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by nickm12 3y ago
The there is a distinct disconnect between the headline, which claims that child-free adults don't regret not having children, and the quote in the article which talks about overall life regret differences between parents and non-paren
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by nickm12 3y ago
This is such a useful concept. I work in an organization that owns dozens to hundreds of different network services, data pipelines, and other applications. I haven't collected the data, but it seems to me that their useful lifespans f
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by nickm12 3y ago
I was expecting the comment section to be negative about this, but not nearly unanimously so. I'll be contrary and say that in my last two jobs as a senior software eng, I've given six weeks notice and it's worked out very ni
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by nickm12 4y ago
Yes, I've used Discord on my Mac, Linux machine, Android phone, and the web. I understand the hate on Electron apps, but being everywhere all at once is why people make that technological tradeoff. It's even more important when yo
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by nickm12 4y ago
Yes, I have around 100 bookmarks on my personal browser and more than 1000 on my browser at work. Bookmarks serve two functions for me, particularly at work. First, the very act of making and filing the bookmark is an aid to memory. Second
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by nickm12 4y ago
I completely disagree. Yes, using git blame and getting support from your senior engineers is expected of junior engineers. However, it sounds like there was pretty much no growth in ability to work independently after two years as a full-t
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by nickm12 4y ago
HR: Knock knock Employee: Who's there? HR: Not you anymore.
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by nickm12 4y ago
It's quite an example of how not to explain your open source project. I followed the link, scanned through the first third of readme, went to the website, then came back here to figure out what this is exactly.
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by nickm12 4y ago
It's a good idea. I've long wanted a way to subscribe to a shifted version of a podcast, either as a way to slowly consume a new discovery or replay a podcast I enjoyed from the past. It seems much better to make this a feature in
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by nickm12 4y ago
I never made that connection, but I think you're right. Had I been earning double I probably would have adjusted to a non-graduate-student lifestyle and been reluctant to return.
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by nickm12 4y ago
I've listened to the politics podcast for a number of years and follow the site moderately closely during election season, yet I don't feel like I'm a "fan". To steal the words of Steve Jobs, fivethirtyeight.com is
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by nickm12 4y ago
I know this feeling. It took me eight years from when I entered my PhD program until I handed in my thesis. Three of those years I was away from campus working part-time, but I was still trying to do my thesis during those week. It sounds l
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by nickm12 4y ago
These are the 18k already announced. There were two rounds of news about this. First "at least 10k" and then "18k". There was also some news earlier that indicated some some of that number was already informed a couple
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by nickm12 4y ago
For a human-readable, schema-free data representation, I really like Amazon's Ion format (disclosure, I'm an Amazon employee). It is basically JSON + additional types (integers, timestamps, symbols, sexpressions), and support for
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by nickm12 4y ago
For what it's worth, this is a legitimate question to ask and I don't think it means you are a weird, overbearing, helicopter parent for asking it. It's what you would do with the advice that would make you one of those. As f
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by nickm12 4y ago
This is a good critique, but there is nothing specific to YAML in it. For any data serialization format (XML, JSON, Avro, protobufs), a schema in a schema IDL is a good idea and often required. However, the schema alone cannot tell you eve
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by nickm12 4y ago
I work at Amazon. The internet would be in trouble. I know very little about the fulfillment side of things, but I would expect things to stop there pretty much immediately. There is of course automation, robots, etc. but also many people i
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by nickm12 4y ago
The article says that their focus should be on "new code, not rewriting existing components" and that Rust code is used in "new functionality and components". Yes, one is named "keystore2" but you don't se
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by nickm12 4y ago
>As far as I know, the JVM checks at runtime for overflows, dangling pointers, etc. so ... I only have to worry about using a good operating system... No, you have to worry about your Java runtime too. The JRE has hundreds of thousands o
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by nickm12 4y ago
"Memory safe to me means -> it just can't happen. That's it." I'd suggest rethinking this definition. You are always at the mercy of the lower-levels of your system, both in the runtime and the compiler. By this
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by nickm12 4y ago
Unsafe is necessary for Rust to meet its goal of being a systems language. If Rust didn't provide unsafe, then Rust programmers would be forced write this code in C, which would be just as unsafe, but a worse developer experience.
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by nickm12 4y ago
"...wasting how many dev-years rewriting it" It sounds like you didn't read the blog post. The whole point is that they are not rewriting code, but writing new code in memory-safe languages (including "niche" langua
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by nickm12 4y ago
(broad generalizations ahead) Technical management and people management are different jobs. People management involves a lot more focus on hiring, performance evaluation, and performance management. It also tends to have many more meetings
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by nickm12 4y ago
You can say "Alexa, stop by the way" and it will disable it for a time, but it will come back. If you really want to disable it for good, you can set up a routine to effectively issue this "snooze" on by the way at some
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Rust users are called Rustaceans.
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I don't think TheChaplain is saying you should be devoted to your employer, but rather to respect your work, your colleagues, your customers, and your company. That is not even incompatible with planning an exit. The best people I&#x2
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by nickm12 4y ago
FWIW, I have kids and strongly prefer going into the office. Keeps my home life and work life separate and when I am home it is easier to be in the mental space of being with the family. When I worked from home for the first 18 months of th
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A lot of the author's questions can be answered by "use an inverted index".
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+1 unit tests are essential for software evolution like refactors, updating business logic, and updating dependencies. More generally, good testing requires a defense-in-depth strategy and unit testing, integration testing, and canary testi
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Do you happen to have children? I don't know that it's "genetic" but I think Jerry is trying to say that it is innate. I have three children and one of them is extremely funny and has almost always been that way. I think

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