lhorie

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by lhorie 4y ago
I maintain the web monorepo at Uber, so I think I can give some context. Monorepos allows us to centralize important dependency upgrades. E.g. fixing log4j vulns is a lot easier when you can patch everything simultaneously. Same for tzdata
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by lhorie 4y ago
I think you could do it w/ 3 pawns, by having white king on a1, white pawn on a2, then black pawns on a3, b2 and c2. Two pawns would be possible w/ white king on a1, white pawn on a2, white bishop on b1, and black pawns on b2 and
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React monkeypatches fetch()(github.com)
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by lhorie 4y ago
I mean, I think "maximizing results" is a bit of a loaded term. The bar at FAANGs and adjacent companies is already very high to begin with; their systems are optimized to prevent bad hires and I'd argue they're quite su
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by lhorie 4y ago
Personally, I'd refrain from throwing around "If I was the manager of the hiring manager" rhetorics when responding to PragmaticPulp; that's someone w/ a lot of hiring experience in big tech. I'll throw my own
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by lhorie 4y ago
It seems like a pretty common trope for short tenure advocates to talk in terms of me-vs-them. In reality, the world is vast, companies and work arrangements vary a lot and and even if you're shortlisted as having "red flags"
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by lhorie 4y ago
Isn't that water vapor still going to be in the local environment? Is the argument here that farm plants somehow prevent water from reaching aquifers (at that 100x magnitude) that would otherwise reach them? If so, how?
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by lhorie 4y ago
> Benevolent sexism I mean, when attending a birthday or christmas party, who buys the presents? Bias means that judgment about a topic doesn't match reality. But is it really bias (or even more loadedly "sexism") to think
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by lhorie 4y ago
I transitioned from product work to platform/dev productivity work (think frameworks, internal tools) surrounding the web stack, which is a form of extreme specialization. It effectively means I'm not directly dealing w/ useE
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by lhorie 4y ago
A little meta commentary: I'm seeing a lot of negative takes using the word "they" (so presumably these are from people who either haven't worked in a staff eng capacity, or have, but in dysfunctional organizations). The
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by lhorie 4y ago
Yes, I meant in your sudoku solver, sorry, I should've been more clear.
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by lhorie 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, in your opinion what's the benefit of using a packed struct and all the generated bit fiddling compared to just a regular struct? Just better memory consumption?
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by lhorie 4y ago
To play devil's advocate for a bit, what you said applies to jQuery as well. It has an enormous plugin ecosystem. I know, I know, people are going to now start pointing out how X or Y specific thing is "better" in React, but
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by lhorie 4y ago
Basically it's business accounts for doctor offices to arrange transportation for their patients. Many elderly patients have trouble getting to doctor appointments because they don't have smartphones, can't drive, live in are
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by lhorie 4y ago
Frankly, anybody saying "the only thing Uber has over X is Y" hasn't been paying enough attention. Uber hasn't been doing scooters for a while. The rentals in the app are through Lime. Stuff like self driving and aviatio
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by lhorie 4y ago
A few points of interest for those who aren't familiar w/ brazilian politics: - as the link shows, brazilian political parties are numerous, so general elections typically have multiple candidates. There's no electoral colleg
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by lhorie 4y ago
From what I've seen, the majority of arguments against gig work is a combination of information asymmetry (usually that a worker does not know the "true" payout of such work because they haven't accounted for things like
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by lhorie 4y ago
> Bazel is much too hard for TypeScript and JavaScript. We don't use Bazel for our frontend. New bundlers like Vite are much faster and have a developer experience that's hard to replicate with Bazel. Aspect.dev is doing some w
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by lhorie 4y ago
I mean, Python (moreso its ecosystem) is notoriously difficult to get working w/ Bazel idiomatically. Bazel is advertised as a language agnostic system (and to be fair, it's better at it than, say, Buck), but in practice it tends
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by lhorie 4y ago
That sounds great, but what's the governance story? Are the authors of the spec document committing to keeping the document up to date here henceforth? Are the protoc maintainers committing to have these folks involved in project direc
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by lhorie 4y ago
There are two different career tracks, namely IC (individual contributor) and EM (engineering manager). The latter revolves almost entirely around people management. For the IC track, I've found this writing[0] on staff engineer arch
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by lhorie 4y ago
Disclaimer: I'm the author of one of the frameworks mentioned in this thread. Yes, HTML/CSS/JS are perfectly fine tools for web development. But just like it's not as efficient to use a hammer as a nail gun, using HTML&#
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by lhorie 4y ago
> I have no illusion that I am not trading my time I think that's kinda the point of the article. The people that ignore janitors surely are under no illusion that their time is better spent elsewhere than talking to cleaning staff.
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by lhorie 4y ago
It's not all that different than going home and doing the cooking or the laundry. Surely you don't leave housework to your partner "because your time would be better spent elsewhere", right? We don't think of brushi
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by lhorie 4y ago
In Japanese schools, the kids are the ones doing the cleaning. Not just taking out the trash, but cleaning the blackboards, mopping the floor, tidying up the desks, cleaning the bathrooms, etc. The reasoning isn't to save money, howeve
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by lhorie 4y ago
Not quite as pre-historic, but along similar lines, I quite enjoyed Honzuki no Gekokujou (Ancendance of a bookworm), a series about a book-loving girl reborn as a sickly poor commoner child in a fantasy world and her attempts to create book
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by lhorie 4y ago
One story that comes to mind was when I was still relatively early in my career and the COO of the company came to me asking for some help getting some jquery ui tab widget thingie to work. And as if the words "COO" and "jque
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by lhorie 4y ago
> Another theory: that for some people, hitting a problem is an excuse to stop working entirely What I do in these cases is link back to the docs in question format, e.g. "have you tried [link to relevant docs page]". Puts the
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by lhorie 4y ago
I was trying to figure out a relatable comparison on a map. Looking from one side of the flood lake to the other would be like trying to spot Niagara Falls from Toronto, or San Jose from San Francisco - never mind that the distance is large
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by lhorie 4y ago
People will always make up reasons if the tone of the conversation feels adversarial, but just spend a week in r/cscareerquestions to see the unfiltered sentiment: lots of people literally bragging about working 30 or even 20 hours per

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