ivanhoe

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by ivanhoe 5y ago
> I’ve never seen any evidence to suggest pairing is less efficient overall. It's not less efficient, but is it really 2x as efficient as having a single senior dev per task, with proper code reviews and tests in place? And it does
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
I agree with your points, but the pair programming also has downsides, main one being that it doubles the total cost per task, and also it's usually limited to 2 pairs of eyes (again because of the cost), while code reviews can (and sh
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Finding bugs is of questionable use because it's sort of limited to obvious bloopers. One usually needs to be deeply involved and familiar with the business logic to be able to spot a real bug of the type that will give you serious tro
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
That's how a managerial bureaucracy approaches the problem of deadlines: The second it looks like it's working, mark it done and move to the next task, and deal with the bugs later - ideally the manager will move to another posit
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
In many countries it's illegal to grow tobacco on your own, while it's perfectly legal to buy the industrial product - because government wants their tax money - and I think that's also the reason why the tobacco industry is
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
IME working less itself doesn't solve the problem, it's more about how you organize your time. I had free Fridays and I would still end up sitting in front of computer all Friday, just doing something else not work... and back whe
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
I get the heat part (well, after reading the explanations in the article that is), but how do they send the data back to Earth, considering the amount of EM noise that close to the Sun?
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
When I researched ReSpeaker was one of the better solutions, they provide various mic-array PiHats, as well as professionally looking cases for the device. They also sell pre-build devices I think, if you're not into DIY. https:/
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
No, they're just in their 20 somethings, so looking cool outweighs "will an old dude be able to read it" argument. When younger I also loved nothing more than sitting in the dark room and staring at green letters on the black
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
True, but it's low power signal and it's not an easy job to triangulate on that in say a 12-storey building, 8 apartments per floor, and where everyone has TVs emitting on the same frequency. It makes very questionable the legalit
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
In reality it was mostly just a stunt to scare people into paying the fees. In 90s a number of countries in Europe had tried the similar actions, I remember in Serbia the national tv station RTS was advertising continuously how their techni
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Makes sense if python is what you otherwise use for everyday work, it's always easiest if you can avoid context switching. To me it's bash, sed and awk for the basic text-processing things, and then perl for anything that requires
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
What bikes have to do with walkable cities? IME the explosion of popularity of e-bikes, e-scooters, etc. made my own city only less enjoyable for walking, not more. IMHO if you want a walkable city it should be organized around pedestrians
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Good for you, I don't, and that's my whole point. What works for you wouldn't necessarily work for me, and not because we are savages incapable of urban planning, but because there are real challenges totally different than i
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
> and with different supermarkets in almost every direction, within 10mins on foot they most definitely can be avoided. You do realize that this is just your privilege? Most of people don't have everything in the walking reach, some
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
>Well, if city is so poorly designed that it requires cars, then you will need a car. It also very much depends on the geography of the area, some cities simply sit on steep hill slopes and bikes are just not an option unless you're
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
It's just a matter of what you've been taught to believe is important in life (by culture, religion, parents, peers, etc.). What humans need psychologically is something to keep them occupied and their time structured in some mean
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Now that is up to the skill of an interviewer how will they approach it. Often you're time-limited and can't do actual code testing, and acronyms and buzzwords can be useful to do the initial filtering quickly. Of course, not expe
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
I don't think anyone reasonable actually suggest that one has to memorize the exact book definitions, but simply to be demonstrate that they understand the important parts. Not being able to give any explanation or sign that you'v
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
> It turns out my day to day work doesn’t require deep knowledge about database internals and I can mostly treat them as a black box with an API 2. Because of such attitude of the previous dev team my client ended up with DB integrity ru
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Well, what you call an Anglosphere attitude is a reality of learning in a majority of non-english speaking countries: There's simply not enough resources for learning in your own language. China is huge so I can see how it could work f
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Saying that Anti-bot software is nonsense is like saying that door locks are snake oil too. We've all seen Lockpicking Lawyer on Youtube opening with ease any lock out there, so how come that all of us haven't got robbed yet? Well
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Does anyone actually do that in a production code? I myself am not native English speaker and use unicode when writing in my mother tongue, but in 20+ years of programming I've never seen anyone using non-ascii chars in their professio
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
But local clones usually have local content only, which can be a big advantage...
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Not necessarily, often times, especially in big corporations programmers will be incentivized to deliver things quickly, rather than to provide the optimal solution. Not because they are bad at programming, but because they have quotas and
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
> There's a huge difference between deploying cameras in public places so that u can go back and look at the records if something happens, Wait a sec, I agree with you, but that's not what the parent comment claims. It says &qu
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
There's a big mobster war going on in Serbia (and region) right now, and almost all of the dozens of recent big murder cases were at least partially solved thanks to surveillance cameras, phone tapping and cell towers logs. So surveill
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Does anyone know of an OCR-ed version of the book?
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
True, and also feels to me kinda egocentric to genuinely not care of any feedback or interaction with the reader, but I know a lot of people like that, so it probably is just us...
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
When speaking of "ancient times" we should really define more precisely who do we talk about - there were a huge differences between say citizens of Ancient Rome and some tribesman culture of Amazonia in terms of exposure to the p

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