those of us who get distracted by visual noise? Maybe blinkers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkers_(horse_tack) )?
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by amag 10y ago
The irony is that in order to get things done it's better to work from home. How's that for socialization?
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by amag 10y ago
Yup, it's so odd it's even!
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by amag 10y ago
Actually there is one reason for malloc to return NULL even with virtual memory, your process can run out of address space.
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by amag 10y ago
HR is not your friend. HR is the company's friend. HR will do whatever it thinks is best for the company , not what's best for you.
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by amag 10y ago
> If in all your self-awareness, you know you're not sexist, well then - you're surely not At least not intentionally . You must still be aware that we all have subconscious biases which can sometimes make you act or say somet
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by amag 10y ago
> "I've gotten the impression that our relationship doesn't have the professional trust I would like it to. I'd like to understand what I can do better." This! Use these words exactly! How she responds to this wi
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by amag 10y ago
It all depends on your use case. In my experience, most of the times when dealing with RB:s, it's more important to guarantee that the read index and the write index can be updated lock-free by different threads (e.g. one producer and
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by amag 10y ago
Then you have to deal with branch mispredictions which may hurt performance pretty bad if the RB is heavily trafficked (which often is the use case for an RB).
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by amag 10y ago
Personally I would put pollutions as #1. IMO there's nothing that makes it worth exposing my family and me for any prolonged time to the often dangerous levels of pollution in major Chinese cities.
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by amag 10y ago
"That is to say, humanity is ordinary, cosmically speaking, just one of countless examples of extraterrestrial intelligence spread across the universe." Isn't humanity terrestrial by definition? At least ASFAWK we originate
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by amag 10y ago
So what happens to UWTI when the price of oil falls 1% and to DWTI when it rises 1%?
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by amag 10y ago
Assuming of course that the recipient is ok with you touching their ears...
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by amag 10y ago
OT, but WOW! What a tedious movie! By making everything instant (because people will get bored if there's ever a change of pace?) they manage to make it super-boring. The thing that made the previous Bourne movies appealing was that th
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by amag 10y ago
> A closeted gay, masochist antagonist Don't you mean sadist?
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by amag 10y ago
Or utterly failed ones...
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by amag 10y ago
Often I find the opposite, a better understanding of something means that you have to very clearly understand both its pros and its cons. So by understanding something you dislike well, you need to appreciate its pros, which will lead to
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by amag 10y ago
It seems you have a very strong opinion about who you can work and socialize with... ;P
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by amag 10y ago
In Windows (as in most OS:es), any memory you allocate in user space is virtual, end of story. Ok, not really end of story (I just said that because it's mostly true). You can allocate physical memory from user space but that is for

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