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by ragnot 3y ago
Every time this happens to me I keep thinking of that "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?" meme.
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by ragnot 3y ago
> - Who gets to define testability? I do (just kidding!)...Testability is the ability to add testing at a later point. There is no hard definition of this, but if you can't test at least 75% of your public facing functions then I&#
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by ragnot 3y ago
Appreciate the questions! > why is testable software higher quality? Does it add value to the software? I'd venture that untestable software has the same value (if not more) than testable software (due to time-to-market). You can wr
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by ragnot 3y ago
I'll take a stab. Quality software is software that is testable, able to adapt to new features and is architected to match the current organizational structure of the software team so that communication and dependencies don't hav
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by ragnot 3y ago
It's funny, I had that exact feeling when I opened the page but I couldn't put into words. Thank you for that.
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by ragnot 3y ago
Might be a stupid question: would this result in radioactivity just flying through space as we try to propel spacecraft with it?
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by ragnot 3y ago
Great data...thank you
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by ragnot 3y ago
Guess they need a pricing engine.
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by ragnot 3y ago
From my understanding, SeqCst on x86 is free since the underlying CPU has a strong memory model anyway. Only on other platforms do you get the performance benefits.
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by ragnot 3y ago
This paper will help a lot: https://www.aristeia.com/Papers/DDJ_Jul_Aug_2004_revised.pdf tl;dr: Remember that the "new" operator does two operations: allocates memory and fills in the memory with the data. N
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by ragnot 3y ago
As someone who has done a lot of atomics programming: stick with sequential consistency unless you are using the variables in a very well known pattern (i.e. the double locking pattern, ring buffers, etc). Additionally, atomic doesn't
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by ragnot 3y ago
Visual programming of state machines is always better. However, the biggest problem I've found isn't necessarily the state machine code generation, it's that the actions and guards often have custom code written within them
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Show HN: A C++11 Hierarchical State Machine Library(github.com)
5 points by ragnot 3y ago|2 comments
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by ragnot 3y ago
Someone call Tom Cruise, the entity is real!
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by ragnot 3y ago
It's a great attitude to have. Just be aware that if you ever want to become a manager or higher it will work against you. If you just stick to technical positions you'll be fine (until ageism rears its ugly head).
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by ragnot 3y ago
Bingo
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by ragnot 3y ago
I'm glad the US is finally catching up the rest of the world...India already has the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) [0]. Additionally, I think fears of this turning into a CBDC are overblown. Banks already have to settle transactio
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by ragnot 3y ago
Could you explain what these backdoors are?
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by ragnot 3y ago
Genius except that if China lands in the US then nukes fly. No winners there.
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by ragnot 3y ago
Honestly, if my wife said I wasn't the number one person in her life then I would find that pretty disrespectful. She is my number one after all. It seems like we've failed a whole generation of adults with good examples of what
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by ragnot 3y ago
Got any more reading for that?
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by ragnot 3y ago
A part of me thinks that many have failed to educate themselves about the realities of life. People are dicks (generally) and if they can step on you to better themselves they will. It's why capitalism works.
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by ragnot 3y ago
The type of person you are replying to has most likely never lived in any sort of authoritarian regime. People like them play these games...almost like the equivalent of a child saying "I'm not touching you". What happens in
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by ragnot 3y ago
This is fantastic advice. Another way to think of it: "The days are long but the decades are short"
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by ragnot 3y ago
Uncle Sam is the ultimate repo man.
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by ragnot 3y ago
Software engineers have been re-inventing concepts again and again since the 1970's. It isn't that much of a stretch to believe that they would do the same thing to finance.
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by ragnot 3y ago
Where would you even go if the US defaulted? It's such an armageddon level event that I don't know how you even begin to hedge it.
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by ragnot 3y ago
Japan doesn't. It is essentially a US vassal state when it comes to international disputes. For China: Where would they put that money? They can't keep it in the Yuan because it strengthens their currency which destroys their ex
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by ragnot 3y ago
No better alternative for the Chinese. US Treasuries are the worlds most liquid and deep markets for money at the nation-state scale. Euro's are still in America's sphere of influence. Holding Yuan just destroys their export ec
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by ragnot 3y ago
Some people call it the petrodollar others call it American hegemony.

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