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by haspok 4y ago
Loom does a small fraction of what the Erlang VM is capable of doing. For one, the Erlang VM has built-in preemptive green thread scheduling, which means it can suspend your green thread at ANY instruction, not just when an IO call is in pr
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by haspok 4y ago
I would highly recommend learning FP fundamentals in another language, not Javascript. For example, there is an excellent introductory FP course on Coursera by Martin Odersky ("Functional Programming Principles in Scala"). It happ
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by haspok 4y ago
Hi Gergo, thanks for this, and keep up the good work! It blows my mind that nothing like this exists yet that is primarily focused on the EU - tech still seems to be biased towards the US. The Tier-info is also exceedingly helpful (for thos
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by haspok 4y ago
Fun fact from Wikipedia: > Since the beginning of the 1990s new high-speed passenger lines in Spain have been built to the international standard gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), to allow these lines to link to the European high-speed
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by haspok 4y ago
Yeah, good luck getting a work visa in Australia... Even if you get it, it costs a fortune and takes ages. It's just not worth even trying, unless you have a _very_ specific reason to do so.
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by haspok 4y ago
Also see "Why most unit testing is waste" and "Segue" by Jim Coplien. The main takeaway is that if you test your code on the wrong ("unit") level, you may easily get ~100% coverage, but that is mostly worthless
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by haspok 4y ago
Innocent question: if nobody found those bugs, what value does it add to fix them?
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by haspok 4y ago
This satiety index can be very misleading. Maybe you eat a lot of potatoes, and then you feel full - but for how long? In my experience nothing beats the feeling of fullness after eating food with high fat content. It may not be the quickes
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by haspok 4y ago
"...with 14 hours of battery life" - yes, maybe, but did you see it comes with a large battery (73Wh instead of the usual ~55Wh)? Thinkpad X1s can do ~10-12 hours on the smaller battery. So this is nothing to brag about really. 12
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by haspok 4y ago
Rapidly reusable rockets? Because that was their mantra for the last ~10 years and no progress has been made so far (that I know of). They haven't done anything so far that has fundamentally changed the space game.
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by haspok 4y ago
At all the places I worked previously in the last ~20 years there was always a sharp separation of development/testing and production environments. I as a developer never had access to any system in production, apart from one place whi
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by haspok 4y ago
Long live High Fructose Corn Syrup!
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by haspok 4y ago
The most important thing: tell it straight to the people who are affected FIRST (either as a group session or 121, doesn't really matter), and only THEN tell the rest of the company. This happened to me once (even though I wanted to le
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by haspok 4y ago
Why write that boring unit test at all? If it is not only boring, but also automatically generated, then what value does it add to the code? I would argue it actually _decreases_ the value, because you now have that much more code to mainta
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by haspok 4y ago
The insistence of a lot of smart (?) people on NOT using whitespace for logic purposes is THE most baffling thing in the IT space. And I mean that. If you look at your typical C-like code, it is already whitespace-oriented, you just manuall
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by haspok 4y ago
You missed the `else` branch, not a `return`.
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by haspok 4y ago
Sorry to be blunt, but for a contractor to publicise their internal affairs with one of their named clients is extremely unprofessional behaviour, and I am wondering if they can be sued for damages. Even if they had been an employee this wo
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by haspok 4y ago
"disgruntled fired employee" Actually, it is worse as he was a contractor, not an employee. Even though he mostly behaved as one. I think this was his key mistake.
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by haspok 4y ago
Not only that, but sometimes it is only Ryanair / Wizzair / etc. that fly in a reasonable time of day, and not too early / too late. Last time we traveled to Porto, it was the ONLY choice that was arriving / departing at
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by haspok 4y ago
FWIW, nobody can define what "excess profit" is exactly. Let me correct myself, the government can define it, in any way, shape or form they want to. For example, casinos do not have "excess profits". Companies owned by
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by haspok 4y ago
I think you shouldn't compare Rust to Java (the language), you should compare it to Java (the ecosystem). The JVM is rock solid and very performant, and you have languages like Java++ (called Kotlin) and Haskell# (called Scala), or eve
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by haspok 4y ago
Sad to see the XPS 13 starting out ~10 years ago as a "super"-portable (it was the one that introduced the tiny bezels, if anyone remembers), but still proper laptop, then turning into this fashion monster today. No headphone jack
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by haspok 4y ago
Leetcode should only be used for easy problems - FizzBuzz types - where you are checking that the candidate can code at all, probably as the very first round of an interview. This way, I think it is totally fair, including a relatively tigh
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by haspok 4y ago
I think people are missing the fact that Haskell was created for programming language research, and not for commercial purposes. It is somewhat of an accident that people started using it outside of its original domain. It was never meant f
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by haspok 4y ago
Sorry to sound overly negative, but I've been trying to decide whether this is a scam or not, and I could not conclude either way. My biggest problem (besides having stock photo pictures of national reserves as "brochure" (in
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by haspok 4y ago
Funny thing is, they say the "lite" version, which doesn't contain the games, only the frontend & metadata, is 52 _GB_!?!?! Maybe they meant MB? (No, I just checked the actual torrent, it _is_ GB...)
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by haspok 4y ago
Another golden Musk gem: "I am very confident that...". The guy doesn't say anything, yet he makes everyone believe he did. Genius. The best salesperson in the world for sure.
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by haspok 4y ago
It's like saying that you won't need human workers because you'll have robots doing the work. Aha, sure, but who is going to program those robots?...
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by haspok 4y ago
My personal favourites would be the Bounty title track, which is incredible because it just tells the whole story musically in about 4 minutes! And the title sequence of Antarctica (the Japanese movie from 1983), which nobody has ever seen,
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by haspok 4y ago
Yes, of course, if you have the "money-honey", you don't work or expect maternity or jobseekers allowance, and you are not interested in state pension, you can get by without one :) I just checked, and for healthcare you don&

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