bcrosby95

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by bcrosby95 7y ago
I use this rule for introducing abstraction: don't do it unless you have at least 3 different use cases you're abstracting, and the test suite doesn't count.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
What you're missing is many people in modern society have decided that kids are solely the responsibility of their parents and no one should ever suffer any inconvenience or displeasure as a result of them. However slight it might be.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Apparently he had zero trouble with antivirus apps fixing his situation. But I guess Google is so special it can't accomplish what companies with a fraction of Google's budget or manpower can do.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
> obscure, low adoption language Plenty of companies aren't attracted to the new shiny.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
How would I pad my resume if I didn't keep reinventing the same wheels over and over?
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
In the US none of my friends went to a top university and we all make a good living as programmers (150k+). Of course we're from the previous generation (in our late 30s) and things might be different for people in their 20s. Edit to
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Most developers probably view sysadmnis as "no men". You want to do WHAT in production? flipoff
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
They hired Jim Keller to design the Zen architecture around 2012, and he left in 2015. Many people point to him for their current success. He joined Intel in 2018.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
While I disagree with the US's stance, ignoring your morals because other countries are doing something would be a race to the bottom.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Note that if you have young children, the list of sensitive goods is basically everything considering they try to eat anything they get their hands on at one time or another.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Use PLEX, buy dvds, and copy them onto your PLEX server. It satisfies all of your listed requirements.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Keep in mind discussion about this is related to companies hiring "only the best". Even though they exist, I highly doubt there are enough 10x engineers out there to supply even all the startups in the world with employees, much
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
> As you read this example, I think your tendency may be to think that its statements are obvious. Not to me. The statements suffer from a common math problem: using single letters. if the names were better, maybe they would be obvious
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Either over this: (define (s x) (* x x)) Which is effectively what the OP does when they write their example. Their simple example quickly becomes unreadable after a few definitions.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Its weird how it's socially acceptable to admit you're reliant upon this specific drug to get work done. But any others and it's bad.
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
Grandparents tried it. She still did it not long after. After that we decided it wasn't worth trying. The twins bite her when she does something they don't like. Doesn't stop her from doing those things they don't lik
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
She was about 2 and a half when they were born. To be more specific, we actually had twins. And she only did it to one of them. Explaining things are what we tried first - its always our first goto - explain, redirect, etc. When we tried
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
> like hitting newborn baby brother We ran into this problem. Our oldest would just hit him again 5 minutes after the timeout. It got to the point where she would hit him, say "timeout!" and go to her timeout spot. She hated
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
I've toyed with trying to use Prolog for procedural map generation in my hobby RPG game. The idea is to feed it a high level human designed map and let it fill in the details. Not sure if you have any thoughts on if it might be suita
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
In my experience, a dataset is considered large if its the largest dataset the company has ever seen. It could be 2GB and be considered "large".
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by bcrosby95 7y ago
An example of really bad technical debt we made in one of our projects was: back when Facebook apps were a thing, another social networking site released an app platform that was very similar to Facebook. Some companies had early partnersh
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by bcrosby95 8y ago
When toys r us was still in business, I went digital dumpster diving on all the 3rd party domain references to find the companies behind all of them. At the end of the day it seemed like pretty much every major tech company I could think o
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by bcrosby95 8y ago
At a company the size of netflix, I would imagine they're using all sorts of languages. I have a friend that works there and he primarily codes in c and/or c++.
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by bcrosby95 8y ago
I described their abilities with the word great. And said they all make over a certain amount. They didn't always make this much. One used to make 140k working in gaming just 3 years ago. He was still great, just getting paid a fractio
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by bcrosby95 8y ago
It's not based on how much they make, but about their abilities.
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by bcrosby95 8y ago
I've never quite understood the logic behind #3. Why wouldn't I just scale my monolith up and down instead? I could see some instances where being able to do it independently would be useful (e.g. when the feature has unique res