jrockway

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by jrockway 2y ago
Zscaler is truly amazing. It can't do HTTP/2. Our product is HTTP/2-only. So we can't use our own product at work.
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by jrockway 2y ago
> Maybe in the next life... I told myself this about an important decision. I thought about it more and decided I didn't really believe in that (proof: what do you remember from your last life), so just did it in this one. No regr
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by jrockway 2y ago
Everyone wants to lower the cost of labor, but you can only get so much blood from a stone. People will do something else if software engineering isn't profitable. That's how things are going in the post-0% interest rates world.
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by jrockway 2y ago
I think that companies think they can make $X with 10 engineers, but > $2X with 20 engineers. Thus, allowing more people to be comfortable as a software engineer increases the amount of money they can make. Right now, with 6% interest r
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by jrockway 2y ago
I mean, she would make 3x more than that just being a software engineering cog in the machine. To me, a salary of $200k for this position looks like donating $400k a year to it. Plus your time. That seems pretty generous to me.
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by jrockway 2y ago
The rates are typically different if you stay a Saturday night. Business travelers go home on Friday night. (SFO-NYC on Friday night was always a tough flight to book. I usually stayed the extra night so I could fly 1st or Business for l
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by jrockway 2y ago
Yup exactly. Some events are pretty bad at opening the doors early. The Brooklyn Nets seem to open 30 minutes before the game, so they need to get 20,000 people through 20 metal detectors in 30 minutes. Every second extra they add to the
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by jrockway 2y ago
Has anyone who's bought short-term out-of-the-money options and made money ever NOT gone to prison? That is my main takeaway from all this.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Array indexes start at 1 by default, instead of 0.
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by jrockway 2y ago
With that in mind, I've never noticed a difference between the various brands of Japanese convenience stores. Lawson / Family Mart / 7/11 all seem the same to me. The only thing that ever stood out about 7/11 was
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by jrockway 2y ago
I would also accept that the 1st century has one less year than future centuries. Everyone said Jan 1, 2000 was "the new millenium" and "the 21st century". It didn't bother anyone except Lua programmers, I'm
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by jrockway 2y ago
On the other hand "1700s art" sounds like trash compared to "18th century art".
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by jrockway 2y ago
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by jrockway 2y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty weird take. I would agree if they said "a lot of people don't know what CPU limits are and set them without thinking", but "you should never use them" doesn't make any sense. For exam
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by jrockway 2y ago
Is the phone really collateral in these financing agreements? They just want the guaranteed revenue stream from forcing you to stick with them for 2 years. I imagine it would be quite expensive to go retrieve the phone from someone's
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by jrockway 2y ago
Yup! This is exactly how context.WithCancel is implemented; <-ctx.Done() is the signal that everything that cares about cancellation listens on. The returned CancelFunc just does `close(thatChannel)`. I prefer explicitly using contexts
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by jrockway 2y ago
Stacks printed by the receiver are generally incomplete/useless for systems that communicate. The error is often in the sender, but is reported by the receiver. This isn't unique to Go and channels. Consider a Node app that call
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by jrockway 2y ago
People are missing a key insight about channels, which is that close is a write. Typically, you want one piece of code reading, and another piece of code writing, and that's where their code goes wrong. A panic is appropriate in this
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by jrockway 2y ago
I've used git-crypt and sealed-secrets and the problem is always backing up the master key. sealed-secrets rotates it every so often so you need to go find it and copy it to 1password or whatever you use as your root of trust. (We us
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by jrockway 2y ago
I feel like xylitol was never a particularly viable candidate as an artificial sweetener; as the article mentions, you experience digestive distress when consuming enough to sweeten a soda. Whether or not it's bad for you over time do
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by jrockway 2y ago
I read the bill this morning and it's unclear what I'm supposed to freak out about. The requiring ID to use online services is annoying, but it appears that they are establishing a committee to research the effects rather than im
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by jrockway 2y ago
Helpfully, you can debate between "gofmt", "gofmt -s" and "gofumpt". I actually like how gofumpt formats stuff but ... nobody else on the team would have it, so it would make things worse.
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by jrockway 2y ago
That's exactly what I remember. I did a few LSCs; one I used Rosie just to see how it worked (I recall wanting to use it for all my CLs because it submits after someone clicks approve and the tests pass), but most of the time it was e
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by jrockway 2y ago
I used ... Google Docs.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Hey chess is a sport, not a game!
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by jrockway 2y ago
Airlines are almost "lucky" in the sense that when they mess up training and processes, people die. As a result, they are somewhat motivated to fix it. In other industries, we say "that didn't work, VCs, can I have anot
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by jrockway 2y ago
No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the fungus.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Isn't Dota 2's anti-cheat system called Overwatch? If Blizzard didn't go after that, they aren't going to care about this.
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by jrockway 2y ago
As a long time Windows user, I get the feeling that Microsoft considers Solitaire and Minesweeper as the key differentiators on their platform. You use Windows to have Solitaire and Minesweeper; not for stability, developer APIs, backwards
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by jrockway 2y ago
I've never had great luck with the mass storage flashing. It works fine, but boy is it slow. I bought a J-Link a few years ago and haven't looked back. (It just takes a long time for the OS to recognize a USB device. And you ha

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