kyberias

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   by kyberias 8y ago

   Got me thinking... Is there a open-source design of some PC motherboard somewhere?
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   by kyberias 8y ago

   I think "asshole" tries to say much, much more. It's such a loaded word, you should never use it if you really try to explain how a person behaves. It's very hard to understand why anyone would label Cutler as "bigg
3. 303.▲
   by kyberias 8y ago

   Having hard links in the file system has nothing to do with whether handles can be shared.
4. 304.▲
   by kyberias 8y ago

   Please stop labeling people "assholes". It doesn't contain any useful information. That's the same as saying "I hate that person".
5. 305.▲
   by kyberias 8y ago

   Are you saying that his attitude towards unix is the same as "being asshole"?
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   by kyberias 8y ago

   What could possible be the purpose for you to tell us that your former boss thinks Dave Cutler is "asshole". There is zero people in the world that need that information.
7. 307.▲
   by kyberias 8y ago

   I ain't moving on, unless you are!
8. 308.▲
   by kyberias 8y ago

   Care to elaborate on this pessimistic locking model of NT handles?
9. 309.▲
   by kyberias 8y ago

   Whoever borrowed that book from me, please return it. Thanks.
10. 310.▲
    by kyberias 8y ago

    Oh, awesome! This is the book I learned ray tracing from. The basic math is still very relevant.
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    The author is the former Greece Minister of Finance.
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    God donut. GNU doesn't define the Linux kernel API. The kernel defines the kernel API. Applications (GNU whatever) use the API. Now Windows implements the API. The Linux kernel API. It doesn't implement GNU API because there is no
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    Ok, question: What exactly do you mean by this: '“senior application developers” who munge JSON in C#' Why did you choose to JSON and C# in particular here?
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    It would be empty.
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    How are the diets vastly different when for example macro-nutrients are considered?
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    Or: Don't Break The Chain! as Jerry Seinfeld would put it: https://www.writersstore.com/dont-break-the-chain-jerry-sein...
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    Also, some professional winetasters can't tell the difference between white and red wine.
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    > Straight-forward code may not need comments but most of these projects definitely need to explain why or how are things supposed to work or why things are done a certain way. Code comments usually are not the best place to elaborate on
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    I think you're giving very bad advice. > On a basic level, comments should: inform, educate, outline and help others understand the sometimes complex routines and functions that we all create and often under an enormous amount of pr
20. 320.▲
    by kyberias 8y ago

    Yes and that actually PROVES why this ultra-commenting mentality is crazy.
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    A well-known format in phylogenetic tree software circles is the Newick format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newick_format
22. 322.▲
    by kyberias 8y ago

    It's not like that at all. Software ENGINEERING skills are important for software engineers. Period.
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    The author listed a bunch of software ENGINEERING books. I could list a couple important books more, but I think there is one fairly good summary and it's this: The SWEBOK: The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge https://
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    Have you considered that during those 10 years you might not have learned much?
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    You're using the word "soft-skill" incorrectly. None of those books are about soft-skills. They are about software ENGINEERING: about software quality, software design, software testing, deployment, software life cycle etc. C
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    I've seen my share of code bases and many times I've seen a long function, I've made a number of other observations: The long function has a lot of comments that try to describe the different steps. The comments are often con
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    Yes, people really prefer. You can get rid of the silly comments, for one thing, and express the idea by naming the functions properly. With a printout? Well, if you allow functions to be so long that you have to print them out, then you pr
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    I think it's important to distinguish full rewrites and incremental rewrites. The latter is possible if you have some tests in place.
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    But their tests don't measure "how efficiently" the candidates edit files, do they?
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    by kyberias 8y ago

    It's like these companies live in a totally separate universe where none of the normal software engineering principles apply any more. The micro services cargo cult permeates everything.