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by nlitened 4y ago
There absolutely _are_ better and worse software engineers. There may not be an objective metric to discern a difference between two people of similar skill, but for sure it is easy to tell John Carmack from a junior developer with two year
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by nlitened 4y ago
Holy cow, that's a multi-billion-dollar industry of corporate doublespeak right there.
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by nlitened 4y ago
Have you tried outsourcing all the chores? Get a nanny, a gardener, a personal assistant, hire handymen, don’t cook at home. Sorry for being analytical about it, I am personally interested in having kids—and so far it seems to me that you’r
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by nlitened 4y ago
What if your method needs an empty collection, you'd have no way to express that. Or it needs a collection with even or odd number of elements depending on value of the first element. At some point you have to stop playing with types a
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by nlitened 4y ago
> Before blockchain, I was miserable. There was no way for me to prove to my girlfriends that I knew a secret, without telling the secret. Now with blockchain, ... I thought the joke would continue that now with blockchain, I don't
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by nlitened 4y ago
> Is that really ideal? I don't think "ideal" is possible, but if you have to choose whether valuable employees in average stay longer than they'd want or leave earlier than they'd want—longer is better for the b
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by nlitened 4y ago
> Just way better design and implementation Sounds like “far fewer features” to me. Anything that has a lot of features, accumulates a lot if design and implementation compromises (“flaws”)
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by nlitened 4y ago
What does “instantaneously affect the other” mean when there’s no absolute simultaneity? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity “Instantaneously” kind of means that one event does not happen before
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by nlitened 4y ago
Honest question—do actual real people use Facebook share buttons? Have they ever? To me it looks like it has always been a fairytale made up by Facebook to spread their analytics scripts all over internet.
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by nlitened 4y ago
> “We will ban all crypto as soon as we consider it to create problems with taxes” Surely you were not discussing those things with the Great Dictator of EU, not accountable in their decisions to citizens and courts?
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by nlitened 4y ago
Then programs will be too long. Too much scrolling, less information density on screen, more difficult to comprehend.
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by nlitened 4y ago
I’ve seen a Clojure library that does proper “STM inside a map” concurrency (couldn’t easily google it right now, but it’s there). I think single atom with serial writes is still better. Firstly, I think it’s more performant still, serial u
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by nlitened 4y ago
"What if we train them, and they leave?" — "What if we don't train them, and they stay?"
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by nlitened 4y ago
In Clojure you're likely to use an arrow to do multiple compositions, eg. (-> foo foo->bar bar->baz)
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by nlitened 4y ago
Carmack’s goal is not to become the most virtuous person in the world. His goal is to make the AGI
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by nlitened 4y ago
Do people with history of depression and mental diseases suffer? Do they have a right to end their suffering?
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by nlitened 4y ago
Hacker News is global and English-only
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by nlitened 4y ago
Thanks, that’s reasonable.
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by nlitened 4y ago
How would you recommend to get opinions of those who disagree, from your management experience?
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by nlitened 4y ago
It seems to me that your assumption is that the manager operates in bad faith. If that is true, no matter what they do, it will all be bullshit, so there’s nothing to discuss. On the other hand, if the manager trusts the employee, and they
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by nlitened 4y ago
These questions are all part of the actual planning. If the engineer does not participate in planning, and plan is enforced without any feedback, then the planning is poor.
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by nlitened 4y ago
I always use ZeroMQ as a messaging layer among components. It's simple, reliable, supports multiple languages, provides very high performance. And straightens your mind, too: by providing a limited set of bullet-proof topologies, it re
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by nlitened 4y ago
You just send the message again periodically forever until you receive an acknowledgement message. I don't think you need "something" for this, it's a five-liner. Alternatively, depending on your use case, you mark messa
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by nlitened 4y ago
I wonder how it affects the Musk’s case of declining to buy Twitter? Surely they concealed from him the fact of this breach?
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by nlitened 4y ago
A bit of a rant. By January 2022 I hadn't used anything but Apple Pay for three years. But then my home country starts a war (which is terrible), and since the war was not approved by countries controlling the cashless technologies, im
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by nlitened 4y ago
> say, the motel where you and your extramarital partner meet I understand, it’s privacy and stuff, but how does _this_ make a compelling argument? Is covering up that someone cheats on their spouse, beats their kids, and launders money,
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by nlitened 4y ago
Sure. I use Make.com (former Integromat) for many automations for my small business, and while quite handy, the automations are cumbersome to edit and very limited. Pretty often I have to resort to something dumb like composing a complex JS
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by nlitened 4y ago
I think that’s a neat idea because I’ve been wanting something like this for several weeks :) Please consider adding ClojureScript via nbb[0] as a language option. [0] https://github.com/babashka/nbb
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by nlitened 4y ago
I don’t know Rust, just wondering: why is it forbidden to know a length of vector to which you hold a mutable reference? What could go wrong?
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by nlitened 4y ago
Let’s try going from contrary. You said 2 in 72. Imagine a situation when it’s 72 in 72, which means, 72 years straight, each year had a three-year streak. This doesn’t make any sense. Surely the maximum amount of three-year groups in 72 ye

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