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by robbrit 7y ago
How do you host it? Do you own the machine, or use a cloud VM?
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by robbrit 7y ago
Always remember to turn on warnings in PHP. I remember the joys of tracking down a mistyped variable name that PHP just instantiated and gave a null value to, which was then implicitly converted to empty string when the variable was used.
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by robbrit 7y ago
I think the article might be looking at this from the wrong direction. It's making a straw-man argument by taking a bunch of the advantages of remote work and saying that everyone should do it. It's ignoring the downsides of remot
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by robbrit 7y ago
> they're forced to do this Figuratively speaking. None of the languages they test enforce any unit testing. What I'm suggesting is that since the Ruby community tends to be more obsessive about testing, that might lead to an i
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by robbrit 7y ago
Yeah you'd have to take them one-by-one and see if there is some proxy if you can't measure the behaviour directly. For example, with testing you could use code-coverage or even a binary variable for the existence of tests - not p
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by robbrit 7y ago
Seems like they're just doing associations, and not controlling for a lot of factors. For example, you can come up with some narratives to explain a lot of these findings: * Python, JS, PHP, Java, C++ are all very common first language
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by robbrit 7y ago
Unless you're carrying a pager, as an engineer you don't really need to think about work when you're off the clock. Culturally this tends to happen a lot, but it's not mandatory.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Bit of bait-and-switch here: thought I was learning about a new programming language when it's more a pitch for books about making programming languages. Creative advertising on the part of the author though!
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by robbrit 7y ago
Since Rasmus Lerdorf was in Canada, I wonder what this would look like if it were in Canadian English. It would retain the dollar signs and serialize(), but switch to "colour" and "centre". It would be required by law to
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by robbrit 7y ago
Can someone clarify for me? When I was on an H-1B, I was explicitly told that my wife who was on an H-4 was not allowed to work. What has changed?
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by robbrit 7y ago
I wonder how those numbers have changed now that the stock has lost 20% of its value.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Likewise, looks in line with my experience at Google as well.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Could be a signal of a strong disconnect between the people who are making the spending decisions and the people doing the hiring and managing. Departments are given a fixed budget or headcount based on historical precedent rather than curr
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by robbrit 7y ago
Forget Amazon. This story makes Comcast look good.
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by robbrit 7y ago
I think the title is a little misleading, I was expecting an article demonstrating that there is little correlation between top salaries or stock payouts and happiness; seems more just a nostalgia rant for the way SF used to be.
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by robbrit 7y ago
I think you're comparing apples and oranges here, and leaving out details. He says the entrepreneurs as risk takers are important, because they are doing something that benefits the economy if they win and don't really impact anyt
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by robbrit 7y ago
> This works out well for Japan. I don't think Japan is really a model you want to copy. The decades of a stagnant economy despite low interest rates shows that something is wrong. Also, highly-qualified people aren't the only
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by robbrit 7y ago
For once, I think that Trump is actually taking something in the right direction. With a few tweaks that make Democrats happy, this will actually be a net-positive over the current lottery-based system. Hopefully they overhaul the green car
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by robbrit 7y ago
> If you're applying for a job where you're writing code (like all of the ones I described), you'd better be able to code. That's fair. No sense in bringing in architecture astronauts who can't translate their dr
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by robbrit 7y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees here. In these larger companies, senior engineers tend not to work directly with code that much anymore, they're usually working on higher level problems like system design or management. Th
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by robbrit 7y ago
Depends on where you go. In the Big Tech cos, you usually have this hierarchy: 1) Junior Engineer - can write basic code, but usually needs help for bigger projects or navigating a code base. 2) Engineer - Is pretty independent and can whip
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by robbrit 7y ago
Fits perfectly with Betteridge's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... tl;dr: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Does a vow of silence include texting or email? He says in the video that he wrote mail, so I'm wondering where one would draw a line.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Not sure exactly, since I haven't used any of the dozens of similar efforts. It sounds like you're a lot more familiar with the area, so here's some resources: * Bazel's FAQ: https://bazel.build/faq.html
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by robbrit 7y ago
One advantage that isn't mentioned in the article: code examples. As a monorepo grows, it's more likely that someone else using the repo somewhere has attempted to do the same thing that you want to do, and you can use tools like
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by robbrit 7y ago
I've been using bazel (and the Google-internal version, blaze) for years now. The builds are extremely reliable and are used to deploy loads of projects across Google every day. I no longer work there, but my new company is also using
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by robbrit 7y ago
There's an in-between: develop locally in a non-notebook environment, and deploy that software in a container. Notebooks are great for fiddling around with new ideas, but when building production AI systems they tend to fall over. What
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by robbrit 7y ago
Yep. And if I mark an email as "not spam", that address gets white-listed and doesn't go back to the spam box.
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by robbrit 7y ago
ProtonMail has a free tier. It's definitely not the same level of service as Gmail, but I prefer it to being so dependent on the big G juggernaut for a critical service. Downsides: * spam detector is a bit aggressive, sometimes legitim
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by robbrit 7y ago
Sure, if you take today's technology and apply it to 2040 then it doesn't paint a pretty picture. However if you assume that technology will advance over 20 years, then things do look better. Battery technology, cost of solar and

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