efsavage

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by efsavage 5y ago
Actually, the opposite. The result of this, besides damaged reputations and hundreds of person-hours of time wasted, was more access controls and more reviews/oversight, which slowed things down and generally made things far less &quo
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by efsavage 5y ago
It's not a generation thing, it's a paycheck thing. curl is run many many billions of times per day in lots of critical workloads. There's nothing to stop anyone from developing a similar library with some jokes in it. I&#
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by efsavage 5y ago
If we're trying to handle the case of greedy doctors, why would a doctor accept a very sick patient who is going to require a higher-than average amount of care and probably not live (i.e. pay) as long? If they can't pick their p
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by efsavage 5y ago
Nice, and congrats. I was actually in the process of writing an app when we were expecting, so I downloaded the US Census CSV of names to import, and when I perused the file I saw a couple names I liked, asked my wife, and we picked one bef
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by efsavage 5y ago
It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but there's some truth in it at least for anything infrastructure related. If your thing is a success, it almost certainly needs to scale to Very Large numbers, and be reliable/distributed/pe
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by efsavage 5y ago
Agreed, I'm happy to see people working on this, but with VR there are so many limiting factors/dealbreakers that I don't envy anyone playing in this space without massive resources to tackle them all. For me, the MVP for wor
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by efsavage 5y ago
Many engineers at large companies won't want to bother dealing with the headaches around licensing software and spending money, whether it's $2/mo or $21/mo or $200/mo. If it's a core part of my job and the bes
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by efsavage 5y ago
The WHY is also very useful in comments, especially in business/UI/glue code where special cases abound.
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by efsavage 5y ago
Rest easy, there is a lot more to the books than that.
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by efsavage 5y ago
I think there's a vacuum here in that society wants someone to intervene when Bad Things Happen, but we either can't agree who that should be or (more likely IMO) the right choice of person/organization just doesn't ex
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by efsavage 5y ago
Agreed, I was there at the same time, and was taken pretty seriously, and grew progessively more locked down as time went on. A friend of mine worked at a large bank in customer service and this was also a big part of their training, and th
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by efsavage 5y ago
In the late 90s, IE4 and then IE5 was the gold standard. We were all ecstatic when we didn't have to support Netscape 4 anymore. It wasn't until Firefox (more specifically Firebug) was mature that IE lost the crown.
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by efsavage 5y ago
I had the SUV/trailer combo for years, and it was handy but there are lots of things it's just not worth the hassle for. Now I have a pickup and making a daily trip to the town compost pile (to eventually get rid of the large pil
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by efsavage 5y ago
I thought Jonathan Strange was ... OK, and Piranesi was maybe a bit better, or at least cuter, and mostly redeemed because it was short and didn't try to turn itself into an epic. I've found both books to be finely crafted, but u
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by efsavage 6y ago
I did the green book (McDowell) cover to cover, with a few dedicated hours of study each day, and random googling/tinkering where I wanted to explore more. I won't say it was the most fun I've ever had, or as self-motivating
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by efsavage 6y ago
> Being a self taught software developer who has been programming since I was 12, I had no idea how to reverse a binary tree. It can be done. As a self-taught developer, and after years of startups and consulting, I got my first FAANG j
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by efsavage 6y ago
Every music store I've been in lately has a larger vinyl section than CDs, so as far as physical media goes, it's a pretty big shift.
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by efsavage 6y ago
> The production of one has huge economies of scale, whereas a song doesn't. Actually, now that we're digital, the economies of scale of music are similar to software, in that they are massive (and Spotify is a key enabler of t
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by efsavage 6y ago
My scenario is not one of power imbalance, it is that I simply cannot create enough economic value doing it to make a living, and I have no right to change anyone else's rules to accommodate for that fact. I cannot make you a bookshel
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by efsavage 6y ago
"sustainable for the artists" There seems to be some idea of what musicians "should" make that other professions don't benefit from. I would like to make the same money from making furniture as I do from writing co
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by efsavage 6y ago
Most VC would love it if they could be 100% gasoline. The common problems people usually generally arise from them having more fuel than there are fires to put it on.
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by efsavage 6y ago
Agreed, but if cheap is your goal, you shouldn't be hiring junior devs. The leanest companies I've seen/worked for were all senior people. "No passengers".
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by efsavage 6y ago
> if the junior or medior doesn't understand matrices, nothing I do will make them understand them. Teaching them will.
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by efsavage 6y ago
Sounds like that's kind of the point, you impose a policy only a certain type of worker can manage. The fact that this type of worker skews cheaper and more flexible (younger, single, no kids, lower cost of living, etc.) is probably n
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by efsavage 6y ago
Also, accessibility numbers are almost always measured very low because people who need those affordances aren't even attempting to use it, since so much software ignores it. Years ago when browsers let you lock font sizes, I heard ma
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by efsavage 6y ago
I have a baseline expected cost for passive entertainment at probably about $2-3/hour and judge things based on that whether to keep it when I see the charge show up on my bill. Some services I have kept for years, others I've sta
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by efsavage 6y ago
Discretion is the root of inequity.
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by efsavage 6y ago
I spent time there on a few occasions. It is an interesting building in that it is huge, but somehow it still feels kind of comfortable and localized. Kind of like a shopping mall but without the walls, but the walls aren't necessary
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by efsavage 6y ago
> Buying insurance on something you already know is going to happen or not is fraud, plain and simple. Is it though? Isn't this just arbitrage based on asymmetrical information (i.e. exactly what insurance companies do)? If she ca
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by efsavage 7y ago
I worked at FB, and I think they would probably do OK if they entered the space as they are very smart about physical infrastructure, but the most plausible explanation I heard from an executive (forget which one) when asked this was that t

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