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by arbie 9y ago
> edit-001: ... Are you planning very many edits?
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by arbie 9y ago
That was incredible. Every combination hypothesized, then experimented with, ending with an intuitive explanation.
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by arbie 9y ago
But then you end up with code sprints solely to optimize resource usage, handled by programmers that didn't code the original module(s). Inefficiencies get layered over inefficiencies.
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by arbie 9y ago
I can't tell if you are being serious. RAM prices have plateaued due to production shortages in the past few years, and many (high-volume) $200 laptops/Chromebooks do not come with 8GB of RAM.
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by arbie 9y ago
Might it be because Slack is free and hosted for you?
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by arbie 9y ago
Was considering doing this since they prohibit iframe embedding via a sameorigin requirement.
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by arbie 9y ago
I didn't know this was possible. How does it work with SSO authentication? I suppose enterprises can force display names?
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by arbie 9y ago
> I've thought about driving during the day and having laptop time for the same activities during rest periods. Probably seems weird, but I'd be in if I could make it work. I do my best thinking behind the wheel, and I've
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by arbie 9y ago
To be fair, Azure is no less opaque.
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by arbie 9y ago
Perhaps OpenJDK can be installed locally by Please when not detected in $PATH?
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by arbie 9y ago
> This is not as insightful as it seems....risk tolerance should be a function of percentages, not square numbers. Percentages are hard to calculate in large companies. Is it a multiple of the engineer's salary? A percentage of the
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by arbie 9y ago
Also called "weighted blankets". The rule of thumb for optimum blanket weight is 10% of body weight + 1lb.
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by arbie 9y ago
Except your backup is now on-site, has no redundancy and has poor accessibility outside the home network. Geographical redundancy and low-latency data transport are nontrivial factors in pricing cloud storage.
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by arbie 9y ago
Indeed, it seems very hard to dis the thissing.
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by arbie 9y ago
Wouldn't a VPN+VDI provide the same functionality?
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by arbie 9y ago
Other than a generous severance package?
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by arbie 9y ago
It does seem a little odd that every comment about Rust gushes about its progress and stability without discussing any downsides. One would be similarly suspicious if, e.g., Perl6 were discussed this way.
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by arbie 9y ago
> Many (most?) people who study CS have no intention of writing software or becoming developers. Quite the opposite, since most schools offer CS degrees but not Software Engineering degrees. Most students in CS are there to learn to beco
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by arbie 9y ago
Yes, Adobe's VoCo, is one example. Images and speech require different architectures (CNNs vs RNNs).
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by arbie 9y ago
I think they serve orthogonal purposes (task-tracking vs Kanban project management). There is heavy overlap between them, and you can certainly use one over the other, but their original intent is clear.
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by arbie 9y ago
Your comment makes me think your workflow has become dogma. Does expecting new hires to hew so closely to existing principles give your team room to evolve?
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by arbie 9y ago
> I'll brush off your sneer at my perceived lack of ability. This is an admirable sentiment. Thank you for making HN a better place. > But everything comes at a cost that has to be weighted against the corresponding benefit, and
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by arbie 9y ago
Then keep the app in the browser. There is no user-benefit to requiring installation of Uber or Tinder. Hard for companies to give up that juicy user monitoring, though.
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by arbie 9y ago
Completely agree. The mantle of _engineer_ is not passed on simply via a job title. Responsible engineers (i.e., those that I aspire to emulate) seem to spend non-trivial amounts of time predicting and avoiding potential-negative outcomes.
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by arbie 9y ago
himem.sys seemed like black-magic to me at the time.
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by arbie 9y ago
The Seldon Plan is both the protagonist and antagonist of the Foundation trilogy. The human characters are merely incidental. A masterful achievement. I see the beginnings of something similar with The Flow in The Collapsing Empire.
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by arbie 9y ago
Why would Auto-Correct kick in on incoming texts or on browser pages?
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by arbie 9y ago
The ForceTouch Trackpad on the 2017 MacBook still recognizes taps and clicks as separate events.
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by arbie 9y ago
Is it disappointing that OP thinks only web testing requires/uses automation engineering?
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by arbie 9y ago
Perhaps a Gaussian distribution of weights?

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