grtrans

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   by grtrans 9y ago

   Google hasn’t hired “the very best” for at least five to seven years now; there are plenty “average talent” employees who do their job adequately. Mind you they do hire some of the best, but the idea that google engineers are “the best” is
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   by grtrans 9y ago

   I dunno, i would call spaghetti code code with waaaay too many entangled concerns, for which this and global state definitely qualifies. Personally i associate it with lack of abstractions, or extremely leaky abstractions.
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   by grtrans 9y ago

   It’s not clear eg what use you would get from sharing a language between your model training and request processing.
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   by grtrans 9y ago

   > Your "refactoring" tells me that the code probably wasn't well structured in the first place Well considering this is a realistic scenario for fallible humans, it’s still decent advice to keep your exploratory projects i
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   by grtrans 9y ago

   As someone who taught themselves greek to read Homer, Aristotle, and the bible, it’s not as hard as you might think. Grab a grammar book and a dictionary for the dialect and get to work! Checking with other translations is not cheating but