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by sidlls 3y ago
I work at a FAANG-like company. The code base has almost no functional programming paradigms deployed. It’s a multi-billion dollar company from which I, an IC cog in the machine employee, became a multimillionaire through from the IPO. It’s
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by sidlls 3y ago
I was an academic physicist for the first several years of my post-graduate school career--I, too, see much value in having multiple perspectives to a problem. But that's quite different from your other claim. Maths and programming are
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by sidlls 3y ago
This is like saying all physical engineering problems are quantum mechanics (or insert other physics theory) problems. It’s technically correct (the best kind of correct), but misleading and useless as a matter of practice.
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by sidlls 3y ago
"FP" camps tend to come in two flavors: "I'm a mathematician writing a computer program, and all problems will be made to look like math problems even if it means the program becomes an inscrutable mess of types and de
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by sidlls 3y ago
I wonder what the ratio of utilization of that 80% is compared to the 20% that do have `unsafe` all over the place.
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by sidlls 3y ago
"Just mark everything unsafe" seems to be the motto of many (most?) crate developers. There's so much "unsafe" in dependencies used by so many Rust programs. It's a timebomb waiting to go off.
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by sidlls 3y ago
It succeeded in getting more people covered by health insurance. It did so by enriching the private insurers who basically run our health care system. Personally I don’t see that as a success, rather it simply made all our health care syst
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by sidlls 3y ago
This isn't just a "problem" with computers and fuzzy "<time ago>" labels. Humans do this, too. The worst is when people use inappropriately long periods, for example when a reporter says something like "J
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by sidlls 3y ago
This is great. It reminds me of the BASIC program I wrote in the early 90s to simulate a star trek ship's state. Me and my friends would take apart the couch and use other things to build a "bridge" so we could be the crew (a
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by sidlls 3y ago
That's more or less exactly what these models do by design, otherwise the predictors/estimators for the next token in a sequence would fail spectacularly. These models aren't just plucking random tokens out of a bag and order
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by sidlls 3y ago
Parts of it already are dogma. The “testable” and “decoupled” sections come to mind: collectively we’ve taken these to extremes. I have seen so many pointless (and more importantly at large scale, inefficient) abstractions to satisfy arbitr
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by sidlls 3y ago
“I stopped stabbing him once I knew laws against murder were in place, and haven’t stabbed him since!” That’s what your argument sounds like to me.
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by sidlls 3y ago
They had a betamax version of the original movie when I was there. Didn't get a chance to make use of the lounge to watch it, though.
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California lawmakers pass speed camera bill(kron4.com)
2 points by sidlls 3y ago|3 comments
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by sidlls 3y ago
I've got some mixed feelings about this. Speeding can be dangerous, but the limits in some areas are just silly. There are four-lane roads in Palo Alto, for example, where the speed limit is 25 mph: completely absurd. Aside from that,
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by sidlls 3y ago
It’s based on the fact that their reported returns are so absurdly far on the long-tail of being an outlier as to suggest there is more to it than “they’re just good.” I don’t know for sure—but it’s close enough that I’d bet a lot of my own
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by sidlls 3y ago
Citadel is generally a bad example to use, as it’s exceptionally likely their performance is at least partially due to tax shuffling shenanigans and other regulatory violations. One can infer this because it’s exceptionally unlikely for the
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by sidlls 3y ago
That’s physically impossible. The color receptors in our eyes are unlikely to have spontaneously gained the ability to process blue wavelength light only after a word was invented for it. More likely is that people simply didn’t use a separ
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by sidlls 3y ago
This is similar to the FAANG salary phenomenon: for every individual contractor pulling $1MM in annual revenue, there are thousands who might barely be making minimum wage when expenses are factored in. Very few independent contractors end
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by sidlls 3y ago
Humans being what they are, this seems like it was bound to happen anyway. We may as well exploit space for profit! Hopefully regulated well (ha ha).
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by sidlls 3y ago
Over-the-wire latency is the tiniest fraction of the time spent in a transaction with Jira (and Confluence). Most of their slowness is due to poor implementation in the client and backend, i.e., their applications.
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by sidlls 3y ago
In my experience, which includes both the self-hosted and cloud version, this isn't true. They're both slow, bloated, and have terrible UIs.
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by sidlls 3y ago
No, I love my current manager, and really despise Jira. It’s slow, bloated, and tries to solve every project management problem and ends up solving almost none of them well.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Sure, it's a cost center, but that doesn't mean it doesn't provide value. Infrastructure (real estate, utilities, etc.) are also costs--but without them there is no work that can be done. They provide value, and businesses pa
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by sidlls 3y ago
"Management is there to help employees do the work that actually brings value, not the other way around. In management-speak: management is waste." This is self-contradictory. If facilitation is needed for "work that actually
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by sidlls 3y ago
Feature flags are just code, like the rest of the software. You can program any feature with it, including auto-enabling it given appropriate circumstances (e.g., the user is logged in to a developer account). Of course, that doesn't w
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by sidlls 3y ago
Yes. It seemed to me the GP's comment implied that those "rapper millionaires" and Billie Eilesh just made it big without having to pay those costs (or at least, not to the same degree). My point was a counterargument.
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by sidlls 3y ago
Being in that class of people, I’d contend Felix Dennis’ view of what wealth is is poor. It may take a decade or two, but individuals in these professions who work at top tier roles will be wealthy by any reasonable measure (7-figure invest
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by sidlls 3y ago
I'm dating someone who has visions of fame through his music. These "soundcloud rapper millionaires" and Billie Eilesh have so much more marketing spent on them than you might believe. It is hard to make it anywhere in that
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by sidlls 3y ago
I'm not sure if you meant "you cannot become rich without owning copyrights, patents, oil fields, or real estate" literally or not, but it's not really true in any case. There are plenty of people (doctors, dentists, law

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