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by choeger 4y ago
This is not just disgusting and infuriating, but also simply stupid and bad management style. If course you should always strive to reduce the bus factor. But I don't see any reason to not turn such an experienced, and good at their jo
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by choeger 4y ago
And that's exactly the kind of investment that yields average returns. If you're fine with that you can also directly invest into a company doing this. If you want more, you have to cut some middlemen.
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by choeger 4y ago
Seriously, what do you expect? Money doesn't work. If you invest and want to turn an above-average profit, you need to put up something, be it knowledge, skills, or effort. As you said, owning a house requires a certain skillset, but t
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by choeger 4y ago
Money laundering? Intelligence front? Maybe someone tried to create a legend and Tesla fans noticed it too early? Another option: Say you want to fake your way into C-level positions. Is it out of the question that you could invest a couple
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by choeger 4y ago
The question is: If you model a coin toss, where does the randomness stem from? In a computational model without artificial randomness, you should get perfectly repeatable results, no?
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by choeger 4y ago
Do these guys really say "We ran a neobank and figured out that billing is surprisingly complex."? Like, seriously? That's what you think was complex in your domain. If I had an account at that bank, I'd seriously co
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by choeger 4y ago
I don't consider myself a cynic (1), but I am forced to pull that into questioning every time I see how many paid worker minutes are wasted by such endless streams of pull request modifications. (1) Who am I kidding, of course I am a c
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by choeger 4y ago
I think we simply underestimate the cost of software maintenance because we ignore software maintenance. Migration to a new language is nothing but an extreme form of maintenance. And it's not even that expensive. We're just use
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by choeger 4y ago
If you follow the discussion in Germany, there are 2 main arguments brought up by proponents of Microsoft's cloud offerings: 1. The kids should learn the tools they will later use in their jobs anyways. 2. The idea that Microsoft or so
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by choeger 4y ago
If you like distcc, did you ever give icecc a try? https://github.com/icecc/icecream I never had the time to set it up properly, but by the looks of it, it should be even better.
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by choeger 4y ago
What I don't understand is, how the tree can be used even after movement? How do you know which polygon is behind the other if camera position and angle are freely chosen?
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by choeger 4y ago
What is this? Crowdsourcing design work via gamification?
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by choeger 4y ago
We once had a LAN party in a barn. In October. I vividly remember the cold - it was the night of the first snow. But that very cold must have stabilized our hardware - we never had so few crashes.
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by choeger 4y ago
The ideal use case for something like plasma drilling, no? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_deep_drilling_technol...
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by choeger 4y ago
But you do trust them to delete the data you gave them when you ask nicely?
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by choeger 4y ago
A $3M monthly AWS bill. that's a nugget here. What that means is that amazon, Microsoft, and google are essentially selling shovels during a gold rush. On a subscription basis. In a form that makes it tedious and costly to actually fig
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by choeger 4y ago
Why would L-glucose taste the same and have the same effects on mood, etc. if nothing in nature could interact with it? I am not an expert in chemistry or molecular biology, but that seems odd.
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by choeger 4y ago
Selling your startup and parking the profit in the umbrella company is.
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by choeger 4y ago
Founding a limited-liability company with a builtin tax-evasion scheme is more complicated than it needs to be? I. am. Shocked. Here's a suggestion: Pay your taxes or hire some consultant or lawyer to do the oh so complicated process f
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by choeger 4y ago
So a container that, say, builds nginx from source and doesn't delete the source tree is considered full of dark matter because so many files are not installed from the package manager? That appears to be a difficult definition.
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by choeger 4y ago
While random choice has some merit, it ignores some basic requirements of legislation: Legislation is interfacing with the executive and judicial branches (and you definitely don't want to randomly select your judges and governors). Th
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by choeger 4y ago
I never got the fascination for Orion. Why on earth should a spaceship carry a gigantic pusher plate? Carry hydrogen instead and put through a conventional fission engine. That gives you a much more controllable engine and should save you a
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by choeger 4y ago
If you want to do anything competitively it's a young people's, and arguably very often a young men's (for reasons that are not fully understood yet), game. I think that competitive spirit, or arrogance, depending on how ol
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by choeger 4y ago
Hmm, I know that C is not parseable, but couldn't one define a parseable subset that is still meaningful? That would then pass the burden to the developers that want to bind to a specific library and hopefully these developers have a c
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by choeger 4y ago
But he didn't write -2000 lines of code, did he? He wrote a new algorithm that was 2000 lines shorter than the old one. So, in principle, there was a positive number of lines that could have been reported. Of course, loc is a bad goa
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by choeger 4y ago
I think you forgot at least one valid assertion and implied another one: foo.call() might have a return value. Also, the whole story invocation shouldn't throw an exception, if your language has them. This assertion is often implied (a
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by choeger 4y ago
What? People really would criticize that code because it has two assertions? How are they ever testing any state changes? And to the author: Your bubble is significantly different from mine. Pretty much every competent developer I've
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by choeger 4y ago
How does it compare to heatpumps, though? If a large-scale heatpump was used to power a district, it would only need 1/3 or even less of the electricty. From that perspective, does it make sense to store thermal energy or does a chemic
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by choeger 4y ago
OP mentioned spellchecking. That alone would save much money. One cannot do spellchecking in a (La)TeX "document" because one cannot parse it.
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by choeger 4y ago
> latest fads Context-free languages are the standard for decades now. They haven't been in the very early days of computing due to a lack of formal education of programmers and because they come with a certain, but tiny, memory req

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