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by astral303 6y ago
Software engineers are held responsible to plenty of things (HIPAA) when there is a will to do so.
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by astral303 6y ago
The Bridge analogy is often applied with flaws. Bridges are not free to build. Software essentially is. Here is a 1992 truth bomb rewind about it: https://www.developerdotstar.com/printable/mag/articles/reev..
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by astral303 6y ago
Wisdom tooth removal is a whole different ballgame than plain tooth removal, with painful complications possible (e.g. “impacted” wisdom teeth).
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by astral303 6y ago
Guava cannot not be viewed as a stable platform library, with three major releases a year.
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by astral303 6y ago
I agree that listening to expert advice over your gut is the right thing to do. But that’s besides the point—-learning to trust expert advice is a brain behavior that has to be properly learned. (For example, many of us have learned to cata
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by astral303 6y ago
Hear hear! All I hear is the lack of imagination.
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by astral303 6y ago
Here’s a familiar bit of egg-headed decision making, to prove to you it is the brain that’s the problem, not the gut. Ask the grunts/troops/anyone who is actually writing code: how do you really feel ? Most feel in their gut th
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by astral303 6y ago
Yes, I agree that you should also not dismiss the brain when making decisions. This is widely assumed to be the desired, appropriate behavior. (Whereas dismissing your gut is widely regarded as the right thing to do, which is actually a wro
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by astral303 6y ago
Yes, our gut is our second brain, it’s the subconscious. To dismiss one’s instincts is irrational. Our bodies developed fine-tuned monitoring and alerting systems (our instincts). To ignore your gut is to ignore your hard-earned experience.
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by astral303 6y ago
Another insight for me was coding the original system to have N slots. This should’ve been a red flag—why is there an arbitrary constraint there? Why allow the system to have a fixed limit there? If you choose to go down the slots road, the
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by astral303 6y ago
No, learn how to listen to your body. Heart rate, temperature are side effects in response to an emotional block (e.g. anxiety, fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of the unknown). We have been taught a giant lie that the head is separ
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by astral303 7y ago
Problem is what use cases are strictly OLTP? At this point, I’d consider Scylla/C* to usable for a write-only workload with single-row lookups, or a single-column range lookup. Same question has to be raised: do you have enough rows to
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by astral303 7y ago
The author throws Apple under the bus pointing out a forced full screen modal message advertising Apple TV+. IMO this is an unfair comparison, because the Apple TV+ modal ad came up exactly once and never again (once per Apple TV device). W
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by astral303 7y ago
Do you not consider G1 a low latency GC?
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by astral303 7y ago
I bet this has been discussed internally, but nobody cares because they don’t care about UX enough. They don’t understand the impact. The internal organization is fractured into fiefdoms defending internal services (e.g. deployment, AMP) an
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by astral303 7y ago
I think Google Maps not saving your history as you described is an incredibly bad, frustrating experience. FFS, my phone has gigs of RAM, why can’t Google Maps remember the address I searched for ten minutes ago? One minute ago? This is 201
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by astral303 7y ago
If you think that getting hacked is a choice that somebody makes, you have your perspective way out of whack. Computers are hard.
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by astral303 7y ago
If you like to ship business value for your employers, you will want to be full full stack. If you want to be partially responsible for your work and put up “not my job” boundaries, then sure, proudly hail the part stack flag. If you’re an
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by astral303 7y ago
I agree. OKRs are renamed MBOs. This is extrinsic motivation and a giant waste of time. At best, it’s a process-heavy priorities setting/strategizing mechanism. At worst, it causes unnecessary employee anxiety and distraction away from
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by astral303 8y ago
I’m so sorry for you and so happy for your cat! Good on you
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by astral303 8y ago
RStudio’s Markdown notebooks do not suffer from this and save a separate output file that can be gitignored.
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by astral303 8y ago
I’m enjoying plenty of gaming on my Apple TV, so unless we are talking hardcore AAA titles, there is plenty to keep yourself entertained. It is a far less frustrating game console to use than PS/XBox. It’s actually really nice. I bough
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by astral303 8y ago
Also `jstack` from the shell
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by astral303 8y ago
Java hate is strong out there and clearly blinding.
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by astral303 8y ago
The fact that you can put together a sentence that says "if a poor person invests 10% of their money" betrays that you have no actual understanding of poor people economics.
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by astral303 9y ago
Verizon Fios
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by astral303 9y ago
In C++, you don’t pay for features you dont use. Linux kernel has virtual calls for file systems via function pointers. That’s polymorphism. Why not let the compiler handle that?
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by astral303 9y ago
Thank you for posting this, this is very much like my ADD head works.
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by astral303 9y ago
One idea: look up the closest somewhat-relevant tech meetup on meetup.com -- it might be worthwhile to travel, even if it's 3 hours away.
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by astral303 9y ago
No. Get help for ADHD. I spent 13 years professionally with untreated adult ADHD. All this sounds very familiar. Informative: https://vimeo.com/109309151

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