motorest

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by motorest 1y ago
> Ideally, what you want is what Rust and many modern languages do: programs which don't explain what they wanted don't compile, so, when you forget to initialize that won't compile. I think you're confusing things. Y
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by motorest 1y ago
> You are very very unlikely to trigger Linux overcommit behavior by not initializing a member variable. The problem with your assumption is that you're just arguing that it's ok for code to be needlessly buggy if you believe t
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by motorest 1y ago
> I'm aware of the _why_ but this is why the tools aren't useful for my case. If they cannot consume the codebase in a reasonable amount of time and provide value from that then they generally aren't useful in areas where
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by motorest 1y ago
> Coming from C, none of this made sense to me. Wut is `foo() = default;`? C does not have member functions, let alone special member functions such as constructors. It's understandable that someone with a C background who never had
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by motorest 1y ago
> Oh how I wish the C++ committee and compiler authors would adopt this way of thinking... I disagree. If you expect anyone to adopt your new standard revision, the very least you need to do is ensure their code won't break just by
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OData – the best way to do REST(odata.org)
2 points by motorest 1y ago|1 comments
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by motorest 1y ago
> Sure, but in the past, StackOverflow was growing, and now it's dying. Maybe something was better before, when "it was not done correctly"? You're presuming that the current volume of questions represent novel, uniqu
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by motorest 1y ago
> I've had the same issue every time I've tried it. The code I generally work on is embedded C/C++ with in-house libraries where the tools are less than useful as they try to generate non-existant interfaces and generally
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by motorest 1y ago
> Their belief just screams "DEI" Complaining about "DEI" is a cope mechanism of incompetent individuals, who prefer to fabricate conspiracies to justify why someone else was chosen over them. It's a rehash of th
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by motorest 1y ago
> Like what a few other folks in this thread pointed out, your resume and your portfolio looks outdated and fragmented on my first glance. Most recruiters and hiring managers spend 5 seconds max during the first pass, so first impression
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by motorest 1y ago
> you have no idea how luxury this belief is. I know very well what working with non-10x engineers is. I also know ver well that performance is a management and HR issue, not an engineering issue. Your job as a competent engineer is to m
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by motorest 1y ago
> The stress comes from people who are bad at what they do and are trying to make it someone else's problem. There's some irony in the way you try to pin the blame on a third-party, and while trying to denigrate it too. I think
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by motorest 1y ago
> I'm pretty sure the comment was sarcastic. I can't tell because I've seen the same exact argument being made with a straight face in other discussions.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Programming should require a gouvernment-emited license reserved to alumni of duly certified schools. Nonsese. I've met PhDs in computer science that were easily out-performed by kids fresh out of coding bootcaps. Do you think tha
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by motorest 1y ago
> This is exactly why I think software engineering should require a licensing requirement, much like civil engineering. Civil engineering requires licensing because there are specific activities that are reserved for licensed engineers,
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WinterTC – Technical Committee on Web-Interoperable Server Runtimes(wintertc.org)
2 points by motorest 1y ago|0 comments
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by motorest 1y ago
> It'd be like saying "Talking about Rust is segregational. It's just all branches of programming languages starting with C". Technically true, but not a useful distinction. That analogy is not valid. Protestants argu
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by motorest 1y ago
> Anything is a religion if enough people agree to it. If Scientology can call itself a religion than "Protestantism" is legit. Protestantism, by definition, is Christianity. The very nature of protestantism is that the Catholi
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by motorest 1y ago
> (...) it is entirely possible to write essentially bug-free software (...) You lost what little credibility you had left.
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by motorest 1y ago
> If it is possible for that other team to merge a broken build, you are doing it wrong. This assertion is unrealistic and fails to address the problem. The fact that builds can and do break is a very mundane fact of life. There are whol
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by motorest 1y ago
> Microservices only pay off when you have (...) independently evolving domains. I don't see any major epiphany in this. In fact, it reads like a tautology. The very definition of microservice is that it's an independently evol
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by motorest 1y ago
> How do you know its statistically significant? Because I bothered to look it up. In the last few years, Mississippi has been holding back between 5-10% of it's students.
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by motorest 1y ago
> This way of thinking is how we end up with a ton of spending and not a ton of results. "Ton of spending" are weasel words. "Not a ton of results" is already the problem. If your school system fails to teach kids how
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by motorest 1y ago
> And if the kid can't do that at a 3rd grade level at the end of 3rd grade, isn't it much better to have them repeat 3rd grade than to push then into 4th grade and hope something changes? That's besides the point, and ort
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The Protection of Information in Computer Systems (1974)(cs.virginia.edu)
3 points by motorest 1y ago|0 comments
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by motorest 1y ago
> yes, because the alternative is to have kids who can't actually read being dragged along and dragging down kids who can read. Failing to teach kids how to read is a failure of the school system, not the kid. Dropping kids because
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by motorest 1y ago
> (...) holding under-achieving students back is a net positive. Even if we assume that's the case, that's not the problem. The problem is that the school system fails to provide the necessary and sufficient services that would
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by motorest 1y ago
> So explain to me what "eliminating bad data points" in this context means. Should MS schools not hold back failing 3rd graders The data point is the number of 3rd graders failing. If you insist in filtering out those 3rd grad
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by motorest 1y ago
> I don't want to strawman your argument but it sounds like you're saying that if you're in 3rd grade one year you should be in 4th grade the next year no matter what. If a school system is designed so that the average kid
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by motorest 1y ago
> Who would have thought that not pushing kids forward into an academic environment they're not prepared for would be beneficial? I think the point is that the school system is outputting kids that are not prepared for the academic

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