kagakuninja

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by kagakuninja 3y ago
You can find most of your coworkers on LinkedIn, if that is your goal.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
It used to be that way. Work in the office generally requires a face-to-face meeting, and a box to put your stuff in before you are escorted out of the office. Most recently, during COVID, I was laid off with no contact with my manager and
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I'm an older developer (60), and no longer have an amazing memory like when I was young. It absolutely slows me down and makes it harder to learn new things. That said, I am the top performer on my current team of younger devs, in part
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
We do have trains, but they are shitty and few people use them. I guess the east coast still has some adequate commuter rail, but Amtrak is a joke.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Each of the novels is the size of an encyclopedia, which is why I gave up after Cryptonomicon.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I thought Snow Crash was OK, Diamond Age was brilliant, Cryptonomicon was... holy fuck, did we need 1150 pages to tell this story? The subsequent books seemed to be of a similar page count, and I decided I had enough of Neal Stephenson.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Electric cars help, but are not the solution. If everyone in Asia and Africa bought electric cars, it would be a disaster.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
To start with, Boeing benefitted from massive amounts of government contracts during their history, which provided much of the money they "dumped into airplanes". Secondly, we now see a company whose products have severe safety de
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
>Needing more people for funding just adds friction to an already hard problem and will reduce the number of such things that get started. Because governments can't fund projects? Not sure what you are arguing for, but IMO there is
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Not only do I want everyone in my "class" to contribute more to society, everyone significantly above me should be contributing a larger share. This is the basis of progressive taxation.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
That's not how it works. Get Elon and friends to donate half his wealth and then we can talk. Progressive taxation is a good idea...
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Come now... Saving rolls use icosahedrons. Old-school paladins used D12 for hit points, I don't know about 5E.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
>2. got amazing, highly flexible and generalized iterator and monad support (you can use iterator methods on monads), basically second only to Haskell itself, that compiles down to the equivalent of hand written assembly code loops As I
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I just compiled our oldest, largest micro service, it was 17 seconds. This is a full recompile, which I rarely need to do, because IntelliJ has incremental compilation. If you have a giant mono-repo, then compile time becomes important. I c
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Look, I've been using Scala professionally for 8 years. I don't notice that my compile times are any slower than Java, although I haven't tried any meaningful comparison. There are some notorious libraries like Shapeless than
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Step one: dry your tears while counting your giant pile of money...
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Current Scala compile times really aren't that bad. Yeah, Go will be 10x faster, but then you have to use Go... For a typical micro service, I never think about compile time, thanks to incremental compilation. Even a full compile is no
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Type erasure is an interesting discussion, because functional programmers love type erasure. Consider the function: def foo[T](t: T): T If the function is truly generic, then we know nothing about the implementation details of
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I have worked in the Bay Area for decades, and never seen 400k+. My current contract comes out at about 165k with no benefits. The reason I work for a soul-less telco, is that it is hard (for me at least) to find a job in the first place. I
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I agree that job hunting is brutal. However, my experience in doing interviews recently is that half the guys who got through the screening interview with our manager were worthless. And he probably rejected 90% of the candidates sent by th
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
I've had great relationships with managers like you. And yet had that sudden 1-1 meeting where I was told "your services are no longer needed". In one case, there wasn't even a face-to-face meeting, or any explanation fo
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Maybe because you aren't old... My career went in to the toilet in my 40s, and it has never really recovered. However, I'm an introvert and on the spectrum, so I lack good networking skills and never moved up the career ladder. Ev
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Obj-C++ is the ultimate in glorious insanity.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Speaking for myself, I live in the hills and have shitty cell reception. One friend in a group chat has an android, and that hoses the messages I send out, because Apple will default to SMS. It is quite maddening. The main complaints from o
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Yep. Most homes have multiple sources of waste heat. Clothes dryers, ovens, AC, refrigerators... The heat from refrigerators is vented into the home, which is inefficient if you are running the AC. I've been wondering for a long time w
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
This is where plug-in hybrids rule. Battery for short trips, ICE for road trips. I have a Prius Prime, and the charge is enough for driving around town. If it had a 50% larger battery, it could have gotten us to work on one charge. But we d
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Chernobyl is an example of what Bruce Sterling calls an "involuntary wildlife preserve". He didn't claim that was a good thing, of course...
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
Bob's code is technical debt. Fuck that guy.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
And climate change is making it worse. It isn't just the government's fault.
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by kagakuninja 3y ago
He used to own the account, now I own it. I've tried resetting the google account password and the like, there seems to be nothing I can do.

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