lpapez

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by lpapez 3y ago
> Humans define intelligence to be something about manipulating symbols and abstractions, aka language. No they do not. Nobody can agree on the definition of intelligence and it is an open question what it is. Are cats intelligent? They
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by lpapez 3y ago
> That's why I said normal office workers and students. Costing 9 hundos a piece, Air is not something a regular company would buy for their employees. They're more likely to buy a budget laptop in the 400-500 range which you c
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by lpapez 3y ago
And a private army to guard it against intruders.
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by lpapez 3y ago
For me that's not the primary reason. I was discouraged from learning C# because of the sheer number of keywords and concepts in the language. Contrasting this with Go where I landed a gig after two weeks of learning by myself and felt
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by lpapez 3y ago
I can tell you I wrote many useless things with more than 500 lines, also known as "enterprise software".
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by lpapez 3y ago
Wow, the hubris in this comment... Almost as much as in the infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 You too might be a Hubris News celebrity one day.
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by lpapez 3y ago
Why can't we have both?
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by lpapez 3y ago
I take it that your project being a monorepo means you have access to the code and can change it when deemed neccessary? I get how that would be characterized as "trivially fixable", but I assure you that this is not the kind of p
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by lpapez 3y ago
I don't want to sound like I'm downplaying your carreer, but what kinds of projects did you work on for 15 years to have an experience this positive? For instance I find it incredible that you never had to debug and workaround a t
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by lpapez 3y ago
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky” - Michael Scott
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I laughed out loud at that last one, hits close to home.
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True, but personally for me at least it is easier to find bugs in neatly formatted consistent code than something written in multitude of styles. It is kind of like "pattern matching" on the error patterns.
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by lpapez 3y ago
Congratulations, you just reinvented Jenkins but using Lua instead of Groovy.
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by lpapez 3y ago
What if I told you grills could be plugged in at home as well?
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by lpapez 3y ago
The important thing is to keep building the house all of the time, gotta pay the bills somehow :)
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by lpapez 3y ago
Following the analogy further personally I find a controlled house burn preferable to self-combusting hazard curtains.
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by lpapez 3y ago
You can walk even without going to work fyi.
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by lpapez 3y ago
It never occured to me that the change can be framed this way, I will learn from this. I thank you for this perspective kind stranger, truly.
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by lpapez 3y ago
> Regarding why your team failed - i've been in a similiar scenario like you as a team lead. The answer is simple - no one in your team was open to adopting scrum so it failed. That's fine but it's not the fault of scrum r
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by lpapez 3y ago
Their view was that there was no problem, but rather that the new process was an improvement. I am not joking. They said that we didn't measure the work before, so they had no visibility into how much the team does. But after introduci
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by lpapez 3y ago
In one of my previous projects I lead a team of 5 talented and creative people and we did truly agile programming: everyone helped each other, asynchronous meets as needed, spontaneous pair programming, direct access to the customer (who al
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by lpapez 3y ago
And what is the effective difference between uninstalling and deactivating it for you, assuming you want to do either of those to prevent over use?
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by lpapez 3y ago
We will stand together, brother.
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by lpapez 3y ago
In theory the lack of sum types sounds like a drawback for Go error handling, in practice it does not matter at all IMO. So far I have never worked a Go project without a strict linter enabled on the pipeline checking that you handled the c
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by lpapez 3y ago
Given the volume of automated link scraping that you do, would it be possible for your company to arrange for a deal with Cloudflare allowing your servers past their Captcha gate, at least around the free-tier Captcha which the scammers mos
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by lpapez 3y ago
This is good for crypto.
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by lpapez 3y ago
Agree with this. Starting with a "well-designed set of interfaces" usually results in half of them being unused having only one implementation and the other half being rewritten because the requirements changed (worst offenders ar
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by lpapez 3y ago
Neither is it a problem which can be solved with magical techno solutions alone. The primary way is to solve it is through systemic and habit change, so I would say if these people wanted to help the environment, they're better off get
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by lpapez 3y ago
I don't have it either but the tweet loads fine?
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by lpapez 3y ago
When the company you work for is burning VC money with no hope or intention of profitability, the only rational technology choice you can make as an engineer is to pick a promising but unproven technology which could boost your resume and

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