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by beryilma 2y ago
I have no idea about their music and I don't know who they are as members of the group. But I dislike Nickelback (not hate, though) solely on the basis on the group's name. The name just rubs me the wrong way for some reason...
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by beryilma 2y ago
This is UI theory gone wrong. The idea that users will give feedback more freely when something looks unfinished is at best a non-validated theory. This used to work with actual paper prototypes. But going the extra length to make UI design
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by beryilma 2y ago
I was a big Kafka fan in my younger years. Having read Metamorphosis multiple times, its depth became shallower everytime I've read it. Today, I don't know what to make of his writings.
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by beryilma 2y ago
It must be a company culture thing. I've run book clubs on AI, C++, Code Complete, Timeseries Analysis, and research articles at my company with consistency attendance of 10-15 developers. I even had rotating facilitators and light hom
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by beryilma 2y ago
I am confused. If the author is part of the Give Up GitHub movement, then why still keep 29 repositories on GitHub! Obviously, they didn't give it up.
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by beryilma 2y ago
"Don't be evil" was it? We came a long way from that...
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by beryilma 2y ago
> Parquet is not a database. This is not emphasized often enough. Parquet is useless for anything that requires writing back computed results as in data used by signal processing applications.
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by beryilma 2y ago
So true. Every grant application are literally submitted on the last day. Every grant report are written on or after the last day. Every conference paper are submitted on the last day. Every peer review are submitted on or after the deadli
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by beryilma 2y ago
Why call it "best foreign language novels" if your idea of a foreign language cannot expand outside Europe and Russia. So, nobody wrote a novel that could make the cut for this person unless it was in Spanish, French, German, or R
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by beryilma 2y ago
In my case, the "production" does not really become visible to users right away. Perhaps, I should have called it "pre-production".
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by beryilma 2y ago
Versus now... I changed the text on a button with an internationalized string. It only took me about a week. I put the English string in the catalog, updated a number of tests, run the tests on the local system, pushed the change to staging
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by beryilma 2y ago
There are entire companies in Boston/Cambridge area whose business model is to get perpetual SBIR grants back-to-back and never produce anything of commercial value. And they pad themselves on the back for being innovative companies. I
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by beryilma 2y ago
Doesn't matter if he is the inventor or not. Anybody sending lawyers after someone because some website used a word they claim to own is a jerk in my book.
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by beryilma 2y ago
One more internet jerk to add to my "avoid and never buy anything from" list.
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by beryilma 2y ago
> Personalisation fails for a simple reason - people don't really want to learn. Students/people who are interested in learning a particular subject are doing just fine learning it from already available material, be it books,
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by beryilma 2y ago
I would extend this to clever languages: "Clever languages are the worst languages you could write in". And I would put most functional programming languages in this category.
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by beryilma 2y ago
As I was clicking on this link without reading the URL, I was thinking to myself how Vanguard's website got less dense and more terrible. I was surprised when the link took me to Vanguard. Yes, for showing financial information, lack
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by beryilma 2y ago
> The author doesn’t deliver on the promise made early on the essay to examine the question: Why have UIs gotten so sparse? It is dumbing down of user interfaces to the level of general public. Specialty software UIs are still pretty den
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by beryilma 2y ago
Information density in many areas are out of whack these days. Reminds me of people taking pictures of my presentation slides at conferences where four bullet points with short phrases (say, 50 words in total) turn into a full 12 megapixel
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by beryilma 2y ago
The report describes well everything wrong with academia, most of it stemming from power imbalances. But the report itself is also a prime example of academic wrong-doing. Thirty five people report various malpractice, bullying, fraud, even
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by beryilma 2y ago
Owning a house does not mean not owing anyone a cent. You still owe multiple types of taxes to the government. You still need to get insurance. You still need to make repairs. I actually find piece of mind in renting. I can always say screw
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by beryilma 2y ago
For less than 10 concurrent users, I would rather say: - "Using Kubernetes to host an application when NodeJS would do..." I am not very knowledgeable about Kubernetes or Docker, but often times NodeJS+PM2 worked just fine for me
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by beryilma 2y ago
The point of the article is not clear to me. What is the relation between "start with why" and "databases are becoming a commodity"? It is true that having a unique idea for a startup is no longer (if it ever was) suffic
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by beryilma 2y ago
> Otherwise they wouldn't go to court to force people who don't even want to be in the union... Even worse, they might request your dismissal if you don't join. Here is a direct quote from the Union agreement of a major un
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by beryilma 2y ago
Yup. I gave a lab homework to an SE class of 42. After reading through at least 12 LLM generated, similar looking, and wrong code submissions, I've cancelled the whole lab assignment. And students complained in class evaluations about
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by beryilma 2y ago
Same thing that happened to universities. Management people do not want to deal with awkward, weird, introvert developers/academics. Instead, they get lower-level people as recruiters and administrators that are like themselves, but w
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by beryilma 2y ago
> ... students will spend time figuring out how to fix that and learn the language grammar this way. That is a cute thought. Instead, they do submit the LLM generated code as is, messed up or not, and still expect to get full grade.
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by beryilma 2y ago
It is a mistaken idea that work programming is or must be boring. I think you might mean "boring" as opposed to unnecessarily "creative" or complicated. But not all work code is boring, boiler-plate code.
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by beryilma 2y ago
In my experience, it is not the divas who are the problem, but inexperienced developers (especially ones from non-CS background) who have a weird/no sense of formatting. I have seen my share of strange, inconsistent formatting in code
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by beryilma 2y ago
No. They are not. In fact, paid or unpaid, take-home assignments are unethical. They are built on the power imbalance between the employer and the job candidate. The test is easy: the person who is giving the assignment would themselves be

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