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by jecxjo 8y ago
I wouldn't imagine you'd get a lot of performance boost from the change. You'll see battery life but that assumes they aren't looking to run a crazy number of cores to make it compete with the x86. And they only way that
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I think more people need to have a kernel hacker mindset. We are getting to the point where everyone is working so high level that they just assume you can swap out the Distro/Kernel/Arch and it will not only "just work"
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by jecxjo 8y ago
The more I follow SCOTUS rulings the more I think this happens quite often.
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Respect is not quite the word I'd use. Yes you have to put in your time, but politics play just as much a role in SCOTUS appointments as any other branch. The major difference is that the appointees do not pander to the public for vote
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by jecxjo 8y ago
In my last job I had two realms of development. The first was strictly based on what the company had been doing for years, what we expect new hires to know and what we touted as our language of choice. Embedded world that was C. The second
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Pregnant wife and a toddler so my home time is skewed. Up before 6 to play with the kid, make breakfast, load of laundry, load of dishes, etc. Bus around 8:30, at work around 9. Work til 4:30, skipping lunch every other day. Then 30 mins ba
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Oddly I feel completely the opposite about this topic. I think dot files in your home directory are exactly the way to go. Using the XDG standard leaves you with whatever the distro decides is the correct location for these files. While the
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Having worked with a company that does shady stuff like this I eventually changed how I worked to match it. I had a boss who thought it would be useful to track line of code changes per developer, number of features implemented and bugs fix
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Remote doesn't always work for every sector of development. I had a huge cubical full of industrial hardware, had a lab with even more hardware, a plant for assembling and testing hardware, etc. We had a "no remote" policy be
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I agree. The worst part was one boss was in my office while the other was in the "one hour off" office. The local boss would get annoyed because I'd have to schedule something with the other boss who was already home when I&#
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Core hours worked well for me, until one office decided that their core hours would change due to high traffic. Suddenly an office that was only an hour earlier than mine was now leaving just after lunch. I had an office that was 11.5hrs of
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I worked in an area where the nearest competition was hundreds of miles away. When the engineering staff would question upper management and HR during annual meetings about competitive wages they would always state that we were extremely co
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by jecxjo 8y ago
It was kinda funny when I showed one of the VP's my setup. He had started the company in the 70's using minicomputers. ed was the editor he used to write code. So when I showed him that I was using it on our system he smiled and t
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by jecxjo 8y ago
As an example, one I often used for persuasion during sales, we had to dial into a location, which gave us access to a corporate network. From there it would VPN into an offsite office. From there I would connect with point to point radios
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by jecxjo 8y ago
> In a world of increasing automation (explosive in the last 15 years) there's not much value in training for anything less than medicine or engineering. Yes and no. I think a lot of of this automation will mean we will be going bac
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I like the diagrams, as many explanations often skip the staging portion of the whole git process. I use that so much that it baffles me that most people skip it. Then again, I typically don't like having tons of "WIP" commit
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Its not about disincentivizing them, its about not providing them with applicable skills that would make their production worth more than basic hand outs. It can be demoralizing when you realize that flipping burger is worth $100 a week mor
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by jecxjo 8y ago
For about 15 years I developed control systems for the Oil industry. All of my projects had ed built into their OS for cases when I had to telnet into them to do debugging and maintenance for clients. Most of our other projects relied on FT
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by jecxjo 8y ago
This is the reason why all of these "mashup" languages are so pointless. Everyone feels like X language is so great but if only we could add a feature from Y language to it. They then attempt to trivialize what is needed for that
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by jecxjo 8y ago
So what are you going to do about it? I was formally educated to do low level development, did operating systems, hardware design, and communications for a living for 15 years. During that time I also learned and regularly used FP, data pro
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by jecxjo 8y ago
The issue with Desktops is that motherboard layouts suck. 2' x 2' square with video cards nearly a foot long. Not much room to kill area unless you want fill the random gaps around your video card. The real place to make things mo
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Except that in-state businesses use services of the state they exist in. Out of state businesses do not, yet they will be required to perform an additional service of collecting taxes for other states because those states have deemed it &qu
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by jecxjo 8y ago
As soon as the vendor is required to collect this tax, and is responsible for it to be paid, I'd consider it the vendor's tax. SD stopped making it the consumer's tax when they lifted the burden on them to pay it. If the vend
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by jecxjo 8y ago
Currently the vendor is asked to take sales tax on behalf of the purchaser. If they don't, then the purchaser must pay a use tax. Only that isn't happening. So SD has now put the sole burden on the vendor which means that they are
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by jecxjo 8y ago
My biggest issue with paying taxes in other states is what services are they providing? You pay federal taxes which covers interstates, you pay taxes on your shipping fees which should cover state roadways. So if I pay South Dakota sales ta
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I sometimes think people use "availability of devs" to mean "cheap, expendable service". If you're working in an industry where you bank more on hitting the ground running more than retaining developers then this ma
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by jecxjo 8y ago
I feel like this statement is often used and just as often wrong. It's not about avoiding the goto like behavior. It's about making you to know it exists and forcing you to handle it. Rathet than throwing 5 calls deep, doing nothi
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by jecxjo 8y ago
The part you might be missing is that you're explicitly told "this function returns a value OR and error. You must handle error cases with this function". With the try/catch paradigm you never know from the function defi
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by jecxjo 8y ago
The real "revelation" of this method of error handling is how it uses types to explicitly state how errors are handled. Having a return type of `Either String Int` let's the user know that this function does in fact have an e
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by jecxjo 8y ago
When you start looking at the code of the tools, and how older systems were design, it's really is a testament to good engineering practices because it all scales so well. Small, simple, "one task well" utilities that process

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