bombolo

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811.
by bombolo 4y ago
Do you think suddenly iphones will come out of the box with competing app stores? What made this strange thought pop into your head?
812.
by bombolo 4y ago
> do you not remember all the complaints about something as simple as resetting a VCR's clock and parents just living with it blinking after a power outage Why fix it? What's the drawback in leaving it blinking? They could fix
813.
by bombolo 4y ago
> which is kind of overkill. But a profitable one
814.
by bombolo 4y ago
> Put a JS dev and a C++ dev of equal experience against each other and the JS dev will have fewer bugs. At the most basic, the JS dev would have all the same logic bugs as the C++ dev, but subtracting the memory bugs from the JS bug cou
815.
by bombolo 4y ago
Well if you include the "download all the js dependencies" step… there it goes any time benefit you might have gained.
816.
by bombolo 4y ago
> My code will have fewer defects Well, I agree it will have fewer memory bugs. But fewer issues altogether… you're just bragging now. Your application will have awful keyboard navigation, will not support normal well established sh
817.
by bombolo 4y ago
Perhaps they could even start to realise that using their application isn't the entire purpose of your life and you might also want to run other stuff as well.
818.
by bombolo 4y ago
> The rest of the computer looks like shit. Except when I change theme, it all looks nice except your shitty electron app.
819.
by bombolo 4y ago
qwidget has layouts too. He probably tried to use qt for about 3 minutes and gave up.
820.
by bombolo 4y ago
You clearly never developed software besides hello world or never used chatgpt.
821.
by bombolo 4y ago
The 2 element array in my example will be very slow to sort with counting sort, and you didn't notice. Exactly the point I was trying to make when saying that knowing theory is useful :)
822.
by bombolo 4y ago
> You also open yourself to sexual harassment lawsuits Then don't sexually harass people? You should have decency also if you don't attend a university.
823.
by bombolo 4y ago
It probably depends very much on if you ever do advanced stuff and if you are able to discern a bad solution from a good one. For example reading a file with a loop of read(1) works fine, but it's extremely slow. A CSE graduate should
824.
by bombolo 4y ago
My master's course only accepted students whose bachelor degree included a minimum amount of credits in mathematics. All of the computer-whatever bachelors from around the world are not allowed to sign up for it.
825.
by bombolo 4y ago
I've been told that my CSE degree was obsolete 10 years ago. Funny, seems that this take is more obsolete than the degree itself :)
826.
by bombolo 4y ago
You can't just learn what you need today without having the culture to understand what you're reading. Dumb example: counting sort is fast! Ok let's use it. Then your data happens to be an array of 2 elements -10000000 and +1
827.
by bombolo 4y ago
In USA "engineer" isn't protected. I have met "sales engineers", that are supposedly technical people and don't know you need to hit "enter" after copy pasting a command on the shell.
828.
by bombolo 4y ago
> steam Do you want steam to actually run any game? :D
829.
by bombolo 4y ago
I was saying that tying the salary to "how much profit the company makes" makes no sense :D
830.
by bombolo 4y ago
software companies often don't make any money at all.By that logic paying them at all is too much.
831.
by bombolo 4y ago
Hello! I work on a software used (not exclusively) by the USA armed forces. I work from home for the most part. I can do that while travelling as well but I have some limitations on which countries I can do that from. But I'm not sure
832.
by bombolo 4y ago
Ah yes startups are famous for good work/life balance and treating people fairly by paying with worthless shares.
833.
by bombolo 4y ago
> the ideals of equality were trampled almost as quickly as they were declared And yet the standards of living post revolution and post war increased quite dramatically in the soviet union.
834.
by bombolo 4y ago
More like the lego castle.
835.
by bombolo 4y ago
The benefit is to use for something else that benefits them :P
836.
by bombolo 4y ago
ChatGPT isn't writing correct code. But it is making the copyright ownership open to lawsuits.
837.
by bombolo 4y ago
> I bought Intellij idea for $400 like 12 years ago and got made fun of at work even though it made me substantially faster than eclipse. And? You have 400$ less than them.
838.
by bombolo 4y ago
> most people downloading binaries from GitHub probably have node installed There are millions, perhaps even billions of people who aren't js developers. I'm one of them :)
839.
by bombolo 4y ago
Windows doesn't support changing the volume by scrolling when having the mouse on the speaker tray icon. I miss that so much when I'm on windows and not on KDE.
840.
by bombolo 4y ago
If it's more than a few you end up with overfitting though.

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