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by hot_gril 2y ago
There was a time I tried to convince everyone we should use powers of 2 as chip denominations, partially because that made it easy to handle blinds doubling. In hindsight, not a good idea.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I wrote an HN submission somewhere about the biases I've seen in algo interviews. One thing is they love questions that can be solved with some small twist on BFS or DFS, usually one that's a lot easier if you're doing it non
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I prefer to ask questions that are easier on the algorithm side and have time to see how well the interviewee covers edge cases, handles errors, shows me that it works, and writes tests. Our company's work is more about reliability tha
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by hot_gril 2y ago
There are plenty of informally agreed-upon defaults in the GNU/Linux world. For instance almost everyone uses Bash, Git is the dominant version control, and the default browser is usually Firefox-based. This doesn't mean alternati
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It adds complexity, especially for new users and even more for corporations. There's maintenance burden as different DEs fall out of favor, things become incompatible, and you have to migrate. Even sticking to one Linux distro, the def
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by hot_gril 2y ago
If Gnome doesn't work for everyone, what they had to do was make it work. There has to be a way. The vast majority of the market is using Windows and Mac, and somehow both have avoided the need for multiple separate DEs.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Sorry, I wanted to reword my comment to be shorter but say the same thing basically. Nothing worked. In hindsight, maybe the Mac would've been ok-ish if I'd used Chrome Remote Desktop to help whenever she had issues, which had few
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah but shutdown while updating is a lot less likely when the OS isn't forcing updates.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I agree that the semi-power-user category is the most problematic, but my grandma wasn't there. More like, so non-tech-savvy that she accidentally clicked buttons or hit shortcuts for power users, messing things up in ways she couldn&#
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I usually use my Linux workstation headlessly at work, but maybe once a year I turn on the screen. It's an entirely different GUI each time. Last time this somehow had to do with the Xorg vs Wayland thing, which also partially broke Ch
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Would've never thought of having a non-tech-understanding person use GNU/Linux before, but nowadays I think Windows has managed to close the gap on its own by becoming horrible. Though there are other options like iPad or Chromebo
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by hot_gril 2y ago
A lot of the issue is that you were able to name more than one, and that was without mentioning Gnome or XFCE
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Noticed this too. The master failover is marketed like a strict upgrade, and the "async" part is only in the fine print. Many would actually prefer the downtime over losing data. A user who's experienced with DBs should think
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Me. Haven't found anything that's just as easy to use. The supposed Heroku replacements like Fly.io weren't.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
This generously assumes that the new provider won't take the same steps YouTube did. I feel like the only solution is to not care all that much about watching videos.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It seems like inherently a money pit to me. Was Google even profiting off it before they started cramming in ads and offering YT Premium?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
What's your email provider?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Same, with a few exceptions. Once in a blue moon, I check if one of the two creators I care about has something I want to watch.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, it's like reminding people that code can change, so it's ok to have known flaws day 1. Something forgotten too often. One thing that really goes against the usual programming grain is DBMSes. We're taught to always deco
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The Two Generals Problem is mentioned a lot in databases and networking, and you can take some liberties to extend it to human orgs.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, applies to databases and documentation especially. Databases have the ol' 3NF, you also want to avoid copying data from one source of truth to another in a multi-service environment, and sometimes I intentionally avoid writing do
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I place copy-pastability somewhere into those priorities too :)
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by hot_gril 2y ago
(To be clear, OpenAPI was the baseline I was already comfortable using, and GraphQL was the heavier approach I wasn't sure about.)
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I can name plenty of engineering tasks an army of top engineers has failed at, to the point of negatively impacting the product.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I'd much rather find out the hard way that I need something than find out the hard way that I don't. There was one project where OpenAPI became a bit painful and I rediscovered why GraphQL could make sense, but it didn't reac
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by hot_gril 2y ago
If it takes more than a minute to understand how a single button example works, one should give up. Maybe some day I'll come crawling back to Redux, that'll be fine, but so far it hasn't happened. Same with Angular.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Maybe. Can that one army fix GraphQL for all the teams in the company? Cause I've seen things work that way, but I've also seen tools that are pitched as "maintained in one place for everyone" but are actually a complexi
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by hot_gril 2y ago
People need to stop judging the viability of something based on how satisfying it feels to use it in a toy project. When time is money, you'll see what really works. At least GraphQL supposedly works for Facebook, and I tried it out be
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I use Express for my web server and OpenAPI for the schema, which works like a charm.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yep, GQL can make sense if you have tons of clients.

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