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by kmac_ 2y ago
20 years ago, one of my professors pointed out during a review that "benchmark is not research." Now I see literally everywhere benchmarks with very basic conclusions. I'm not criticizing this particular work, but such public
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Ghost jobs on one side, ghost applications on the other. Some people will just send automated applications everywhere, every day, and check for responses. That leads to ghost responses, and the cycle continues.
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Second that. GDPR actually made those aspects clear and never caused a headache during implementations I've seen or participated in (more like a checkbox on a list). When I see any complaints, then it's clear some iffy user sniffi
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by kmac_ 2y ago
That's the main point. No one buys software, they buy solutions. Accounting is a good example. I use a SaaS solution, but it doesn't matter because I could also take all my invoices to an accountant, and the effect would be the sa
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Just have one key for all the locks at home (master key) and no keys for cars (use a contactless key and start/stop button instead).
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Since I scroll quite a lot, I prefer to have a better experience with this very basic and common activity. Apple claims to provide the best experience, while it clearly does not.
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by kmac_ 2y ago
$150 phones have better refresh rates. Once you get used to the better rates, it will spoil any scrolling on 60 Hz screens.
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Well, the CS program differs slightly between polytechnics and universities. The former emphasizes practical engineering, such as networking details, while the latter focuses more on theory, such as algorithm correctness proofs. I think our
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Every 16th living human is a Reddit user? I wonder how they count that.
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Yes, one very common use case where Postgres does not scale well is analytics. Snowflake, Vertica, and ClickHouse work much better. I say this after working on several projects where development teams hit a wall with row storage databases.
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Enshittification is actually a hilarious process to watch when you know it's happening and have a way to escape it by switching to an alternative. I escaped from HP, Windows, Reddit, changed banks, and moved to a bunch of other product
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by kmac_ 2y ago
This is another take on defunctionalization. You create a model of execution but do not execute it. I.e., return or queue a value of type Send, and do not execute "send". The execution is separate and actually deals with "rea
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Nokia not only missed what users wanted but also how developers would like to work. Symbian had a strange and easy-to-misuse API, poor manuals, and app deployments were tied to telecom operators as there was no app store. I remember my ramp
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by kmac_ 2y ago
Absolutely agree. As most projects are small or medium in size, PostgreSQL is a good default choice. Problems arise when the problem does not fit the solution or tool. For example, using SQLite for high-volume transactions and then complain
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by kmac_ 2y ago
There is no one-size-fits-all solution in the SQL world, and using SQLite in such a scenario is not a good idea. SQLite is an embedded database for embedded use. Even PostgreSQL is not universal, as many people assume. For use cases like an
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by kmac_ 2y ago
It depends on the company. One company I worked for had a policy of "Just buy what you need that makes your work easier: books, licenses, and even hardware. Management time spent on decisions is too expensive, so we default to instant
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by kmac_ 3y ago
It's more profitable for Amazon in the long term, as they can potentially eliminate competition. Amazon's use of "open-source advocacy" is questionable, and I wonder if anyone believes it.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Do you justify killing civilians? That's disgusting.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Exactly this. Most of the tests reimplement the implementation using mocks. Such tests are useless, as they always prove the code is correct. Worse, such tests make refactoring much slower. On a low level, only black-box interface tests mak
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by kmac_ 3y ago
It appears that my previous comment lacked clarity. I assumed the inherent absurdity and illogicality of the statement would be self-evident. Dismissing François's opinion, a seasoned professional with extensive expertise in model deve
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by kmac_ 3y ago
If you measure knowledge by the number of publications, then LLMs know nothing.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Without sources, it's simply slander.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Interesting statement. Sources please.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Short whiteboard interviews have become LeetCode/take-home assignment/one vs whole-team-from-every-department interview marathons. So instead of those funny pictures, we'll have Rorschach tests followed by polygraphs soon.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Actually, a company's attitude toward this problem has to be balanced. I live in a country where most international companies pay less than the US and even the EU average. The effect is quite easy to predict: they are not attractive to
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Nah, the fruit hangs very low here, I bet that fine-tuning with ads is in MS and Google backlogs already. Try to ad block that.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
There was a sort of a equivalent - GWT. And it was really good and ahead of the time: it covered intermediate API out of the box, provided quite nice way to develop FE in plain Java, it was async, it allowed common BE and FE codebase.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
I absolutely agree, .NET is so well designed on many levels: portability, core framework, documentation, support since the beginning. MS has proven that they can provide stable development platforms (well, except UI). If someone rejects .NE
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by kmac_ 3y ago
I don't expect any reward, praising or eternal glory. I'm paid for doing the job. At some level, and to get to that level, doing a contract minimum is not enough.
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by kmac_ 3y ago
Well, this is an internal driver. A person has it or not. (Just like technicall skills but in a different area.)

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