sukilot

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by sukilot 6y ago
> "numerical" JavaScript is weakly typed, so it's never appropriate to assume such a thing without applying a type conversion. Sad, but true. > "Straightforward" Again, this is JavaScript.
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by sukilot 6y ago
There are JS devs who weren't alive 15 years ago.
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by sukilot 6y ago
JavaScript cannot have "the" canonical example of that: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by sukilot 6y ago
"Inequality" is a funny concept. An "inequality" per se is almost never useful. And "inequality" is a misleading name for "less than or equal to" relationship, even if technically true in some sense.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Your thesis is that a company that has it together would only write software that is either a shell pipeline or can be solved in 45minues? > would not advise you to actually write a pipeline like that in production, So when you are inter
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by sukilot 6y ago
Why traverse a tree recursively and risk blowing your stack?
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by sukilot 6y ago
I don't want to let abstract convoluted problem solvers anywhere near my production systems
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by sukilot 6y ago
Recursive functions come up quite often when investigating the root cause of outages. Unclear if that means we need candidates who are better at recursion, or better at avoiding recursion.
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by sukilot 6y ago
The thing to remember is that in some companies the interviewer doesn't care about hiring and is only their because they were forced to.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Your interviewer may have lacked skill in guiding the process, but you could have taken the question in the spirit it was given and answered "now if the usage grows 10x as much as hardware advances" or "if we need to be resil
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's interesting how the government propaganda celebrated the freedom and equality of Black people, despite the legal falsehood of the claim. The class in power is willing to accept the presence of a despised minority, as long as they
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by sukilot 6y ago
MacBookPro have a driver bug that makes the dGPU run at max power (20W) whenever it is on (which is always forced whenever an external monitor is connected). So that's not why Linux uses more energy. More likely Mac is better at turni
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by sukilot 6y ago
Maybe the reason they are trillion dollars companies because they care about more important things than obscure or unprofitable bugs and berating their staff.
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by sukilot 6y ago
What about Open Street Map? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OpenStreetMap_offl... ?
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by sukilot 6y ago
Like a homeless shelter? We have that now.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's not a supercomputer. The reason supercomputers are so tiny compared to cloud data-centers is that cloud computing is highly and mostly-triviallly parallel, but supercomputers are mesh and serial.
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by sukilot 6y ago
There was an absolutely trivial solution: send a few fighter planes to blow up the haciendas and spray herbicide on the plantations. But the US government prefers to profit and make political hay from the drug war.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Right, but people who get .ad that banks create "money" don't understand that "money" is not the same as "currency". Money is literally defined simply as "currency plus bank accounts" so obviousl
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by sukilot 6y ago
In the context of international sabotage, I thought that domain name was for answering questions of the form "Can CIA _____?"
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by sukilot 6y ago
Huge companies have more than one product.
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by sukilot 6y ago
You don't need specialist knowledge to figure out that the bigger stuff is harder to replace than the smaller stuff.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Does it count as "terrorism" if nearly no one noticed it happened, and no me claimed credit or made demands? And why try to kill a power plant with guns instead of bombs? And why go to all the effort and only shoot 100 bullets? Se
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by sukilot 6y ago
There's an argument that, (like everything else), it's securities fraud, as Uber distorted the books to manipulate the stock price for the IPO. Capital losses are deductible against future gains, though, I think for 5 years?
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by sukilot 6y ago
> I told my wife that it was very possible that we would be millionaires by the time we hit 40. Are you being colloquial? Being a millionaire by 40 (in 7 years or less) is quite likely for anyone with the talent to launch a startup, by
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by sukilot 6y ago
With Apple laptops at least you aren't paying for the horsepower (which the machine can't actually make sure of due to terrible thermals), you are paying for the aesthetic of the OS GUI and the industrial design. That's no an
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by sukilot 6y ago
Rich kid cred (startup or FAANG free-floating money), not quite the same as nerd cred.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's putting your children in grave danger from all manner of criminals online.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Everyone in these industries takes statistics in college and maybe grad school tool. The problem is (1) that statistics is hard math and these people aren't math majors (2) if you do statistics correctly you can never say anything bold
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by sukilot 6y ago
Someone's going to get a friendly email from in house counsel tomorrow morning....
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's a bit backwards. The halting problem is a computer-flavored variant of Gödel's work. A very simple part -- it's essentially a computer program that says "The program that produced this string is lying".

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