mgaunard

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by mgaunard 2y ago
That's a good point. Particularly good pieces of work are hard to rewrite. I remember rewriting some piece of infrastructure once when I moved to another job, but I failed to summon the energy to rewrite it a second time at another job
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Most software has a finite lifetime of a few years. You rewrite everything eventually. What you should be worried about is the code that hasn't been rewritten in ten years.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
The main things I'm interested in are: - what is the scope/mandate of the team; i.e. would I be powerless in fixing things because ownership lies elsewhere. - how close is the team to the business; i.e. do they have a good underst
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Not everyone builds the same kind of application and has the same amount of data with the same kind of interactions.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
So it's two days of work for a chance at two days of pay.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Many people would consider food to be the greatest joy in life, and eating out at a restaurant to be a treat. There is also the social aspect, it's one of the best opportunities to enjoy a good moment and bond over, be it with family,
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by mgaunard 2y ago
are you suggesting that people with allergies should always cook every one of their meals? That's quite unreasonable.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
You can just divide the speed-up by the number of cores, and that gives you the parallelization efficiency. I've seen systems that can achieve 99% efficiency on thousands on nodes for real useful applications that involve non-trivial s
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by mgaunard 2y ago
tl;dr they're moving to using "git archive" to ensure what's in the tarball is what's under git.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
I believe 95% of the first messages that women send on Bumble is "Hi". Speaks volumes.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
I've used the apps extensively, and I know that it mostly led to meaningless short-term relationships, and that I only eventually found someone I genuinely connected with due to perseverance and luck. Also the author is not deranged, a
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Coffee meets Bagel
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by mgaunard 2y ago
There is at least one app I can think of which works by giving you a finite amount of profiles to review every day. I did find that it was a bit better in several aspects.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
If you don't think like this you can't possibly be successful on these apps. As a man in particular it's a numbers game and a huge time sink. Making it a CRM is just layering tools on top to make the process more efficient. I
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by mgaunard 2y ago
There are many dating apps that explicitly cater to women and give them special rights. Bumble is the most popular one. I remember an old one which was set up like a store, where women got to "shop" around to "adopt" a m
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by mgaunard 2y ago
While not doing heroism prevents your product/service from being successful or reach the market in a timely fashion.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Heroism is what you do until you manage to secure the headcount and hire the team that lets you run things smoothly. In the real world, getting approval for headcount can take 6 months, hiring 3, training another 3. So you need to sustain h
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by mgaunard 2y ago
If you're posting on hacker news surely you would be able to install raspotify on a debian raspberry pi or just load the moode audio image.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
You can buy any of the google-enabled speakers, or you can just get some raspberry pi and run your own solution.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
I just bought a Chromecast because my TV doesn't support the latest apps.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Ignoring the fact this isn't even true, you're completely misunderstanding my point. As I said, Google does not prioritize for technical expertise, primarily because that's quite individual-centric. They're a large orga
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Adobe had competing products mostly based on open standards. They shut down many active product lines and merged what was left into Adobe AIR, which didn't take off.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
The history section does not feel quite accurate. From what I recall, what killed Flash wasn't iOS, but rather the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
It is perfectly possible to write a function in pure Java that would never terminate when called with parameter values outside of the domain for which it is defined. It is also possible for it to yield an incorrect value. Your statement tha
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by mgaunard 2y ago
Let's consider this function: char* strappend(char const* input, size_t size) { char* ptr = malloc(size + 2); if (!ptr) return 0; memcpy(ptr, input, size); ptr[size] = 'a'; ptr[size + 1] = 'b&#x27
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by mgaunard 2y ago
I don't know what you're ranting on about. Functions have parameters. In the case of the previous function, it is not defined if its parameter is INT_MAX, but is defined for all other values of int. Having functions that are only
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by mgaunard 2y ago
I'm sorry you think me not acknowledging or caring about your made-up social minority makes me some sort of political activist. What I care about is technology, and you have to dig quite hard to extract it here.
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by mgaunard 2y ago
The interesting case is what should the code do if inlined on a code path where a is deduced to be INT_MAX. A compiler will just avoid inlining any code here, since it's not valid, and thus by definition that branch cannot be taken, re
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by mgaunard 2y ago
The result of a binary search is undefined if the input is not sorted. How do you expect the compiler to statically guarantee that this property holds in all the cases you want to do a binary search?
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by mgaunard 2y ago
You mean studies from Google, which explicitly has a culture of dumbing down software development, and heavily focuses on theoretical algorithmic skills rather than technical ones?

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