lostdog

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by lostdog 5y ago
I have two techniques for getting code reviews to feel less like drudge work. First, I have another junior do the first pass of the code review. Sure, it's not always good, but it catches basic errors, and seeing the interaction betwee
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by lostdog 5y ago
"Let him have just a little bit of territory and I'm sure it will be fine," is a strategy with a particularly bad record when it comes to world wars.
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by lostdog 5y ago
> No B's allowed or you get an ass-whooping. You are expected to rank highly in any competitions or standardized testing. You're expected to take the most challenging classes possible and do well in them. Your parents constantl
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by lostdog 5y ago
It's important to choose the right thing to be in the top 0.01 percent of. Being the 200th best bobsledder probably sucks. Being in the top 200 lawyers is probably pretty awesome.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I would have a 1:1 conversation with the CEO or CTO. Ask them if this meeting matches what they expect the culture of the company to be like. Express that it doesn't really match how you like to work. Your goal is that once you leave e
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by lostdog 5y ago
Lots of people think that grants aren't intended to fund tools, but are you sure that's the case? Particle accelerators are big tools, and the engineering is funded by grants. Ditto for telescopes. PyTorch allows thousands of labs
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Are there any use cases where its beneficial to compile frequently? Writing software? It's very useful to check your work. If can only verify your work slowly, then you will verify less frequently. This means you will work on a la
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by lostdog 5y ago
Yeah. Working for a quarter salary for a non-profit would be completely fine. Working for a quarter salary so a VC gets to keep another fraction of a percent? Nope.
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by lostdog 5y ago
You just can't justify joining a startup between series A and when they switch to RSUs. The equity amounts are usually small enough to be worthless, and if they are big they become impossible to exercise. Angel investing a smaller amou
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by lostdog 5y ago
And images and matrices are often indexed (row, column), so clearly lat lon is right!
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by lostdog 5y ago
Do you have any affiliation with the Radix project that you'd like to disclose?
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by lostdog 5y ago
Exactly. You can even care about your product and its users, but not care that it went down for a couple hours last tuesday or launched 4 weeks later than a made-up deadline.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Obviously we should just swap the entire car. It would be like with horses, where you could swap for a fresh one to speed up a long ride.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The VPs might be messaging "speed" company wide, but what are the saying to their direct reports? Do the directors hear a more nuanced message that balances reliability, and then try to implement a r
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by lostdog 5y ago
Then the CEO should also be woken up to be sure the incentives are truly aligned. After all, it is their website that is blowing up, and being woken at 2am will make them more likely to ensure best practices company wide.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Because you need another email and phone number? The obvious solution is still for Twitter to not suck.
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Casual web visitors to the public-facing portion aren't exposed to the majority of the product, and have a sub-par experience as a result. No, their experiences are perfectly fine. Maybe the company believes that monetization is w
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by lostdog 5y ago
> I'm curious what you would think about someone who's stayed at one company (same role, same team, maybe some minor increase in responsibility and rank) for 5 years? 10 years? It depends. A long tenure means I will check in th
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by lostdog 5y ago
If I hire you, I want you to be able to stick around long enough to get something done. Typically that's at least 2 years. Staying for less typically makes the hiring process not worth it. Plus now I immediately have to go hire another
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by lostdog 5y ago
Did they write the headings of the report backwards maybe?
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by lostdog 5y ago
Having a single Result type as standard has a huge benefit. You can do error handling for every library you use in exactly the same way. You also get decent stack traces because the runtime can reason about a single error type. Unified erro
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by lostdog 5y ago
Rust's Result type and `?` operator makes error handling kinda fun. Every language should strive to be this clean.
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by lostdog 5y ago
I played with Nim a little, and it's a great language. The things that were difficult were 1) Remembering which objects were initialized with "newThing" and which needed "initThing," 2) I never quite figured out wha
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by lostdog 5y ago
States are not truly serious about nurturing businesses, especially small businesses.
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by lostdog 5y ago
JAMS is just a company, and other corporations pick that company to select arbitration panels in disputes with their customers and workers. Can you prove that JAMS is fair in any way? Probably not, since the proceedings of arbitration are s
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by lostdog 5y ago
Most places in the US only have a single ISP option. There's a word that describes this situation that rhymes with "phonopoly."
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by lostdog 5y ago
3 months ago every political email started getting through Gmail's spam filter all of the sudden. I've marked hundreds as spam, and the filter still lets some through.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Really stalebot shouldn't close issues. It should put them into a "stale" state, where they still exist for users to read, but are filtered out when maintainers look at a list of issues with the project.
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Even in arbitration, arbitrators are not mustache twirling corporate villians. Arbitration is secret, and arbitrators are chosen by the corporation, so I'm very curious how you could prove this not to be true.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Very cool idea, and the results look great. If I were using this practically, I would add a "fuzzer" to find intractable situations and add new tiles to fit them. You could even add a high cost to make certain tiles undesirable, s

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