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by lectrick 11y ago
I think almost all bugs can be described as a problem of "states getting out of sync" ;)
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by lectrick 11y ago
This applies to machine-level C code and no high-level languages. Functional high-level languages prevent most of these out of the box, for example
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by lectrick 11y ago
One port to find them
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by lectrick 11y ago
For the record, 1) Apple was the first to use USB even though it wasn't an Apple tech 2) Apple was the first to use Thunderbolt even though it wasn't an Apple tech 3) Apple is now the first to use USB 3 Type C (aka "USB-C&quo
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by lectrick 11y ago
For anyone who made a lot of money on Bitcoin during the runup (which was largely powered by Chinese buying and the Chinese "saving" mentality mentioned in this article)... you have the Chinese one-child policy to thank for your T
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by lectrick 11y ago
...silicon valley. sigh
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by lectrick 11y ago
I'm at a loss- I don't know what the SV acronym stands for :O
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by lectrick 11y ago
Yes. Person-up. Adult-up, whatever. I'm not very PC. ;) For the record, I changed it to (wo)man-up.
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by lectrick 11y ago
> the business doesn't care and would rather have something that works True, but unless you own the business, the business' goals are not your goals. The business wants a working product; you need to stay relevant in a career
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Sure if you don't have a family and kids Family and kids are, by any measure, a huge time and energy sink. But that too is also important work that must be done, even if it has professional costs. The guys writing these new things
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by lectrick 11y ago
I filled out my explanation further.
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by lectrick 11y ago
> I constantly feel that I'm behind on my homework having to evaluate new libraries and frameworks showing up. Every two weeks, another one shows up with another paradigm shifting approach. Every two weeks ? Try every day. I hate
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by lectrick 11y ago
I have been learning Elixir first and have found that understanding Erlang "as I go" is much easier. Start with Elixir and "keep an eye on" Erlang, it's fine. Eventually I noticed that I was already pretty good at r
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by lectrick 11y ago
You are strictly correct. If you found a company, don't give a shit about technical debt, then sell it to a larger company and leave... you don't have to worry about technical debt. See: The last startup I left, and the last bosse
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by lectrick 11y ago
Get another offer from another firm ASAP, and then ask them to match it (unless you like the other job better). Don't be a sucker, man
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by lectrick 11y ago
The fallacies here are multiple: 1) the assumption that intelligence can actually be measured (in which case it's really just "analytical intelligence"), 2) the assumption that other types of intelligence are less important,
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by lectrick 11y ago
So basically the argument here boils down to, "I should have gotten an iPhone instead"? Because it seems to solve all of the named problems.
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by lectrick 11y ago
1) iPhone 4 is literally 4 generations old. You skipped the 4s, the 5, the 5s and the 6. It's as far from the current model as the 4 is from the original iPhone! You can't judge OS updates based on that. You should be happy you at
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by lectrick 11y ago
Time Machine, plus Arq (which backs up to amazon S3 glacier storage).
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by lectrick 11y ago
"Build Failing" Well, that's not right... lol
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by lectrick 11y ago
Really? I think that if he was born 20 years later, he would have been a web developer. He has a knack for pattern-matching, kind of a programmer-brain feature, don't you think?
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by lectrick 11y ago
I feel like this is a guy who is in that danger zone of intelligence where he can recognize an opportunity before others but doesn't have enough lightbulbs on to power through it properly. He could have really used some CS/math co
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by lectrick 11y ago
Silverlight should have never been. HTML5 tech is the way forward and has been for years now. The fact that all of these demos work at the speeds that they do is proof: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki&#x
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by lectrick 11y ago
NPAPI is insecure and dates back to Netscape 2.0. Abandoning a 20 year old technology is really the final nail in the coffin for you?
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Yet, there is seemingly no compelling answer to them that doesn't involve bringing your passport to a key signing party. The only reason I trust the source of an email by its "from" address is because of the history of c
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by lectrick 11y ago
Not according to the article :O I presume it is assumed that corporate policy has better data integrity best practices than your average Joe Homeowner.
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by lectrick 11y ago
http://i.imgur.com/rFDX0O9.jpg Seriously though, at launch, leveling was 100x slower than it is now. Took me at least 6 months (I think... thereabouts) to get to 60, and I played avidly (although I also had a fulltime job).
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by lectrick 11y ago
This is simply not true. Vanilla WoW leveling was extremely slow. My nelf hunter took almost a year to get to 60, and I was an avid player. There's other commenters here saying similar things, so it's not just my possibly-faulty m
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by lectrick 11y ago
I assume 7 days is worst-case scenario, corporate-level drive quality (which is lower than consumer-grade) plus high temperature? Is it becoming necessary to switch to a filesystem that ensures data integrity with redundancy and regular che
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by lectrick 11y ago
Paper envelopes dating back to 2300 years ago in China at least provides evidence for you being wrong. User-unfriendliness ≠ "not meant for"

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