oriolid

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by oriolid 5y ago
Yes, "everything is a reference type" describes better what I was thinking. And also, "functions are classes, not objects".
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by oriolid 5y ago
I wish I could say the same. Most times it ended up one of two ways: Either the app is stuck doing GC, or it crashes with OutOfMemoryError: too many this or that handles, open pipes or something else.
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by oriolid 5y ago
I don't think anyone should use finalizers in Java either, but it hasn't stopped anyone from doing that.
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by oriolid 5y ago
I'm not sure what to answer, except that we live in different realities and in my reality Java is pretty terrible even if a lot of effort has been put into it.
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by oriolid 5y ago
I have to admit that I have never built a large scale system, but with small to medium scale systems I have always ended up tuning GC parameters and looking for stray references. And of course there is always some piece of code that depends
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by oriolid 5y ago
"I have altered the API, pray that I don't alter it any further"?
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by oriolid 5y ago
To be honest, I don't really understand Ruby either. It's like combination of performance of Python, compatibility of C, transparency of any mystery dependency + build system and yet another syntax on top of it.
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by oriolid 5y ago
For C and C++ Meson is quite nice.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Back in the day when I wrote Java for living, it was too common pattern that development is done on OpenJDK until we hit some mysterious problem. The problem then disappeared when we switched to Oracle JDK. Other problems are that Java&#x27
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by oriolid 5y ago
The worst part is that on iOS you can't just start and stop input stream separately from output, but you have to stop the entire audio session and restart it in output only category. You can configure the session to ignore all input ch
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by oriolid 5y ago
> This goal does not requires escalation of leetcode exercises difficulty at all. Ok, looks like we've done different leetcode exercises. The ones I have done seemed to test mostly that I was able to sit down and type for an hour. W
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by oriolid 5y ago
I've understood that the original idea of the Google interviews and others was to see if the applicant can write code at all, has been awake at second year CS class and can apply the ideas on the fly. The idea would have been that good
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by oriolid 5y ago
If you think like a mathematician, "a" can not be equal to 1 and 2 at the same time. There are languages that actually use := for assignment to emphasise it's not equality.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Everything that is measured will be gamed. No exceptions.
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by oriolid 5y ago
> that a five-minute conversation with somebody will tell you more about their ability to succeed at a job than knowing their IQ. Got any citations to support this?
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by oriolid 5y ago
> I'm not sure a construction company wants a bunch of people with 140+ IQ standing around all day leaning on shovels waiting for gravel to shovel into little holes. I'm pretty sure those employees will just quit or break somet
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by oriolid 5y ago
If we forget about the concept of intelligence for a while, there is a lot of research that points to the direction that whatever the quality that IQ tests measure is, it correlates strongly with financial success, health and a bunch of oth
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by oriolid 5y ago
Medical information systems are the worst, because the poor people who have to use them can't influence the initial choice or development of the thing.
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by oriolid 5y ago
From the other side of the fence, more often than not when someone offers an open source or COTS replacement to an in-house system the result is that it replaces easily 90% of the functionality, but for the last 10% you need to either serio
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by oriolid 5y ago
This is how we had people using CVS in 2010 and Subversion in 2020, and why we can never get rid of autoconf.
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by oriolid 5y ago
This exactly. Google was an almost overnight success because in the beginning it gave much more useful results than Altavista and others even when they had indexed a small fraction of what Altavista had.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Which accident are you referring to? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster refers a source that claims 8015 deaths and no comparison to coal-fired power plants. Of course, one could argue that the accident w
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by oriolid 5y ago
Sometimes creativity comes from constraints.
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by oriolid 5y ago
You're not really convincing me, but I have been doing this for some time too. There have been a bit too many times when someone has been "working independently on large project" that turned out to be a total dumpster fire an
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by oriolid 5y ago
I agree that refusing to write a trivial program at an interview is the best way to prove that you are a cooperative person and ready work at all levels.
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by oriolid 5y ago
Sounds like a proper egomaniac and possible bullshit-artist. The remaining question is, how do you react if you are hired and asked to do something below your level?
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by oriolid 5y ago
How do you demonstrate to a complete stranger that you just didn't make up the resume, or wasn't pure dead weight in the teams who did the work?
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by oriolid 5y ago
Downvoted because it's true :)
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by oriolid 5y ago
The article says "I don't do a lot of artificial intelligence, natural-language processing or machine-learning research, but if I did, Haskell would be my first pick there too." No explanation, the article goes on to explain
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by oriolid 5y ago
> Test on chrome, safari, firefox, ie (OLD ie) I have seen the opposite: Test only on IE6, and when it turns out that the stuff doesn't work on any other browser and it's too much work to fix everything, make IE6 the only suppo

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