jqcoffey

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by jqcoffey 6y ago
Isn't OpenBSD written in C? w.r.t. "unsafe", just sayin'.
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An Introduction to the io_uring Asynchronous I/O Framework(blogs.oracle.com)
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
Also, purpose built data center chassis are designed for high airflow and are thus really quite loud.
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
> Reading these books after 20 years of programming I found that I really struggled to find anything useful to take away from them. This seems a fairly common refrain in the comments. Am I the only one who forgets things? I have to r
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
> That sounds awfully close to "books will ruin the world. If people stop memorizing their scriptures they'll stop believing" and complaints against progress. Ok, so wow! No! Definitely not the message I was trying to co
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
Once coding no longer was on the critical path of my employment (as a middle manager in a large tech company) I went back to vim from IntelliJ with nothing more than syntax highlight and autoindent. The reason? I wanted to know my program
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The most important feature of Sublime Text is that it doesn’t change(tonsky.me)
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X-COM(filfre.net)
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Rolling blackouts in California have power experts stumped(nytimes.com)
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
> Brook's law is also outdated. It's mostly only relevant for when you deliver your software with a forklift. Hmm... not sure I agree with this. A few points come to mind: - Some portions of a project become hotspots at differ
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
Ah, that's good to know. Thanks!
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
Crazy that no one mentioned the Mythical Man Month by Fred J. Brooks ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13629.The_Mythical_Man_M... ). I thought it was the definitive classic. I also like to recommend Coders at
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
> Did you know JavaScript classes are blessed hashes? > They even take about the same amount of syntax. ("__proto__" vs "blessed", "prototype" vs "bless"). omg, I totally forgot that (I left day
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
Ok, so I wrote tons of Perl and am to this day a fan, but I don’t think one can call a blessed hash (or scalar for the fancy folks) an object _system_. It is flexible and fun and I do miss it. True story: years of passing functions to other
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U.S. Is Said to Plan to File Antitrust Charges Against Google(nytimes.com)
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
> Location. Dominos has been within 10 minutes of everywhere I have ever lived or vacationed. My last order of Chinese food came from the other side of the city. Sure, but that doesn’t preclude that Chinese restaurant from having their o
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by jqcoffey 6y ago
The question I keep asking myself is, if Domino’s can be their own delivery system and now most restaurants are 100% delivery why can’t they do the same thing? I was, a long time ago, a delivery driver for Little Caesar’s and it seemed to w
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Window Managers for X(xwinman.org)
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Donald Knuth's Fvwm2rc(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
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Great Moments in Microprocessor History(ibm.com)
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by jqcoffey 7y ago
> Makes you wonder, will there ever be a replacement for the Internet? Google. Circa 2030.
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2010)(james-iry.blogspot.com)
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Understanding Pixel Density in the Age of 4K(eizoglobal.com)
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Who Does That Server Serve?(gnu.org)
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Stop Using Pwgen(lists.zx2c4.com)
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Start Bing-Reading(nytimes.com)
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What Tolkien Knew About Love(nytimes.com)
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by jqcoffey 8y ago
I am the manager of a decent sized R&D org in a company on the order of Yelp’s size and not only do I find this inexcusable on Yelp’s part, but where I work we would put the firing manager into a training/coaching program to sensit
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The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times(nytimes.com)
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by jqcoffey 8y ago
We have this problem all the time where I work. It usually manifests itself as a “slow engineer.” When you dig a bit that usually means the engineer in question is afraid to ask questions, generally out of fear of looking silly. My advice

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