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by foofie 3y ago
> To me, the value is in scaling DOWN. So much this. To me, something like AWS Lambdas is the best tool in the toolbox if you already run stuff in AWS and you want to offload any event handler or background task to a dedicated service.
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by foofie 3y ago
> It is usually the opposite if I check known colleagues: null performers and phonies have outstanding profiles, the good or super programmer somtimes an awkward or does-not-care profile. I don't think you're interpreting these
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by foofie 3y ago
> Some of the best people I worked with that brought real value would never pass big tech leetcode interview... FAANGs don't do leetcode. They may ask about data structures knowledge, but even their coding interviews are aimed at ev
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by foofie 3y ago
> You no longer had to understand the technology or data structures because there were declarative APIs that made things easy. What technology or data structure do you think developers don't understand if they work on React projects
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by foofie 3y ago
The set of people who pass the hiring bar at companies like Google are not modelled as the normal distribution of the average person you come across in the grocery store. Companies like Google are not known for hiring morons. It is a self-a
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by foofie 3y ago
> These are two sides of the same medal. I don't think it is at all. OP put up a strawman on how the tech world is packed with incompetent new arrivals, but corporations are firing people indiscrimately by blindly cutting branches o
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by foofie 3y ago
> The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years. I don't think your take holds water. It reads as a mix between self-aggrandizing and ladder-pulling, typically pinned on the so-called boome
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by foofie 3y ago
In the last quarter Alphabet reported "total revenues of $76.69bn, an increase of 11 percent year-on-year (YoY)." Google Cloud alone grew 22%. https://erp.today/storm-clouds-for-google-as-q3-misses-analy...
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by foofie 3y ago
> Should I use boost style? Qt/Eigen styling? You use whatever you wish to use. You can also waste time debating whether you should name your variables in camelCase or snake_case. It doesn't matter, and no one will berate you f
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by foofie 3y ago
> However, I will still challenge you on your build time/object size claim. (...) Nothing in your example suggests long compilation times are a hard requirement. Just move your components into submodules and remove template code fro
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by foofie 3y ago
> Rust actually is a nice language. C++ requires deciding which features to use? With Rust you have to choose which features to use. Unlike C++, with it's "you pay for what you use" model, Rust's features are arguably
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by foofie 3y ago
> This is more an advertisement for a type of database than a statement that they are unnecessary. I stopped reading the article once it was evident that the author was not making any case regarding databases being unnecessary, and inste
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by foofie 3y ago
I'm also not an expert, but I would wager that networking doesn't change as fast as other computing-related topics because a big chunk of it is implemented in hardware, which is very expensive to change/upgrade, and that new
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by foofie 3y ago
> I was just trying to point out that this layer is equally important as others for someone looking to gain a good grasp of networking. I don't agree. For those onboarding onto the subject, their mental model will be focused around
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by foofie 3y ago
It only forfeits "income" for Elon Musk and everyone who invested in Twitter. What Elon Musk does with Twitter has no impact on SpaceX or Tesla.
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by foofie 3y ago
> Nah, C++ needs more than that. There's some ridiculous template heavy code out there where the majority of time is spent linking. C++ does not "need" more than that. You personally might find it more convenient if you do
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by foofie 3y ago
One consists of an isolated product decision of a specific company (Twitter), while the other is something that jeopardizes any decision-making process and leads to erratic and haphazard actions. I think that it's easy to undersyand wh
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by foofie 3y ago
> The real solution to fast compilation is to have modules. I don't agree. The real solution for fast compilation times is to not have to recompile things. This means onboarding tools like ccache, organize your project around indepe
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by foofie 3y ago
> I found it suggests too much maintanence on the legacy system and not enough refactoring. I don't think this is true at all. The books starts by defining legacy systems as projects without any automated test coverage, and proceeds
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by foofie 3y ago
> German trains wishing to enter Switzerland need to wait at the border so the DB’s, err, _erratic_ scheduling doesn’t perturb the much more rigorous Swiss system. I'm rather skeptic of this take. Railway operators provide service
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by foofie 3y ago
> This is because of the extreme subsidies air traffic receives. I don't think so. Railway lines are the epitome of lost fund subsidies by the state. You need to build and maintain a new line for each direct connection you want to
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by foofie 3y ago
> Trains are pretty awesome, especially in small Europe. Trains aren't really about the region's size. They are about the region's population density and the volume of travel demand between somewhat close urban centers (ma
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by foofie 3y ago
If there was a book that had a transformative change on how I tackled legacy projects, "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" was it. I can't recommend it enough. The book is packed with pragmatic gems that help slowly and
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by foofie 3y ago
The opinion piece reads like an incoherent attempt to conflate the negative impact of illegal drug trade with depenalization reforms applied to soft drugs. Rotterdam being used as Europe's cocaine gateway and the Netherlands turning in
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by foofie 3y ago
> I don't know that we lost much; Eliminating moderation to allow hate speech and disinformation to run free and turning the verified account feature into a mockery were considerable blows to the platform's relevance, as proven
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> Israel is also bombing (...) Iran's strategy has been to use their proxy groups to force innocent civilians to be their human shields. Hamas has been thoroughly documented as using basic infrastructure such as hospitals as their c
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by foofie 3y ago
> So you are happy for all international goods to get more expensive? False dichotomy. The spectrum of possibilities is wider than a) international goods gets more expensive, b) US is goaded by Iran to a proxy war.
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by foofie 3y ago
> That's not how it works. Israel annihilating Hamas looks like a winning strategy to decisively eliminate foreign interference from the likes of Iran. > This is just a very, very bad take (...) I don't agree. As Iran's
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by foofie 3y ago
I agree, it looks like hostile nations such as Iran are replaying their Hamas/Palestine strategy to goad another nation into a local conflict. As a non-american I'd prefer if the US sat this one out.
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by foofie 3y ago
> Did you know Lewinsky testified Bill thought his Oval Office phone was tapped by a foreign government? That's not exactly surprising or news. I would wager most intelligence organizations would kill to get that level of access to

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