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by jbn 6y ago
from "creative writing" to AI (industry or academia) sounds like such a wide gap, I did not think such a jump would be possible... congrats!
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by jbn 6y ago
cache invalidation is not hard indeed, but people always forget about it (so caches aren't caches aanymore, they become stale copies of things...). People tend to forget that a cache has to have a fixed size and an eviction policy.
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by jbn 6y ago
watch out, if you spend more time in France than in any other country (not just 183 days per year), then you will be considered a fiscal resident of France and therefore taxable on income. in addition, you can't really work remotely an
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by jbn 6y ago
Oh I wasn't thinking of selfishness in this situation (I didn't use that word, but i was thinking of how purely rational economic actors would act), merely that there is a subconscious incentive to act one way. Of course you are r
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by jbn 6y ago
isn't this what's happening at FANG companies: the gatekeepers (i.e. people giving interviews) have an incentive to not let people in too easily? This limits the pool of employees, and since what's rare is expensive, makes in
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by jbn 6y ago
From your 3 points, I can tell that there are bad programmers in there, and it sounds like it's not you... if they cannot improve, you need to move on.
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by jbn 6y ago
not necessarily, there's nothing that says that old content is preserved in inaccessible streams... the entire PDF file can be re-written discarding all old content.
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by jbn 6y ago
This seems true in 99% of cases, but it seems the rule is not quite as simple. "If you are an American citizen, you must enter the US on a US passport" is true for air travel. If you travel by land or sea, it is possible to enter
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by jbn 6y ago
There are some engineering management (quite the oxymoron...) degrees, see https://www.mempc.org/engineering-management-programs/ (full disclosure, I attended one such program also I did not slip onto the dark side!).
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by jbn 6y ago
I don't know if it ever was true... it'd be an interesting project to figure out where this urban legend came from.
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by jbn 6y ago
could it be that the author's first language is not English? "pixelized" sounds like a literal translation of the French word for "pixelated".
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by jbn 6y ago
In C/C++, many people still think that pre-increment is faster than post-increment...
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by jbn 6y ago
thanks for the correction. I thought even with that guarantee, there is no bound on progress (so progress can in fact be very slow). lock-free algorithms are not used much because of the slowness, AFAIK.
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by jbn 6y ago
lock-free code is free of deadlocks, but it is not free of livelocks and usually there's no guarantee of progress... In mutex-based code, usually you want only open calls (i.e. calls with no mutex held, so you only ever hold one mutex
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by jbn 6y ago
One useful reference for this is https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/retargetable-abstract.html
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by jbn 6y ago
It is insurance in the sense that it pools the risk. The risk here is "aging" ("Social Security" in the US only covers base retirement, whereas "Social Security" in France covers 5 risks), it only happens to be
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by jbn 6y ago
This rings true to me, people complain they pay too much taxes, but then go on to rely widely on what the state provides and of course will cry in horror if anything is to be taken away. For instance (and I don't necessarily approve th
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by jbn 6y ago
w.r.t "best healthcare system in the world" there are only 2 countries that think this of their healthcare: France (because people think it's free... it is not) and the US (because mostly of the quality of emergency medecine
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by jbn 6y ago
Yes. "Charges" translates to "load" or "burden" in English. Using that word makes it sound like it is only the employer that bears this burden, whereas it is very much >50% of the employee compensation packa
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by jbn 6y ago
You are right that Charges patronales and charges sociales are not really "taxes" , in fact some politicians (LFI and EELV come to mind) insist on calling it "socialized portion of the employee salary", which is a better
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by jbn 6y ago
a variant is to put an ice cube out of its container and tilted on the rack inside the fridge. If it thaws, it will fail through the rack and not be where you left it when you check for it.
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by jbn 6y ago
Well France is the master of all countries at taxation (they invented VAT, amongst many other kinds of taxes...). In particular when employing people, the employer has to pay employment taxes on top of the employee income (same as in the U
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by jbn 6y ago
There's a whole list for you at http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/ An extra item that I like is : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416932.Software_Fundame...
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by jbn 6y ago
You could also point to https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/AeqB.html Both are good reads if you're into that sort of things.
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by jbn 6y ago
Do you know of any organizations that do this? I have worked all my life in organizations producing software, never once was this true: there was always some level in the organization were people stopped all programming tasks (with all the
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by jbn 6y ago
Indeed, none of the disciplines that have the word "science" in their names are sciences! ("social science" is another example... definitely not a science!)
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by jbn 6y ago
Exactly what https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32301945-a-fine-mess argues. Note that it's not a US-only issue, France has exactly the same problem (too many obscure rules granting exemptions). Simplificati
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by jbn 6y ago
Hierarchical structure is one way we humans deal with scale, so yes. To extract structure from large systems, one uses the design structure matrix (DSM). Look at the Eppinger book. In software, dependencies are often expressed (in code, in
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by jbn 6y ago
Agreed.
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by jbn 6y ago
of course, MBO would not be the term used publically, but it could very well be how management is carried out nevertheless :-) Another way of looking at it is that not everything can be summarized in Excel spreadsheet, sometimes you have to

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