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by mjr00 4y ago
I've been a fan of esports since I was downloading RealMedia replays of Boxer's Brood War games in the early 2000s, and still watch pro League and Dota2. Have gone to the EVO FGC tournament most years, as well. Plus some live Leag
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by mjr00 4y ago
> This is true in some senses, but also, response latency isn't the only thing a web application does or is evaluated by. Many applications have, for example, background jobs, that do arbitrarily complex processing outside of the re
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by mjr00 4y ago
> What does Rust solve for the casual user? If by casual user, you mean the 95% case of a back-end developer whose main job is pulling data from various sources, performing operations, and placing that data elsewhere and/or displayi
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by mjr00 4y ago
> StackOverflow and Google are finished. This is expected and it may not look like it now, but banning an advancement in technology (even temporary) is usually the first step to irrelevance of those pushing back. Depends on the reason fo
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by mjr00 4y ago
Funnily enough, two sentences in I thought "this comment sounds like it was written by GPT3." To me that says that as impressive as it is, it's not passing the Turing test anytime soon.
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by mjr00 4y ago
It could be an exponential graph, but it could also be a discrete step chart. When you're at the point where a leap in technology is happening, it looks like it's exponential for a brief period of time. But after that jump, thin
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by mjr00 4y ago
> We are either going to be living in Star Trek or all dead in the next 50 years, but nothing in between—exciting, but genuinely scary. Every time a new advancement in AI is released to the public, we go through a hype cycle. Day 1: Hey,
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by mjr00 4y ago
I worked at a company where a principal developer got tasked with building a CRUD app. He worked in a silo on it, coming back in 3 months with a CRUD app... written in Scala with heavy use of scalaz. It was a CRUD app that was scalaz featur
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by mjr00 4y ago
For the trust fund kids masquerading as "influencers" and "journalists" who have a circle of other trust fund kid friends, yeah, sure, their lives are especially Insta-worthy. Much less so for the underemployed 30 year o
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I grew up poor, most of my friends are not college educated and they come from dirt poor areas and have never had a decent job. Yet they fall into this category as well. It’s really easy to make money hustling in the day to day. For in
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by mjr00 4y ago
> But when you hang with them, you realize that when working full time you are missing out on psychological states and experiences that are taken from you by having a full time job. In my experience, the "experiences" that sing
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by mjr00 4y ago
Sure, but he has a Civic from the mid-2000s and lives in a typically-priced LA low-rise rental apartment in an okay-but-not-amazing neighborhood. Funnily enough, he's dating a girl in a very similar situation who currently has an occup
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by mjr00 4y ago
Yeah it's almost certainly this. In Western culture, and probably others, your job is closely tied to your identity. Even if you don't feel so yourself, it greatly affects how others perceive you. After all, when you meet a new pe
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by mjr00 4y ago
Display it where? On a MacOS lock screen when the user can't even log in?
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by mjr00 4y ago
Management saying "we're going to announce layoffs in a month" means that in addition to the pain that comes with getting laid off, there's also an additional month prior to that where people are stuck in limbo, "
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by mjr00 4y ago
> In the longer term: announce layoffs ahead of time. Ask if anyone wishes to take voluntary redundancy. In general, make sure people aren’t going to be totally blindsided by losing their job. This isn't a great idea from a manageme
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by mjr00 4y ago
Good in theory, but most people at these companies are accessing their work email through a work-controlled device, and that work device should be locked and inaccessible to employees when they're laid off. So they'd have to log i
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by mjr00 4y ago
> If someone changes the code, it’s on them to notify everyone about breaking changes. If the documentation says that the method accept dict, and you call it with dataframes, it’s on you to check that it will continue to work with datafr
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by mjr00 4y ago
> The two examples are human errors easily avoidable by reading the documentation. Okay, but that doesn't answer the question. We're in dynamic typing world; my method accepts any data type by design. What's the expected b
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by mjr00 4y ago
Agreed with all of this. It's the programming version of being penny wise and pound foolish. This style of metaprogramming reduces a few lines of boilerplate code at the expensive of making a system as a whole extremely difficult to un
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by mjr00 4y ago
> You shouldn't write test to validate types in the fist place. Testing for the correct behavior should be enough. Yeah but with dynamic typing there's a whole bunch of behaviors you need to think about. You pass an int into a
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by mjr00 4y ago
It's crazy to think about, but many people who use and build software today, including HN readers/commenters, are young enough to have only been exposed to the SaaS, cloud-first era, where software built with microservices deploye
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by mjr00 4y ago
This is why I set up linting rules to error when people push "TODO" comments. Either just do it, or put a work item in the place where you actually track work (Jira or equivalent) so it has at least a chance of getting done. Oth
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by mjr00 4y ago
Twitch had an entire video game category that was hosting multiple 24/7 Morbius streams going back in April. Is Twitch broken?
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by mjr00 4y ago
The Mastadon hype here has serious "year of the Linux desktop" vibes -- technical people getting excited about features that don't matter at all to the average user. Until journalists, politicians, musicians, artists, and bra
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by mjr00 4y ago
Employees who are PIP'd are replaced , though. The positions themselves still exist. This is cutting 10k positions if I'm interpreting correctly, so it's really going from 0% to 4%. It may also impact entire teams or busin
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by mjr00 4y ago
I hope that if we've learned anything from the past few years, it's that you can interpret and manipulate data to make it say whatever you want to say. That's true even when analyzing data about the present, doubly so trying
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by mjr00 4y ago
There's a big difference between reducing the number of hourly workers (warehouse, drivers) and cutting 10,000 corporate jobs.
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by mjr00 4y ago
> If SBF does intend to be a fugitive, does he really think this is going to end up OK for him? Honestly, if he manages to sneak to Laos or the Maldives, even with a mere $100m or so? Yeah he'd most likely be fine, especially if he
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by mjr00 4y ago
At this point you have to apply Occam's Razor... it's hard to imagine this is anyone but SBF trying to liquidate as much as he possibly can before moving to a country without an extradition treaty. He's allegedly also trying

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