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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
>Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. - Greenspun's tenth rule Joking aside, Java VM can be as fast as C++, not C, by usi
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
This is honestly so on the nose that it has to be the origin.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
The credit card companies, like every heavily regulated industry works like the federal government without the rules holding them back. Banking is only the most powerful hammer for it's favorite nails, but has been reluctant to use it
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
In my decades experience hiring, there are only three archetypes you want to avoid: - Someone who has no clue. This is rare but it does happen. I have seen some fly through interviews and then literally do nothing until they leave for anoth
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Anything that brings clarity with no cost is not an overreach. I don't even apply for companies that do not list salaries. Why would I waste days of time going through an interview process only to be offered burger flipper wages? The o
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
I have known of many positions that stayed open for years until the position or company disappeared.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
If you want a rubber stamp committee, then someone has to dictate that rubber stamp.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
>e.g. shit like a legislature whose job is to get nothing done isn’t how you win in full-contact sports So we need a totalitarian government to compete with their totalitarian government? No thank you. If your company gets ripped off by
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
You don't have to be on twitter. If we can get more people off that platform, then the world has become a better place. I deleted mine years ago. Never felt better.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Then you just have Railroad Programming without the monadic binding operators and currying of the languages where that is the main mode of dealing with errors. That sounds awful.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
I will fully support H1B's when their minimum wages are $100k and they aren't tied to a sponsoring employer. Until then, they are slave labor used to bypass employment laws and shaft American workers.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
I hate it. All it does is add if err != nil { return nil, err } to every other line. I love Go, but I have never understood the obsession with generics over putting try into the language. This is the biggest pain in Go, by far. The vast maj
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
You would think that it would be profitable enough for them to become their own bank and processor if no one else would. This right here tells me they knew they couldn't. Why? Who is telling them no? How can we live in a place where LE
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Main Benefits: - customizable allocators and alignment - designed with turning off exceptions in mind - performance improvements(especially map and list) - portable between different C++ vendors
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
People forget that most useful software comes from startups that either become big or get bought out. In these startups, spaghetti code is the norm. They don't have the people, time, or product knowledge to do it right the first time.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Modern real science is driven by engineering that is driven by an industry that is is driven by profit and nature. If you are reading a paper that isn't driven by that chain of incentives, then the bullshit probability shoots way up. I
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
I worked at a prestigious physics lab working for the top researcher in a field. It absolutely happens there and probably everywhere. The only way to fix replication issues is to give financial and career incentives for doing replication wo
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
But that only applies to targets who are "in the game." If you are a government entity or listed company or act as their agents, then you know that security is an issue and are paid well enough to make a decent effort. Whether you
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Computers and the Internet have democratized culture in a way never seen before. This is both good and bad. Newspapers are dying. Television is dying. Hollywood is dying. Books are dying. Now we have people co-creating on blogs, YouTube, se
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
It's not the best lawyers you want. It's the most connected. You want to hire the firm your likely judge was in before he got on the bench.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Seeing Hollerith[1] gives me Fortran flashbacks. Doing string manipulation in integers is a pain. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_constant
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
There are no types in B, only words. Auto denotes storage.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Modern public school systems have close ties to law enforcement. What used to be children acting like... children, is now rigorously tried in the justice system by DAs who will do anything to "win." The public school to prison pip
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
It still works. The problem is that when they used to delay titles, they came out as blockbusters. The death knell of Blizzard as a premier game maker was WoW. WoW became so amazingly profitable that Blizzard became "the WoW company.&q
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Rust is a beautiful language. Its only issue is that programming in it is painful for anyone who hasn't followed Modern C++ for a decade and then read everything on Rust, which is just Modern C++ with some niceness from ML thrown on to
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
Classic radio is down-only. It goes through hardware for demodulation and amplification. I can turn a classic radio off. How long will it be until there is an ad that makes it confusing how to dismiss it and uses a police siren to get your
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
It has nothing to do with flashing images, which I do not tolerate in my car either. It has to do with ads themselves, which have always walked the line between interactivity and malware. I don't want someone to be able to run arbitrar
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
I don't want my car to be a software platform. I want it to be like my microwave. It might have software, but software is only incidental to its operation. I do not want to tweet from my microwave. I do not want ads in traffic. This is
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
I would believe this if Google wasn't notorious for providing the worst customer service that will avoid someone going to prison. Cable monopolies have a better reputation.
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by obviouslynotme 5y ago
I am going to save this and print it out with the title "This is why we don't do business with Google."

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