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by avl999 5y ago
I find it interesting how we have come full circle on static typing. When I was in University 2009-2013... and years leading up to it, dynamic typing was becoming the hot thing after years of Java/C/C++ dominance. Statically typed
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The term "Systems Programming" is pretty wide and encompasses everything from databases and distributed systems which can and are written in Java (eg Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka) to really low level embedded devices with only a fe
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People are writing production level databases, distributed systems in Go... ofcourse it's a systems language unless your definition of a systems language is something super narrow.
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Not only that, the rust community also seems to have some weird complex where not only they evangelize their own language (which is fine) but also feel the need to bully and bash on other languages (usually targeting mainly C/Go but oc
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> Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open Because of dogma and stupidity
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People who call for other people's firings in organizations that they have no visibility into are so weird. This post reads like a tech outage's version of cancel culture where trying to find someone to blame and skewer for an inj
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by avl999 5y ago
It was always clear to me as someone who has seen his share of Elon tweets. He was literally just trolling with his tweets and had no intention of ever joining the board as he doesn't have the time or the passion for that job.
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by avl999 5y ago
Unit tests are never a tool to prove stuff to managers/customers/stakeholders. They are a tool to prove to yourself and your teammates that your code works and have some reasonable amount of confidence that it will continue to wor
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by avl999 5y ago
Does your team work on a codebase that uses a dynamically typed language? If so then the 100% coverage requirement is perfectly reasonable and arguably the only sane way to develop anything more than a tiny project. If a statically typed la
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I hate to say but Apple is producing some pretty good scripted content, I could see Severance winning Emmys this year too.
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The biggest misunderstanding about TDD is that you need to do TDD to be good engineer and write good code as promoted by some TDD evangelists. Writing tests is important, writing good tests is important... what is not important is the order
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They did not have an explanation as of last spring when they were forced to disclose everything they knew about the phenomenon by an act of congress. There wasn't even a redacted appendix.
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These observations have also been made by military adjacent organizations in UK, France and China. It is definitely not a US pilot specific thing.
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> But a new detailed analysis by self-described debunker, skeptic, and UFO investigator Mick West Ignored as soon as I read the name "Mick West". The guy's brand is to be a debunker which in of itself is not bad but I am n
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Even if the data you showed were true (I have seen similar arguments from the pro-DST side), of all decisions were based on optimizing public health outcomes then any kind contact sport among kids/teens would be banned (including socc
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Or an expectation of competence from developers and expecting them to consider tradeoffs of their design- in other words doing their damn jobs as opposed to the language baby sitting them away from tools they might use incorrectly.
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Avoid channels except for straight forward, producer-consumer workflows. Use mutexes and other traditional concurrency primitives for other stuff. Channels are a huge shotgun with caveats.
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This is ridiculous. Why don't they make the DST permanent? And if people want to have more light in the MORNING , then they just WAKE UP LATER . Surely that is easier than permanent REGULAR time.
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by avl999 5y ago
Yep, finally Electron apps will run smoothly on consumer hardware.
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This actually became a problem in Java after the streams API was introduced. A bunch of people in my company started writing Java code that looked nothing like Java with a bunch of chained functional style functions with liberal use of the
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Auto Format is not for the machine, it is for other humans who work with you.
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> For example, cloud run can't run docker containers that doesn't listen to a port. Just run it once and shut down like Fargate does in AWS. I believe the Cloud Run team is working on it and it is in a private beta.
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by avl999 5y ago
How fast you can get code into an editor is never a bottleneck or a drag on productivity. Kubernetes is the biggest go codebase that I know of and is 1.04 million lines of Go code (even included all automatically generated code). Conservati
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by avl999 5y ago
I agree it is embarrassing for Caltech as well. They are one of the biggest engineering schools in North America not Greendale Community College, this kind of class is beneath them. No major research university should be offering a course l
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You would not "marginally improve", you would dramatically improve. That's the dirty secret of these interviews they are not that hard to get good at. There are at most a little over half a dozen data structures and about a d
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This is absolutely embarrassing for the industry.
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Android had been working on their phone long before that. There is a story by Richard Hipp the creator of Sqlite who was flown in by Android to help with their sqlite deployements on their phones long before it was public knowledge. He also
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I hate this trend of apple style trackpads that take up most of the real estate and keep registering false positives when you type. I have to use a macbook for work and most of the time I can use it just fine in clamshell mode connected to
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I don't think I understand the usecases of CRDTs. Operational Transformation algorithms work well, are fast, well understood and are already deployed in real production systems like Google Docs so it's battle tested. The OT proble
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I am shocked he has to put his own money into this movie. It must be really off the wall for a studio to not invest in that. Studios are generally willing to raise money for movies by big name directors even if they haven't had a hit r

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