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by sevensor 1y ago
This is what I’ve seen; it’s hard work, and if you fail to make any one of those sales, it can all fall apart. And you didn’t even mention getting your foot in the door in the first place. I used to chat with our business development guy in
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by sevensor 1y ago
I sometimes wonder what an archaeologist of the future would make of our rubbish and ephemera. A collection like this, for my imagined archaeologist, would be a rare treasure. What would they make of my uncle’s marble collection: glass sphe
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by sevensor 1y ago
I read The Secret History at an impressionable age and arrived at university grossly misinformed. I love it anyway.
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by sevensor 1y ago
> Smalltalk, for example, does support browsing either all the implementors of a method selector or all the methods of a class That’s pretty neat. I tried using the object browser a million years ago and it confused me, but I didn’t know
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by sevensor 1y ago
Oh hey, love your blog! Glad I’m not alone in my assessment.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Ah, I see. I’ve written that code where you have to add one case to a whole bunch of pattern matches. It’s not terrible; I rather like that everything that does the same thing is in the same place. But I have wondered if there was a better
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by sevensor 1y ago
I don’t think that’s harsh at all. With the low barrier to entry and the high potential earnings, a lot of people joined for the paycheck and are profoundly uninterested in digging deeper. If anything, it’s surprising there’s as much compet
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by sevensor 1y ago
I thought this was a good read, and it’s clearly a problem in an OO language, but I struggled to see how it’s an actual problem in a functional language. Maybe I need to go read that paper he referenced by the Racket guys.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Sure? Your average 3 years of experience “senior” developer has mastered some tools but failed to abstract from them in a useful way, has a ton of growing to do, and hasn’t even considered some fundamental concepts. From there about 20% wa
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by sevensor 1y ago
> Everyone around you is technically strong too If this is true, you’ve hit the jackpot. Competence is usually rewarded by spreading the competent people thin enough that they rarely get to collaborate.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Ah, I see. Team A would like to deploy a new version of a service. It used to accept messages with schema S, but the new version accepts only S’ and not S. So the only thing you can do is define S’ so that it is ambiguous with S. Team B u
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by sevensor 1y ago
I think this is only a problem if you’re using a weak data interchange library that can’t use the schema number field to discriminate a union. Because you really shouldn’t have to write that if statement yourself.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I think I see what you’re getting at? My mental model is client and server, but you’re implying a more complex topology where no one service is uniquely a server or a client. You’d like to insert a new version at an arbitrary position in th
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by sevensor 1y ago
Seems like a lot of effort to avoid adding a message version field. I’m not a web guy, so maybe I’m missing the point here, but I always embed a schema version field in my data.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I don’t know about that. Have you seen their output? They’re poisoning their own well with specious nonsense text.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Jstor: at least we’re not Elsevier!
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by sevensor 1y ago
I was watching one of America’s greatest war propaganda films recently. Casablanca. It is remarkable how far we’ve come from making the hard decision to do what’s best for Victor Laszlo. Our modern US propaganda is all 24 : the righteous m
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by sevensor 1y ago
It’s crazy that VFDs work! You have to have a really good ground though, or you get arcing through the bearings.
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by sevensor 1y ago
So set your sights lower? A lot of BS EEs exit the process understanding neither Maxwell’s equations nor which end of a soldering iron to hold. The degree demonstrates that they are good at abstract symbol manipulation, and that’s not noth
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by sevensor 1y ago
> Jira’s AI features to be basically nonsensical Unlike its other features?
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by sevensor 1y ago
My biggest criticism of EE pedagogy is that it tends to proceed from abstractions and then derive the whole world. This makes it a bit of a slog for a lot of students. I’d like to see an application-first approach that builds up principles
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by sevensor 1y ago
“Things you can only do in a fab” is but a subset of “hard problems in EE.” How many people actually understand induction motors well enough to design a better one? Or how about antenna theory? The math makes most people’s eyeballs melt, an
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by sevensor 1y ago
You joke, but a colleague tried to get me using nvim a few months ago, and after installing all the stuff he recommended, my first impression was that I was running emacs. It was busy, there were extra buffers all over the place, things kep
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by sevensor 1y ago
> has its roots in research Grinberg started as a doctoral student at the University of Chicago A reminder that not long ago this was a functioning institution of higher learning.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I’ve seen multiple projects founder on the complexity of writing software for the cloud. Moving data from here to there ends up being way harder than anybody expected. Maybe teams with more experience build this into their planning, but fro
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by sevensor 1y ago
The best way to think a few steps ahead is to make as much of your solution disposable as possible. I optimize for ease of replacement over performance or scalability. This means that my operating assumption is that everything I’m doing is
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by sevensor 1y ago
Same boat. The pay was mediocre, the hours were bad and far too many, and the company used cyclical demand to keep us in perpetual fear of layoffs. Mandatory pager carry 24/7/365 unless I was on vacation out of town. Rotating week
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by sevensor 1y ago
I recall being able to set FVWM2 desktop size larger than the screen size. Some people went really large with this, but I found it way too easy to lose track of windows. I’m curious as to how these new window managers are different.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I disagree about flexible types. SQLite bills itself as a better fopen, not as a full on database engine. If you have data sitting outside your application, trusting it to be well typed is just going to cause trouble. If your database is
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by sevensor 1y ago
I used this as an excuse for a long time, but it turns out it was just a way to prioritize television viewership in the evening over exercise in the morning. Your circumstances may differ of course.

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