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by shrimpx 7y ago
This article pits individual freedom/empowerment against the family unit and argues the latter is vanishing and we need it back. A familiar topic lately. I’m afraid this is a false dichotomy. If we’re actually trading the family unit f
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I agree that it might be offensive to the actual person who is being singled out in this article, if they’re reading the article. It also occurred to me that this person is fictitious or semi fictitious in which case it’s not just inoffensi
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by shrimpx 7y ago
There’s a specific creative tone to this article that incorporates these expressions. There is narrator persona who has a style of voice. I think you and the other people who are seemingly offended are missing this?
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Sounds like every startup ever.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
As it’s widely known, more often than not “criticism” of open source software quickly devolves into hate and toxicity. Helpful criticism is great but be careful with defending the “criticism culture” around foss, it’s often angry unhappy pe
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Tl;dr they get a lot of requests from customers for a GCP integration so they lament whether they should have used GCP for their deployment.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I live and work in USA but spend time in Europe. I noticed that in Europe SAP is wildly popular and a large percentage of “software engineers” are “SAP/ABAP programmers”. I have some engineer friends in Eastern Europe and they’re takin
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by shrimpx 7y ago
It seems super strange to adopt the market leader’s processes. You’d think the spirit should be that you can outdo/outcompete then instead of adopting what they’re doing...
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by shrimpx 7y ago
There are a bunch of LGBT communities with varying sizes and standards.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
The cost of that infra is so huge, it might be easier to imagine low-altitude self-flying pods.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Try/catch vs explicitly checking error values is like implementing sandboxing with os-level isolation versus with programming discipline. Why one would prefer offering guarantees like "will never crash/panic" using the l
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by shrimpx 7y ago
For a software engineer, emotional attachment to code is inversely proportional to net worth.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
> I don't want to ask of permission for an improvement. If the team works in branches and uses PRs this is a non-issue, because stakeholders will have a chance to react. It would be an issue if I went to work one morning to find a s
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Maybe on average across many fields and job positions? But I definitely don't believe this as a universalism. The "catalog chic", gym culture and dieting trend in SV is fairly new. 20 years ago it was graybeard chic. Alan Cox
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by shrimpx 7y ago
A legitimate reason for being interested in his post is to comb through it for ill conceived ideas that may further damage privacy and spread hate and misinformation, in order to sound alarm bells. Because Zuckerberg has massive power and c
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I got one: stop paying the electric bill.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Ok but it implies/states that the secrets will be broadly divulged.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I wonder what the intended meaning is. I presume it has to do with a presumed eventual urge to confess.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Ah yes, I was equating marginal with average. Thanks.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Presumably you have to pay income tax on base+rsu so shave off >50% from these figures if you live in California? Then rent can run you 35-50k a year or more in the bay, and then other expenses? So 600k a year can be more like <200k s
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Are you lonely on purpose?
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by shrimpx 7y ago
You're making it sound like putting on a blindfold and running into things hoping to strike a relationship. How about take a class you're interested in and look to instigate conversation with classmates about the subject matter?
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Not the core but near the core.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
It's true that humans are black boxes but there are whitebox techniques such as the scientific method and algorithms that are justified step by step. I think the article tries to compare black box learned algorithms to explicit algorit
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by shrimpx 7y ago
3) Sharing his belief that centralized trumps decentralized for a bunch of practical reasons and of course Signal is going to be a centralized system based on this belief. (I don't necessarily agree with Moxie but I saw his talk as nei
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by shrimpx 7y ago
This article has beef with artificially imposed internal deadlines, not deadlines in general. A deadline can be for a ton of legitimate reasons, like delivering a signed contract by the agreed upon date.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
The comment is talking about implementing sequential consistency: simplistically, if you have f();g() in a thread, and f() modifies the system's state, those modifications should be visible to g().
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Sequential consistency issues can appear in pretty much any system, not just distributed systems. E.g., a consumer thread that processes items from a queue. If you push into the queue and need subsequent read operations to see the processed
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by shrimpx 7y ago
It's unclear (regardless of crypto shredding) what the delete policy should be if the data involves multiple people.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
That makes sense but the question at hand is about the past employer unfairly being a dick, not a legitimate issue with the applicant. I think it's a tossup whether it should be mentioned in interviews because it can easily be misinter

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