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by strken 2y ago
How long are your progress reports? Mine are a one sentence message like "Hey, we've got a fix for the user profile bug, but we can't deploy it for an hour minimum because we've found an edge case to do with where the ac
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by strken 2y ago
While I've never done it, it might be worth headhunting and paying more than the engineering market rate if you have specific requirements like this. Two of my friends have this exact skillset, but they're both moving into managem
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by strken 2y ago
Yep! My problem at the time was that I didn't know I needed a matrix, or which operations would be helpful to perform on one, because I didn't know much about the problem I was trying to solve. I ran into a paper about using SVD
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by strken 2y ago
This is neat! When I was fresh out of uni, I got asked to build a system to show recommendations to people based on a graph of connections between them. I tried to mentally think about these as a network of resistors, which led me to dimens
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by strken 2y ago
And yet building software is still closer to engineering than it is to charcoal figure drawing or to driving a forklift at a door factory.
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by strken 2y ago
Same reason everybody can't fix "it", whatever "it" is for them. I have other shit to deal with that's even worse.
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by strken 2y ago
I agree that this is an odd choice. It hasn't been edited all that well, so the "person" who is "he or she" becomes a "he" in the next sentence. More than that, there's a clumsy instance of find-repla
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by strken 2y ago
I think this train of thought is why I now have to deal with four UI libraries in the same small-feature-set product, including three different ways of styling a React component. I think that a more accurate mental model would accept that a
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by strken 2y ago
It's closer to engineering than either art or working on an assembly line. Software tasks just aren't fungible in most companies, and neither are they open-ended interpretable works designed to please or strike fear into the human
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by strken 2y ago
What do "any real sense" and "scale" mean here? I was watching the Betfair odds during the US election, and that market alone had about $500 million dollars of bets pass through it. Is that not real? Is half a billion do
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by strken 2y ago
I would be very discouraged if the people who set tech strategy at my company were the ones who had passed me on the promo ladder by not writing any tests and refusing to go to interviews or help their team fix bugs.
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by strken 2y ago
I really don't think "walk briskly for five minutes a day" is a health nut thing. That sounds more like the advice your doctor gives you when she knows you won't do anything a health nut says.
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by strken 2y ago
I cannot think of any exchange I've read that aggravated me more than this one. I'm hedging my bets with "one of" because there might be something I've forgotten, but that specific series of events is like reading a
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by strken 2y ago
I've always worked in places that either didn't have an IC track, due to being too small, or where the top of the IC track reported directly to higher levels of management. I assume the idea was that if you're a Principal Eng
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by strken 2y ago
I wish the abominations software engineers create were as regulated and fixable as a bad wiring job. I would feel absolutely chuffed to work in an industry with licensed inspectors and standards bodies. I am currently dealing with a system
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by strken 2y ago
I'm a bit confused here, because the original comment was that "most people will never really see the point of Redis, which is that if it is running on the same machine as the application, it can respond in much less than a millis
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by strken 2y ago
Unfortunately my personal hell is written in Node.js. I am so very sorry, both that you are suffering through this too and that the infection has spread.
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by strken 2y ago
The linked GitHub issue is one of the most aggravating exchanges I've ever read: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/25269 . I don't understand how you can read someone telling you that they wa
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by strken 2y ago
Perhaps you could elaborate? It would be helpful to understand what Redis can do that cannot be done easily with local memory. Acting as shared memory for an inherently single-CPU language like JS is one I can think of. However, I don'
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by strken 2y ago
This is not limited to the app under discussion, but how well do iOS emulators and compatibility layers for Android phones work? Are they anywhere close to as good as, say, Proton and Wine?
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by strken 2y ago
It's an almost exact copy of my last few months, right down to the 10am start. Except that all our other senior engineers got laid off and there's nobody to pair with, I don't give two fucks about bullying because at this poi
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by strken 2y ago
I imagine that the people who use CamelCase table names will one day make some analysts and data scientists very sad, assuming the company they work for grows large enough to hire them.
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by strken 2y ago
I'm not convinced that either sugar or fatty cuts of meat are great for you. Why would we have to pick one or the other?
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by strken 2y ago
I think there are issues with hotspots. The most popular tweets are seen by a big chunk of the userbase, which means they have to operate on a fanout model where each tweet is pushed to individual followers. I believe IRC doesn't opera
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by strken 2y ago
My mental model of bodyweight is that my body can adapt to use less energy to some degree, probably a few thousand kJ at most. If I exercise or drop my caloric intake and it's still within that range, I won't have to dig into fat
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by strken 2y ago
A lot of places do their own beans now, at least in Melbourne. It definitely does not mean Heinz everywhere in the country.
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by strken 2y ago
Why would this be the case? What quantifiable difference is there in health outcomes between people who eat one or the other?
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by strken 2y ago
Look at it. It's under 20 lines long and handles one thing, which is creating a user. You unit test it by passing a user with an invalid password. You might possibly decide to put the validation of user input into one function and avoi
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by strken 2y ago
It's more that there are maybe a thousand or so people in your highschool, but 7 billion on planet earth. If a thousand people (more like a couple of hundred the same age) exclude you then there are probably unfair network effects or s
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by strken 2y ago
Barriers to entry don't have to be financial. One can imagine a community of artists who require you to mail them a traditional media sketch before they'll let you in. One of the clubs I know of requires you to go on three hikes b

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