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by evouga 4y ago
GitHub has a formidable monopoly on source code hosting, thanks to network effects alone. I don't think there's a realistic case you can make today along the lines of your first bullet point that could convince a career-minded d
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by evouga 4y ago
Also the article is translated from Russian(?) into English, which I’m sure is responsible for some of the odd diction.
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by evouga 4y ago
Honestly from this article nobody comes off looking great: there are musicians refusing to accept fiscal reality on one side, and management acting in bad faith and firing the conductor out of spite on the other. Pity.
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by evouga 4y ago
I graduated ‘07. Computer science was seen as a reasonable, but sub-optimal, career path in terms of money and job opportunities. If you were optimizing for career you did pre-med. The CS classes were small (30 students) and consisted of pe
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by evouga 4y ago
This article doesn’t address the main objection I have about the practical value of cryptocurrency, namely, why I can’t take such an application, replace the distributed ledger with a SQL database, and get a solution that’s better in every
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by evouga 4y ago
Every article about 2FA lists the primary email account as the most important account to secure with 2FA, precisely because it can be used to reset all other passwords. And yet interestingly when I Google "why use 2FA?" the enti
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by evouga 4y ago
Hey joe. I was DarkDragon. CS professor now.
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by evouga 4y ago
I was the main developer and webmaster of Zelda Classic for several years in the mid-2000s. Nintendo knew about us because disgruntled users reported us in retaliation for forum drama, but they never came after us. Probably because we were
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by evouga 4y ago
One aspect of entropy that I always find counterintuitive is that unlike mass, charge, etc. it is not a physical quantity. In fact, from the point of view of an experimenter with perfect information about a physical system, the entropy of t
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by evouga 4y ago
Of course if GitHub were only a service for cloud hosting of Git repositories, it would be totally irrelevant whether or not the repository was marked private for 30 minutes. But GitHub, by design, seeks to be as much of a social network as
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by evouga 5y ago
If Debian didn’t want politics in their tech decisions, they should have focused their scope on tech decisions rather than politics. Not that there’s anything wrong with an organization holding forth on “issues of the day,” per se. But ther
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by evouga 5y ago
The problem is that on the modern internet, there are no public squares for hosting long-form video content. YouTube has a monopoly on the one big, private square. Something pretty much all YouTube content creators have been complaining abo
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by evouga 5y ago
I feel like authentication these days has veered way too much towards the extreme of security over usability. My primary email account, bank accounts, medical records, etc. absolutely should be protected with MFA (and ironically often are n
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by evouga 5y ago
I think this is a safe bet, but I would make it with or without the presence of AI Coders. We're clearly in the middle of Tech Bubble 2.0 and it's sure to pop in the next 10 years (and probably much sooner, given the recent crypto
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by evouga 5y ago
Maybe… maybe … tools like Copilot will allow us to work at a higher level of abstraction (like optimizing compilers have allowed us to do). I say maybe because so far the code that Copilot has generated for me has been impressive for wha
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by evouga 5y ago
I just stopped playing Wordle this week since I’ve lost interest (even on Hard Mode). Buying a fad at peak popularity is a strange business decision.
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by evouga 5y ago
The best explanation I’ve seen is that Google only cares about the quality of the results when using completely natural language sentences (which I guess is how most non-technical people try to use it?) rather than the specialized search en
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by evouga 5y ago
I’m rapidly approaching the “email singularity” where it would take me more time to answer one email than the average time between incoming emails. If I receive an email and it’s something I can quickly answer on my phone while waiting for
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by evouga 5y ago
I agree with the complaints that esoteric competitive-programming stuff (suffix arrays, segment trees, Dinic's algorithm, etc.) should not tested in a coding interview. But most of the Leetcode problems cover basic algorithms like BFS&
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by evouga 5y ago
It’s probably not as-adversarial-as-possible in the sense of maximizing the minimum number of guesses to win. From playing in an ad hoc way I found TINES->BOARD->LUMPY->CLUCK->FLUFF which wins in 5 moves. I feel like an even har
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by evouga 5y ago
No, I disagree. With keyword search, I am confident that eventually, with enough included and excluded terms, I will find what I’m looking for. With natural language search, sometimes it works great, but it’s a crapshoot and when you don’t
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by evouga 5y ago
I think a suspension is okay if the code breaks the GitHub frontend or backend itself, or exposes Microsoft to legal liability (because the code embeds copyright material, etc.) In no other circumstances do I want GitHub patrolling what use
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by evouga 5y ago
For a long time I've owned a premium GitHub account and would roll my eyes at colleagues who insisted on using GitLab, as I felt that GitHub had a clearly superior user experience. I have to say, though, that every time in recent memor
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by evouga 5y ago
Back in the day I both edited Wikipedia and helped maintain a MediaWiki installation. I found learning wiki markup (and the subtleties of the template engine in particular) quite challenging on the frontend, and the backend was even worse.
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by evouga 5y ago
It's not just Google---the World Wide Web itself is rapidly becoming a defunct protocol, the culmination of a decades-long shift in the Internet's center of mass away from browsers and towards centralized and commercialized apps--
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by evouga 5y ago
> The reality is that system calls aren’t “fast” and they can’t portably or dynamically be guaranteed to be fast. Perhaps, but the reality is also that the vast majority of games and other interactive applications routinely make blocking
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by evouga 5y ago
Game is unrealistic: a nonzero number of matches appear.
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by evouga 5y ago
The unstated major premise here is that software engineering work is valuable/fulfilling/high-status, while other work is not---so that pushing someone naturally suited to software engineering away causes harm, while pushing peopl
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by evouga 5y ago
> so nobody ever does outside of QA who does end-to-end black box testing and just kind of hopes they've covered all of their bases (hint: they didn't). You don't need to cover all bases, in 99% of software. (And in the 1%
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by evouga 5y ago
Thanks, this is the perfect explanation that was missing from the original article.

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