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Registering My Hypotheses on Starting a Business – Ludicity(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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by l0b0 3y ago
High five - I did something similar very recently[1]; usage[2]: - repo: https://gitlab.com/engmark/shellcheck-gitlab-ci-scripts-hook rev: 174fda8f384db229aca5b40380e713d0c25a1cb9 # frozen: v1 hooks: - i
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by l0b0 3y ago
Basically anything where it's difficult to treat variable values as code. Python, Ruby, Java, and even PHP are much better at this.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Nice, would you be willing to submit a PR[1]? [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/269535
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by l0b0 3y ago
See https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031
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by l0b0 3y ago
--help is special, but there's also programs which don't distinguish between that and a syntax error. --help should go to stdout, --no-such-flag should go to stderr, even if they are identical messages.
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Reflections on Reader Correspondence – Ludicity(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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by l0b0 3y ago
Netscape Navigator, which became Mozilla, which became Firefox.
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by l0b0 3y ago
100% branch coverage, which is even more rare. I've done it for a couple of projects, and it's really useful (there were bugs hidden even in the last few percent), but it is a decent amount of work.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Sounds like some bitter lessons from some pretty bad workplaces. Not everywhere is this bad, people. Expect to change jobs a few times before you find a good fit.
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Strategy Doesn't Matter If You Blunder Every Move – Ludicity(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git(groups.google.com)
223 points by l0b0 3y ago|227 comments
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by l0b0 3y ago
The really sad part is how many of these you'd encounter regularly when talking to "real" companies: - Voice deliberately downsampled to the point where it's like listening to a walkie-talkie on a propeller plane. - Insa
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by l0b0 3y ago
That should be either "A couple hundred dollars' worth of Bitcoin" or simply "A couple hundred dollars".
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My Wild Experience Interviewing with Real Engineers – Ludicity(ludic.mataroa.blog)
7 points by l0b0 3y ago|1 comments
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by l0b0 3y ago
How do big companies stay alive for so long? I guess it's still possible to coast on a single success for so long that the company has time to completely rot from the inside before any of it reaches their customers. Or maybe the early
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What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?(ludic.mataroa.blog)
256 points by l0b0 3y ago|234 comments
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I Accidentally Saved Half a Million Dollars – Ludicity(ludic.mataroa.blog)
20 points by l0b0 3y ago|2 comments
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by l0b0 3y ago
Obstructionist paper pushers? Check. Computer illiteracy? Check. Blaming the requester for your own fuck-ups? Check. All combined? Priceless.
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by l0b0 3y ago
A huge amount of boot time seems to be because BIOS waits several seconds(!) by default for various hardware to get into a stable state after powering up.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Not GP, but IME researchers often run big, complex simulations, and often have to care deeply about performance. Correctness, less so, unfortunately. A lot of research software is written by researchers themselves with very little understan
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by l0b0 3y ago
NixOS hardening with (slightly wonky) tests[1], in case anyone's interested. [1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root/-/merge_requests/395/diffs
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by l0b0 3y ago
Recursive agree to all the above, purely in terms of UI/UX. Firefox currently has about 20x20 pixels next to the tabs to grab and move the window, and "always show scrollbars" is off by default. This would be reasonable on a
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Being Open about Openness(paperless.blog)
1 points by l0b0 3y ago|0 comments
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by l0b0 3y ago
Too easy to game: People are just going to gauge for themselves what management considers "not a bullshit problem" and report that, making sure that the blame rests on unpopular people or third parties. Too prone to false positive
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by l0b0 3y ago
Working at a medium-size government org, 6 years into a reorg, with projects being cancelled after two years because nobody actually needs it, dropping rebuilds because they might overrun, not hiring anybody who actually has a backgroun
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Organization probably doesn't want to improve things(ludic.mataroa.blog)
524 points by l0b0 3y ago|468 comments
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Interesting(apenwarr.ca)
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by l0b0 3y ago
It might be interesting to see a study showing which countries (or economic areas, or industries, if you will) are more quality- vs quantity-focused. On the surface, putting in more hours would be an obvious one: Switzerland has a baseline
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by l0b0 3y ago
The raw LHC data is already filtered down to a tiny percentage (<0.1% IIRC) using several levels of hardware and then software triggers to make sure only the interesting stuff is recorded. So LHC could very easily fill several orders of

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