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by hinkley 8mo ago
> After we started hiring, it became a disaster. When it stopped being two people he still forbade tests. In this decade. That is fucking nuts. Fun fact: the guy I worked a 2 man project with and I had a rock solid build cycle, and when
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I ran into some serious struggles when we got far enough into accepting most of the tenets of XP as standard practice that most jobs didn’t even debate half of them and then landed at places that still thought they were stupid. I’d taken fo
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by hinkley 8mo ago
My adaptation of the Version 2 Problem is “any idiot can ship version 1 of a product, but it takes skill to ship version 2”. Usually levied at people who are so hyper focused on shipping a so-called MVP that is really demoware that they are
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by hinkley 8mo ago
One of my biggest accomplishments was shipping a suite of 5 apps from four divisions where three of them resented each other’s existence and seemed bound and determined to build rules in the system that made sure the other two couldn’t func
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by hinkley 8mo ago
We are poorer for him having waited to drop that sentence at his Turing Award acceptance speech. I use it all the time. Tony might be my favorite computer scientist.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Amortization. If one Boolean must be a byte then 8 must be eight bytes. Which is not true. A boolean can be 1/8th of a byte which is a meaningful distinction.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
With privacy coming back into vogue, it’s useful to distinguish “we didn’t ask” from “they wouldn’t answer” For some vector logic the distinction could matter.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I did a govt contract early on and learned that yes/no/unanswered/unasked was a common quad. I see that in disclosures when applying for jobs as well.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I have an external keyboard and I keep accidentally hitting the fn key when I mean to hit backspace. And that toggles the keyboard layout if you have more than one.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Did you guys go out to celebrate? It's not too late for Ding Dong, the Bitch is Dead. If you're Oracle it's not necessary a bad thing if you build an antiquated data center. Isn't much of their customer base legacy custo
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Almost all of the earliest cited works on concurrency management in software were authored by C A R 'Tony' Hoare. I genuinely forget he authored quicksort on the regular.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
One of Billy Crystal's later standup bits was talking about how his parents have hit an age where their favorite game with their friends is called, "Guess Who Died". I've been thinking about that bit an awful lot the las
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Tony Hoare documented almost every form of concurrency primitive that we have in modern software. Pretty much everything prior to Rust's ownership semantics was written down in some form or under another name by Tony in the early 1970&
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by hinkley 8mo ago
At this exact moment it looks like those edits may have been reverted.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
His Wikipedia page is still worded in the present tense. People tend to be johnny on the spot about that so maybe not?
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by hinkley 8mo ago
@dang is there such a thing as a double black bar? Because we need one for Tony.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
My curse in life is the harder I try to keep from getting Well Achsually'd, the more I get Well Achsually'd.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Good call. I consider the precedent set here to apply equally to both cases, and the stop light cases tend to be much more egregious, as I've telegraphed in my top-level comment.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
These systems are still often too expensive to operate safely. Over and over again these systems have been seen as needing to break even rather than being treated as a public service. But if they actually work then incidence of red light vi
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by hinkley 8mo ago
There is a very common inflection point in companies where the CEO needs to be about maintaining what is built instead of growing forever. You cannot, for instance, when you have 60% market share expect the company to keep growing linearly.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Usually it’s the internalized voice of an authority figure. Most often a parent or grandparent.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Nah. Mandarins I prefer at room temperature. But I refrigerate apples because I like the crunch.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
The implication was that red delicious are kind of garbage and definitely pedestrian and it’s the same company that introduced both to the world. So I’m lumping them into the same boat on general principle. As an adult I won’t touch red del
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by hinkley 8mo ago
That’s twice the price of a similar sized bottle of fancy ketchup and will last you four times as long.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
On the Reddit thread it was said that underwood hasn’t quite exactly nailed the, I guess viscosity because “consistency” has other connotations and if anything they seem to be more consistent. I love that they had to buy chilis on the open
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Given the vast over representation of sociopathy and malignant narcissism in CEOs it’s going to be most CEOs even if you filter out false claims. But if you’re gonna hate someone it’s good if you have a real reason to do so instead of bulls
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by hinkley 8mo ago
New cultivars are kinda screwing up classic canning recipes because a common change is more neutral pH, which makes them more susceptible to decay organisms. Honeycrisps and red Fuji are pretty high.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Honeycrisp is still a grandchild of golden delicious, though as it turns out not the one the university intended. They claimed it was Macoun and Honeygold but it was a different one of their test experiments after genetic testing.
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by hinkley 8mo ago
I think there’s some of that, but it’s also probably a thing where people who make good tutors/mentors tend to write clearer code as well, and the Venn diagram for that is a bit complicated. Concise code is going to be difficult if you
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by hinkley 8mo ago
Here’s the thing though. When you’ve got 1000 req/s split across a couple dozen log files all being scanned in parallel there’s really no such thing as tracing a->b->c anyway. It’s the seashore and you’re looking for a specific s

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