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by koreth1 6y ago
While it's definitely important to be aware of what exactly you're getting for your non-money from different JVM vendors, I think that point of view underestimates how many people use LTS versions purely to tick a "we are usi
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by koreth1 6y ago
I mostly don't work on web stuff, so maybe this is a dumb question, but can you give an example of what benefits that gives you? What code do you want to run in both places? In my limited experience writing web code, the client side co
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by koreth1 6y ago
> Apparently this is a pretty common story for people with ADHD who weren't diagnosed as children, so a specialist won't be particularly surprised by it. This is very true. And it's not even just due to lack of access to m
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by koreth1 6y ago
> Obviously no one is going to submit an app that doesn't accomplish the primary task. I would have guessed the same thing before my company started doing homework interviews. But in fact, the ones that don't get to the finish
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by koreth1 6y ago
My company does take-home interviews (or rather, we give candidates the option to do them; nearly all candidates choose take-home instead of a live coding session) and I don't think I agree with the "lowers the cost to zero"
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by koreth1 6y ago
That's partly the platforms' fault, though: anything less than a perfect rating is assumed to be a sign of a problem that needs to be fixed. There is no room for, "This is as good as it needs to be, but not as good as some ot
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by koreth1 6y ago
Work in fintech, can confirm. Moving money around the global banking system is a pus-drenched no man's land of technological anguish and despair. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, you find out you were wrong.
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by koreth1 6y ago
> I'm a computationalist in the philosophy of mind and suspect that consciousness is an emergent property of certain computations. I'm not a philosopher of any variety and this always seemed like a much more plausible scenario
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by koreth1 6y ago
Relying on GC to clean up finite resources such as open file descriptors is a risky idea because you can run out of file descriptors or other resources in between GC invocations. You absolutely can use AutoCloseable for things like logging.
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by koreth1 6y ago
Sure, but 1 click and 0 scrolling would be better!
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by koreth1 6y ago
> When there were only a handful of television channels, the content was higher quality than what we have now. As someone who watched TV in the 1970s, before cable was a thing, I have to disagree here. I think we look back today and see
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by koreth1 6y ago
> They are running a reverse wayback machine in that anything not changed in the last year gets removed. Sometimes I wish that were true! Try Googling for, say, PostgreSQL documentation and the top result will often be for a 10-year-ol
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by koreth1 6y ago
Google-java-format for Java and ktfmt for Kotlin. https://github.com/google/google-java-format https://github.com/facebookincubator/ktfmt
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by koreth1 7y ago
This is a key point. The gargantuan performance difference between main memory and the CPU cache (or indeed, the existence of significant CPU caches at all) happened well after big-O was firmly established in the CS curriculum.
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by koreth1 7y ago
Sometimes it's not for lack of trying, though. I've done a decent amount of data model design in my career and as I got more experienced, I learned to make a point of asking the business people what specific questions they'd
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by koreth1 7y ago
Or even further back: BitKeeper was a successor to an earlier DVCS from the early 1990s, Sun Workshop TeamWare. Everything old is new again.
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by koreth1 7y ago
> as a freelancer I always have to worry to take on 2-3 clients per year to not get reinterpreted as an employee after the fact. I had a similar situation in the US when I was a contractor many years ago; during periods when one client h
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by koreth1 7y ago
That's not correct. Java method dispatch is always dynamic, so x.foo() will always call the foo() method on whatever concrete type x actually is. The declared type of the variable that holds the reference to that object doesn't ma
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by koreth1 7y ago
As someone who mostly works on the JVM, I think this is exactly right. Docker-based JVM development environments add annoying layers of indirection and complexity for close to zero benefit. All the times I can think of when we've run i
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by koreth1 7y ago
Just be conscious of the effect long-term exposure to constant loud noise can have on your hearing, even if you're able to concentrate. Drowning out loud sound with louder sound is not particularly good for your ears.
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by koreth1 7y ago
Noise canceling headphones don't do a good job of canceling the kinds of noise you hear in an office environment, though (conversations, ringtones, people across the room suddenly erupting in loud laughter).
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by koreth1 7y ago
I get around it by pinging people directly (usually I reply to my question as a thread in Slack and @-mention them, so the main channel doesn't get cluttered with my reminder) if a couple hours go by without a response. Still usually f
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by koreth1 7y ago
Same for us, though they have outages more often than I'd prefer. Half the time when we get a PagerDuty alert, it's because Scalyr is screwed up and not ingesting our logs, not anything wrong with our systems. But when it's n
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by koreth1 7y ago
For me the cost is much less about, "It's just a few minutes long" and much more about, "Having to get up from my desk and talk to people about their projects kills my flow state." It's a short meeting but it&#
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by koreth1 7y ago
I just asked the same thing because I've had that experience too. I'm curious: are you usually working on things that require close collaboration between team members? My hunch is that standups are pretty useless on teams where ea
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by koreth1 7y ago
Out of curiosity, how valuable are these three meetings in a typical week? What do you get out of each of them as a developer? I've worked at a few places that follow more or less the same practice and I've found that the planning
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by koreth1 7y ago
The fact that other companies lie about their tech doesn't mean it isn't fraud, it just means other companies are also making fraudulent claims. A non-Theranos example might make it clear why I'm not nuts about the "if t
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by koreth1 7y ago
At a guess: Any team that's working on substrate rather than on code that customers directly interact with won't be a good fit, unless the person has a very flexible view of "customer" and "product." Like, if y
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by koreth1 7y ago
Segovia | New York, NY or REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.thesegovia.com/ Segovia is payment gateway infrastructure primarily used to move money to Africa. Customers include charities that want to transfer cash directly to
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by koreth1 7y ago
The pure-math focus is what made it a slog for me to get through, though I'm clearly not the intended audience. I was 20+ years out of college when I first read it and it had been over a decade since the last time I'd had any reas

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