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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> With little kids, you often think they're pushing your buttons, but that's not what's going on. Maybe it's true for Inuit children, but my own kids are certainly not like that. They know all about my buttons and how
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> You get the productivity How do you measure this? By feelz? Because I've been a programmer and tech lead for 15+ years, and C++ projects are always done faster than PHP ones. PHP may be "easy", but better programmers wit
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Read what I posted again. The number of security vulnerabilities due to PHP's crappiness is two orders of magnitude greater than all of nginx vulnerabilities combined. Yet PHP is a memory-safe language. Memory safety won't fix any
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> A statistically higher salary works well for luring employees, but doesn't help much retaining them. This is false. A high salary fixes the loyalty problem. It won't, however, fix the motivation or competence problems. >
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> The replacement should be written in a memory-safe language. Including the TLS library. No. Memory safety is a vanishingly small subset of all bugs and security problems. PHP is memory-safe, for example. Where has that gotten us? >
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> If 99% of people who buy corporations for a living can't beat a monkey throwing darts over time... They're not "buying corporations", they're gambling. As such, their success rate is about the same as in other
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Nobody ever got promoted or a raise because the core product 'just works'. As an engineer, you need growth in headcount or complexity if you want a raise. It's a people management problem that flows from the CEO and form the
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> The client doesn't seem to care, and just sees the 5-20 second webpage load times as totally normal Yes, but will they tolerate 2 minute page load times? 10 minute? At some point reality kicks in and you start to have to care abou
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
No. Their passenger services had around $100 million in profits, according to their 2017 report. Much lower margins, of course, but still profitable.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Public rail is a money-losing venture, in every country (except Hong Kong). Not in Russia. They had a $2 billion profit in 2017. It's also the third-largest rail company in the world, so yes, it can be done.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
You missed the point. A day will come when CPU speeds and RAM sizes will stop increasing. When that day comes you don't be able to ignore performance, because a lack of performance will mean actual, real-world dollar costs for the clie
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
At some point in time, the physical realities of electrons and metal wires will kick in. Then the growth will stop and you'll start kicking your own ass about performance and pointer arithmetic and cache policy. Maybe that point in tim
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Carbs are carbs. The biggest problem is that you won't feel full or know when to stop if you're eating just carbs. You need fats or fibers to stop eating, hence "unrefined".
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Bread was the staple food for most of that period. No, not really. The refined white flour we eat today basically didn't exist until very recently. Their bread wasn't like our bread. It was coarsely-ground and made of bran, b
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
"Keto" isn't a myth, it's basic biology and metabolism facts.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> We've had a carb rich diet since the neolithic revolution. This isn't true. The modern diet gets 90% (asspulled number, sorry) of its energy from sugar, white flour and potatoes. None of these three really existed in any mea
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
EPUB can't cover this niche. EPUB is basically just HTML in a zipfile, with all the ugly warts that HTML comes with. (Attempts to enforce "pixel-perfect" design, broken accessibility, ugly fonts forced on you, etc.) EPUB is g
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Basically, anything that can recurse is Turing-complete.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> paymentsd Is this a hipster daemon written in Go? :)
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Everything will just stagnate. And that is bad exactly why?
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Let's not.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
What do you mean 'limits'?? There are no limits to deep learning! Singularity here we come! (That was sarcasm. Sad that a disclaimer is needed nowadays.)
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> That's a power fantasy as old as time. Yes, if by "old" you mean "dumb". I couldn't finish this insufferably cringe-worthy book. Sorry.
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Not contempt. Instead of a lukewarm indifference-couched-in-praise, I'm giving you real feedback. Peopl
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> Use C++98 > Complain it's too simple to be expressive. > Get C++17 > Complain it's too expressive to be simple. Sometimes I think the real goal behind these complaints is not learning anything new or pr
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> People time is always the biggest cost. False. > Docker and Kubernetes have been a game changer in time-to-production. False. > ...it's cheaper to buy the next tier of EC2 instance than to waste developer and operations staf
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
Next up: IQ on why Nassim Taleb is baloney.
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> Instead, why not make your app use less battery power and improve the camera's functionality? Those types of improvement are universally appreciated, yet the least likely to be implemented. That requires hiring one or two really g
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
"Logic programming" is a misnomer. It's really a kind of parallel reality database query language. It's not used much because relational databases and SQL won in the end. (I guess back in the day people imagined computer
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by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
> they're the monopoly because they are the best in many ways, mostly not because of network effects or anti-competitive behaviour Not true. Their advertising business is absolutely built on network effects. Advertisers advertise wh

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