lmilcin

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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Also, I feel the biggest obsticle to IPv6 deployment is mostly the Enterprise firewall tech. Many residential users and mobile users have working IPv6 just fine right now. I agree and I feel a little bit ashamed to be part of the probl
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> There is an arrgument that the details matter a lot in code. The details of resulting code. Not the details of how exactly you wrote it.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> This is an argument against programming by autocomplete, not an argument against programming with IDEs. Exactly. IDEs fulfil an important function of removing repetitive and mundane tasks. The goal is to be you, the programmer, to know
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Except this is kinda important, and so we must pay attention to less likely worse case scenarios. You don't just stroll through the minefield because somebody said that the most likely result is going to be you passing the field unharm
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Incentives will always be a tradeoff because you can't measure skill. Oh, so because it is hard let's just stop trying? You can't measure skill accurately . But you can try to find correlations and you can measure other
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Salary based on your "experience" as measured by the number of years you survived sitting by the computer. This is absolutely, fucking dumbest idea I ever heard. Say you have two engineers that both have 10 years of experience, on
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Pair programming is exhausting and definitely not for everybody and for every single day. But. This is still the best way to exchange knowledge and produce code when normally you would need a code review. Pair programming is not a waste of
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by lmilcin 5y ago
You should not trust password managers with critical stuff. Even if the product is secure. Even if it actually does end-to-end encryption. Even if it is open-source and you can audit code. Even if all of the above are met, somebody still ca
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by lmilcin 5y ago
If other people succeeding causes you discomfort the problem is not with them or the medium where they advertise their success. The problem is with you. I suggest to chill out and be stoic about it. It is unlikely there is only one way you
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Prior to student loans you more or less had to fund it yourself, Or become a citizen of a country that is not hostile to its population. In many countries you can get decent education for free. As it should be. Because educated populat
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night. Most bomb raids during WWI
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> You don’t manage people. If you do, you’re a bad manager. People are not spherical beings in vacuum. Of course, you have to manage people. My experience is that throwing projects at people and assuming that they are all interchangeable
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Link local addresses are something completely different.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I also always think it would be easier if we could have the addressing to extend to individual receivers within the machine. In effect, a machine would have its own internal network with individual, publicly addressable nodes representing v
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by lmilcin 5y ago
My favourite is battling with people who use 23:59:59. Where I work (banks and other financial institutions) there is frequently a need to check whether something happened within a particular day. Or maybe select records from the database f
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> For example, though we were provided with practice problems to prepare for our exams, we were never given solutions. My class consistently begged my professor for these, yet all he could say was that not providing them was departmental
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by lmilcin 5y ago
That depends. I personally believe manager should be hiring their team. If only for the candidate to meet the manager and have a chance to make their decision based on the fit. But I also was many times asked to stand in for another person.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The contract that the interviewer has may not look anything like the one you are going to get. The only contract that matters is the one you sign. Every company will negotiate the contract with you and they will frequently be happy to negot
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Am I allowed to have side projects that I own? > Does your insurance cover my preferred doctors? (obviously more of an email question) Your contract specifies that and other answers to other questions. Don't ask your interview
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> People just don't trust authorities anymore, because authorities time and time again have misled them. No, that's wrong model. Authorities have always misled us. There was no time in the past when authorities would be truth
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It is. Everybody just focuses on two possible outcomes that are easy to define -- what is the probability it goes bust and what is probability it is going to add a letter to FAANG. I think the answer is laziness. If you invest money you sho
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Spotify is NOT the open web. Of course it is not. It is bait and switch process. First you get a company create a large platform that makes it very difficult to for individual people to thrive in the space around it. Then the large com
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by lmilcin 5y ago
People are offered life saving vaccines for free and still don't take it. I don't want to throw completely baseless statistics, but I would guess over 95% of the world either a) does not have access to that kind of thing, or b) ha
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Most people do not immediately go for comprehensive testing the moment they feel worse for a little bit. And most doctors that see flu-like symptoms will assume you have a flu. The reality is that almost every person diagnosed with HIV is d
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Majority of people who practice safe sex do not affect HIV transmission. HIV transmits mostly through networks of people who do not practice safe sex. Unlike a normal virus where people exchange it at random, here people that are more likel
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Hope you realise that mine was completely made up example just to show the basic characteristic of exponential growth in presence of static component. I chose 10x growth factor to make sure the reader gets a point you can have absolutely di
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by lmilcin 5y ago
A new strain, due to nature of exponential growth, can spend a long time before it noticeably moves the total number of cases and causes people to notice change. Think about it this way: Year 1) 10.000 normal cases + 1 new = total 10.001 Ye
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I hope you understand that HIV takes years to decades to develop symptoms. A lot of people could get infected before anybody realises there is an epidemic.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The simple reason is that what you think is math is actually not math at all. When I started studying theoretical math, on my first day, I was told to completely forget what I have learned in school because "it is not math". And t
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The statement was that they acted professionally. I don't know if they are or are not professionals. It is just my opinion that being nice and prompt about removing cause of the damage after they have caused damage through recklessly i

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