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541.
by sidlls 4y ago
A lot of HN visitors think they're master salary/compensation negotiators, and fear this will hurt their endeavors to pull one over on their next employer. The reality is that the tech industry is like any other industry: the perc
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by sidlls 4y ago
Except for kilopascals, sometimes, none of the other things is even something physicists (or chemists or engineers) use regularly. Nanometers, angstroms, and femtometers are much more commonly found in the jargon. You’re being pedantic, and
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by sidlls 4y ago
It gives clues, but it doesn't tell the whole story. It certainly isn't enough to do anything other than make a pure guess at what the application actually does and more importantly how it does it.
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by sidlls 4y ago
> Given the data design of even the most complex set of applications that all interact with the same data, you can almost always predict what business logic is supported by the set of applications. How so? Every table, file, or other dat
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by sidlls 4y ago
Unless the test cases are incomplete. Or the CI jobs are configured to run tests independently and off-cadence so that code that would break is tested after a merge. Or the tests have a bug in them. And so on.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The first quote is an over-simplification that often does not hold in practice: one usually needs both. The exceptions are mostly trivial programs.
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by sidlls 4y ago
That's not a good reason to hate Rust, in my opinion. The community around it, maybe (although "hate" is a strong word), but not the language.
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by sidlls 4y ago
That’s fair. I’d be interested in that, too. I just don’t see it as something a certain group is interested in.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Rust has some safety guarantees and it is strictly better in that regard than C++. But it’s not a panacea, and the footprint of `unsafe` buried in so many crates is worrisome , especially when novice systems programmers see “guaranteed s
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by sidlls 4y ago
Easy: tooling and process are often seen as being of little importance because they’re not easily associated with metrics that are important in toxic review process cultures. Engineers who like working on these things are treated as second
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by sidlls 4y ago
The belief that the problem of memory safety that Rust has some compile-time protections against is the only problem (or so much more important problem that the rest almost don’t matter) of programming, and that therefore Rust is the only s
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by sidlls 4y ago
A comment laced with fallacies is effectively rebutted with a comment pointing that out. There is literally nothing of substance to rebut in the GP
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by sidlls 4y ago
More or less this. “Unsafe” as a value proposition loses its luster when it’s ubiquitous in a code base.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The number of teams at these companies where “you should seriously consider Rust” is a thing is approximately (not exactly) zero. Its adoption is still a novelty, and most of the impetus behind it is engineers looking to scratch an itch w
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by sidlls 4y ago
Rust is still fringe even at FAANG level companies. I work at one such and we have a service or two written in Rust. I like Rust as a C++ replacement in the right context, but for 99.999% of applications it’s not better in any qualitative o
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by sidlls 4y ago
It’s not “innovative” to double-down on mistakes.
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by sidlls 4y ago
This ambiguity around what a book is seems like an artificial one. Go to a bookstore or view the catalog in Apple Books. Those are books, even the $0.99 micro stories one might find on, e.g., Kindle. Anything else might be a book, but pro
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by sidlls 4y ago
More complicated averages do play a role in legitimate analysis of random walk processes, but taking fixed-window averages and comparing them to one another is effectively useless.
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by sidlls 4y ago
No it isn’t. Variable names are literally fungible in this context.
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by sidlls 4y ago
People who give their labor away for free aren’t entitled to anything. They should stop engaging in the farce that is open source these days if they feel that strongly about it
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by sidlls 4y ago
The brokerages permit election of the method and can easily be made to report that along with the other details
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by sidlls 4y ago
So now we’re including actual engineers in this perpetual rant against management, now? Is it only engineers whose sole job is to write code given a spec who are valuable? At what level of seniority is a job “useless” or worse?
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by sidlls 4y ago
This is misleading if not outright false. Roughly half the country doesn’t have the state department’s line on war and regularly voices opinions as such. They do so without any state backed retribution or widespread media cancellation. What
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by sidlls 4y ago
China’s domestic conversation is limited to what The Party will permit. Calling it “mature” is…misleading at best, because it’s an incomplete, sanitized discourse under the threat of retribution for expressing the wrong sentiment.
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by sidlls 4y ago
This forum doesn’t attract a large number of people with the expertise to have the conversation. The non-western public isn’t any more mature than the western public.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The people who view Mastodon as a Twitter disruptor care.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The fact that multiple companies have those numbers indicates the numbers are in fact “normal”. What isn’t normal is continuing to insist that the typical person cares enough about the ideology that motivates projects like Mastodon in spite
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by sidlls 4y ago
Are your clusters at the same scale as Robinhood or Roblox? We’re talking many millions of inbound requests per second generating multiples of that on internal service calls. Nomad, Consul and Vault work find at small to medium scales. Some
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by sidlls 4y ago
We’re using different Vaults it seems. HashiCorp’s tech is a mess of over engineering, poor UX, and insufficient documentation.
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by sidlls 4y ago
That’s a fair point: but it doesn’t change the underlying narrative. The ideology motivating development of (F)OSS alternatives frequently produces software that is not as good as that produced by a market-demand ideology.

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