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by praptak 4y ago
My closest to religious experience was a C program crashing after removing an unused variable. I repeated this and tested multiple times by adding and removing the variable and running the program. Now I obviously have a believable rational
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Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2M years ago discovered in Ethiopia(phys.org)
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Also the dual is true - bigger risk of failure is acceptable. Normal business investor typically cares between bankruptcy and having merely poor RoI. Startup incubators would rather have their 999 startups go broke and the 1000th become &qu
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by praptak 4y ago
It embiggens the meaning.
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by praptak 4y ago
I remember an xkcd strip ending with that phrase: https://xkcd.com/931/
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by praptak 4y ago
It's an arms race. If you make piracy too convenient, the IP lawyers and lawmakers start working against you.
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by praptak 4y ago
> What companies are "not allowed to fail"? I'm appalled anybody needs to ask this question after the 2008 bailouts.
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by praptak 4y ago
The section on naming is amateur. Names like `fred` or 'asdf' are too obviously meaningless and wouldn't even pass a code review. You want names that do describe your code but badly . If your function reads policies from t
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by praptak 4y ago
Good curation.
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by praptak 4y ago
Maybe it's a good sign.
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by praptak 4y ago
Musk gets this kind of scathing critique because of the baseline. Many people here believed the hype, so they feel obliged to shake it off and shout it from the rooftops. Putin on the other hand is just a murderous dictator which is basical
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by praptak 4y ago
The part about not giving a fuck is crucial. You don't get rewarded for preventing bad things.
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by praptak 4y ago
Sprints are bullshit, so people use this method to work around this. It's actually kanban implemented over Scrum. It's just too common for a task to turn into an "epic" mid-sprint. I only see value in sprints as regular
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by praptak 4y ago
That could also be kanban. Which is actually great - it means that what you described is a set of tools, which can be used for whatever purpose the team decides. That's agile, as opposed to forcing a process on the team.
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by praptak 4y ago
Ah yes, "catsplosion". Better make sure to keep only one sex of cat.
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by praptak 4y ago
I can get to 80-100 dwarves without huge problems but then I usually get bored with the micromanagement. DF is not hard if you follow the quickstart guide.
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by praptak 4y ago
This deep and intricate world is inhabited by dumbest, most stubborn dwarves who throw players into depth of frustration, despair and a solid dose of hilarity.
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by praptak 4y ago
Last time I checked they didn't do it particularly efficiently and avoiding "FPS death" was an important part of the lore: cap the number of dwarves, avoid flowing water, wall off unused parts of the mine to reduce costs of p
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by praptak 4y ago
There's another dice puzzle which can also be named "go first" dice. There exist three dice where A beats B, B beats C and C beats A, statistically speaking. So if you consistently throw A and B, A has a higher chance of roll
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by praptak 4y ago
This is a strong theme in "The inner game of tennis". The author even jokingly mentions that when you are losing a friendly game you can turn it around by honestly complementing the good element in opponent's game ("your
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by praptak 4y ago
Some primers about avoiding the basic mistakes when leaking (don't read them from your work laptop obviously. That would be the first mistake!): https://freedom.press/news/sharing-sensitive-leaks-press/ http
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by praptak 4y ago
Pascal was(is?) not memory safe in that it still allows use after free. It was safer than C though thanks to making it more difficult to do weird casts or pointer arithmetic. These were normal in C code, in Pascal rather something you go ou
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by praptak 4y ago
The worst will stay and do so with a vengeance.
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by praptak 4y ago
Of course it is a red flag! It's the corporate equivalent of drawing a knife in a bar fight.
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by praptak 4y ago
Working in dysfunction wears me down. To me Dilbert is funny for the first 10 strips or so, then it becomes dull and depressing. My way is to try to get small victories against dysfunction. When I stop getting these, I start seeking for ano
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by praptak 4y ago
"Not enough talent" means "not enough talent for your shitty pay and/or horrible work conditions". I spent my first ~5 years at Google working in C++. Google didn't seem to have a problem finding enough C++ fol
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by praptak 4y ago
There are actually two jewels of shitty capitalism in this crown of crappiness: subscription everything meets proprietary standards.
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by praptak 4y ago
Things algorithmically generated from a copyrighted work constitute derived work. Obviously if the thing is as complex as an AI model it might be hard to prove that a copyrighted work was among the inputs.
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by praptak 4y ago
I can only imagine how bad this is for morale. Out of the blue code review conducted by an external company means total lack of trust.
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by praptak 4y ago
Free speech absolutism, eh? It only sounds good until the reality hits. There already exist platforms which have it. Twitter becoming one of them is not compatible with keeping ad revenue (and probably carries legal risks on top of that).

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