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by incrudible 6y ago
Of course, who could rule out that a crappy little domain-specific parser turns into a trillion dollar industry? One should let that remote possibility guide the decision making at all times .
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by incrudible 6y ago
> vs getting hit when your vulnerable implementation becomes popular. Which is not going to happen, because there's no point in publishing something that is tailored to your specific purpose.
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by incrudible 6y ago
The timeframe in which there was such a thing as an "Ops engineer" is so brief it could be considered a fad, owing to the complexity of the solutions to deploy software that arose then. > Why should developers always be concern
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by incrudible 6y ago
Is it really that troublesome to strike a balance between implementing something yourself and using a library when the difference is two weeks versus two years? If, for example, a file format is really complex, it has most likely one implem
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by incrudible 6y ago
Developers should always be concerned with the platform they are running on. Yes, this takes time and energy, but so does anything worthwhile.
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by incrudible 6y ago
VcXsrv with SSH forwarding can work quite well in my experience. It also supports OpenGL so it is worth giving a shot.
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by incrudible 6y ago
Your impression of China manufacturing "mostly Trinkets" is decades out of date. Chinese manufacturing is now at a very high level, to the point where many western brands have effectively become "fabless", leveraging the
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by incrudible 6y ago
This is called cultural fit. Predicting idiosyncratic hatred is not enough, one must also share it.
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by incrudible 6y ago
"Those poor interns!" What are the non-obvious factors here? Did the thought that "surely, there must be a better way to do this!" really not cross the minds of these interns? Of course, Word has a feature for this exa
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by incrudible 6y ago
The ROI is keeping your competition from the bottom starved for engineers.
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by incrudible 6y ago
Quoting Wikipedia: The words sympathy and empathy are often used interchangeably, but the two terms now have fairly distinct meanings. [...] One popular and recent conception of the distinction is that sympathy represents "a feeling o
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by incrudible 6y ago
I've looked into FPGAs that are connected to PCIe and provide high throughput to the host, but it seems these are always in the thousands of dollars. What's preventing the FPGA AIB from becoming a commodity like a GPU? Is it just
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by incrudible 6y ago
Personality traits that are not advantageous in some way are unlikely to be maintained over many generations of evolution. Personality traits that are universally advantageous would not be discernible as traits, because they would becom
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by incrudible 6y ago
Empathy is feeling what others feel. In other words, if I hurt you, I not only understand that you are hurt, I would be hurt myself. Psychopaths are incapable of empathy, but it would make sense if lack of empathy were advantageous from an