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by jonex 6y ago
I doubt the headline properly captures their intent, the article itself is very light on details, but this quote might shine some light at it: "Lidl’s parent company Schwarz Group is taking on Amazon by launching its own cloud computin
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by jonex 6y ago
Fad or not, in terms of programming languages, ten years isn't such a long time. It typically takes a few years just to reach the eco system maturity and community size needed to become a popular language. Rust is also ca. ten years ol
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by jonex 7y ago
Frameworks aren't very relevant for games. I'd go with Typescript (because it will tell you about some errors earlier and provide code completion support if properly set up) and WebGL. Then do everything in the canvas and essentia
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by jonex 7y ago
It's described at: https://webrtchacks.com/zoom-avoids-using-webrtc/ They use WebRTC data channels, but nothing else. I'd speculate that this is the reason why they try to push people into using the desktop c
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by jonex 7y ago
It's hard because it's dependant of other systems that are often not fully functional. The things that needs to work for a video call is: The network must be reasonably reliable and not overloaded. The camera must be configured an
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by jonex 7y ago
You can consistently use reference counting if you want to avoid thinking too much about memory management. Haskell vs Rust is probably a question of much more than a GC or not though.
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by jonex 7y ago
I agree that this can be a reasonable requirement for a completely new feature or a large change in behaviour. However, I'd say that enforcing this for all commits is a safe way to ensure that no one spends any effort on improving read
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by jonex 7y ago
It showed that you were able and ambitious enough to learn (re-learn) a somewhat complex skill in a reasonably short time. This seems like a very desirable property to me, and a good substitute for having strong talent or recent experience
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by jonex 7y ago
Do you think that there's something an interviewer could have done to help you get the solution written within the interview instead of after?
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by jonex 7y ago
1 is included in at least Google interviews. 3 requires that you hire for a specific tool/language use, most programmers are able to learn new tools and languages in the time time periods that are hired for. I'd like to do more of
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by jonex 7y ago
Had to look this up, since I hadn't heard of IQ tests being illegal. It seems to me that a domain specific IQ test should be perfectly fine to use. AFAICT the origin of this is a case from the 70s [1] where it was ruled against the use
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by jonex 7y ago
It's not easy to fire people in Sweden. You are not allowed to fire just because of lack in skill. Typically they would have to be severely negligent (like basically intentionally sabotaging) or there has to be a lack of work for that
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by jonex 7y ago
The previous chief executive was "contractually entitled to receive $62.2m in stock and pension awards" that was accrued over 35 years at the company, but "he did not receive any severance pay or a 2019 annual bonus". Ho
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by jonex 7y ago
I follow people on twitter who have a history of being focused on correct representation of facts. I trust them much more than anyone should trust what is written in a typical news paper. The trick is that they keep to subject areas they kn
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by jonex 7y ago
In this case I interpret "backed by" as that the central bank will give you the corresponding amount of gold for your currency. But, the opposite would not be true, they won't give you currency for gold alone, you'd have
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by jonex 7y ago
The modern view of it seems to be that none of it is needed and can even be counterproductive. Compression can sometimes be useful to reduce swelling. Swelling can be unpractical, but is not bad in itself. Rest, ice and elevation will in ge
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by jonex 7y ago
Personalities doesn't cluster so k-means would not give anything interesting. Big 5 is pretty close to a factor analysis on a questionnaire data set though, so that's a reasonable though. Four colours is not based on anything like
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by jonex 7y ago
Number of citations per paragraph is a pretty good indicator in my experience. Typically this is high (close to 1) for good text books in psychology and low (1 per page or less) in bad ones. Citations isn't everything though, many auth
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by jonex 7y ago
Yes, more or less. But with the difference that it doesn't even attempt at being true. We've been spoiled by the internet of old, where geeky types wrote blogs and created web sites sharing their intricate knowledge of their favou
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by jonex 7y ago
It started off strong, nicely illustrating the background leading to this mess, but then the conclusion falters, in particular the accusation of: "Don’t the makers of Search Engines know this? Of course they do. It’s just not in their
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by jonex 8y ago
Yes I think so too. But of course, as the article points out, nothing is entirely free. At some point we will have to build tools to handle scaling, and then the trade offs between a mono and polyrepo becomes less obvious. I'd lean to
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by jonex 8y ago
Seems like the main point is that you'll still need to add additional tooling (search, local cloning, build, etc) to handle scaling, something you can do just as well with polyrepos. Conversely, for polyrepos, you can add tooling to fi
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by jonex 8y ago
That assumes that compilation times is a number one prio for all users. Halving compilation times certainly is worth something, but the cost will have to compare well to other options of reducing compilation times such as using distributed
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by jonex 8y ago
"If well known and influential studies only have a 50% reproducibility rate - what about the average study?" Actually, they might be better off. In the related article* they mention: "Beyond statistical issues, it strikes me
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by jonex 8y ago
It isn't just inertia, there's also decades to centuries of developments in currencies with stability being one of the core goals. There are also plenty of examples of the system failing when current best practices weren't fo
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by jonex 8y ago
It leads to the supply for any given experience level >0 being smaller for the product people. Also, even in the 0 experience group, the selection will be tougher. This is independent of the measurable or existing differences in skill. T
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by jonex 8y ago
As I understand his point, it's about not having to pause the program. This seems like actually a quite useful feature, and probably not that hard to implement in say, visual studio (possibly requiring a manual trigger for efficiency).
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by jonex 8y ago
> I have two keywords which I am targeting and have a very nice 50% conversion rate but mostly all of my installs come from keywords that are not listed and get placed in the "other" category. Maybe your app simply did not do w
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by jonex 8y ago
We could, you can get a cheap bike for around $100, so making one available for everyone would be a small cost if we thought it'd be valuable. However, that doesn't cover maintenance or getting a new one when the old is stolen. An
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by jonex 8y ago
I think she has a good point about how too much blue light might not be very good for us. There has been interesting research in this are. It's true that traditional street lights (sodium vapor lamps[1]) are warmer, but they also provi

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