mlazos

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by mlazos 9y ago
I’ve seen firsthand the amount of work that goes into building a complex, scalable system and the problem with your statements are that 1) It’s hard to measure at scale what each of your users cares about. This is especially true with “lig
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by mlazos 9y ago
I feel like the premise of this article is wrong because does slack really care how much you use it? Don’t they just get $$$ per seat. They just want businesses to keep buying. This is opposed to Facebook where their business is keeping use
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by mlazos 9y ago
I read somewhere a while ago that someone was thinking of doing this with airplanes. Not sure if this made it past the drawing board though.
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by mlazos 9y ago
Ugh this article was so frustrating to read. To say “oh look a nazi website can’t find a hosting service” == the internet is already not neutral is such a straw man argument. Even if hosting services were censoring everything it clearly doe
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by mlazos 9y ago
So for public facing documentation on an API there are technical writers (like for support docs) but for internal documentation we are expected to keep code well documented. Yeah it might be good to just start having these safeguards and as
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by mlazos 9y ago
I’m not sure the previous comment is saying in all circumstances. I agree with what you’re saying - because higher officials obviously aren’t able to catch every mistake made by every engineer but I think the parent comment really meant tha
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by mlazos 9y ago
This actually gives me a lot more faith in system than I previously had. That’s really good to know!
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by mlazos 9y ago
My team at work (Microsoft) uses a custom document renderer based on markdown. So to enforce good documentation we have two main safeguards. The first is that we have a static analysis tool that forces everyone to have properly formatted co
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by mlazos 9y ago
We trust the government to regulate and control all sorts of things (tv, radio communication bandwidth, some local utilities) I don’t see why having some sort of oversight and rules governing what Facebook can do with data it collects is a
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by mlazos 9y ago
Something that gives me hope in the recent wave of sexual assault revelations is that I think we are getting closer to a point where victims are getting more comfortable reporting what has happened. As long as this trend continues this will
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by mlazos 9y ago
The fact that it can point to unmanaged memory is a benefit for me. Just last week I’ve been porting some performance critical code to C++\CLI and this will allow me to use a span of of object instead of having to pin arrays. One other appl
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by mlazos 9y ago
I used C# via CLR for a good ramp up on C# when I started my first job. I came from a java background and the transition was seamless.
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by mlazos 9y ago
This article reads more like a self help book. And it acts as if the Zuckerbergs and musks of the world have a mystical power to see the world more deeply than everyone else when truly a tremendous amount of luck goes into forming companies
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by mlazos 9y ago
This article says that google photos’ model can still have trouble telling your pets apart if you have the same breed - it kind of disproves your point. The model needs to be explicitly told which cat is which. That said, I’m pretty sure a
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by mlazos 9y ago
It seems like you have a grasp of what is wrong already. Stuff you can do right now without reading a book - Use source control - Enact a policy where all new code is to be well tested (which you can enforce with some build/checkin s
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by mlazos 9y ago
Yeah this comment stuck out to me in the presentation. Industry has a great record of creating + supporting languages. C#, F#, Dart, Swift, Rust, D are all languages that are actively supported by industry, and some were even created by ind
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by mlazos 9y ago
The implication here is that a lack of education leads to a misunderstanding of the risks of smoking. Whether that implication is true or not doesn’t really matter though, you don’t agree that the notion of “choice” hardly matters when a su
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by mlazos 9y ago
I also found this article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-patents-nativeamerica... It claims that the tribe SRC used for this is suing Microsoft and Amazon for patents related to super computing. It looks like
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by mlazos 9y ago
The US mint prints money, not banks. China’s central bank prints money, yes. The US has debt, also true. Why do any of these things which have been happening for the past 30+ years (with the exception of china’s Central bank printing money)
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by mlazos 9y ago
I took the course a few years ago and can't overstate how much I learned implementing the interpreter assignments. They entirely revamped my thinking about programming and even prepared me for the real world a bit (my team at work just