lmilcin

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by lmilcin 5y ago
Oh, of course, that's all true. The difference between elegance and simplicity is when you start to talk to developers who learned just enough to be able to put patterns in their projects but not enough to know when to do so. > 3) B
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I don't think so. Let me explain from my experience. I have been asked to create a payment gateway for a company. We found an elegant solution that consisted of general components that we could just configure and wire together so that
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Hi, my notes: 1) Experts involve the user. Also, experts do not let the user design the software. The user will frequently want to tell you what the software "must" be doing. An expert will disregard this and will want to first un
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by lmilcin 5y ago
So how do you propose to do that? You know, this might be shocking, but around half of all people have less than average intelligence... Do we euthanize half of population? You know, then a significant portion of surviving population will h
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by lmilcin 5y ago
But they are normal people and so are our lawmakers. Unfortunately you can't build the system based on assumption that officers, judges or representatives are Vulcan and only use logic. Any system like that will necessarily be pretty b
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Soo... what I just said? The point is, for facial recognition to make sense, you would need to have some additional context. For example it could make more sense if you followed up any results with an actual person making determination (som
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by lmilcin 5y ago
People just are not prepared/don't understand how even very low level of false positives looks like in real world. If a vaccine kills 1 in a million people, that's still hundreds of people in US and thousands in entire world.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think it is one thing to "bring that to work" and another to expect condolences. Weren't there truly any better reasons to resign? If no, then I think Harvard is really a good place to work.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
From my pov as a tech lead, most of these tips apply to any dev reviewing the code, not just junior. I would even say that juniors tend to do better at these tips than seniors, especially asking questions. I don't see junior devs havin
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Hydrogen peroxide at sufficient concentration can be used as rocket fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide "High-concentration H2O2 is referred to as "high-test peroxide" (HTP). It can be
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I mean, seriously, just look at the molecule. All those nitrogen atoms lying there restless to each go their own separate way:) I would be surprised if it wasn't.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think at least regarding concurrency, most developers need to rely on a model that is "good enough". You can't know everything, therefore you need to contend with knowing at least enough that is necessary to do your work. T
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I forgot to mention, half my team is currently Vice President and other half is Associate Vice President. People take this because they are deluded this is worth anything and company gives it because it does not cost anything.
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by lmilcin 5y ago
The problem is really simple. I know this may sound contentious, so read carefully. Junior developers, BY DEFINITION, cannot be trusted with important projects. If you do, you are responsible if something fails, not the developer. By "
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> Knowingly playing with fire like this is a sign of a lack of maturity, both on the founders part and the investor’s part. It doesn't matter really whether this is or is not knowingly. If you are CEO and you don't know somethi
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I have been professional developer for 20 years and am currently trying to teach my kid programming, so let me give parent's perspective. Boost-style "programming" environments. I estimate this is good for kids somewhere betw
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by lmilcin 5y ago
"Under a tent" (or air temperature) is more useful. It is going to telly you how hot will be objects that come into equilibrium with air which you can't tell from wet bulb temperature. You can derive wet bulb temperature from
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Exactly. Mass of air has temperature and an object like thermometer can come into equilibrium with air temperature. On the other hand an object in sunlight will have temperature that has very complex relationship with a lot of parameters in
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by lmilcin 5y ago
And just how much sunlight was in your sauna?
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Engineers go through training to build safe tunnels and drivers go through training and exams to drive the car safely. Maybe you have heard, there are even rules that aim to making driving safer. Both tunnel collapses and car crashes happen
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by lmilcin 5y ago
> That's not how that works... Any granular material, even sand, will spread the forces laterally. It's impossible for the full weight of the soil above to be applied to the steel structure. Absolutely false. The ground may be
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Well, that's what I understood from the last vid. But until then he is standing under structure that is definitely not safe. The trouble with these kinds of things is that everything looks fine until it doesn't. The way engineerin
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Let's just say that if the ground decides to give the puny adhoc steel structure is not going to pose much opposition. Forgetting for a moment how thin everything is, the arch only works if it is supported on the sides. It isn't,
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I think the reason this is more damaging to developers because as a developer you probably can't produce anything without focusing. As to communicating when you don't want to be interrupted -- I am still working from home, and eve
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by lmilcin 5y ago
You want to be snarky, it is your choice. But from my experience this is just going to show you don't understand how to behave befitting the situation. When you are meeting your family do you tell them to their face that you don'
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by lmilcin 5y ago
This is bad take, very unlikely to get any favors from the recruiter. You are trying to show your superior position but are doing quite badly from negotiation standpoint. You are showing you are not at all interested in mutual profiting fro
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by lmilcin 5y ago
It doesn't matter. I just expect an intelligent answer that reflects understanding of the circumstances in which you, as a candidate, are in. I also look for signs that you might be bad fit, a risk, a fraud or a waste of time. We all k
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I had a candidate once. He was way overqualified for the position, so I asked him "Why do you want to work for us?" He said he doesn't, he just wanted to "sharpen his interviewing skills". He was very surprised I ha
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by lmilcin 5y ago
Statistics is based on a model. It becomes invalid when the model becomes invalid. Here, we had a new phenomena that was not included in the existing model. It was not "statistically impossible". Rather, it was "not covered b
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by lmilcin 5y ago
I was pretty sure the electrolytic capacitor would be the first component to fail. They are usually the first thing to age and fail in normal supplies and here they are also subjected to high temperature. Good caps are expensive and cheap C

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