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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
Interviews and hiring are liability risks. If an employee is involved in an incident the lawyers will ask, "what policy/procedure was in place to vet this person?" and it wont go well.
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I agree the UX is clunky, that just wasn't the criticism expressed in the comment I responded to.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
C does compile extremely fast. C++ does too, except that as computers have become faster developers have pushed the generics further.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
> modern replacement of LaTeX It's one of the most reliable and useful pieces of software, and it seems to be doing just fine. Most efforts at modernization focus on extension, either with packages, other languages, GUIs, etc. >
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
The particular frameworks I use which often have a lot of C++ stack traces must be outliers. I appreciate the info.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
I think this is a good analysis. He has an incredible set of talents, they just aren't the same as Steve's.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
I have had the same experience. This is one factor that leads me to believe Apple is mostly using C++ internally.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
> C++20 is coming into a world with much more competition I question whether those are actually competing in this same realm, for large organizations. Language adopotion is not just about the language, but also tooling, libraries, standa
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
I'm surprised to see almost no discussion of fourier series in that paper, considering fourier series is all about representing signals as linear combinations of sinusoidal functions.
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Why train when you can optimize?(justinmeiners.github.io)
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> Down payments are pretty hard to come up with on a $1m property I agree, it does create some kind of ceiling. > A lot of the time you're competing with developers willing to pay cash I think that's a secondary effect. Low
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
> whatever it takes to keep food, water, and shelter. There are still economizing responses. When certain foods are expensive, people search for alternatives. When housing is expensive people move in with family or get roomates. With gas
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
> Housing prices are bonkers due to chickens coming home I think low interest rates might be the largest factor here. Purchasing decisions are made based on the monthly payment.
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by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
If it's your job, you want the best thing, even if it's only 10-20% better. Performance and offline capability of a native app alone is a strong selling point.
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by sicp-enjoyer 5y ago
> A great deal of complexity of DBMS is in granularity of locks, its escalation/deescalation, and shared use performance. Agreed. > My understanding is that SQLite suppprts only system locks Is this any different than a process b
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by sicp-enjoyer 5y ago
The batch style tools, where you launch it with stdin input, and get back results to stdout I still think are the majority of operations an IDE want to run. It's when you have a tool that has ongoing async communication which enables t
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by sicp-enjoyer 5y ago
I have used SQLite for Django applications with a few thousand users. It has had no problems. However, I just use the ORM and never configure the SQL directly. The vast majority of LAMP stack style web applications would be an ideal use cas
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by sicp-enjoyer 5y ago
If you need to safely have multiple processes read and write to the same data, it does that great. The writes are serialized, but that's typically how an in-memory shared resource would be implemented as well. Do you mean shared across
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by sicp-enjoyer 5y ago
For greek and roman classics I also recommend: http://classics.mit.edu/