ngc248

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by ngc248 4y ago
You are exactly right and the pitfalls you talk about are common to all dynamically typed languages.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> What we do is not that difficult Somethings are not, but some are. Just like everything else, software work also ranges from easy to hard.
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by ngc248 4y ago
The meetings are not the product. The code implements the product, so this analogy falls flat.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Yeah it was never the language or the core libs which were the problem, it was mostly some of the frameworks which had the FactoryFactory problem
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by ngc248 4y ago
>> The hubris of us highly-educated workers to think that degrees or 'elite coded appearance' are what define intelligence. The likes of Boris and Modi are political geniuses with carefully cultivated identities and a keen u
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by ngc248 4y ago
nope ... the post mentions skin color quota ... I doubt they are talking about "boston brahmins"
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by ngc248 4y ago
wow .... when was a rich brahmin hired instead of an inner city American kid .... are you really sure ... that the Indians working in the US tech industry have gotten those positions thru affirmative action? I keep seeing this being repeate
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by ngc248 4y ago
Nowadays I am seeing enormous growth in product management orgs, product mgrs growing like crazy. In my company, we see that product orgs have ballooned a lot and product managers are also not helping that much. A lot of them don't hav
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> full of functions that don't give the slightest hint of the shape of the data they're processing This is a big problem with Dynamic languages. If you are new to the codebase, you have no idea of what the shape of the
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by ngc248 4y ago
At least in my experience Eclipse was dog slow even on machines with sufficient resources. I switched from Eclipse to Intellij back then speicifcally coz Intellij was faster
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by ngc248 4y ago
Do you think this maybe because of the positive connotations we ascribe to "contemplation in the garden" vs the negative connotation of "an hour of social media". I have also seen this before, where doing something with
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> simply isn't anything to be done about that if you're talking about humans and not some homo educationous who mythically retain all knowledge they were exposed to even for 30 seconds just as the mythical as homo econo
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by ngc248 4y ago
They were trotting out "quiet quitting" as some sort of a negative, when its just doing as much as you are paid for.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Core Java was never that bad .... It was J2EE and the everything including the kitchensink frameworks that were a blight on the java world.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Exactly. I actually call up people when there is downtime and shoot the breeze. We talk about ideas, office politics, anything under the sun. So even though we are all WFHing I was able to bond with my new team this way.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Its the same trend all over the world. No one wants to build/sell affordable housing since margins on that area very less. Everywhere its luxury housing.
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by ngc248 4y ago
As you rightly say real estate is treated more as an investment, so those who have bought in will never sell for a price lesser than what they bought in for. Hence real estate prices will never crash, unless something disastrous or apocalyp
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by ngc248 4y ago
Its not just lowering housing costs. Raising a child does not just include housing cost, it also includes a ton of other costs, and since families have become nuclear and both parents work, it is hard to birth more children since cost/
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> If you want to decrease unemployment, you add tariffs for imports enabling more businesses to open domestically (i.e. tariffs effectively increase import costs). This is very simplistic. You first start building local expertise
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> it's not gonna be colonizing mars, building tunnels under LA, whatever, it's gonna be access to resources we already have. Healthcare, clean water, clean air... This exactly ... incremental improvements on existing i
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by ngc248 4y ago
It would be a company which would be buying in bulk, which would use USD while buying. What you mention is about an individual buying from an e-commerce site or a retail seller. That can happen in the local currency.
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by ngc248 4y ago
>>> A major reason the US has had sustained influence in the world without using much force is because it has not weaponized trade Are you sure? All the economic sanctions which the US heaps on "enemy state"s are nothing
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by ngc248 4y ago
Oh yes, I read snow crash when I was a kid. Bought Cryptonomicon and it was a slog, it got a a bit better later on, but I dropped it and never went back.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Choosing a DB is not premature optimization, but it eliminates a whole host of data related problems and smoothens development.
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by ngc248 4y ago
Oh those were the days. Yahoo pipes and all of the various mashups. Then the walls started closing in :(
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by ngc248 4y ago
Exactly, why is a US judge ruling by taking into consideration NZ law ... doesn't make sense
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by ngc248 4y ago
I have a mac with a butterfly keyboard. It did not stop working or neither the keys came out, but coz of its design, dust gets lodged in the keys and if I press once its types out multiple characters and this just drives me insane. This is
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by ngc248 4y ago
Companies are not doing anything wrong when they are profiting off a permissive license. Its only a problem if they do something which is not in line with the license. If people want to make money off open source, then dual licensing is a g
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by ngc248 4y ago
Why would that be? All of it would be factual/public info no?
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by ngc248 4y ago
Indeed with the GSI's etc you can implement a priority queue or store data in the order you want etc. Once you are clear on the access patterns of your app DynamoDB is amazing to model for and will scale with your app. But if you are n

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