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by mailslot 7y ago
Ah. Reminds me of a place I worked. The software build would take seven hours, and my coworker would play ping pong for the rest of the day. When I sped it up to five minutes, I’ve never seen someone become so pissed off.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Always “store” timestamps in UTC is more accurate. For date math purposes alone.
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by mailslot 7y ago
There was an affordable service that would drive your car home for you. The problem leading to its failure, as I understand it, is that drunk people that needed it were too wasted to remember that it existed.
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by mailslot 7y ago
You can also use your own modem and WiFi access point, save monthly rental fees, and get better throughout.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Yes, it can vary, but it’s kind of important. If you don’t know the order of specific operators, or if your language violates math rules, a dev might want to know that instead of resigning to just not know things. For readability, yes... so
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by mailslot 7y ago
I think that if you don’t, you might end adopting superstitious “best practices” to compensate. For example: Countless engineers I’ve worked with don’t know operator precedence. So tons of ”y = ((i * m) + b);” type stuff. Do not need any pa
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by mailslot 7y ago
STOP nominating narcissistic sociopaths to paths of power. Yeah??? Real easy.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Transaction & processing fees are no joke. Big or small, 3% of your revenue before profit, is a big deal. It made sense as a convenience fee, until it became ubiquitous. Now it’s a tax that people are blindly opting in to.
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by mailslot 7y ago
I don’t know how many times I see devs put database checks in their liveness checks. The database blips and and the containers restart. Awesome!
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by mailslot 7y ago
I think I’d lose it if I had to npm update before installing a device driver.
41.
by mailslot 7y ago
I meant, in the context of schooling & learning. Coding boot camps can sometimes result in some behaviors that require unlearning.
42.
by mailslot 7y ago
I’m mostly talking about trivial things. For example: Adding a third-party dependency to evaluate euclidian distance. i.e. A^2 + B^2 == C^2.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Conversely, too much practical experience can lead to a lack of fundamental understanding, innovation, and helplessness. I can’t stand it when an engineer wastes hours looking for a library, instead of even considering actually writing code
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by mailslot 7y ago
I always assumed it was 16hz. Oh well. That was a long time ago.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Fortran has great linear algebra libraries.
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by mailslot 7y ago
True story: I worked for a mobile app developer that earned a reputation for destroying Android phones. Logging bugs would trash the flash storage in months or weeks. Other bugs and “features” would drain the battery so aggressively that se
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by mailslot 7y ago
I wish they used regex literals.
48.
by mailslot 7y ago
Cool. Now everyone can go back to cigarettes.
49.
by mailslot 7y ago
It’s a certified UNIX, which Linux & BSD are clones of (UNIX).
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by mailslot 7y ago
If I’m working on a specific algorithm, I’ll drill it. Setup a test rig and test my assumptions. I’m often wrong about a lot of things, and playing around with something in isolation is great practice. For example, when learning ant colony
51.
by mailslot 7y ago
It’s Javascript running in a stand-alone browser?? This is the future of web tech.
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by mailslot 7y ago
To add: Short stints on a résumé are warning signs for a hiring manager. Too much concern about them is a warning sign for an applicant. I’ve encountered a handful of companies that expect applicants to have been with their previous company
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by mailslot 7y ago
The government sanctioned AT&T’s monopoly in exchange for building the world’s most capable telecommunications. They’d probably still be the only telecom, if they could have behaved.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Microsoft has a long history of illegal anti-competitive behavior going back decades. I particularly remember an attempt to break Lotus Notes in a service pack that backfired and broke Windows servers. This was as they were building up Exch
55.
by mailslot 7y ago
Can we include Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion to the list of monopolistic anti-competitive financial companies?
56.
by mailslot 7y ago
This is literally how I get “impossible” changes to happen virtually anywhere. There’s so much psychology that goes into the impact of the written word. Don’t spread my secret. :(
57.
by mailslot 7y ago
Fonts are terrible on Windows. It feels like nitpicking, but as a former designer, I notice. Constantly.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Maybe for the same reason my employer made me open up the ports to a PostgreSQL instance? Stupid cloud reporting service to make stupid charts with a stupid point & click UI. At least I enabled SSL, whitelisted the IP range, and set a p
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by mailslot 7y ago
I was going to say that the SSD is slower on the XPS, and it is, but it’s close. The storage in the MBP is wicked fast even in the base configuration.
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by mailslot 7y ago
I have Windows running along side macOS on my Mac Pro. It boots faster and the video screams... when it’s not installing updates. Seriously. It’s worse than my xBox.

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