lostdog

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by lostdog 4y ago
Error handling in Go feels tedious after doing error handling in Rust.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Yeah, the real answer is "something is less good than you are describing." Ask a senior engineer you've worked with in the past to take a look at your job posting and give you some honest feedback about what the problem is. T
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by lostdog 4y ago
It looks like the take-home replaces a full day of 1-1 interviews. That does seem reasonable (though I personally think it's the wrong trade, and the 1-1 interviews are more informative).
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by lostdog 4y ago
What would you consider to be a good interview question?
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by lostdog 4y ago
F# can't become big for the same reason C# isn't bigger and Swift probably won't be bigger either. It's locked into an OS-specific platform and very specific non-free dev tools. (Even if .net is open now, it still took t
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by lostdog 4y ago
I also find that writing SVG directly is easiest. There are a few primitives that d3 uses, and once you implement those you can produce easy SVG results. `Scale` is the most important, for mapping your x,y plane into SVG pixel coordinates.
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by lostdog 4y ago
He's right though? What can you evaluate this article based on? What's the central argument? Is there any supporting evidence at all? I think it's trying to say that legal drugs would be like the opioid crisis, but it's
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by lostdog 4y ago
You joke, but I'd love to pair with my current local 10x-er. It will be like bringing my honda civic to the grand prix, but it should be educational at least.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Yeah, there are plenty of fake 10x engineers out there, or temporary 10x-ers who are only doing well because of their working environment. But I have worked with a few people who were clear 10x engineers. Everything they worked on they did
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by lostdog 4y ago
I don't know what to tell you. You're describing a highly dysfunctional organization with no autonomy and extreme micromanagement. The right answer to all your questions is "leave, and try to work for a good manager in the fu
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by lostdog 4y ago
1. Scrum sprints have all sorts of goofy restrictions, that you don't need to waste time on with a true-agile process. You don't need to plan out exactly two weeks. You don't need to worry about having too much or too little
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by lostdog 4y ago
That ticket is just adding friction to getting things done. Why can't you track the pull request itself? This one instance of friction might but seem like a big deal at first, but the attitude is what causes slow development and burnou
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by lostdog 4y ago
No. The solution is to have good technical people lead the company, and to give the programmers a good balance of enough direction to know what's important to work on combined with enough freedom to have autonomy in how they achieve it
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by lostdog 4y ago
I think this is the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01056 . It's all open sourced, and Python. From the paper, previously you needed a sequence of images from a single night to generate a "tracklet," w
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by lostdog 4y ago
Lots of companies dump all notifications into the same bucket, either out of laziness, or purposefully to make it less likely you turn off their spam notifications (looking at you Oculus).
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by lostdog 4y ago
Just an excel sheet that I put balances into monthly. As long as the numbers go up, everything's fine. The hardest part is separating investment "earnings" from real earnings. I'd like to know whether I'm saving mon
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by lostdog 4y ago
For starters, you need to remember whether you're switching to a different application (cmd-tab), or a different window of the same application (cmd-` ???). It's annoying, but it totally goes to shit when you start using multiple
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by lostdog 4y ago
> I've biked in one hundred degree weather... Most people sweat just standing in 100 degree weather, so maybe you are unusual?
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by lostdog 4y ago
Perforated Design You shouldn't split your new system into a zillion pieces. But you should design it so it comes apart really easily.
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by lostdog 4y ago
He's implicitly saying that the legislative branch is failing here, so yeah, it's bad overall. Plus the executive branch does have significant control over legislation, and it's also bad that they're not trying to fix th
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by lostdog 4y ago
> The real value in OKRs lies in the process leading up to defining them, not the objectives and results themselves. I couldn't agree more, and the article is headed in completely the wrong direction. Companies fail at using OKRs wh
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by lostdog 4y ago
- Buying rainforest land and paying locals to guard it. - Greening energy production in developing countries. Their electrical grids are already unstable, so even improving energy just when the sun is shining could help. - Research into oce
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by lostdog 4y ago
> What was the most difficult problem you’ve had to solve as a developer? They talk about it. ...and then you get accused of trying to steal secrets from their previous company. In seriousness, we're no longer allowed to ask questio
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by lostdog 4y ago
Not political? They are following the dictionary definition of political: "relating to the ideas or strategies of a particular party or group in politics." Nearly every decision of Bush/Trump appointed judges is directly in l
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by lostdog 4y ago
> Inside, an electric motor can deliver 350kW of power (470BHP) to reach top speeds of 200MPH (320 km/h). For reference, Formula 1 cars average speeds between 220 and 230MPH during a Grand Prix. There's either some typos here,
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by lostdog 4y ago
Unfortunately a standard library doesn't really reduce churn. It just means to you chunks of the standard library being deprecated, which can be confusing. For example, what's the common way to download a file from the web in Pyth
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by lostdog 4y ago
> the root cause of most bad patents is obviously the lack of time patent examiners get. It takes about 30 seconds to realize that the above patent has zero novelty. I'm not going to disagree with the patent office being underfunded
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by lostdog 4y ago
Being a patent examiner must be a real trip. You put your toothpaste on slightly different bristles of your toothbrush than yesterday? NOVEL!! You take a slightly different route backing out of your driveway. NOVEL!! You write a cheque, and
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by lostdog 4y ago
> the evidence for anything systematic is scant Arbitration is secret, so what evidence are you talking about?
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by lostdog 4y ago
> It's the most fundamental and pure form of value added manufacturing. When you view miners as electricity refineries, it's pretty simple. I guess that's the case if your refinery is producing absolutely nothing of value.

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