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by dpc_pw 6y ago
I think that's one of a big problem for candidates to fix - that mindset is wrong and should be changed. An interview should not be a "high stakes situation". It should be more of a casual event - trying to get each other and
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Every situation is different. If I were in your shoes I'd try to be open about it with recruiters and figure out / propose some alternative that work better for you - whatever that might be. Also keep
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
No it won't. All these federated protocols are doomed to die out of spam, centralization, censorship churn. People really have to watch what Urbit is doing and understand why. Anything less is insufficient.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
That experiment assumes that SWE job is exclusively about solving technical problems, so we can just "lock the candidate in a private room and let them solve it". In reality human to human interactions, sometimes stressful, are pa
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Rust is my favourite. I wish I could try Haskell, Ocaml or Erlang professionally sometime. I was OK with Scala, and would like to check Kotlin too.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
To be fair I will probably not use it even if it has generics, at least not if I can avoid it. It will still have nulls, lack sum types, have messed up dependency management and so on. Though in times when I have to use (because it was not
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
You can passively listen to new blocks via satellite or ham radio. You only ever need to connect actively to broadcast your own blocks.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
I was going to ask similar question. I've read through it and had almost no problems whatsoever. Is it weird or typical?
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Is there? How strong? Out of that $100 how much of extra weeks of usage will I get and with what confidence level? Also - Is it affected by the level of hardness in the local water and my patterns of usage ajd types of detergent I use? Does
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Meditations on Moloch made such an impact on me, that I routinely say aloud "Moloch" when I spot circumstances of competition leading to otherwise irrationally bad outcomes. Sort of in a religious way. :) I went to comments exactl
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Both A and B are very easy to abuse and in practice they are often both "bad" because in bigger groups there are always conflicts and personal interests, and some people that will do whatever to have it their way, and most often t
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Compiler optimizers are full of surprises going both ways: good and bad. And details like this can probably change from version to version and get affected by compiling options. I would also expect that performance is higher priority than c
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
We humans just can't help ourselves, but to invent mental shortcuts. Making a judgment "is this really a good abstraction or am I just mindlessly deduplicating code" is context-dependent, nuanced and requires some mental effo
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
> why not design a new Lisp? Urbit.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Relax, Bob is transgender. You can't make assumptions like that without asking for pronouns first. Duh. :D
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
I agree with this one. People that have side projects are generally driven: they are more eager to com up with ideas and are motivated to pursue ideas and projects that they find interesting. Which is great if their ideas are being pursued,
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Saying that "go is concise" should be read "I only know go and java".
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
It's both. JIRA can often be terribly slow. Each page loads about 10 seconds for me, and I don't know why. Other people say it is ~2s for them. I suspect it has something to do with networking and amount of requests being made, et
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Some persistence timeout even without any players would be nice.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
They should just tax data / ads. FB can send one big check to government.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
I would do it with D, but sure: whatever rocks anyones boat. All I'm saying Rust is not particularly worse for writing "quick&dirty" scripts ignoring good design and corner cases. And if any quick&dirty script becomes
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
> I wouldn't want to spend that time one a one off script I only expect to run a few times. You don't have to. No generics, `.clone()` and `.unwrap()` everywhere, and the Rust code goes brrrrr. :D
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Depends on how you define normal. :D I offended a lot of C++ fans, I guess. I guess what I meant is "vast-majority of devs out there". I did ~10 years of kernel/embedded myself. Generally people use C++ only when they really
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
It will sound harsh, but people who can't up their game from C++98 to C++11, are probably not a people that I would consider hiring anyway. Generally, personally I would not hire anyone that knows just one programming language that the
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
But with an autopilot, it seems more likely that you can get away with it. I don't know why so many people can't understand this simple thing: people adjust their behavior to perceived risk. Things that appear riskier cause people
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Personally, at some point Rust was just clearly better and after a while - I lost interest in D. I don't have time to keep track of D catching up, when I'm so happy with Rust, and ecosystem is growing so fast. Maybe D got much bet
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
> Defects are not the fault of programmers It's not that it's wrong. It's just really, really unproductive. Rust language and community capitalized greatly on taking the opposite approach after years of stupid attitude li
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
> That ID design has worked well enough for email for multiple decades. Did it? Oh really? Well if you consider email decentralization a great success, than I retract. Fediverse can totally replicate that "success". I guess it
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Fediverse is such a poor design. It's utterly futile. The ID is tied to a host, so every time you lose your host, there's a lot of work to do, because you don't own your account - your host do. You basically have to start fro
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
probably the best joke in HN today :)

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