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by arinlen 4y ago
> Facebook "stealing" the word Meta from public use pretty much sums up the company's vision for me - uninspired at best. As much as I dislike Facebook and Facebook-adjacent companies, the metaverse concept is indeed wha
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> I’m not defending them and what they’re doing to Keffals is beyond wrong but what does this hope to accomplish? The whole gay cakes debacle resulted in jurisprudence that supports the right of businesses to refuse service on the grou
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> I don't know why so many people think forgetting fundamental is normal. Because it is normal. The notion that you recall everything from a random class you took some semester years ago, and that it won't ever leave your me
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> I’m against attaching bullshit marketing labels to good practices and making them a cancer on the project (cough devops, agile cough). There is absolutely no bullshit in replacing waterfall's big upfront design and risk-prone on
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> I reckon there’s some selection bias here too, people who perceive themselves to be incompetent probably talk about it less. The issue here is not what's the true skill level of anyone in the team. The problem is this recurrent
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The example I gave had absolutely nothing to do with incompetency. It just so happened that the problem manifested as a sequence of time-consuming blockers which could only emerge once the previous one was unblocked. Regardless of the examp
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> Managers are the first line of defense in ensuring there is slack within the team to pick up what is problematic. They are, but the first line of defense is often broken due to problems that are controlled, if not outright created, b
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> "stuck in problem solving"? Hell, that's like half the reason I chose a career in computer related stuff. I highly doubt you are referring to the same thing. One thing is being challenged to present a solution. Another
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Your comment sadly repeats the same old software developer tropes, namely: * Managers create all the problems, * Problems not created by managers are created by my team members, * Everyone around me is incompetent except myself, * The probl
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From the article: > France relies on nuclear energy for about 67% of its electricity — more than any other country — and on gas for about 7%. Also: > At the moment, 32 of the 56 France's nuclear reactors, all operated by EDF,
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From the article: > Writing an application with typescript and infrastructure code in typescript means if you want to upgrade your version of typescript you need to upgrade both at the same time. No, it really doesn't. I've b
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> The interview revolved almost 100% around their leadership principles, of which humility is not one, so that should pinpoint it. And I said no one was a software engineer. "Leadership principles" sound like Amazon. As far a
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> Additionally, no one in the panel was a software engineer ... for a software engineering position. None of the FANGs I know ever had non-software engineers interview candidates for SDE positions, specially when software development m
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> Many dislike the idea, but this is why people turn to "nationalism". I have to call Grade-A bullshit on your comment. At best, nationalist political movements take advantage of sticking points with their highly opportunisti
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> Old people own most of the real estate and don't care much about workers. Lisbon's local government is renowned for being the largest property owner in the country, with over 60% of Lisbon's real estate owned by the ci
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> (...) which imo adds cognitive load (...) Choosing to ignore input data does not reduce cognitive load. You are not supposed to ignore the core function of your work, and call it a good practice.
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> We love to hate state, but isn't caching data the key to performance at scale? It seems you're mixing things up. "State" in this context doesn't mean caching results. "State" in this case means that
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> But I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. Most Olympic athletes create a personal goal system, especially if competing in an individual discipline. Winning a gold medal has a profound meaning for them. This. Imagine a life time of hav
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> I'm curious why would they have an interest in a particular player ever getting a grand slam? I'm sure that it's for the same reason football teams have their top scorer take their team's penalty kicks.
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> It's almost as if you believed that a world without advertizing wouldn't propagate any information. I'm sure you are able to understand that actively spreading information is far more effective in getting the message o
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> I don't find these in books, just decades of sweating and pulling my hair "why does it have to be so hard!?" You've not been reading good books then. Stuff like "separate business logic from framework interna
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> For example, if your code involves a lot of linear algebra, then operator overloading the sensible operators is probably a good thing. Operator overloading can be totally useless in linear algebra applications as the algorithms for b
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> This isn't flooding from the sea. Such a wall would make this worse. Dams have been extensively used for flood control, and some dam designs are explicitly designed for that specific purpose. Planning them to make things better
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> Doth thou really think a master such as myself would hammer nails? I am in important zoom meetings! Yes because aligning goals, putting together a system,scoping work, and synching business goals with technical milestones adds no val
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> I find this distinction harmful. Are we going back to the days where there were programmers who did the grunt work and architects who told them what to do? You're fooling yourself if you believe that that's not the norm alr
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> It implies that people aren't actively looking for better solutions to their problems, which is just blatantly false. Not really. Think about it for a moment: are there more people actively searching for better solutions to each
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by arinlen 4y ago
Outstanding comment. Thank you for investing your time writing such a gem.
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> Imagine if we could take that number back in time. What would you differently if a couple of years ago you knew that the public health precautions put in place followed a couple of miracle vaccines that appeared out of the blue led t
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> Yet, C is still slower afterward. If you read the article you'll learn that in the end the author not only states there isn't any practical difference in the results that the author pulled with their ad-hoc test examples bu
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Spoiler: the title is clickbait and the article actually says that C isn't really slower. The initial C implementation written by the author that was passed off as representative of C was naive and had a couple of performance blockers.

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