paulftw

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by paulftw 10y ago
They genuinely believed they were going to change the world, drank too much of their own kool-aid and eventually ran out of money. Pretty sure they feel terrible right now and I don't think they slept well for the past 6 months. Could
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by paulftw 10y ago
So what do you actually want them to do? They wouldn't just start throwing money at every project that has reached 1000 stars on github. Open source projects are always about social credits or doing something for the fun of doing it. I
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by paulftw 10y ago
How do we know if the solution they chose to achieve that goal is the most efficient one? How did that notation evolve? Has it evolved at all? What if it's just a design by committee, with decisions made in the 17th century still affec
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by paulftw 10y ago
Stupid question: when they say 8 languages including Chinese - do they mean Mandarin or Cantonese? Or is that the same thing (for them)?
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by paulftw 10y ago
Isn't Facebook for Android built in React Native? Doesn't seem to be lacking for them. Airbnb and Instagram [1] are also doing alright. https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html
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by paulftw 10y ago
I'm going to get downvoted for my "elitist" opinion but have to say this, to warn those few who'll listen. Recently I was hiring on a tight budget. I've interviewed a dozen people from various coding boot camps, sel
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by paulftw 10y ago
They use stepper motors - same hardware that allows a budget 3D printer archive sub-mm movement without any feedback loops. Pretty sure they don't need to look at the cube again after scanning the starting position.
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by paulftw 10y ago
It is a bug, it should be fixed, it's unacceptable that it's taking so long. But tone of the discussion would be very different if this was simply "app is slow and drains battery". This is big news only because most peop
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by paulftw 10y ago
While I get the overall message I'm not sure last question is that unpredictable: I++ + ++I If postfix is executed first it returns 0 but prefix returns 2 and the result is 2. If prefix is executed first it returns 1 and then postfix a
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by paulftw 10y ago
While really awesome on specs and price, downside of these boards is dev tools and community support. They are getting better at it and very fast, but living on the cutting edge is not pleasant.
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by paulftw 10y ago
I know measuring power in amps is against everything high school physics told us, but it's a really common approach in electronics engineering. They literally do that all the time. I think a sentence or two later the official site give
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by paulftw 10y ago
Before you start sending couple thousand QPS to any server it's generally not a bad idea to test if that server can handle that much, sometimes it is even worthwhile notifying the other team about the intended change. Overall when you
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by paulftw 10y ago
So one day they switched their entire user base to rely on a 3rd party free service without any load testing or heads up? What could possibly go wrong?
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by paulftw 10y ago
That's what I thought, and there are lodash & underscore to do twenty different flavours of debounce. However, stuff like @killEvent and @stopPropagation does make sense.
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by paulftw 10y ago
Testing is needed at the point where risk is. If something comes from a farm and your job is to decontaminate it - there's point in testing output. If you're running a restaurant you probably don't need your dishwasher to tes
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by paulftw 10y ago
Comment I replied to was describing the troubles caused by dev machine and server going out-of-sync.
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by paulftw 10y ago
Aren't static site generators supposed to umm, generate a static site, so one wouldn't have to maintain any binaries?
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by paulftw 10y ago
I'm referring to promises of reliable, cheap and zero waste cold fusion or plasma or whatever reactors that were promised to 100% replace fossil fuels. A handful of reactors here and there while an awesome achievement in itself doesn&#
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by paulftw 10y ago
"AI will replace all jobs" is the new "safe nuclear energy is only 10 years away"
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by paulftw 10y ago
Author seems to express a deep understanding of JS quirks and outlines specific places (often rare corner cases) that'd trip a JS beginner.
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by paulftw 10y ago
Frontend always was and always will be harder than backend, regardless of the platform/framework etc. Yes, the fact that HTML / CSS is a technology designed in a different era (slow keyboard+mouse desktops) for a different purpose
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by paulftw 10y ago
Helicopters use complex and expensive mechanisms to articulate rotor blades. If plasma can eliminate hinges on wings hopefully it can also be used to dramatically simplify the helicopter design. That'll be a real breakthrough.
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by paulftw 10y ago
A guy at our makerspace in Sydney built a couple times larger system with working seven segment speed & fuel indicators, two joysticks, etc. That was last year, I think the project kept growing since. Here's a demo video from last
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by paulftw 10y ago
My guess it's an independent team inside Google decided "let's make a better facetime" and starting from scratch was easier than wrapping their heads around a several years old codebase.
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by paulftw 10y ago
Moore law != progress
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by paulftw 10y ago
This is based on the assumption that server without those optimizations is not fast enough. That used to be definitely true in the nineties, but hardware is getting faster while human reaction time stays relatively flat. Hardware is also ge
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by paulftw 10y ago
People host their blogs on AWS lambda for less than dollar per month [1] compared to "standard" $5 or so for VPS. How's that a waste of money? Docker and containers are also a paradigm change, but the world seem to have adopt
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by paulftw 10y ago
Ironically, in another "universe", StackOverflow doesn't have either part of this problem - they use the DB recommended by Microsoft and the OS recommended by Microsoft :) http://nickcraver.com/blog/2016&
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by paulftw 10y ago
Before you aim to become great by reducing your code please become competent in absolutely necessary basics: DRY, separation of concerns, basic patterns, security, etc.
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by paulftw 10y ago
Bittorrent uploaders in general don't have a "business model" but are still a threat and a "competitor" to copyright holders. And are still breaking the law. The point Comodo guy is trying to make is they invented&#

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