drkstr

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by drkstr 10y ago
"i could almost turn "could macs be good value?" into a mandatory interview question, because those who say no don't understand how trading money for time works. working with such fools is incredibly tedious and painful.
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by drkstr 10y ago
Peer pressure, mostly in the form of Big Media.
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by drkstr 10y ago
Yes, it's called "perm gen cache," or something like that, on any standard JVM profile. This roughly represents the memory used by the type system. It can get pretty high if you are doing something like auto-generating types
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by drkstr 10y ago
Funny, I had no idea it could do all that. I've been using it in production for years to extract width/height/duration of media files at compile time so my loading placeholders are perfectly sized at runtime in a basic web ap
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by drkstr 10y ago
What if what you described was done by an algorithm rather than by human trickery? What if that action was discovered "per chance" through machine learning? I myself don't feel there is anything morally wrong with that. Why s
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by drkstr 10y ago
Use requestAnimationFrame instead of setTimeout to get a throttled heartbeat.
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by drkstr 10y ago
Can confirm. My best friend is a sales guy at the place I landed my first real (W2) job. Been 5 years and going strong. I am even the "Sr. Engineer" now, working on first principals and loving it!
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by drkstr 11y ago
This actually sounds very close to a need I have been trying to fill, and failing to do so. I have many of these same issues, and can't stand dealing with touch feely psycs (I am way to practical for that nonsense). I realize that many