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by cbarrick 3y ago
Have best practices changed since 2019? I'm genuinely curious. Should I not consider this learning resource?
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by cbarrick 3y ago
Previous (2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047 Also posted 7 days ago (No discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36548428
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by cbarrick 3y ago
Yes. I'm less concerned about it being cumbersome to write than I am about it being cumbersome to read. And again, this complaint will only be relevant in contexts where this specific convention is used.
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by cbarrick 3y ago
In IPA, slashes are used for abstract phonemic notation ( pronunciation guides). Converting that to <em> would be annoying for certain communities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...
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by cbarrick 3y ago
This is reminiscent of Tom7's Harder Drives. http://tom7.org/harder/
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by cbarrick 3y ago
Ah, I see. The ability to push to infra is more about the development loop than prod rollouts. Prod can (and should ) use CD with a well understood source of truth. Thanks, I was misunderstanding the purpose of the feature.
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by cbarrick 3y ago
> Just as PyTorch lets you send a model .to("cuda"), Runhouse enables hardware heterogeneity by letting you send your code (or dataset, environment, pipeline, etc) .to(“cloud_instance”, “on_prem”, “data_store”...), all from ins
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by cbarrick 3y ago
> Using your analogy, it would be like initially giving your future employees the choice between Emacs and Vim, but later giving Vim users extra points in performance reviews. That analogy doesn't quite apply to this Google situatio
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by cbarrick 3y ago
That page was not helpful to me. I still have no idea if Photomator is something I should consider, having already purchased Pixelmator Pro.
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by cbarrick 3y ago
In undergrad, I wrote a Gulp plugin (a Node build tool) to run shell scripts. The added value was the ability to connect the script's stdin/stdout into the Gulp pipeline. I wrote it in a weekend, just as a one-off while I was lear
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by cbarrick 4y ago
I think this article is missing the forest for the trees. The article is about finding the appropriate sensitivity of alerts on some signal in order to maximize the predictive value. But you should care more about the quality of the signals
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by cbarrick 4y ago
My problem with the allocaor-api is the "big box" problem. That is, Box<T, A> is a struct containing both a pointer to T and an allocator handle A. With an arena allocator, the handle A would be a pointer to the arena. But w
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by cbarrick 4y ago
I understand your "invalid" point. Your example dereferences a potentially null pointer. But I don't understand your "inefficient" point. At the end of the day, everything gets turned into SSA. So expression-per-lin
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by cbarrick 4y ago
> I'll have some questions about the moral compass of anyone who shows up with Google on the resume. What about former Microsoft employees? Amazon employees? Is big tech an ethical issue for you? Or is it just Google?
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by cbarrick 4y ago
Download-and-copy is the way. A single binary CLI can just copy over itself and exec into the new version. You can preserve the permissions of the original file. With scripting-language CLIs, you either have to deal with the module install
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by cbarrick 4y ago
There are often legal requirements for deletions to occur within a given amount of time. Depending on the volume of such requests, automation is often the only way.
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by cbarrick 4y ago
My canary was similar: the removal of the screensaver settings.
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by cbarrick 4y ago
iTerm2 has a native tmux integration mode, where tmux windows become native tabs/windows, with native scroll back etc. https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
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by cbarrick 4y ago
What are the benefits over HDF5 / netCDF? Python already has great support for these formats with Dask and Xarray. (Think multidimensional Pandas.)
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by cbarrick 4y ago
Google is trying to do something like that with their new Carbon language. https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang
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by cbarrick 4y ago
Required fields really are a terrible idea. Having the validation performed in code you don't control (generated) and that is pervasive (middle services that you don't control) is a nightmare for API evolution. If something is tru
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by cbarrick 4y ago
Why would someone choose this over DOT?
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by cbarrick 4y ago
This is a complete nit, but s/an utopia/a utopia/ Even though "utopia" is spelled starting with a vowel, it is pronounced as /juːˈtoʊpiə/, like "yoo-TOH-pee-ə", with a consonant sound at
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by cbarrick 4y ago
> The linux "userland" includes thousands of independent projects. You'll need to be more specific. I think it's pretty clear from the context. The core GNU userland: glibc, coreutils, gcc, etc.
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by cbarrick 4y ago
No. Take your salary, convert to hourly assuming 40h work weeks, multiply by 2/3. That's the pay rate per hour oncall outside of normal working hours.
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by cbarrick 4y ago
No, for every 60m oncall outside of working hours, we are compensated for 40m. 40/60 == 2/3 So for each hour, we can take either 40m of time off or 40m of pay. In other words, we get paid 66%.
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by cbarrick 4y ago
The 5 is a reference to ES5
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by cbarrick 4y ago
That's a pretty perverse incentive. Why fix the thing if I get paid more if it's broken? Why tune the pager to be quiet if noise equals cash? The pager should be tuned to your SLOs, and you should be incentivized to exceed those S
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by cbarrick 4y ago
Google's oncall compensation structure is phenomenal. For tier 1 oncall (5m response time), for each hour oncall outside of working hours, you are compensated for 40 minutes, which you can either take as time off or at your current pay
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by cbarrick 4y ago
> What does the SoundCloud dev team even do? Prometheus [1] came out of SoundCloud. [1]: https://prometheus.io

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