dleslie

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by dleslie 5y ago
It's not so much effort or commitment if the team is fully remote.
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by dleslie 5y ago
What I'm reading here is that even as an experienced interviewer you struggle to make the format effective and equitable. Sounds to me like the format isn't worth keeping; time to hire more, and fire fast?
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by dleslie 5y ago
The design doesn't do anything particularly different or cumbersome regarding memory and ownership, so I'll hazard a guess and say no, it doesn't make it less likely.
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by dleslie 5y ago
zig has many of the same footguns as C++ and C; it just has better developer ergonomics. Use after free, double free, invalid stack RW, uninitialized data, race conditions, etc. They're all possible to be found in Zig programs, because
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by dleslie 5y ago
Twitter is an outrage factory; almost everything about its design lends itself towards engagement via accelerating conflict. I foresee that this sort of tool would encourage conflict within smaller communities that adopt its use, or cause t
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by dleslie 5y ago
Microsoft Works was an amazing piece of software. Always incredibly fast, with a small footprint, and had enough features to satisfy most personal and business needs.
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by dleslie 5y ago
When I was a kid/teen Radio Shack was _the only_ place in town where you could purchase discrete electronic components. There is now no longer a single store in that same town that sells discrete components; the only way to source them
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by dleslie 5y ago
I hope that you are aware that you are greatly empowering your employer by intricately interleaving your work and concept of life. If your social network, your personal support network, your community and self are tied to your work; then yo
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by dleslie 5y ago
Collaborative online digital tools aren't simply adequate, they are vastly superior to analog alternatives. It is less effective, less efficient, to meet in person. Making in-person a requirement limits your access to talent, by exclud
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by dleslie 5y ago
None of what you've described is impossible, or less effective, when performed over digital communication. If anything, digital is better for that coordination and influence gathering due to its recorded nature. Better still, because t
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by dleslie 5y ago
It's the bad default of the devices that most people use. This is basically the outcome that antitrust prosecutors were concerned for with Microsoft. Imagine if Android couldn't bundle a browser, or integrate any of Google's
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by dleslie 5y ago
It's not a quirk of C; it's a failure of the vendors and their partners to appropriately coordinate. This outcome happened _despite_ the best efforts of toolchain developers to provide harmony.
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by dleslie 5y ago
The author failed to prove that the current way isn't sufficiently good, or even that C is particularly bad in its role. They've only maligned its use and failed to appropriately consider why it's used.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Outside of only the most trivial microcontrollers you're going to find edge cases numbering proportional to the complexity of the system. Software complexity is hard. I'm not sure what's the goal in complaining about that. Ju
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by dleslie 5y ago
Linux and Windows have had rock solid ABIs for decades now. Just about any system-appropriate 32bit binary will run on either, if the necessary system libraries are present.
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by dleslie 5y ago
You still have to make choices that may conflict with languages that strictly define their internal binary representations. And I definitely have received .o files from vendors.
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by dleslie 5y ago
x86_64 linux has long had a stable ABI. Any given target for C is as stable as the host developer wishes it to be.
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by dleslie 5y ago
They still have an internal ABI used when static linking; aligning structures, laying out data sections, function call behavior, and so forth. C's flexibility/ambivalence in this regard is why it's preferred on those architec
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by dleslie 5y ago
This is a strange complaint that seems to reduce to C not having a well defined ABI. Of course it doesn't. C implementations do. This isn't really any different than most other languages, but feels different because C doesn't
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by dleslie 5y ago
I recently downgraded all my Windows machines to Win10, because they UI and ads were obnoxious. I'd prefer Win7, or better, Win2K, but driver support only goes so far back.
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by dleslie 5y ago
We millennials are turning forty, for the first time, this year! I'm waiting with eager anticipation to hear what wrongs our whole generation is uniquely responsible for.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Now ask yourself what grass roots campaigns you supported were likely created by agencies like this.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Fastmail also hosts mail on American and Australian servers, using encryption keys they control, making it unsafe for foreigners to use.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Just having the origin be in ProtonMail servers is enough to be flagged. I use custom domains, with all the security options available, with ProtonMail and still my outgoing Email is frequently flagged as suspicious. But I figure this is th
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by dleslie 5y ago
This is more likely because Russia is going to start requiring online services to carry a few dozen government mandated channels, and Disney didn't want to associate their brands with that.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Bandcamper for Chrome. Just finished downloading over 300 albums. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bandcamper/nafpaeh...
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by dleslie 5y ago
And now I'm using an automatic downloader to fetch all the FLAC encodings of the several hundred albums that I purchased from Bandcamp.
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by dleslie 5y ago
Only third party CDNs.
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by dleslie 5y ago
What I find fascinating about this sort of research is that it implies the possibility of finding familiar looking life on other planets; rather than the fanciful and deeply alien artistic renderings of hypothetical extraterrestrial life we
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by dleslie 5y ago
Indeed! It's like a good TV series: knowing when something should end isn't always admitting defeat, it can be acknowledging that a good thing has run its course to its successful completion. Too many things are maintained well pa

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