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by strken 2y ago
One very unfortunate thing when it comes to title inflation is the concept of a terminal level. Bigger tech companies don't let you just sit around and write code unless you're at a certain level, usual senior. This turns senior e
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by strken 2y ago
I agree. It's not a good idea to refuse to hire either young or old candidates. It's also not a good idea to refuse to hire experienced or inexperienced candidates. These candidates have, as groups, different characteristic streng
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by strken 2y ago
A) I, and a lot of other people, do give a shit whether experienced candidates pass leetcode, and try not to give leetcode interviews unless forced to by HR fiat B) As an industry and as a society, it's not a good thing to refuse to hi
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by strken 2y ago
In the majority of places I've worked, nobody who started refactoring older code piece by piece ever finished it. The exception is people who documented the scope of the work, got leadership buy-in, and then worked on it continuously l
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by strken 2y ago
Speaking for myself, the only "superpower" I got from a tumour near my brain was not being able to fully rotate one of my eyes because of pressure on the nerve that moved it. While this was a fun party trick that caused my brother
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by strken 2y ago
Apologies if that sounded too cynical. I didn't mean that the general argument sounded "sales-ey", just that a CTO writing about how their company's implementation is better is not taking a thousand-foot objective view o
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by strken 2y ago
I live in Victoria and I've always called them powerboards. Which state/territory/island calls them "power bars"?
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by strken 2y ago
There's no contradiction here. The ability to move at a cost of X kj/km has nothing to do with sustaining a power output of Y kj/s. Your body can be thought of as a directed graph of different pools of energy with different e
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by strken 2y ago
My take on the underlying point is that there's a good reason not to use events for every system everywhere. That reason is cost: not cost as in "we can save a bit of money", but cost as in "collecting all our events wou
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by strken 2y ago
If someone asked me this I'd either make a joke or literally tell them to fuck off, depending on how serious they were. Telling someone your least socially acceptable belief is giving them a weapon to use against you, and is proof of s
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by strken 2y ago
Something of a tangent, but I misread "What do you believe most strongly that you can’t prove?" to mean "What theory do you believe is the most unprovable?" the first time, and I suspect it might be an equally interestin
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by strken 2y ago
I am surprised that CBT and psychotherapy are even mentioned here. Grief at a death or upset at an injured family member are not dysfunctional emotions to be managed away and reconceptualised while the event is still happening . And what a
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by strken 2y ago
Looks fine to me. TLS 1.3 with a cert from Let's Encrypt.
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by strken 2y ago
> It’s not at all normal for VCs to write about the crossroads Western society met after the Enlightenment, and how one should act in face of this crossroads. Most of these guys are focused on what how to value a B2B SaaS business. Are t
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by strken 2y ago
Much of the reason sucky applications suck is because the people who work on them can't change them quickly enough. If you can open up your IDE, grab a flame graph, and chuck out your shitty brute-force algorithm in favour of a dynamic
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by strken 2y ago
I think it's honestly a good thing for hardcore introverts to stay home when they want to hibernate. Socialising with someone when they clearly don't want to be there is exhausting for me, let alone them, and nobody wins. At the s
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by strken 2y ago
> All for the initial idea which is so simple that it seems redundant: look as good plain as rendered. (Then what’s the point of rendering it, and in turn what’s the point of a formal syntax instead of the (still existing) ad hoc email a
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by strken 2y ago
I don't have children. That being said, my impression from looking after my brother's kid is that a lot of things are simple and also difficult. "Sit down with your kids when they use the computer like you're pair progra
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by strken 2y ago
I like both databases, but there are some downsides and/or gotchas to SQLite that aren't covered here. Examples are: - forgetting to use STRICT - realising you actually did need complicated concurrency options like SKIP LOCKED or
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by strken 2y ago
This blog post is about C++.
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by strken 2y ago
It annoys me a bit that "it depends how you define a programmer" is a wrong answer. "12 full-time software engineers, 4 data scientists who touch the SQL reports sometimes, and we contract out some front-end UI work plus we h
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by strken 2y ago
I was going to point to https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli , but it uses puppeteer and chromium under the hood. That seems...excessive, to render an SVG.
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by strken 2y ago
I remember having a look for papers relating to performance on cognitive tasks and caffeine, and not being able to find any high-quality studies that showed an improvement. Could you provide a source? Cocaine would be interesting too, altho
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by strken 2y ago
Depends which tech. I would argue that bash scripting or excel do almost the opposite.
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by strken 2y ago
The source from the article doesn't sound like it's a measure against tampering, but instead a way to stop the patient receiving the wrong dose by accident. Prior to the early 1900s I'm pretty sure you could buy cocaine and o
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by strken 2y ago
The most important difference is that in practice the SWE can't go and report the employer to anyone for breaching e.g. occupational health and safety laws, or any others, because those laws don't exist for the majority of softwar
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by strken 2y ago
It's hard to tell whether perfectionism means doing a pointless refactor to cloud microservice event-driven k8s buzzword Rust WASM-on-the-server sharded graph databases, or whether it means spending 30 minutes putting a password on tha
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by strken 2y ago
Honey is formed by the hydrolysis of the complex sugars in nectar into fructose and glucose. HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) is formed by the hydrolysis of cornstarch into fructose and glucose. They're chemically extremely similar, exc
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by strken 2y ago
It is absolutely better to catch some errors than none. In this case it gives me vibes of something going wrong after the CI pipeline, during the rollout. Maybe they needed advice a bit more specific than "just use a staging environm
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by strken 2y ago
At the time I believed the proliferation of netbooks was caused by OLPC. I don't think it was a fundamentally bad idea either. The project identified a legitimate need for a small, durable, and cheap laptop, but failed on a number of s

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