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by superjan 4y ago
I am sometimes surprised how work on optimization (unless explicitly demanded) is regarded negatively. Just do it anyway. No it does not add to my salary but it does wonders for my self-worth and work satisfaction.
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Perhaps they were dictating?
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It’s funny but I have made the opposite transition recently. The reasons: Writing parsing code by hand tends to be verbose, error prone (such as off by one errors), ad hoc, and full of temporary strings. Editor syntax highlighting (and als
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by superjan 4y ago
You can and should do both. What I wrote above is a job a manager has to do every now and then, not the fun part, but also hard to evade.
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In general, if you want your reports to accept company decisions, it is in your interest as a manager to align your stated opinions with company policy. Openly disagreeing, or just trying to take a neutral position will only reduce faith in
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by superjan 4y ago
Edit: never mind this comment, but can’t delete anymore. Don’t remember where I heard this. If your brain does not get exposed to the ‘right’ set of hormones at the right time while you’re in the womb, your brain can develop a different gen
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by superjan 4y ago
I set my laptops to hibernate when the lid closes. Entire RAM written to disk, then a full powerdown. Do turn off wake timers and wake on USB (sometimes disabled in true hibernation but not always).
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if (42 = myNumber) { /* ... */ } // A syntax error this is and compile it will not
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Yoda Conditions(en.wikipedia.org)
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Perhaps if your design does not improve stiffness? The way it’s phrased suggest that that is a necessary part of the design.
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I don’t either. But somehow TDD is considered the sanctioned way to work with unit tests, and that it is almost pointless to write tests unless you’re doing TDD. I am relieved to read that I am not the only one.
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by superjan 4y ago
Couldn’t you make the same argument about fiat currency? Both in regular finance and in defi there exist funds that do high stakes gambles with other people’s money.
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A cryptocurrency company (not an exchange). For the recent headlines about their struggle: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?collection=genesis
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by superjan 4y ago
This is a great point. But how about if the language would allow the programmer to specify what range of values is expected for function input/output? Then a compiler could try to reason about the computation and decide that overflow d
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by superjan 4y ago
Luckily your grandma has a grandchild who can do that for her.
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That could have been be the update after the one that famously deleted the content of your download folder.
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I also type multiple languages, and I make more typing efforts than average, in which case autocorrect really goes nuts. I turned autocorrect off a long time ago. Slower but at least I have control over what I write.
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Well most physicists assume it is massively bigger than we can see. It is in principle possible that we see nearly all of it, but that would be very coincidental. The only thing we know is that it is at least as big as we can observe, but i
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by superjan 4y ago
> Computers will make the world of tomorrow a much safe place. They will do away with cash, so that you need no longer fear being attacked for your money. Hahaha
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by superjan 4y ago
For “deep zoom” applications, such as microscope slide images or a “google maps” app, I can imagine that developers get the idea to let the browser do the panning/zooming. Then you could run into limits like this. But he should have te
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by superjan 4y ago
Exactly. Idiomatic C# code does not depend on finalizers to release resources. Finalizers are typically only used as a last resort to prevent handle leaks, it is only memory deallocation that is nondeterministic.
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by superjan 4y ago
Thanks.
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There is a PoC OS in C#. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)
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by superjan 4y ago
Hi. I think this is an exciting development. It will be much work to replicate all dotnet standard libraries. Is there anything existing that can be ported/reused? For instance the original work on mono? Or is any of microsoft’s work l
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by superjan 4y ago
This is related to an idea from data oriented design: Split up your data such that each piece of data needs exactly the same transform, and do all those at once.
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Programmers and UI designers should observe there two common use cases: 1: dates close to the current date, such as flight dates, meetings, delivery dates. 2: birth dates and similar (wedding date, start of employment), often a long time a
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by superjan 4y ago
This is an area where machine learning could make a positive impact to society. Have something like GPT rewrite/review all public facing text. Preferably a required rewrite, which is published unless it is factually incorrect.
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I asked about that recently in another thread. Besides the argument that you can just make the panels bigger, the dust is also statically charged so it is sticky, and wiping it off is not easy. It is also amusing that we, as programmers, ar
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A study of typing speed variation among hospital staff [pdf](bmj.com)
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I think I read the parent comment differently: when crypto is claimed to be a weapon against the west, it is not because it is in any way an alternative, it is a weapon as a system supporting illicit activities against the west (money laund

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