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by bmitc 2y ago
As far as possible. Git's line-based diffing is ridiculously primitive and gets in the way of software development. I wonder how many bugs are introduced because of Git's diffing system.
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by bmitc 2y ago
What startups have provided lasting real solutions and value, not just capitalistic, in say the last decade?
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by bmitc 2y ago
Which ones?
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's not just AI startups. It's almost all of them. The startup world is just a massive pump and dump scheme, and so it moves from field to field finding the next hotness. Self-driving cars, VR, EVs, AI, and so on. People soon rea
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by bmitc 2y ago
> This time round, employers had all kinds of weird esoteric requirements which made no sense. I have often seen some jobs that sounded like a directory level manager mixed with principal engineer mixed with principal scientist all into
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by bmitc 2y ago
I am also typically overly transparent and honest about my existing on the ground experience, even though I also have a lot of experience in learning new things. It doesn't always work out, as people are often scared of transparency. I
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by bmitc 2y ago
Hell, a lot of the times I don't even have keywords anywhere on my resume or profiles, and yet I get interviewed and then asked about said missing keywords. It's bizarre.
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by bmitc 2y ago
One of the other things that I was thinking of was the notion of humility and curiosity. For me personally, I like to brainstorm and improv a bit and then shrink down to a proper design or method. This type of process is extremely difficult
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by bmitc 2y ago
I generally agree with you, but I think it depends on the team. If the team is just "using" C++ but aren't good software developers, then yea, I totally agree that having a non-C++ expert join the team is going to be a rough
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by bmitc 2y ago
In general, people are completely uninterested in experience that they don't understand, I've found. They don't want to even ask about it because it would showcase that they, gasp, don't know something that you do.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Yea, cause everyone who is already writing C++ is really good at it and good at not writing bugs.
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by bmitc 2y ago
That is definitely true. And a lot of the jobs are jobs that the person would do well in, but the employers don't bother to see it. I know there are jobs that I would have done extremely well in, but the companies were just black box
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideration your particular profile or the contributions you can make. This is really key. I have applied for jobs before, and then get questions like: "what's your exper
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by bmitc 2y ago
I don't buy things I need to rely on from Amazon.
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by bmitc 2y ago
If I made be jaded here. I did extremely well in school(s). I was never a trouble maker and was a top athlete, student, and musician. I think education is supremely important. However, school didn't teach me any of what you mentioned.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Political? It was performed by their system. It doesn't sound like a human was in the loop at all, besides those who developed the system. And like I said, it isn't just this post alone. Read my comment again.
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's my understanding that Fly.io heavily uses Elixir and has several Elixir bigshots on staff. But I only see mention of Fly.io for people are moving off of it or having major issues. I'm wondering of that's really the case
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by bmitc 2y ago
Regardless of the details here, it's become quite clear that the judicial system is for corporations. It doesn't matter whether they win, lose, or settle, as they win regardless, since the monetary benefits of what got them in cou
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by bmitc 2y ago
Can you use this to auto-logon to systems?
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by bmitc 2y ago
I'm less concerned that a procesure was technically followed, this time, and more concerned that Boeing has seemingly endless problems with their planes from the simple to leading to passenger death.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> this seems to be a case of everything working as intended Not in the context of everything else that's happened. > If this happened on an Airbus plane it wouldn't have ended up on the front page. Has Airbus been discovered
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by bmitc 2y ago
I wish people would just stop using Python for large projects. It's such a terrible language and ecosystem with a huge surface area of gotchas.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Are you able to elaborate more? What language? I have used LabVIEW, among other visual languages, and built systems with 1,000+ VIs, which are the fundamental building blocks of code organization, and hundreds of classes. LabVIEW has VIs, c
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by bmitc 2y ago
Debugging is quite nice. Clicking on a wire and being able to visually see its value at runtime and even present it in a custom UI, like a graph or chart, is awesome.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Beyond some specific use cases, they don't seem to scale cognitively. The tangle of connections is a problem. This just isn't true. I've actually built things in visual languages. It just requires the same organization a
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by bmitc 2y ago
Thanks. I'll take a look. But it being in Rust makes me a bit hesitant. A lot of these projects in Rust seem to fizzle out as soon as people get bored with them once they become hard. Do you know of anything major that's using it?
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by bmitc 2y ago
I think that's actually worse. It's several disparate teams failing in similar ways. It makes Amazon looknfoolosh with their hiring process and "principles".
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by bmitc 2y ago
Is there a cross-platform accessibility library? I can tell you that developing a cross-platform GUI framework is a gigantic can of worms fraught with forced yakshaving, no documentarion, no support, and endless bugs across the stack even d
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by bmitc 2y ago
Poetry at least helps with that for Python. It's all still a mess though.
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by bmitc 2y ago
But wouldn't that mean it's black holes all the way down? If in our universe, another universe is inside every black hole, then aren't those universes quite small due to their total mass being the same as the black holes&#x27

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