isubasinghe

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by isubasinghe 4y ago
What is wrong with public transport? I understand in America it's not great, but having frequent, reliable, fast, clean & safe public transport is amazing. Public Transport in a lot of Western European countries are like that with
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by isubasinghe 4y ago
imo more common in the anglosphere that masters degrees are watered down these days. But top universities should have respectable programs still. The masters students at my current uni (ETH Zürich) are easily the best software engineers I h
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by isubasinghe 4y ago
I would argue Golang is the most restrictive because it doesn't have an escape hatch from its language features. Rust will get out of your way if you really want it to. It just gives you a seat belt because you are on the highway (writ
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
We don't have any restrictions now. We went from 100 to 0 and its spreading. I don't think there was even any density rules in my state, the nightclubs were packed on the 31st. Everyone I know who went clubbing on the 31st did en
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
At the same time though, opening up completely comes at hospitals being overwhelmed, supply chains breaking apart (already happened in my country). It is a bit of a paradox. There is no right action it seems, locking up doesn't make se
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
I am only at 4ish yoe (keep in mind I work casual since I am still studying full time so this isn't the same as full time experience) but I refuse to do leetcode style questions. If companies pass me up because of that, I am okay with
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
Isn't sel4 super fast?
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
Lisp
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
I do a lot of Rust programming, I personally find Rust more productive right now.
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
no matter what I do `ls` as well
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
At least here in Australia, I don't believe comp sci grads really get the chance to use their knowledge. I did my masters at the University of Melbourne. If I stay in Australia I will almost certainly be doing pretty boring CRUD work,
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
I'm so done with CRUD work, it sucked the soul out of me
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A programming language most of declarative and imperative programming(github.com)
3 points by isubasinghe 5y ago|2 comments
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
Here is a unique language being developed at my university (The University of Melbourne) by Peter Schachte. I found it quite interesting as it aims to lower the barrier of entry to FP
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
I nearly doubled my salary when I jumped ship. Market is quite competitive for decent devs even if they are junior. And junior isn't always a good indicator on programming ability as well, my friend wrote a Pascal compiler in two days
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
> My dream would be that CompSci was taught more like a trade school I hope that never happens. I think opening trade schools for programming is fair enough, but compsci is not about programming it should be treated as a branch of mathem
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
Yeah im so done with boring websites and crappy web APIs.
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
"Dictator Dan" is an absurd statement, he is a democratically elected leader and his approval rate is 60%. I understand that there is a large amount of people that disapprove of lockdowns but the fact is that the majority are supp
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
Rust is bloody great, the type system is so good. My thesis code has a bunch of type conversions, I managed to emulate 'do' notation (Haskell) of sorts via the type system, but I can now also convert between types really easily.
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
I don't know, in my Master's degree, the quality of the people I study with is quite good, quite a few genius types, someone I know is now studying their PhD at ETH Zurich etc, this is a top #1 or #2 uni in my country though
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
Agreed my current masters is intense, stressful and extremely intellectually rewarding as well
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
What do you mean by bottom turtle? Chubby itself needs something like Paxos for state replication.
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
Yeah my old place didn't give a shit, features were our success criteria. PMs don't usually care about security really, they also just want to check off boxes. Like my old PM wanted to load test the CDN (AWS) we were using just so
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Data61 dismantles research group behind seL4 secure OS(itnews.com.au)
16 points by isubasinghe 5y ago|3 comments
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
I get that Nim can be faster than Go but I don't see how it can be faster than Rust, could you please elaborate as to why?
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by isubasinghe 5y ago
90% confident programming languages will change to be more type safe, I'm going to say this is going to be where FP is now by about 2030. 50% chance of a new OOP language that incorporates a stronger type system to solve the problems o
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by isubasinghe 6y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Can learn really quickly so this isn't a problem, I'm definitely keen to learn for the job depending on language, languages I want to work with are
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by isubasinghe 6y ago
It is not bad now, I would say now it is a good key value store, which is fine, a lot of data can be modeled this way. But for relational data, PostgreSQL or MySQL will be a better choice (and I can't see this changing).
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by isubasinghe 6y ago
this was funny, but I think its a lot better now. Imo rolling their own consensus protocol was a terrible idea, but they are using Raft now I believe.
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by isubasinghe 6y ago
Fair Enough, if you disagree. I would like to point out something to people who may see your comment, because I personally believe this is the way to get work in a specialized field. Feel free to rebut as well. This is just a note, my motiv

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