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by juancn 6y ago
PSD is old. Really old. It's no surprise it's a ball of hacks. New features, architecture changes, etc. likely accumulated an awful lot of cruft in the 30 or so years it has been in use. It may be time to create a portable format
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by juancn 6y ago
Who cares? Most of the world has been in solitary confinement in 2020. Pretty much everyone has some experience coping with it by now.
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by juancn 6y ago
The problem with Safari is extensions are nonexistent. I need a few I cannot live without (a rule based proxy switcher, an ad blocker, a GraphQL client).
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by juancn 6y ago
Look for a large (huge if you can) company. Such as Oracle or IBM. Find a dev spot in some product (not consulting). The process is so thick, that you'll do hardly any coding, mostly attending remote meetings.
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by juancn 6y ago
Who cares about leetcode? That's not engineering. It's a bunch of puzzles. Software is a team sport, you need a few people that are really good at this crap in a company, but the majority of the work has nothing to do with it. You
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by juancn 6y ago
Donations and live performances as it used to work. Find a Maecenas.
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by juancn 6y ago
Copyright and patents creates artificial scarcity. The things protected are not scarce, they are abundant. Ideas and information are easy to copy/reproduce. So we built a fake framework on top of something plentiful and cheap to copy,
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by juancn 6y ago
Penny per stream? That's an awful lot in most countries. If I stream a record twice I cover my spotify premium fee (US is more expensive than Argentina or India, because people can pay more). Copyrights create artificial scarcity, if y
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by juancn 6y ago
Just get a Braun one. I've had one for over 10 years (I think it's a Braun Aqua Express WK 210). No fuss. I'm sure they make a decent one with temperature control.
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by juancn 6y ago
The first time I went to the US (around the year 2000), I was surprised by how difficult it was to find a public restroom. Even malls used to have just a couple of restrooms near the food court. Also, the restrooms didn't match the exp
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by juancn 6y ago
What's the capacity per gram, what about by volume? It's too light on details.
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by juancn 6y ago
He (she?) has a point, but I think there's a third class: the proper engineers, those that studied not only the CS stuff (albeit not to the paper writing level at school), but also the economics, process and financial side of the softw
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by juancn 6y ago
Sooo... DRM with blockchain?
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by juancn 6y ago
It's a waste of resources. Bugs have to be triaged and prioritized. Not all bugs are equal, some are existential threats to the business, others have so little impact that they can be postponed (note that a bug fix has a chance of intr
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by juancn 6y ago
Just use anesthesia before the execution. If they can do surgery on you without even a passing sense of time, why not use it in this case?
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by juancn 6y ago
Why not just drop the manned fighters and develop drones instead?
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by juancn 6y ago
I do software for other engineers almost exclusively, what you would call "low level". Frameworks, APIs, compilers, query engines, highly concurrent code, distributed systems, etc. The "hard" stuff. (I've done embed
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by juancn 6y ago
This makes sense from a support point of view. Supporting non-standard configurations costs money (both in direct and indirect ways, such as developer attention and time lost triaging bugs, etc.), they don't want to spend the money on
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by juancn 6y ago
I tend to ignore messages that convey no useful information. I also push back and ask them to please do not just say hello, I'm busy, I cannot triage if don't tell me what you mean.
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by juancn 6y ago
Crap, I'm not the only one. A "Hi" conveys no actionable information. It's impossible to triage. It's disrespectful of people's time, even though the sender thinks it's being polite. The further I get in m
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by juancn 6y ago
The engineering job (regardless of specific engineering discipline) is essentially solving business problems using applied science. That's it. If you don't let your engineers understand the business problem they're supposed t
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by juancn 6y ago
In a knowledge economy, there's no "equal work". There are no two programmers that actually do the same work or that have the same job (similar ones yes, even substitutable, but not the same). That works only for reasonably r
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by juancn 6y ago
This is the best one I've been able to come up with: https://engineering.medallia.com/blog/posts/sorting-and-pagi...
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by juancn 6y ago
The hardest part is to be able to parallelize the sorts in the backend and keep the working sets reasonably sized. If you ask for "first 50 items after key X", you just need to keep a priority queue of size 50 on each BE node and
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by juancn 6y ago
I'm bilingual, and I think I might have a slightly different personality in English than in Spanish. It definitely has to do with how things feel when processing them in one or the other. English is more detached for me. I remember one
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by juancn 6y ago
What all the deep-learning derived advances since 2010? We can do things today that we couldn't dream of in 1996. Think image search on your phone, or auto close captioning, speech to text, etc. Heck, at that time, Netflix was theoreti
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by juancn 6y ago
They make the best IDE, they actually invented many of the features that we take for granted. I remember the first time I used IDEA (I think it was version 2.5), it was a truly magical experience. The little idea lamp popping up and almost
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by juancn 6y ago
Commute time is down, I listen to music mostly while I'm commuting and I assume I'm not alone. 2020 is unusual.
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by juancn 6y ago
Grafana sucks in terms of UX, but it's free (it's main selling point) and supports many backends. Creating dashboards is so freaking painful.
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by juancn 6y ago
WTF? How can you tell without explaining the mechanism? This is not a normal year by any measure of it. It's much more likely that the stress and change of habits caused by the pandemic response is causing the sleep patterns than the v

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