mihaic

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by mihaic 4y ago
While the product itself also looks interesting, I'd mainly want to congragulate the developers on their choice of licensing. While it might not be for everyone, there really needs to be a larger movement of exploring and upgrading OSS
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by mihaic 4y ago
Yeah, the better I've become as a software developer, the more unnatural and almost dehumanizing do I realize the whole developer lifecycle is.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Completely agree with you, although it's hard to explain why. Teaching children specifics without fundamentals prepares them for the job market, not for life.
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by mihaic 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. As a fan of the first Matrix, it felt a bit cathartic to see the honesty upfront, so I could just see this movie as a standalone statement with some decent visuals. It was pretty much the opposite of watching the latest
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by mihaic 4y ago
A few years back we had a programming challenge to solve the generalized medium puzzle. If you want to try solving it through code check it out here: https://csacademy.com/contest/archive/task/circular_shift_s
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by mihaic 4y ago
While I feel like the direct cause of the current situation really is a wage shortage, I'm thinking more that the root cause of the situation is how much harder it is to build any value adding business. The economy is becoming hyper-ab
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by mihaic 4y ago
Seems a bit unavoidable when you have the most efficient society even in creating artificial desires and enabling them through easy loans. Combined with literally rent-seeking and the expectation that real-estate with always increase in val
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by mihaic 4y ago
I agree right now, I'm thinking maybe in 15 years you can have >1PB on a single machine, and then those problems that don't fit in that space but that fit in a supercomputer become fewer. 2050 will be within out lifetime. Basic
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by mihaic 4y ago
The more powerful processors become, the less I feel there's a need to build supercomputers. Thinking about it, the most powerful supercomputer in the world is pretty much a million consumer processors, working in parallel. That's
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by mihaic 4y ago
There is one important thing Copilot doesn't do yet, and that's to say: "I can implement that, but is there a chance you wanted to solve a different problem here, which might be Y?" One of the criteria I have for a profe
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by mihaic 4y ago
That feels to be reductionist beyond the point of usefulness. Treating physical objects and violence as abstract concepts seems to always lose something, although I find it difficult to pinpoint exactly what.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've got a fairly unique setup, and work on a Windows machine that runs my Ubuntu VM with KDE(where I do all development). I take monthly snapshots of the VM, and carry it around on all my computers. It drifts from time to time, and I
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by mihaic 4y ago
Completely agree, there's a strong cultural part in the confidence of the incompetent and it's especially one that I've noticed with Americans and their obsession with self-esteem regardless if it's based on competence.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I'm sure some marketing exec doesn't want to say "Football" or "Soccer", and has a whole worldview prepared with EA Sports Hockey, etc, but this new name completely misses on being actually usable in conversati
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by mihaic 4y ago
Youtube is an infrastructure that delivers a huge segment of all video content watched today, especially from independent creators. Youtube is faceless and without a contact process, so posting on a forum where you know Google employees are
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by mihaic 4y ago
Honestly, I think the only real chance for progress here is from better laws and us using better terminology in the conversation. There real problems are not "cookies" or even "third-party cookies" per se, but the tracki
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by mihaic 5y ago
The existence of "best practices" that are so detailed can become a real pain at times. While they provide a good checklist of potential issue to take care with, there are plenty of cases where a specific situations would be grea
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by mihaic 5y ago
Pretty much what I was thinking, but thank you for bringing some authority so it's not just an opinion.
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by mihaic 5y ago
Since this research doesn't mention some hard to quantify ties, it missed on the painting the picture of the most interesting actual family in mathematics: the Bernoullis. Brothers Jacob and Johann sprung up seemingly out of nowhere to
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by mihaic 5y ago
It really is a shame that "it's fast enough" is repeated without saying what for. It really is fast enough for scripting logic, that so many other aspects would benefit imensly if more effort were put into speeding up the sta
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by mihaic 5y ago
I'm all for mentoring the next generation, I'm just saying thought that it's a much higher burden than people realize, especially for a company that doesn't have product-market fit, and where you can expect a lot of the
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by mihaic 5y ago
I'll add something that as a founder is actionable and I haven't seen recommended: work with as few people as possible and if possible with people over 30. A large amount of stress is amplified by mini-dramas that could have been
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by mihaic 5y ago
Modern software development is now caught in an influx of fresh developers/designers, which leads to "best practices" and libraries appealing to less experienced and less competent workers, which in turn change the processes
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by mihaic 5y ago
Re-reading, I definitely mis-spoke: I meant I've spoken about a government provided email system, as IDs are standard almost everywhere except perhaps the UK. Yes, I do agree that the problems with a central ID are solvable instead of
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by mihaic 5y ago
I totally agree with you, although I'd imagine for the US your first uphill battle would be to convince people that a central government ID is a good idea. I've been mentioning this idea in private conversations in Europe for many
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by mihaic 5y ago
This is one of those rare situations where the solution really is regulation, but unfortunately it's dropped out of the US Overton window. The FCC or some other regulatory body could drop the hammer on telcos and implement whatever is
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by mihaic 5y ago
I remember reading Girard's "Things hidden since the foundation..." and feeling the way it's used now to reason around human desires to be incomplete. Looking back at my grandfather's living as a simple peasant, he
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by mihaic 5y ago
This analysis feels shallow, since it doesn't address the current landscape: it takes a lot longer than 10-15 years ago to get from nothing to revenue if you don't have a contract in advance, while most of the mainstream advice fo
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by mihaic 5y ago
Hmmm, I wonder if it might be a side-effect of people knowing that new things are crap, so might as well have the freshest crap. On the other hand I was shocked when I heard people use "old movies" to refer to those of the 2000s,
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by mihaic 5y ago
One big issue I rarely see mentioned is how much worse modern society is for long-term couples, in many ways. While this doesn't give us any direct actionable advice, accepting it reframes the struggle of the couple against the world i

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