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by pipo234 3y ago
Interesting Big-O time characteristics, but bit of a pity that addition, removal and membership check require 2 (random) memory accesses. Also, Big-O memory proportional to element type is a bit of a non-starter in many cases.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Typhoon Saola approaching.. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hundreds-of-flights-can...
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by pipo234 3y ago
Buffering at production site has additional advantage of reducing strain on transport infrastructure. I'm always saddened looking at inert wind mills while there's obviously plenty to harvest.
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by pipo234 3y ago
True. The problem is that instant action is needed. In that perspective, Germany's decision to shutdown operational nuclear plants in favour of ramping up brown coal energy seems especially poor. But had it's politics been differe
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Wind and solar have legal perils as well. Mostly NIMBYs, but some sincere concerns exist about impact on wildlife, loss of agricultural space, etc. I think the reason the effects of those concerns in monetary terms pale in contrast to nucle
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by pipo234 3y ago
Having mentored a dozen of developers over the years, I've arrived at a strong bias toward hiring intrinsically motivated individuals. It's much easier to grow skills given someone is motivated than vice versa. KPIs (or "
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by pipo234 3y ago
McKinsey starts with the premise that the objective and mechanics underlying software development is known and well understood. In their line of reasoning, the only problem is that we're not measuring, and therefore that gathering mo
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by pipo234 3y ago
IMO: If your development organization reaches the point where this kind of advice from McKinsey & Co. might be able to improve things, you've already lost.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Makes you wonder: why do people still use password authentication with SSH?
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by pipo234 3y ago
The manifesto sure sounds like it's coming from a (security) consultant, not a developer. > Recognize the open-source code consumption's real risks. > Establish open-source software consumption policies and test them
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by pipo234 3y ago
Wow! I didn't know about this initiative. I like the idea of using a $1 tax to incentivize right holders to consider and reconsider whether to hold on to their rights. Encourages some self curation of long tail content, rather than rew
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by pipo234 3y ago
I might misremember, but aren't some of the submerged sea power cables (Norway, Germany, UK) DC? If so, why? And how does that rhyme with AC being more efficient?
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by pipo234 3y ago
> It exists to make it easier for a corporation to make money. I'm not convinced. I would like to see numbers, but I suppose Amazon isn't too eager to share those. I wager it was a neat, but expensive gimmick to build. And as w
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by pipo234 3y ago
> It often amazes me how software that traditionally would take millions of dollars to build is just available for free. Maybe this is just an in hindsight observation. Most of those millions of dollars were never spent developing FOSS
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The reason for forking the source code, or the reason for claiming they are the creators ?
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by pipo234 3y ago
Euphemistically, one might say that different culture approach the concept of intellectual property differently. In that context it's just a misinterpretation of the MIT licence: permission to fork and claim ownership taken to mean:
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by pipo234 3y ago
TL;DR: > At some point, the impulse to develop an insurance policy for self-preservation is going to grow stronger. And in dictatorships, that impulse — when shared and coordinated between elites — leads to the downfall of dictatorships.
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by pipo234 3y ago
Congrats to India!
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by pipo234 3y ago
> "I don't really know what you do". Maybe, that translates to "I don't really understand what you do"? And the fact that it surfaces only in an anonymous survey might be a sign that they don't care
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by pipo234 3y ago
Seems like a prototypical diversity problem: the bros at github that designed the challenge couldn't find anyone in the room to whom the challenge wasn't obvious, easy and brilliant. :-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
How about: That sounds like an awesome project! Let me see if I can schedule a time slot for an intake. I usually charge X / hour, how much time do you think we'll need?
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by pipo234 3y ago
> You can have 100% unit test code coverage and your code can still be absolute sh*t and do absolutely nothing useful. Totally true. But give me those unit tests, and I can tell that the code is sh*t. If I have trouble understanding th
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by pipo234 3y ago
He's not promoting that removing dedicated testers is a good idea. Full(er) quote: > Several strategies are getting deployed — shift left (e.g., more unit tests), shift right (e.g., test in production), transitioning from manual
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by pipo234 3y ago
> TDD itself is also overrated, as writing testable code is much more important than the actual tests. Indeed, that is exactly the point of unit test and code coverage: proving that your code is well organized and testable through its AP
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by pipo234 3y ago
Or how about all those windows 99% CLI programs that once in a silver moon decide to bother the user with a pop-up "Are you sure Y/N?". You find these on billboard, kiosks, payment terminals, ATMs. Or try running a simple Jav
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by pipo234 3y ago
Nice demonstration, though the C++ is a bit cheesy. (C-style cast, integer signedness, modernize beyond C++98, ... :-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
Creating a GUI to cater for "normal people" has merits. But GUIs, and especially GUI-only apps come at a cost too. Using the Unix philosophy to combine text based tools does not translated to GUIs. How about test automation? Back
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by pipo234 3y ago
What I'm trying to say is that with COBOL, the hard part is stasis and the reason isn't COBOL, but the legacy context in which COBOL is still present. For years, software has been migrated away from COBOL. Starting afresh, re-impl
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by pipo234 3y ago
You make it sound as though the LLM they created is ready to take over. Fixed. Done! Off course COBOL's code base is valuable because it works, and expensive because no one dares making changes, please don't fix it unless it&#x27
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by pipo234 3y ago
Very good point, but not at odds. Let's have both : 1. An organization like LoC (or UN sponsored "government" organization) take over the Internet Archive. Let curators curate and conserve. 2. A discussion about reform of co

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