fenomas

42 ms·

511.
by fenomas 5y ago
The value that recruiters offer is delivering good candidates. If you convince a recruiter that you're a good candidate, then they will run around selling you to companies! And companies will listen, because the recruiter has build a
512.
by fenomas 5y ago
It's weird to imagine devious hidden motives like this, when recruiters already have obvious natural reasons to want to do a phone call. Example 1: they need to get a rough idea of whether you're a jerk, whether you can communicat
513.
by fenomas 5y ago
> IDEs can show commit history. How you check the commit history is beside the point - the question is, do you read the entire commit log history for a chunk of code before editing it? If not, any comments there might as well not exi
514.
by fenomas 5y ago
This sounds like a recipe for write-only comments. The point of a good comment is to guide later development - to say "here's something you should know before editing this code". If you put information like that in commit log
515.
by fenomas 5y ago
> Rule 6: Provide links to the original source of copied code I learned this rule viscerally early in my career. Back in the golden age of Experimental Flash Art there was an enigmatic site called "flight404", and one day the s
516.
by fenomas 5y ago
I'm lost. Are you talking about meta-level comments, like "here's why this change is being made", that aren't directly tied to any particular line of code? If so, certainly putting that stuff in commits makes sense.
517.
by fenomas 5y ago
It's guided by users right? I.e. every line was hand-chosen by a human, from a bunch of generated options?
518.
by fenomas 5y ago
Looks neat, but note that OpenAI is basically an App Store model - whatever you make with it cannot be shown to more than five people unless OpenAI has reviewed and explicitly approved your project. And their usage guidelines are pretty nar
519.
by fenomas 5y ago
> the HTML5 Minecraft I've never seen run properly in a mobile web browser: > https://classic.minecraft.net/ I think that site just doesn't grok touch. Tech-wise, I believe it would run okay on modern phones
520.
by fenomas 5y ago
Yes. That's what all the "but it's obvious!" commenters are missing - normally the spectator wouldn't have all the information that TFA lays out (that exactly half the deck starts out reversed, exactly how the cards
521.
by fenomas 5y ago
TFA explains the trick somewhat oddly, to make the math angle more obvious. Here's a (random) video of someone doing it a more usual presentation of the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xau8Ng4aQ6Y Not the world
522.
by fenomas 5y ago
Those benchmarks run the program once from a cold start, right? When people talk about JS nearing c++ performance I think they generally mean cases like the steady-state performance of a game loop, after the JS engine has had a chance to
523.
by fenomas 5y ago
This solution doesn't hold - just because a game is symmetrical, doesn't guarantee that the optimal move in some limiting case works in all cases. For example, consider if the game was played with N>2 players, or if the win con
524.
by fenomas 5y ago
The format (swf) is an open standard, since... around 2008ish? ActionScript goes further, the VM itself is open source (as Mozilla Tamarin).
525.
by fenomas 5y ago
I worked at Adobe at the time, adjacent to Flash, and as far as I know nothing you've written here is true. To answer only technical points, Flash for iPhone (which existed, and worked) was built off Flash Lite , which supported touch
526.
by fenomas 5y ago
I looked for contrary articles and didn't see any. If you have some handy, posting links to them would add a lot more to the conversation than randomly spewing invective at me.
527.
by fenomas 5y ago
My dude, I am neither the author nor the quoted source of the article I linked. Dial it down a notch hey? Also, your other comments are pretty extensively addressed in the same article.
528.
by fenomas 5y ago
To the many people coming here to comment about why she had personal apps on a work phone: Some Apple employees are reportedly required to link their personal iCloud with their work account/devices. https://www.theverge.co
529.
by fenomas 5y ago
Some Apple employees are reportedly required to link their personal iCloud with their work account/devices, so there's probably no bright line there. It could have been a personal device that was linked to her work account, or a w
530.
by fenomas 5y ago
He has a companion video about that - apparently that particular SEM is the smallest in the world, and the manufacturer loaned him one to make videos about. But he had a ton of issues with it due to being at a high altitude. https:/&#
531.
by fenomas 5y ago
"const foo = bar" just means that foo can't be reassigned to some other value. It doesn't say anything about bar.
532.
by fenomas 5y ago
It feels like it ought to, but I did some light testing in the browser and it seems that V8 never optimizes it into an empty loop, even after it's hot code for a long time. I know turbofan does LICM, but I don't think it knows how
533.
by fenomas 5y ago
function main() { let myNum = 0; for (let i = 0; i <= ITERATIONS; i++) { myNum *= i; myNum++; } } I'm a little surprised that turbofan doesn't JIT that into an empty
534.
by fenomas 5y ago
Hi, thanks for confirming! The issue reproduces in Chrome 94 but not current mac/Firefox, so I think it's new (though with now way to downgrade Chrome it's hard to be sure). Unfortunately I don't have a shareable URL tha
535.
by fenomas 5y ago
Does anyone here know whether/how this should affect WebGL rendering? I'm developing a browser-based 3D game, and since a week or two ago I've noticed the rendering on mac/chrome is way slower than before. In fact my gam
536.
by fenomas 5y ago
That's how the scientific Nobel prizes work. The average delay between discovery and award for recent Physics prizes is over 25 years, and gaps of 40+ years are not uncommon.
537.
by fenomas 5y ago
Ao isn't ambiguous in modern Japanese. It appears in various set phrases for things that aren't blue, but when used on its own to describe the color of something it just means blue.
538.
by fenomas 5y ago
I remember how absurd that thing was, and I always feel bad for the Sokal experiment getting lumped in with it. Proving that a journal will publish incomprehensible gibberish is a very different result than proving that some journals will p
539.
by fenomas 5y ago
I was replying to GP's suggestion that the argument is over relatively trivial code, not to anything about the core dispute.
540.
by fenomas 5y ago
I don't think this is a fair framing. This isn't left-pad - it's a library that abstracts something people find annoying, and finding the right abstraction can be difficult even if the final code doesn't seem complicated

More ›