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by ken 7y ago
I would love to learn more about traffic simulations they use. I saw some software traffic simulators in college and they looked nice but in no way included real-world driving. It’s hard to imagine, given how bad traffic is, that our street
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by ken 7y ago
Explanation, for those who don’t understand the problem: in some states, like New York, a red arrow is different than a red circle in that it prohibits turn-on-red. In other states, like Washington, the red arrow is equivalent to the red ci
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by ken 7y ago
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol.
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by ken 7y ago
> When you're a small startup, what matters is the expressiveness of your language, and the ability do do a lot of things very very quickly. Type safety, performance, readability, those things don't matter. I’ve never worked on
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by ken 7y ago
Surely this is a typo and you mean “functional language”, as mutability and state is the main issue here, not dynamic typing.
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by ken 7y ago
I'm fine with either time- or complexity-based estimates as long as they're treated as estimates . I've not worked at any software company that did. What are the consequences of missing an estimate (especially one I did not
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by ken 7y ago
I'm confused. It should be easy to demonstrate the benefit, if there is one. Just show them the bugs! For me, it's not "status anxiety". It's simply not worth the effort. The last couple static analysis tools I r
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by ken 7y ago
Chrome is at the top of a giant tower of abstraction. Sure, millions of people built the tower. Imgur is even higher on the tower of abstraction, though. It should be much simpler. That's the whole point of the tower. 15 engineer
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by ken 7y ago
I don't think it's unfair, when 99% of users don't want any of those features. By that logic, any and every possible feature is fair game, and beyond criticism, simply by existing.
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by ken 7y ago
> Keep in mind Imgur is not a large company despite their high traffic, even at their peak of employees the engineering team was pretty small (probably about 12-15 people after series A) 12-15 engineers is small ? I'd call that a
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by ken 7y ago
This is how Lisp developers have worked for decades. It's been used for games before, too, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
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by ken 7y ago
That may be true, but I see it in practice being used by CEOs whose annual salary is far bigger than my life savings, and who still walk away with Golden Parachutes. If the goal is specifically to assist startups, then let's find some
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by ken 7y ago
The flip side of this, that they don't mention, is that this asymmetry exists only if you design your interfaces in FP / OO languages differently. Most OO designs I've seen have a large number of classes, each with very spec
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by ken 7y ago
Huh? The "hood welded shut" analogy has always been about proprietary software. That's 99% of the Apple/Play stores already. We're already there.
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by ken 7y ago
In this case, the complete and correct information was provided by some random people on Reddit, not "journalists". And one answer to your second question could be: money. Professionals need to generate (exactly) 60 minutes of ne
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by ken 7y ago
Some "footnotes"! Yes, I agree that "original" would be an apt description. Plato: Fire is obviously made of tiny tetrahedrons, because it feels sharp and stabby when you touch it, and tetrahedrons also have sharp point
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by ken 7y ago
> It was Dec. 2014. I’d found my dream job. Some days, I would be there, sitting at my dream job, and I would think, “My god what if I’m still here in 40 years? I don’t want to die like this…” Far be it for me to tell anyone how to analy
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by ken 7y ago
Devil's advocate: I read some Plato earlier this year, and I confess I was unimpressed. I had always been taught that he was a great philosopher, but apparently his philosophy was: if you don't know something, just make it up, in
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by ken 7y ago
1-2 seconds is 5-10 times longer than 200ms, so it's probably not that.
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by ken 7y ago
Despite the readme ("Fast"!), it's pretty sluggish for me. Mission Control is instantaneous, and this takes 1-2 seconds to display. It also doesn't seem to support any form of drag-n-drop, which is (IMHO) the huge advan
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by ken 7y ago
> There are programming fonts that use ligatures to convert >= to ≥ It's a neat hack, but that's the opposite of what I want. It means I can't look at source code and know what characters make it up, which is the prima
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by ken 7y ago
I'm fascinated by memory, yet I've never been able to make any progress with any of these memory systems that involve artificial indirection. I don't think in a spoken language, so if I have to memorize a word it ends up bein
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by ken 7y ago
Enforcing their own regulations? It's always been an open secret that companies love to mis-categorize workers in order to avoid paying taxes.
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by ken 7y ago
OTOH, there's plenty of experts in every field who can and do say "I've been doing this for 30 years, and I know that ..." and then mention something they do which statisticians have since shown isn't effective. Sul
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by ken 7y ago
It might be unique among professional pilots, though.
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by ken 7y ago
Not relevant to the content of this letter, but "this age-old aviation canard" in a note about MCAS has got to be the best word choice I've seen all year.
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by ken 7y ago
> The fact that a database query requires a database connection never was an implementation detail. If something can’t be hidden, it’s saner to make it explicit. This is why I love Lisp’s dynamic variables. It’s the best of both worlds.
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by ken 7y ago
I suspect Smalltalk style OOP has relatively few critics simply because Smalltalk has relatively few users. Perhaps it has implicit critics, as so few people use it.
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by ken 7y ago
> If Apple worked with Adobe to optimize flash for mobile, it would still be alive and well today. Why is it on Apple to save Adobe’a software? Why not Microsoft, BlackBerry, Google ... or Adobe? > Instead Jobs decided business wis
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by ken 7y ago
I hear this a lot, but where was the Android or BlackBerry or Windows phone that ran Flash acceptably fast, and without weekly security holes? Mobile killed Flash. It was a poorly implemented technology which was acceptable only during the

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