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by misja111 5y ago
As far as I understand, that #2 C program contains hardly any C code but mostly inlined assembly.
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by misja111 5y ago
Well they obviously mean that those 'stakeholders' are their shareholders.
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by misja111 5y ago
Strange that you blame this on OOP. I see event sourcing being used particularly often in FP environments. Because of course the model of streaming immutable data fits very well into the FP paradigm.
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by misja111 5y ago
I admitted I didn't have any experience using e-readers before, so please forgive my ignorance. But in defence of me and all the other ignorant buyers, when a device is sold with the argument that it is a fully functional Android devic
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by misja111 5y ago
I'm doing exactly the same, I'm using almost exclusively the Kindle app and it works fine on my Boox tablet. What disappointed me is the slowness of the refreshing. I guess it's because I hadn't used any e-reader before.
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by misja111 5y ago
> One such people screwed my career development for 7 years The problem was with this person, not so much with the GoF book. In present days this person might have become an FP fundamentalist and come up with some exotic category theory
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by misja111 5y ago
> .. The Mythical Man Month, and I'd say it's a great book. Sadly, more often than not, it's something I wish I could staple to managements foreheads. "read this now before our next planning session" Did you read
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by misja111 5y ago
The amount of opioids prescribed by dentists and family practitioners.
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by misja111 5y ago
The research was about the effect of your diet on dementia. When looking from an evolutionary perspective, I don't think that the chance of developing dementia was very important. Most people never reached that age and when they did, t
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by misja111 5y ago
I have been working there. I don't work there anymore. But I doubt that whatever I say could change your opinion, you seem to have your mind already made up.
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by misja111 5y ago
This is nonsense. Source: I have been working in the cyber security department of a major Dutch bank.
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by misja111 5y ago
Yeah you're right, Windows isn't great for developing, although it isn't as bad as it used to be. But employers love it because they can run all their monitoring spyware on it, it integrates with Outlook and Office, plus they
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by misja111 5y ago
Their employer who provides and provisions the developers' workstations.
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by misja111 5y ago
> Who here is writing software which runs on Linux, yet needs to be running Windows while they do it? There are plenty of companies that are locked in to Windows for their workstations but have servers running on Linux. Many financial co
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by misja111 5y ago
> I guess banks are the archetypal places that care only about feature creation and not about maintenance or technical debt. It depends which department you are in, but in general: absolutely not. Actually the reverse is true. Banks have
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by misja111 5y ago
The group of unhealthy processed foods is larger than just the ones with corn syrup or nitrite in it. What most have in common, is that they contain too much added salt, too many 'fast' carbohydrates and too little or no nutrition
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by misja111 5y ago
If you read the article you will find that your question is answered in there.
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by misja111 5y ago
I'm in my 24th year now as a Dev, and I can tell you that the career perspective for senior devs is not nearly as dim as you describe. On the contrary, the more senior I've gotten the more possibilities I have got to move to diffe
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by misja111 5y ago
Exactly. E.g. this: "Although there are some downsides to people thinking that I'm stupid, e.g., failing interviews where the interviewer very clearly thought I was stupid" This isn't just looking stupid, this is being s
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by misja111 5y ago
Structuring and documenting your code is not rocket science. It is not expecting a fish to fly, any scientist should easily be able to pick up this skill.
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by misja111 5y ago
Maybe they are not programmers but they surely work in a team or company where everybody is supposed to work as efficiently as possible together. Simply throwing your unstructured and unreadable code over the wall, with the excuse that it&#
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by misja111 5y ago
Meanwhile, Guantanamo Bay will soon celebrate its 20th birthday as a detention center. All of its prisoners are there without trial or even formal accusation. And they are not only in solitary confinement but many have been tortured as well
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by misja111 5y ago
It's a bit too easy to blame this only on Wall Street. First of all companies have outsourced their production facilities to lower production costs. The parties benefiting from this were: - shareholders (more profit) - consumers (lower
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by misja111 5y ago
I agree but I would say that any advanced enough civilisation will even be able to eliminate the need to grow their population and energy requirements. I don't see any requirement why an intelligent civilisation would need to grow its
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by misja111 5y ago
E.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278789/ "in animal models, transmission can occur in <16 hours, and the minimum attachment time for transmission of infection has never been establi
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by misja111 5y ago
No, removing them early just reduces the chance of getting Lyme. There's no such thing as a 24 hour barrier.
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by misja111 5y ago
The US as a whole might not have liberalised drug laws, but California definitely has. Here is some data about California drug overdoses (until 2018, after that the trend continues): https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics&#x
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by misja111 5y ago
+1, Paul Morphy might have been the most fascinating and influencing chess player of all time. When he was still actively playing, he seemed almost unbeatable, and nobody understood why. Somehow Morphy intuitively knew when to start an atta
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by misja111 5y ago
So you would be ok with a phone company that doesn't allow certains groups of people to make phone calls? For instance, people whose political views it doesn't agree with? Or even worse, people with certain ethnical backgrounds? O
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by misja111 5y ago
No idea. I also thought it would be great to work 4 days before I actually tried it a couple of times. So I find it really hard to predict how it will feel in reality.

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