motorest

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by motorest 1y ago
I think you are making up scenarios in your head to try to rationalize away why you have a bad time at job interviews.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Just change the license. The company probably won't notice and keep pulling the new changes. Now you have a legal case. I think the world already grew tired of rug pull tactics. If you want your reputation to go down the crapper w
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by motorest 1y ago
> Tbf, I'd rather get a "we didn't review your CV" response than a template "we are continuing with other candidates :)" response. Idk it sounds plausible that OP might just have been late to the party, and
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by motorest 1y ago
> Homebrew is “just” a package manager, not the core of part of Google. Yes, this. Sometimes I wonder if those coming up with the Homebrew example have any experience whatsoever with software development. I mean, sure the project is popu
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by motorest 1y ago
> I've estimated that LLMs make me 2-5x more productive on the parts of my job which involve typing code into a computer, which is itself a small portion of that I do as a software engineer. I think that the key realization is that
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by motorest 1y ago
> How is it not a different point of view to think that healthcare should be tied to one's employment as opposed to all people should have access to affordable healthcare? Please explain how members of a low-income household would r
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by motorest 1y ago
> Sure, but not every abstraction is premature; How can you tell if what you're task to do is to duplicate a class? The wisdom in WET is that it prevents the accidental complexity created by premature abstractions while not preventi
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by motorest 1y ago
> Or for analogy, following a recipe doesn't make you a good cook. For an analogy, no one cares if you're a good cook if you're able to make a passable burger. Most of the demand is not for the best burger money can buy, t
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by motorest 1y ago
> Minor nitpick that the point is not to save on the upfront effort, but to reduce maintenance burden. There are multiple benefits beyond that. Perhaps the most important one is preventing premature abstractions, which means not only avo
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by motorest 1y ago
> The frequency doesn't make the criticism more valid (...) The criticism is not valid. It's specious reasoning at best, fueled by a hefty dose of gatekeeing. The only rationale that is relevant is whether the standard library
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by motorest 1y ago
> Out of hundreds of hundreds of projects I've interacted with, maybe less than 1% have used linear algebra in any non-basic capacity (e.g. more than multiplying two 4x4 matrices) Are you really trying to argue that if you ignore th
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by motorest 1y ago
> What is the point of a permissions system that can be trivially bypassed? You seem to be confused. The system is not bypassed. The only argument you can make is that the system covers calls to node:fs, whereas some modules might not us
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by motorest 1y ago
> Doing the real math is the trick of the trade. The math for owning has been made so that it looks like a good deal while in reality it is not at all. Most people will literally compare mortgage to their rent, or "I sold my house I
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by motorest 1y ago
> Sometimes* the same code copy/pasted or repeated is much easier to understand than pulling it all into a subroutine. The Write Everything Twice principle is a much needed sanity check for absurd DRY practices. There are too many n
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by motorest 1y ago
> Node allows native addons in packages via the N-API so any native module aren't restricted by those permissions. (...) Node permissions (...) just restrict the Node standard library. So what? That's clearly laid out in Node&#
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by motorest 1y ago
> I wouldn't trust it to be done right. I don't understand this sort of complaint. Would you prefer that they didn't worked on this support ever? Exactly what's your point? Airing trust issues?
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by motorest 1y ago
> And then HipHop failed to provide as much gains as they hoped (...) What point do you think you're making?
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by motorest 1y ago
> Except the devil is in the details as usual, the way linalg is specified doesn't guarantee numeric stability across library implementations or compilers. I think this criticism is silly. You're complaining about the C++ stand
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by motorest 1y ago
> I'm not a fan of the C++26 linalg stuff. I don't agree at all. For most, linear algebra is the primary reason they pick up C++. Up until now, the best option C++ newbies had was to go through arcane processes to onboard a hig
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by motorest 1y ago
> Yes, hiring a finops person is a sound advice once your cloud bill gets big enough. Is it, though? At best someone wearing that hat will explain the bill you're getting. What value do you get from that? To cut costs, either you mi
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by motorest 1y ago
> Then again Scott Meyers said he's never written a C++ program professionally. I think you're inadvertently misrepresenting Scott Meyers' claim. Cited from somewhere else: > I'll begin with what many of you will
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by motorest 1y ago
> sure, but instagram was created by a handful of people with python and got a billion dollar exit in 2012. Facebook famously felt compelled to hire eminent C++ experts to help them migrate away from their PHP backend. I still recall rea
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by motorest 1y ago
> One of the projects came back with 'just flipping C++20 switch with no changes causes significant regression on build times'. I think this just proves that your team is highly inexperienced in C++ projects, which you implicit
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by motorest 1y ago
> It's the other way around. You are the real programmer and the committee and the "modern C++" crowd are more interested playing with legos instead of shipping actual software. I think this is the most clueless comment I
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by motorest 1y ago
> In fact it's never been a closer race on who is the 'best' Thank you for pointing out that fact. Sometimes it's very hard to keep perspective. Sometimes I use Mistral as my main LLM. I know it's not lauded as t
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by motorest 1y ago
> If your AWS costs are too complex for you to understand you need to employ a finops person or AWS specialist to handle it for you. What a baffling comment. Is it normal to even consider hiring someone to figure out how you are being bi
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by motorest 1y ago
> I did, and xss and session sniffing listed on the OWASP web page, would be prevented by following OAuth flows. OWASP's page lists 3 more examples which it seems you omitted for some reason.
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by motorest 1y ago
> On one hand I don't think you can apply a price to a human life, but on the other 329 million feels too high, (...) Let me stop you right there. That's not how damages work. Damages have two goals: compensate victims, and dis
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by motorest 1y ago
> I'm all ears, please provide one potential way. Just Google for session hijacking attacks. There's a wealth of information on the topic. It's a regular entry in OWASP top 10.
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by motorest 1y ago
> No, naming them is not the main purpose, preserving and transmitting knowledge of what they are and what they are useful for, so that people aren't fofced to rediscover solutions to the same problems over and over again. [0] Namin

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