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by jb3689 4y ago
A lot of new tech is also spun out of large companies where the original ideas were piloted internally (see Kubernetes, Bazel, a number of distributed databases)
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by jb3689 4y ago
Savage also mixed in RTS so you could have one player play StarCraft while the others were units
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by jb3689 4y ago
Most any textbook should do provided that you read it in full, take notes, and do the assignments at least in part. As a mathematics major in college I didn’t actually understand a thing my professors were talking about. It wasn’t until I s
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by jb3689 4y ago
Yeah, it seems odd to me that the title is "How Uber Uses Zig" but the first line of the page literally says "this blog post is not affiliated with Uber"...
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by jb3689 4y ago
Was HTML rendering ever a concern in terms of complexity? No backend engineers at my company do any frontend because JS is a large hurdle. Sending data to the frontend requires serializing and deserializing which duplicates logic and tightl
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by jb3689 4y ago
Teach your kid a bunch of games and let them pick for themselves
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by jb3689 4y ago
Tichu is practically bridge plus poker. Win-win
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by jb3689 4y ago
Hot take: Phoenix does almost everything Rails does but better. Ruby is still superior for scripting, but OTP gives you so much flexibility for integrating your backend (supervision is built in, process abstraction is built in, rpc is built
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by jb3689 4y ago
This used to be super common when events were more widely used
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by jb3689 4y ago
Does this imply that you value passing your course at less than 250 euros? I understand your point about the hassle, but trying to understand the rationality
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by jb3689 4y ago
It helps when you have people staffed full time for the work. Stripe views docs as a product, not an afterthought
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by jb3689 4y ago
State school was a great decision. Still working for top tech now. Pretty much everyone I know who went to a state school is doing fine
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by jb3689 4y ago
Modern web development is dumbed down by shared APIs abstracting most of the hard problems into patterns (arguably a good thing as there is way more consistency in web dev than infrastructure), but the concepts are still quite complex. Heck
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by jb3689 4y ago
I skimmed this book the other day while looking for OReilly books. It was alright. It doesn’t offer enough over other similar books like How Linux Works, the ship book, or TLPI. Maybe one advantage is the detail of the networking chapter wh
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by jb3689 4y ago
As someone who does not write C regularly and doesn’t not need to read stacks docs regularly, I’ve found it immensely useful. I have not gotten very far yet but have already found real world use for flag combinations for avoiding race condi
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by jb3689 4y ago
OTOH Uber is now in a stable place regardless of the author’s further involvement. The author’s story reminds me a lot of my own current situation - shit ton of ops load for years with everything being critical and no time to stabilize, new
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by jb3689 4y ago
The thing that bothers me about React and other frameworks is the look of the code. React components look like every other React component. There are few signals of “hey, I’m a dropdown” or “hey, I’m a table” due to caked on layers of abstr
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by jb3689 4y ago
> To what extent should one allow suboptimal solutions, failure or allow employees to do things inefficiently with their “favorite tech stack” (in cases where it does not add business value) ? All solutions should be put out on the table
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by jb3689 4y ago
> When you are the only one paying for apartment, hobbies and school There are two sides to every story. I could say that this is what my wife and I do (because it is what we do), but it is out of convenience and the fact that I'm p
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by jb3689 5y ago
This might as well read that you've been shipping software for over two decades and have never cared about someone introducing a regression
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by jb3689 5y ago
I don't think you can take infrastructure seriously without a staging environment. For many companies that is fine - they don't have significant infrastructure to maintain (or just don't maintain the infrastructure they have)
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by jb3689 5y ago
I’ve been the primary maintainer for a vim plug-in for a number of years. Dealing with indentation expectations of a modern, complex programming language without an AST parser (you need to be able to deal with code that doesn’t compile) is
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by jb3689 5y ago
Despite efforts to make the job of programming easier, the reality is that it has just expanded the scope. The cloud made it so you had to learn cloud computing in addition to Linux management. Containers add a whole other vertical of probl
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by jb3689 5y ago
I used to work for a cloud backup company. People thought it was strange to backup services like Google Drive and Gmail. Posts like this make me second think that
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by jb3689 5y ago
It is truly mind-boggling to me that funds can just effectively vanish in the system with no sense of recourse. And that no one thought this could go awry
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by jb3689 5y ago
I don’t even read my notes, so I don’t know why I take them. It’s a habit I picked up in college where I need to write something down to start understanding it
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by jb3689 5y ago
Freaking brake pads and rotors had to be ordered at the Tesla dealer service center? And you're telling me it takes over two weeks? What the hell. I can go to Firestone or literally anywhere and pads and rotors are just in stock
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by jb3689 5y ago
> If you’re still a student or open to attending grad school, do everything you can to gain admission into a top-5 Master’s program I think you are over-estimating the impact of a "top 5" master's program vs an average mas
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by jb3689 5y ago
Imagine being alone in that moment of your life because someone couldn't bother to wear a mask around you or someone you love and you are immunocompromised. No sympathy for the devil
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by jb3689 5y ago
Scripting? Ruby is an excellent scripting language. I find Python is an adequate scripting language by comparison

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