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by prerok 2y ago
Hmm, is rails really comparable to anything that's precompiled (genuine question, I don't mean this dismissively). What I really meant was, as a backend engineer, I frequently deal with optimizations on too many object allocations
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by prerok 2y ago
What I don't understand about immutability is performance. How do these languages achieve small memory footprints and avoiding continuous allocations of new object versions, because a single property changed? I mean, all I see are smal
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by prerok 2y ago
I am almost convinced most middle management are like small babies. That's not meant derogatively: there's a problem, they have been notified, yet they cannot do anything about it. They need someone else to fix it. So, they cry lo
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by prerok 2y ago
Google may not be a pure monopoly but is a monopoly, by some definition of it. https://www.economicshelp.org/microessays/markets/monopoly/ This article states that 25% of market share may be sufficient. That
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by prerok 2y ago
It increases short term productivity, yes, long term, not so much. What I started to notice, and I think some people on HN have noticed already before me, is that producing lines of code is faster. Much faster, even, if examples are already
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by prerok 2y ago
While that would be my goto choice as well, I have to admit that a strong online presence rarely factors in when I am interviewing candidates. If they have an online presence with projects I can look at, I certainly do take a look and it se
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by prerok 2y ago
As others already pointed out, there is no incentive to do so. Consider: "Hey, look, I went on top of tower of Pisa and threw down two identically shaped balls, one iron and one wooden. They dropped at the same time!" The above is
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by prerok 2y ago
Indeed, that was what I was trying to say, but you put it more accurately. Thanks!
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by prerok 2y ago
In roman times June was Iunius (pronounced You-nee-ew-s, or something like that, I am not a native English speaker). The change in the pronunciation is just centuries' worth of language evolution.
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by prerok 2y ago
There is no j in Latin of ancient times. Both letters v and j were additions in the renaissence era.
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by prerok 2y ago
Well, I think the difference is that for Dutch, people are mostly colocated, i.e. share the same space and have a national curriculum to guide the use. For English, it's quite different because many countries list it as their official
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by prerok 2y ago
Exactly. I wonder/think that reports from medieval and early modern age London were much worse.
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by prerok 2y ago
Yeah, that's because it's assumed that the other half consumed is non-registered moonshine. I don't get how that would apply to condoms, though.
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by prerok 2y ago
Emm, 10x developer is a myth. The real 10x developer is the one that creates such an infrastructure/libraries/culture that enables 10 other engineers to move fast. The 10x developer is not the person that is 10x faster than other
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by prerok 2y ago
Not at MS, but I had the misfortune of working with such "engineers" as well. I belive the term is "architecture astronauts".
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by prerok 2y ago
I am sorry but I don't really understand what you are arguing for. I can see what you are arguing against: it's the unchecked autoupdate policy for updating critical software. The problem here is that almost nobody does that anymo
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by prerok 2y ago
At sea level, yes :) I do agree, though I live in Europe and C is the norm. I could never wrap my head around F. That said, I think 0 is more important in daily life, below or above freezing. How much is that in F again?
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by prerok 2y ago
Got it, thank you for your insights!
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by prerok 2y ago
May I ask why you regret it? It could be that my professors were simply not that good, so that I don't really understand this. I mostly groked the subjects by working through the books and exercises in them. The professors' lectur
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by prerok 2y ago
Can you elaborate, you have piqued my interest :) The sentence for preferring "composition over inheritance" for code reuse is in the book by the gang of four (the design patterns book). I really don't understand how we ended
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by prerok 2y ago
Indeed, could not agree more. Also, using composition over inheritance is age old advice but that still did not prevent those architectural astronauts from creating inheritance structures 15+ levels deep. Luckily, newer languages make const
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by prerok 2y ago
Did you mean 2021?
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by prerok 2y ago
I think this is actually addressed in the article: > The key question for the designer is, “What would the system’s structure need to be so that <some feature> would be no harder to implement than necessary?” (It’s a bit surprising
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by prerok 2y ago
Just FYI, in Europe we mostly use manual transmission and clutch is mostly so robust that something else breaks way before that. Also, a lot of auto transmission approaches use the clutch behind the scenes, at least in the older models. But
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by prerok 2y ago
Ah, so you were referring to the second section? I considered that as a bit of a tounge in cheek, but frequently AAA titles would create tasks for most of these positions. In indie development, sure some or all of these roles would be combi
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by prerok 2y ago
What do you mean? The examples show use cases we have to think of. When designing worlds, or at least rooms players walk in freely, these questions about doors must be answered. Ideally, of course, we could just physically model them, and t
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by prerok 2y ago
I don't understand the point of both replies... my point was that integer based division is preferred in all languages and the floating point must be somehow "forced" that one operand is float. The post I was replying to ment
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by prerok 2y ago
Define "better language". The duck typed languages all suffer the same problem. Even in Go we had a stupid problem where default json deserializer creates floats (when deserialized into any) and the number was high enough int64 wh
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by prerok 2y ago
Yeah, but even when constricting this to close family of about 50 people, when you are the "computer guy", it's still difficult to do. Who can they turn to? I mean, seriously, what is the point of changing the user experience
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by prerok 2y ago
Well, because they keep asking me how to log in after they forgot their password for their Live account. Or, how to keep using windows live mail, since it's been replaced by this Mail client, which is horrendous. Or, how they decided t

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