preommr

31 ms·

421.
by preommr 3y ago
> Lordy, I did not expect an internal refactoring PR to end up #1 on Hacker News. Let me provide some context, since a lot of people make a lot of assumptions whenever this stuff comes up! Because people want to follow in the footsteps o
422.
by preommr 3y ago
Ironic then that the real test was to see who has flexible thinking to adjust to a dynamic situation and who mindlessly follows misconstrued advice. If you really wanted to challenge yourself there's nothing stopping you from doing ext
423.
by preommr 3y ago
> Why 5 minutes? Well I ask this question myself as well. I think it was bad and risky idea. Fair enough people make mistakes... > I did change it now to 3 hours. lol
424.
by preommr 3y ago
I can't think of a single framework or software technology that took off after 5 years of unpopularity. Let alone in web where the pace of development is much faster.
425.
by preommr 3y ago
My foray into gardening turned into an engineering project. Figuring out the amount of sunlight an area gets, being able to mointor ph/moisture, drip irrigation, foldable greenhouse covers, proper tools to make tilling the soil and lay
426.
by preommr 3y ago
On one hand: this is a nascent field where there's lots of low hangnig fruit for picking, and enough uncertainty/hype to trick people into getting easy money. On the other hand: AI startups don't make a lot of sense. The rese
427.
by preommr 3y ago
gRPC is a pain in the ass to setup. I strongly disliked the web client library for it. I don't like REST because it's basically become a specific url structure with semantic http methods (e.g. POST for create). Practically nobody
428.
by preommr 3y ago
> And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates have confirmed his definition: I am not going to debate this. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that anything can be debated,
429.
by preommr 4y ago
Forget the rape accusation, I don't understand how his behavior at the review didn't get him disqualified. Just the unhinged rants about beer and clinton alone were shocking. And I can't "prove" this, but he straigh
430.
by preommr 4y ago
The biggest problem is that there is no dominant solution. Right now having a rust-based app is a luxury when there are easier albeit 'dirtier' solutions. I don't have to build something in rust and I am dreadfully afraid tha
431.
by preommr 4y ago
> The game dev UI complaint is because game engines use geriatric 2-way mutable state management UI code that is error-prone and brittle. Web developers have solved these UI complaints and built tools like React that make creating UIs ea
432.
by preommr 4y ago
Another day, another argument on "If I asked my customers what they wanted they would've said faster horses" vs "Move fast and break things".
433.
by preommr 4y ago
> Whole building heat treatment When reading about this I've heard exterminators say that heat treatment alone isn't always effective because there are some areas that don't reach those temperatures, and it might not kill
434.
by preommr 4y ago
Yea that's weird. I can underestand rules to avoid things like "OpenAI Barkbytes Plugin", but Barkbytes plugin compatible inegrated with ChatGPT seems fine.
435.
by preommr 4y ago
Because then someone else comes along and builds to the implementation and now that simple change becomes a mess of a refactor. An interface isn't just a type construct, it communicates the intent of the systems design.
436.
by preommr 4y ago
A few weeks since Bing came back from the oblivion as a possible search contender and already we're getting the "big company can screw you over and there's nothing you can do about it". This was/is a problem with Go
437.
by preommr 4y ago
> No, i don't talk about the "haskell style FP", i'm talking about FP thinking. This distinction is perhaps something we should advertise more. I don't know if things have changed; but a decade ago when I was in
438.
by preommr 4y ago
> Branding is eating the world. Not realizing that it always has is why it's still effective. History is written by the victors and victors tend to have the best marketting.
439.
by preommr 4y ago
I don't see anything there that uniquely qualifies him to be an expert on this matter. - He popularized the term 'virtual reality' in the late 80s, - Did a bunch of stuff with music - Spent a whole lot of time warning against
440.
by preommr 4y ago
The difference is where the money goes. You can point to any country that scores high on corruption index and go "well actually, these people made out like bandits".
441.
by preommr 4y ago
Or 'shit' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igh9iO5BxBo
442.
by preommr 4y ago
It's even younger than that; women couldn't nationally until 1920 in the US. And in practice, many black people couldn't vote until the voting acts right of 1965.
443.
by preommr 4y ago
Which frankly are the essential parts of a robust cloud architecture. Deploying a server is trivial - just dump it on any kind of compute resource. Managing fault-tolerance and monitoring, etc. between those services is the tricky part.
444.
by preommr 4y ago
As I've grown older, I've seen lots of improvements to software usability - it warms my hear to see the attitude of yesteryear's "you're not using it right, consider changing your lifestyle" still alive and wel
445.
by preommr 4y ago
> end up with that "soft-ish" landing the Fed was talking about That narrative died months ago. At this point the odds of a recession are much higher than a 'soft-landing'.
446.
by preommr 4y ago
> I don't think that caused any serious problems. It's certainly a different approach - that's the big problem, people aren't used to this kind of approach. I just watched a video where someone, in response to the pol
447.
by preommr 4y ago
Edit: This whole thread went to hell. There's like 2-3 people that are really vested about this situation and have made posts, and articles elsewhere that make their viewpoints seem bigger. Also the biggest comment thread is about a gu
448.
by preommr 4y ago
100k is the average https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/09/average-ontario-teacher-...
449.
by preommr 4y ago
Ontario has teachers that make 100k+ Quality was still horrible when I was in highschool.
450.
by preommr 4y ago
Is it? I think the recent release of ChatGPT has skewed perceptions. There's no guarantee that there's going to continue to be as ground breaking shifts that have happened recently with llms and diffusion models. To continue with

More ›