mrich

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by mrich 5y ago
In the case here most of the code is templates and macros, so a cpp wouldn't save much.
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by mrich 5y ago
On Windows, Ctrl+Backspace will delete the word left from the cursor, Ctrl+Delete the word to the right. It's pretty much unknown as far as I'm aware but it has boosted my editing productivity immensely. vi users will probably lau
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by mrich 5y ago
Too late, they blew up the Philippsburg power plant 30km from my home last year: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSswlxThqo One of the blocks was really old so I'm glad to see it go. I'm in favor of building new, s
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by mrich 6y ago
Can you elaborate on AWS, why don't you have a choice?
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by mrich 6y ago
Some limited experience. I'm living in Germany, but not in one of the larger cities where employers tend to pay more (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt). So I also checked out remote opportunities. I noticed also that for Ruby/Ra
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by mrich 6y ago
What would be the job description/daily tasks of an individual contributor with such compensation?
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by mrich 6y ago
Remote work is a good bet. Especially Rails programmers can fetch quite a bit.
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by mrich 6y ago
In a similar vein, other things I find interesting in the software industry: - Startups looking for a CTO but they already know they will run in the cloud and have chosen their frontend and backend stacks. - The way mainstream technologies
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by mrich 6y ago
Interesting, didn't know this was just a tech showcase. And it's always puzzling how management fails to monetize something new and successful. It seems most are only able to copy competitors.
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by mrich 6y ago
The most important thing on your path to becoming a software engineer is building stuff, improving it, releasing it, and thinking how you can do it better. Having been through the lifecycle of a piece of software from design to maintenance
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by mrich 6y ago
Perhaps Gmail is just being discontinued ;)
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by mrich 6y ago
You can of course try to ride the next Tesla, but please realize that even Yahoo had a market cap of $120 billion 20 years ago at the peak of the dotcom bubble, and was sold for pocket change four years ago. So do exit at the top :)
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by mrich 6y ago
Smaller teams, and product management should be done by the development team. This will only work with at least some experienced developers on board who have shipped something before and had to deal with the results of that in production as
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by mrich 6y ago
I'd say let those managers use those features, the company will go downhill faster for it and deservedly so.
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Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes(wired.com)
4 points by mrich 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrich 6y ago
Three months ago I converted an old Core 2 Duo desktop machine to a server and also deliberated whether to use btrfs or ZFS. What put me off btrfs were the rough edges, e.g. some RAID setups are considered beta. In ZFS those have been stabl
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by mrich 6y ago
It's a good tool for learning natural languages especially if you cannot practice with native speakers every day. I agree with you that for knowledge you need everyday it is better to just learn on the job. The relevant knowledge will
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by mrich 6y ago
There needs to be a sensible way to measure progress, so a set of benchmarks needs to be chosen. Not sure all funders can agree on those. Also, I believe many large companies who are running code at truly large scale are already using low-
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by mrich 6y ago
There are many Postgres forks out there. Maybe the solution will be to have someone from EDB step down, and add e.g. an active contributor from Amazon to the core team?
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by mrich 6y ago
In Germany, there are quite a few cars with "Emergency Assist" technology. There are different variants of it, in my VW Touran it works like this: When the car is in ACC/lane assist mode (similar to Autopilot), it will detect
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by mrich 6y ago
That's pocket change compared to some of the other things going on out there the SEC does not even investigate.
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by mrich 6y ago
How are you going to revoke keys without internet access?
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C++20: An Almost Complete Overview(github.com)
2 points by mrich 6y ago|0 comments
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by mrich 6y ago
It's strange that this is so prevalent in the industry. Who ever got promoted for fixing all the hard bugs? Reinventing the wheel is the safe career move in many companies. And the result are huge R&D budgets, bugs and a bad user e
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by mrich 6y ago
Great writeup to use as introduction and reference. The striping to have a memory location per core is great for performance but can have a noticeable memory overhead. It would be interesting to have Intel TSX in the mix. It can be a benefi
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by mrich 6y ago
Using it for about a year now on medium-sized projects and liking it. Definitely set up the clangd extension as also mentioned elsewhere. Extension ecosystem is great in general.
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by mrich 6y ago
What are you missing in VSCode to make it a proper IDE?
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by mrich 6y ago
At some point the platform has to be considered common infrastructure, similar to power transmission lines, the railroad or the Windows OS. Just because you happened to build a successful platform should not imply that you can hold everyone
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by mrich 6y ago
How does such a secretive company, mostly dealing with government, spend so much money on sales & marketing? (61% of revenue, "roughly $450 million for both years") I mean, just bribing people to get the contracts should be an
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by mrich 6y ago
You also have to consider the huge investment that testing takes. Not only person days spent writing tests, but also infrastructure costs for running fuzzers, huge test suites and so on. And although the code base is already there and teste

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