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by majewsky 1y ago
(Disclosure: I work at SAP, though not on the ERP stuff or anything of that sort.) From what I've been told, this is actually supposed to be a selling point of SAP: They have built tools to fit the processes of the industry leaders,
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by majewsky 1y ago
To a certain extent, you always have to manage your boss, whether as an individual contributor or as a subordinate manager. A boss managing multiple people does not have the same mental bandwidth as all the people in their team combined, so
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by majewsky 1y ago
> "UUID" was already taken by Google Your link also says that the term UUID predates the founding of Google by over a decade.
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by majewsky 1y ago
Except it's actually 13 cents because of the Apple tax.
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by majewsky 1y ago
You are using the notion of rationality wrong. Rational reasoning can only help you find how to achieve goals that align with your values. It is strictly worthless in choosing your values. If a corporation has determined that profit maximiz
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by majewsky 1y ago
The clearest examples are the ones downvoted into oblivion, so you probably don't see them.
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by majewsky 1y ago
It's not ironic at all. Rust programs being fast is in large part due to shifting work from runtime to compile time.
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by majewsky 1y ago
docs.rs is just barely viable because it only has to build crates once (for one set of features, one target platform etc.). What you propose would 1) have to build each create for at least the 8 Tier 1 targets, if not also the 91 Tier 2 tar
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by majewsky 1y ago
I'm just as annoyed by this, but from what I understand, the animations are used to hide loading times, so the delay is not optional.
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by majewsky 1y ago
In the stable state, both situations (immediate writeoff vs. amortization) would indeed be identical (assuming constant salary expenses over time). The problem is that, when switching from the immediate writeoff regime to the amortization r
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by majewsky 1y ago
Strong unions would be a tool to help you to continue working from home when management gets the RTO brainworms.
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by majewsky 1y ago
> People like that had better accept whatever they get. FOSS maintainers are not a unified mind. The people who go "contributions welcome" and "#hacktoberfest" are somewhere near one end of the spectrum, and the folks
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by majewsky 1y ago
Or, more obviously, make it open-source, and make a big fat note in the README of "I will not accept PRs, this repo is just for your consumption, fork it if you want to change it".
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by majewsky 1y ago
If you're interested to learn more in whatever language, the relevant search term is "refinement type": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinement_type
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by majewsky 1y ago
They might be, but the necktie that made them do it sure isn't.
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by majewsky 1y ago
I have another submission for most annoying UI problem: Trying to read a thing, but it's on medium.com. The sheer amount of popups and overlays I need to click away before I can actually read your thing, geez.
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by majewsky 2y ago
Part of it is that you may get (D)DoSed and then your ISP may be any amount of pissed at you for taking on significant ingress traffic on a residential network.
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by majewsky 2y ago
OP did not assert that they wanted software free of charge.
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by majewsky 2y ago
My favorite hate term from that category is my Operating Systems professor saying "I-Knoten" for inode. Not "Indexknoten" oder anything, just the letter I + "Knoten".
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by majewsky 2y ago
robots.txt is a somewhat useful tool for keeping search engines in line, because it's rather easy to prove that a search engine ignores robots.txt: when a noindex page shows up in SERPs. This evidence trail does not exist for AI crawle
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by majewsky 2y ago
If by "pathology" you mean "we optimize for the comfort of the people already actively engaged in the project instead of hypothetical future contributors", I don't think this argument is as strong as you think it is
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by majewsky 2y ago
Yes, but if statically linked, this excludes all software that relies on security-relevant libraries (e.g. cryptography) or receives data from the network. I struggle to think of a lot of software that would qualify beyond coreutils and fri
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by majewsky 2y ago
They'll just fly Taylor in for a private concert. Everybody has a price.
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by majewsky 2y ago
Link without mobile UI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_distillation
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by majewsky 2y ago
Serialization is what it is, not why it is useful. The most useful aspect of JSON is undoubtedly wide support (historically, that every web browser carried a parser implementation from day 1; contemporarily, the availability as a library in
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by majewsky 2y ago
Yes, that's what they did. I assume that they didn't want to burden the family with yet more formalities.
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by majewsky 2y ago
There is an apocryphal story going around at my company, which in all honesty I don't believe to be true, but it's too good to not believe. :) Back when the hype was virtualization (so probably mid-2000s, before my time at the com
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by majewsky 2y ago
Reminds me of the classic adage that "everything can be solved by another layer of abstraction, except for the problem of too much abstraction layers".
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by majewsky 2y ago
Parser generators will tell you whether the grammar given to it is well-formed (according to whatever criteria the parser generator uses). When hand-rolling a parser, there could be accidental ambiguities in the definition of your grammar,
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by majewsky 2y ago
I don't think that's what Alan Kay had in mind when he proposed replacing "data" with "ambassadors" in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722 (Ctrl-F "ambassador" in this threa

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