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by ngc248 4y ago
Not only that, convo becomes robotic. When the poster talked about nazis killing jews, we understand what he meant based on the context. Heck you can list fallacies for any argument.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Happy for them, even though containers were already extant, docker were the ones who came up with the container image format and made it all easy peasy.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> Containers have been around years before Docker, True, but docker made it easy peasy. They came up with the packaging format and other things in a neat little package. This was what made everyone take up docker when it came out
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by ngc248 4y ago
I have been in places like the one you talked about. I also almost had a breakdown because I used to care too much. After that I had an epiphany, now I only care if others care. Its good for my mental health.
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by ngc248 4y ago
I had this idea a few years back just when ML was heating up. A service which would crawl all of your documentation/data to which you can then ask questions and get answers back. A domain specific search engine/Knowledge Base. I s
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by ngc248 4y ago
Back when there was no commoditization of game engines, every team starting a game had to do their own engine, tools etc. Now that you have unreal and unity etc, you can actually concentrate on game design and gameplay instead of worrying a
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by ngc248 4y ago
In our company, From dev to integration to QA cluster it is an automated push, At each stage tests are run and if all of em pass, auto pushed to the next stage. From QA to staging and production, it is a manual push.
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by ngc248 4y ago
isn't it just diffuse learning? I also get amazing ideas when I am bored and my mind is wandering.
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by ngc248 4y ago
The actor model is simply magnificent. Once i encountered the actor model, concurrency just clicked for me. Even writing concurrent programs in a non-actor context became simple and easy. It is that amazing.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Because hard workers/the ones who actually know how shit works stay in the trenches, while the ones who know jackall get promoted. Then these people get have veto and power over the ones who actually deliver value. That is why promotio
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by ngc248 4y ago
That is true, sometimes its also that one person is doing a small teams' work and instead of giving a raise, they feel it is better to hire from outside. I have seen this happen many times
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by ngc248 4y ago
It is a pattern where you inject the dependencies of a class into it rather than create the instances of the dependencies within the class. for more info --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection it mak
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> I find it interesting that coders seemingly are fascinated by no-code tools. I think it would be mostly management who would be interested in no code tools. I understand, the allure of not needing a coder, anyone can create an
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> but had the British won, frankly, I think the US would have been better off in many respects. Hard disagree here, I am from a former british colony, where the laws etc are still inspired by the british. The American constitutio
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by ngc248 4y ago
Timecrimes ... a spanish movie, its superb ... they executed the time loop concept really well. If you want a non-serious fun movie "Summer Time Machine blues", a japanese movie is also a pretty good watch
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> So in the ensuing twenty years, administrators have either gotten massively worse at their jobs and required far more of them to accomplish the same things I feel that since they have no shortage of money, they don't feel
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by ngc248 4y ago
>> Self-fulfillment -> follow your heart -> feelings first -> feelings only. This is it. This sentence is 100% correct.
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by ngc248 4y ago
There is also a Founders at work. The funny at work title may have been a riff on that.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Its still there ...
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by ngc248 4y ago
Journeyentity means that they are capable of moving/travelling ... what about those who cannot move about?
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by ngc248 4y ago
Its amazing that we have reached this point. Time was when grifting/scamming were condemned but now people glorify these grifters/scammers so much. Seems like all it matters in the end is how much they made and not the means nor t
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by ngc248 4y ago
Was all their lax attitude to bookkeeping etc because they were in the bahamas?
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by ngc248 4y ago
Even Indian English follows grammatical rules, the difference would be the words used, idiomatic sentences etc.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Things are not so black and white. It's not that engineers can't appreciate art. The people commenting are saying that the payment was according to what was agreed and the artist's seller remorse is unwarranted. Thats all
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> I want Microsoft, or Notch, or Mojang, to just give him a million dollars. Why just give someone a million for no reason. It ain't beans we are talking about money here.
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by ngc248 4y ago
I moved from Systems software to DE/ML Engineer and then back to Systems software. There is no more fun involved in setting up pipelines, writing spark jobs and prductionizing models.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Exactly ... In modern big software orgs it does not even matter if you are delivering value/ All that matters is Perception, Image and Exposure (PIE). Product quality, features, technical depth none of that matters, as long as you can
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by ngc248 4y ago
Also DynamoDB is indeed amazing. If your usecase matches the featureset of dynamodb, it works like a charm.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Speculative execution .... which ever team moves fast wins ... heck sometimes its not even the team with the best features that wins ... teams with just enough features but who can move fast win sometimes and its bad for the long run. Most
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by ngc248 4y ago
True ... I always preferred to roll my own DAL instead of an ORM, because when you actually get into the weeds, the kinda optimizations you can do with your own queries will always be better than what an ORM can do.

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