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by kovac 6y ago
Go is not simple (conceptually) by any strecth of imagination. Golang has pointers bolted on as if they are a real thing. Like, what's the point of exposing pointers without the pointer arithmetic when modern languages have come up wit
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by kovac 6y ago
As the customer, it would be more efficient for me to receive what I need today than after one month. I think same day delivery is more about that than optimising a company's operations. They are selling efficiency to their customers.
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by kovac 6y ago
I don't understand how these experiments lead to the conclusion separates higher cognitive functions from consciousness. I fact I don't see anything that necessarily she'd any light into the roots of consciousness here. Can s
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by kovac 6y ago
No amount of engineering genius can make up for human greed. Boeing took a gamble and they lost.
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by kovac 6y ago
There are some good points here but I think it's partly because we are too used to how it was and have a hard time letting that go. We can't assess working from home in isolation as if everything else stays the same and only this
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by kovac 6y ago
That's some guts to do the right thing. Respect.
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by kovac 6y ago
True. Considering the level of access the hackers have gained, a case can be made that the attackers themselves fabricated the content in these user accounts.
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by kovac 6y ago
Perhaps there's some truth to what you say if we consider couples who choose not to have kids at all. However, I think the cases that choose to have just one or two children are more common than those who choose not to have kids at all
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by kovac 6y ago
I'd argue that your definition of an abstraction resembles wrappers (which IMHO is the weakest form of abstraction) rather than abstraction in general. I think it's better to take it as modelling a complex system in a simple way t
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by kovac 6y ago
Doing that if one wants to is one thing. But to say we all "should" is another. Anyone who expects users to load their own css for every site they visit has lost his grip on reality.
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by kovac 6y ago
There's Qwant, a search engine. I'm using that. It's not as fast as Bing, but it does the job and seem to be trustworthy.
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by kovac 6y ago
You honestly think the users should load their own css?
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by kovac 6y ago
I switched to Outlook email. I've been considering changing to Fastmail (considered a few others too), but this is the reason i thought emails are hopeless now. Most people I know are on Gmail.
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by kovac 6y ago
You asked how and he answered. Whether it's an issue or not is a separate matter that none of us are going to agree on.
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by kovac 6y ago
Learning an obscure tool that eventually dies is a waste of time. Think learning a language only you and a few of your friends speak. This in itself is good enough reason to be cautious about what you invest your time in learning. Languages
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by kovac 6y ago
Depends on the reason for switching. If I'm asked to switch because the new stack is going to have measurable improvements plus the language is going to stay and grow (just as examples may be Go or Rust right now), then sure. On the ot
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by kovac 6y ago
I agree. I find it utterly disrespectful for all the engineers who are working their asses off to save the free internet when someone tells me to stay off the internet if I don't want to use a Google service. It's that bad.
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by kovac 6y ago
Almost everyone, I've spoken to about these (including software engineers), know they are being tracked and they don't care. Actually, you know what, not almost everyone, everyone I've spoken to about this. I've got the
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by kovac 6y ago
How can a library providing only sync functions a good thing? Lots of IO is inherently async and it makes little sense for a library developer to go out of his way to make it synchronous only for the callers to make things asynchronous agai
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by kovac 6y ago
It's possible that the contract with these employees requires 3 month notice period both ways. So, an immediate dismissal would require them to pay it in compensation (guess this would also depend on the legislation). Regarding the ins
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by kovac 6y ago
Really good list, thanks for sharing.
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by kovac 6y ago
What's strange is I can also give you examples of how testing code bugs that had been there for more than 3 years (security related mind you) and a company whose release branch didn't compile on my day one because a guy who doesn&
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by kovac 6y ago
That sounds complicated. Though I'm not sure if this is a valid example to counter my view. I can't comment on the exact situation you went through. It could be that that complexity was a side effect of having to solve far more co
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by kovac 6y ago
I don't agree with this view. I agree with the original commentor's comment. I do this myself outside of work just to enjoy building something without the responsibility of having to maintain it with 20 other engineers for two mor
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by kovac 6y ago
Thanks for the advice and i actually wxperience that diminiahing return you mentioned. I initially learnt programming with c++, so mostly picked it up again purely for nostalgic reasons to see where the language is now. It's become unm
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by kovac 6y ago
Interesting you said that. Recently, I started doing some work in C++ again to stay up to date with what's going on in the C++ world. Do you really feel it's not worth it? I'm thinking about something new to do, and C++ is wh
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by kovac 6y ago
Don't beat yourself up for that. I tried Go sometime back (year or so may be) and found it an awkward language. It probably has its own design philisophy may be that I missed. Things like lack of generics and type system makes you repe
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by kovac 7y ago
I see, thanks for the clarification and it makes sense.
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by kovac 7y ago
Uh, have you used SignalR over web sockets? From a performance point of view its going to be much better than Http based polling. Which should make a different when we are talking about updating the UI.
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by kovac 7y ago
This is a good point but I'm not going to be too quick to comment on those developers. Because they may be working on paid products and they contribute to the upstream project when they find certain features missing. I like opensource,

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