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by irq11 7y ago
”This isn’t unique to cars, every software project looks easy at the start, you can even get “90%” there where it looks and feels like a real solution. But then real life usage testing starts or the implementation process exposes a thousan
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by irq11 7y ago
No, that was a big ol’ web cache. The solution to this is: “you have one year to make your webpages readable by the googlebot without javascript. Have a nice day.”
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by irq11 7y ago
I, for one, would welcome a force with the size and influence of Google telling devs to cut the Javascript crap. To me, it’s like violating the conditional rendering rule: there are plausible reasons to want to do it, but Google is right to
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by irq11 7y ago
If you want to spend time learning new tools, that’s fine. Don’t do it during a critical project. Don’t make your learning projects a liability for your colleagues. Craftsmen are experts at applying a limited set of tools. That’s why they’r
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by irq11 7y ago
Once again: you’re arguing against something that I’m not saying. In fact, you’re making my point: the changes you want to make affect other people. That’s why they disagree with you. The “YIMBY movement” starts with a terrible, condescen
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by irq11 7y ago
You’re attempting to force everyone to live with the externalities of your decision. It’s fine to want density, but stop being dishonest about why other people might oppose what you want.
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by irq11 7y ago
It’s simply true by definition that everyone who wants to alter zoning rules - no matter how - is telling other people what should be in their backyard. To suggest otherwise is intellectually dishonest. Your drive to change building rules
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by irq11 7y ago
There may be a paper on it, but it’s not a common view. In particular, this paper neglected to do the obvious thing: ensemble networks trained with dropout. It improves performance over dropout alone.
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by irq11 7y ago
That is not even close to the same thing. If you train an ensemble of models with random dropout, you have an ensemble. Models trained with dropout will still have significant variation from run to run.
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by irq11 7y ago
Even a false positive that leads to telling the patient that they may have cancer is bad. It leads to a life-long anxiety for many people.
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by irq11 7y ago
If you think you can divine a candidate’s skill by tossing chicken entrails into the air and watching how they land, you’ll only consider rational counterarguments if I offer better alternatives? How about this: ask questions relevant to t
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by irq11 7y ago
Nonsense. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but there’s an entire industry of “tech interview test prep” that exists solely to coach candidates to answer these ridiculous questions. Any signal you might have once detected from trivia like this has
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by irq11 7y ago
This question is now burnt. Nobody should be using it. (In reality, it was burnt a long time ago, but it’s crispy and black now.) If you do use it, you’re merely selecting for people who have read posts like this on HN and reddit. Candidate
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by irq11 7y ago
My advice works better for experienced candidates, but new grads definitely have code to share. I do think that coding tests have more of a role for new grads, though.
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by irq11 7y ago
”The majority of my successful senior programmers do not have any private code to show off.” You’re exaggerating or you are an extreme exception. Given the number of qualifiers (“successful senior programmers”, “private code”) I strongly
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by irq11 7y ago
This is the problem with programmers: everyone gets obsessive about finding perfect unicorn universal solutions, and gives up on obvious stuff that works 95% of the time. Get out of your own way! First, most programmers have at least som
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by irq11 7y ago
“Let’s say I own a professional basketball team and need to make a hiring decision on a player who walks in the door. Am I going to be able to, with just an interview, determine whether they are a currently good player, or a formerly great
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by irq11 7y ago
...unless you count the risks of something bad happening. That’s always the unspoken actual debate when it comes to nuclear energy: what’s the probability of the worst case, and how does it affect the amortized cost? We’re terrible at doing
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by irq11 7y ago
PSA to anyone reading this thread: Do not take Accutane without a prescription. There are very good reasons that doctors don’t want to prescribe it, and if you can’t find someone willing to do it, it means that the risks very likely don’t
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by irq11 7y ago
Those 100 yen machines are rare. I lived in Kyoto, and can recall seeing only one in the city. People would go out of their way to use it. More typically, you will see machines that have 120円 prices by reducing sizes. Buy the same drink in
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by irq11 7y ago
Believe it or not, but even in Japan, vending machine prices are 2-3x what you’ll pay in a supermarket. You just don’t notice it as much because prices are low in general. A supermarket can coffee will cost maybe 60-100円 for what you pay 12
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by irq11 7y ago
Yoshinoya is junk food. The OP isn’t being literal, but the point is correct: Yoshinoya seems great if you’re a tourist and you’ve had it once or twice in your life. But if you live there you begin to associate it with missed trains and lat
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by irq11 7y ago
The phrase “bringing facts to an opinion fight” is no more or less an “insult” than saying that your argument has no factual basis. People just don’t like to be told that they’re wrong, they really don’t like to be told so in a pithy way
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by irq11 7y ago
Careful, you’re bringing facts to an opinion fight. The parent is wrong, and is cherry-picking data. Seattle rents may have gone down “recently”, but they’ve been amongst the fastest-rising rents in the US until about a year ago. They’re fa
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by irq11 7y ago
”If you're storing a reference on the heap somewhere, you suddenly have dynamic lifetimes with indeterminate reference counts, and it gets quite hard to 1) correctly manage memory and 2) verify that you're correctly managing memo
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by irq11 7y ago
”I have no idea how you've come to that conclusion.” 30 years of experience. ”For the vast majority of memory allocation in any GC'd language I can think of, you spend zero time thinking about memory management 98% of the time.
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by irq11 7y ago
Having spent years writing code in both GC’ed and non-GC’ed languages, it’s pretty clear that it programmers spend about the same amount of time worrying about memory management with either paradigm. The main differences are that people usi
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by irq11 7y ago
Rather than second-guessing a total stranger on the internet - concerning a situation about which you know nothing - you would do well to question why you insist on assuming that everyone is as bad as the worst manager you’ve had. To answer
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by irq11 7y ago
”Well,this is basically lack of trust between you and your devs” It’s pretty amusing how many definitive responses I’m getting from devs who are diagnosing my problem without any knowledge. It’s also telling how different they are. Like I
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by irq11 7y ago
I’m dealing with this right now. A team that is downright arrogant about reducing their well-padded schedule, taking months to do a job that should take weeks, at most. Getting them to do anything is like pulling teeth, and accompanied

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