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721.
by sk5t 8y ago
Gee whiz, you mean it's a good idea to choose a language/framework one knows well for implementing production services? Or maybe bring in an Erlang expert as a consultant to fix things?
722.
by sk5t 8y ago
I've done special projects at a large, somewhat stodgy company, and the general pattern was that you had about nine months to do good work, just engineering and business folks together, after which point the "project management of
723.
by sk5t 8y ago
Slack's refusal to add a "block user" option is beyond frustrating. Short of the nuclear option of disabling the account, there is no way to prevent a bad actor from pestering you. Yet this condition seems to be a deliberat
724.
by sk5t 8y ago
Agreed. It's almost as odorous as xmldoc.toString.getBytes--which is definitely a thing some folks do--okay, welcome to encoding problems and busted documents.
725.
by sk5t 8y ago
If you control precisely the inputs, then it could certainly be fine... until it's not because other thing changed. Please consider it a brittle hack.
726.
by sk5t 8y ago
Using regex on serialized XML has the potential to go off the rails thanks to the wiiiide variety of ways to express character entities, import docs, use namespaces, escape or not, etc.; consider an event-y/SAX parser for performance i
727.
by sk5t 8y ago
AFAIK Tesla hasn't been friendly to lease arrangements so far. Parts and repair has always been my concern there--other manufacturers have a good history of parts, a robust aftermarket, etc. Porsche's EV will be the one to watch
728.
by sk5t 8y ago
GP already considered something like Pearl Harbor with a 1-year lag for war to be declared, later, in connection with the event.
729.
by sk5t 8y ago
Well, ah... unless you're applying at Amalgamated SortCo Industries, asking for on-the-spot sorting implementation is pretty high on the list of absurd interview questions. Anyway I'd think one might use an array and not some othe
730.
by sk5t 8y ago
This appears to cover salary, but what has happened to the "Open Equity" information?
731.
by sk5t 8y ago
That's because Scala doesn't have nearly enough semicolons. Kidding aside, why do you feel Scala is unsuited to coding interviews, assuming the interviewer well-understands the language?
732.
by sk5t 8y ago
AWS in China is, like, doing the best job that the government in China allows them to do. It's not very good. Almost everything that might provide an inconvenient security barrier to inspection is absent.
733.
by sk5t 8y ago
I think a lot of folks writing low latency code in C, or for the JVM, would be surprised at the suggestion a lack of preemptive scheduler makes their work futile.
734.
by sk5t 8y ago
Plain-old-caches and even concurrent-aware maps do this too--several are the cases where I've slapped a Guava or Caffeine cache into place for quick 'n dirty concurrency control and key coalescing, even with a short TTL.
735.
by sk5t 8y ago
I suspect the parent's confusion is due to the misapplication of antibiotics to treat viral infections (it's not really clear if viruses are alive or what, but, don't take abx for a cold please). However, as you note, antibi
736.
by sk5t 8y ago
It would be neat to find, but--who is going to go scouring the seafloor off the coast of Delaware for a not-very-large magnetic rock?
737.
by sk5t 8y ago
A reasonable person might think that it did occur to emergency fire services to respond quickly, particularly in a nation and city with a great history in the field.
738.
by sk5t 8y ago
It's leverage over an individual--whether that's secrets that might be released, financial problems, or whatever.
739.
by sk5t 8y ago
For real though--you're happy with paying $45K for that advice? Rather than do a bit more research, you're okay with letting a realtor take away almost all of the economic surplus?
740.
by sk5t 8y ago
Well, from the other side of the peanut gallery, I think your outrage is misplaced. "Deception" needn't be malicious, and the title already calls this out as an "astonishing achievement."
741.
by sk5t 8y ago
I don't know the answer to your question, but some factors that might skew the distribution could be how annoying and expensive it is to keep a car or park in each city, prevalence of recreational activity that encourages or discourage
742.
by sk5t 8y ago
Honest question, is his experience in small aircraft applicable at all to jetliners? How much carryover, beyond core theory of flight dynamics, is there from piloting a single prop to an Airbus or even a regional jet?
743.
by sk5t 8y ago
Ditto. I was twice nominated a while back, by existing MVPs, didn't get it, and had the distinct sense it was because I didn't tweet or run webinars or whatever to the glory of MSFT. What I did do was write and release some pret
744.
by sk5t 8y ago
I find this line of thinking offensively short-sighted. Suppose for a moment there might be less economic activity--much, much less--due to famine from cratering populations of insects, fish, etc., etc. Or even something stupid like micro
745.
by sk5t 8y ago
> CUDA delivered a 10x to 100x performance boost on legacy code CUDA offered a way to access a limited set of operations on special-purpose hardware with a rewrite of critical sections. A pretty far cry from 'boosting legacy code.&
746.
by sk5t 8y ago
> holding the falling knife That is... not how that metaphor works. You want to avoid trying to catch the falling knife by placing a trade that attempts to time the market on a plummeting asset. But if you already hold it, and can&#x
747.
by sk5t 8y ago
Well, so? Who was holding a gun to retail investors' heads to buy on Friday? Today's sitters-out can be tomorrow's reasonably-satisfied long investors.
748.
by sk5t 8y ago
Civilized people use Debian, Arch, CentOS, and--rarely--Fedora ;)
749.
by sk5t 8y ago
I give anyone who asks a "hard no" on FileZilla, certainly not least because it came (maybe still does come) packaged with crapware/malware depending on your chosen author-sanctioned download location. Panic Transmit on MacOS
750.
by sk5t 8y ago
Yep, Apple support forums are absolutely dreadful. Way worse than Windows and way, way worse than Linux. You will find virtually nothing more than well-intentioned fumblers reciting some irrelevant plist tweak that maybe appeared to fix t

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