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by avl999 5y ago
Rust does not solve the problems that I deal with in the kind of work I do. I have no interest in picking up Kotlin. Java/Go/C# solve all the problems that Kotlin solves without the interop headaches and I pick between them for pr
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by avl999 5y ago
Yeah the compiler guarantees that a certain class of errors can never happen and thus you don't need to go through significant effort to cover things like error returns. Additionally with a dynamic language where the codebase has less
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by avl999 5y ago
panics != errors that person is talking about application level error handling. In most cases if a functions panics generally the caller isn't expected to do anything about it other than perhaps have a panic handler at the top level of
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They are referencing the LoC metric to show that they are not using it for some toy CLI app used by 2 members in the team and therefore justifying the reason for this blogpost. 500k LOC doesn't seem that unreasonable, not sure how you
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by avl999 5y ago
It is a language for people who like to get things done and get reasonably performant code for free. Relative to folks grinding in some of these dynamic languages doing contortions to deal with basic things like concurrency, twisting themse
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by avl999 6y ago
I find Go much more enjoyable to code than the Javascript/Node. It's not just the language... the entire javascript ecosystem is so chaotic and all over the place compared to the smooth ocean that is GoLang.
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by avl999 6y ago
Hacker News and the old reddit is the pinnacle of user experience for a site of its "genre". The new reddit perfectly exemplifies what @antirez is saying. It's amazing to me that hundreds (thousands?) of people who work at Re
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by avl999 6y ago
It's like we haven't learned anything from horror movies.
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by avl999 6y ago
Maybe we should consider getting rid of esp problematic species of bats that are host to the most pathogens. I personally don't see much value in the species. They are like the mosquitos of the mammal world.
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In extremely bad taste.
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by avl999 6y ago
Is this the beginning of a cover story that the intelligence agencies are setting up in reaction to congress passing a provision to be briefed on UFO research within 180 days as part of the covid funding bill? Also note that David Fravor en
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by avl999 6y ago
I would not have a problem with hiring someone describing themselves as a "proud atheist". I would have issues hiring someone describing themselves as a "jesus hater" just as I would have a trouble hiring someone who des
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This post reflects more poorly on you than it does on the so called 'Jesus lovers' and I say this as an atheist. You are unambiguously in the wrong rejecting candidates for their religious affiliation unless there is something els
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At this point the existence of the UFO phenomenon is undeniable. The fact that congress attached to the covid relief bill that the intelligence services must present a report of everything they know about ufos within a 180 days tells you th
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by avl999 6y ago
They'll survive being dropped by Amazon. What they most likely won't survive is if CloudFlare wants nothing to do with them. They are done if CloudFlare drops them.
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by avl999 6y ago
That joke about "Twitter...pffft... I can build that in a weekend" is coming full circle.
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> the reason they "find that the compiler feels like an annoyance" is because their first exposure to Java / C++ is in school where they have an assignment due for tonight and the compiler won't stop banging pages of
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by avl999 6y ago
This is an incredibly broad question and touches on many aspects of software engineering, devops and operations. For operations, I would recommend having the team read the google SRE book https://sre.google/workbook/tab
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by avl999 6y ago
Firefox because I don't wanna give any more power to Google than they have already. Additionally I like supporting a browser not built by a megacorp which is as functional as the megacorp's browser.
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> The sad thing is precisely that no-one cares about "re-integrating" proponents of right-leaning views "to society". Are you arguing violent extremism and trying to overthrow the government is synonymous with "r
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by avl999 6y ago
No evidence that it is deadlier than other variants. Some evidence that it is more infectious.
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Day 5 part 1 solution is interesting. I had implemented it the obvious way doing a binary search. I didn't realize you could represent that string as binary and get the equivalent integer. That's really cool however I am not sure
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by avl999 6y ago
While I agree that these interviews can be a bit much but what's the alternative? If I am a job seeker I feel much more comfortable knowing that they expect me to write code and answer DS+Alg questions and prepare for it as opposed to
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by avl999 6y ago
Even the ethical questions about working at facebook aside, as an engineering environment fb doesn't seem like that great of a place. Kent Beck was fired from fb, he worked there for a few years and shared his experience of the culture
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by avl999 6y ago
RSUs from your signing bonus vest fully at 2 years (atleast at Amazon). A lot of people bail as soon as that vesting happens.
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While I have sympathy for the idea that some of these interviews can be ridiculous, however it doesn't seem like the interviewer was in the wrong here. As an interviewee you should have known what interview process is like, I worked at
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by avl999 6y ago
That's fair but there are vast number of people for whom having kids is an immense drain on their life. I am not just talking about the folks who fall into this category that visit HN (well off professionals who decide to forego kids f
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Not "important" for everyone. In case of many people kids can actively reduce their quality of life due to having to worry about things like money for houses, school etc. That kids are important of a person's life is a lie so
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Is there a modern non-Smalltalk, non-Lisp (or its derivatives) non functional imperative programming language that supports a "real repl" that the author is talking about? I don't know if that kind of environment is for me bu

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