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by thedance 7y ago
What really increases your score is having a good night's sleep and a healthy breakfast before school every day of your life prior to taking the test. The test doesn't really measure aptitude because it can't control for thos
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by thedance 7y ago
If you just assume that all the participating programs are correct, then type safety has no meaning. Part of type safety is being able to check, statically or dynamically, that a program isn’t going to interpret a value of type t as an inco
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by thedance 7y ago
The actual article is https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/business/economy/coronavi...
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by thedance 7y ago
Quick reminder that rebuttals are more valuable than downvotes.
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by thedance 7y ago
There is no type safety in grpc or any other protobuf RPC scheme, full stop. The recipient of a message makes an assumption about the meaning of the message and decodes it accordingly. Any encoded protobuf might successfully decode as any o
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by thedance 7y ago
This is not correct. IP networks are planned for the 95th percentile peak traffic, not average.
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by thedance 7y ago
My ISP, Sonic, said yesterday their evening peak traffic is up 25% since Bay Area counties ordered people to stay at home. https://twitter.com/dane/status/1240155938193051648/photo/1
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by thedance 7y ago
It's because there are a lot of gold scams and the scammers have decided that the audience for whatever you are listening to are dupes who will buy gold.
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by thedance 7y ago
It's hard to imagine that the kinds of people who bought bitcoins as an investment have anything leftover with which to influence the gold price.
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by thedance 7y ago
This isn't being caused by high gold prices. Gold price was higher last month and still remains far below its 1980 peak. The thing in this article is caused by falling silver prices. Silver is down 50% this week. It's used in ind
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by thedance 7y ago
I’m pretty sure that will trigger reviewed-and-submitted code audits for any role that handles PII. Don’t want the HN-reading public to get the wrong impression.
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by thedance 7y ago
Definitely. Being an SRE with C++ readability, for example, is like a permanent employment guarantee. I'd like to acknowledge the brilliance of people who name their code files "foo.javascript" to avoid having to get JS read
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by thedance 7y ago
At Google (in google3) there are automatic linters that run on every change and if they fail then your change simply will not be approved for style. There's no debate about it. This is one of the great things about gofmt: either your
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by thedance 7y ago
The readability process at Google is a way to gain the ability to submit code without a language style reviewer. To submit code into google3 (their main repo for server-side stuff), a changelist requires acceptance by a person or people who
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by thedance 7y ago
That's a comparable configuration to an AMD EPYC "Rome" with 48c/96t and 8 memory controllers.
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by thedance 7y ago
Intel will make you whatever you want if you order 100k+ of them.
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by thedance 7y ago
Well my "programming laptop" spends all of its CPU these days on corporate garbage such as splunkd, which regularly melts down, some kind of corporate managed software updater which is terrible, Zoom, and trying to render dashboar
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by thedance 7y ago
The writing has been on the wall for a while. They already nuked one generation of iThing connectors (two, if you count the FireWire iPods) and we survived. We will quickly get over the death of Lightning. The only people who will be serio
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by thedance 7y ago
Compared to the other laptop they launched today, the iPad Pro actually has more computing resources.
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by thedance 7y ago
Trying to use your smallest finger to get all of the programming-relevant punctuation isn't going to make you happy as a programmer. I tend to just shift my hand over and alternate my ring and pinky fingers for the -=[]\;'./
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by thedance 7y ago
They deprecated the Solaris and SPARC ports, and some of the new features only exist on Linux. RIP platform diversity.
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by thedance 7y ago
Your CPU draws spectacular transient currents across inductors and capacitors inside your laptop, and these components are or can be microphonic, to varying degrees depending on design and manufacturing variance. Sometimes you can make it s
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by thedance 7y ago
Typingclub.com
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Software Engineering at Google(books.google.com)
222 points by thedance 7y ago|69 comments
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by thedance 7y ago
Not negligible but not huge either. ~10k people at Fremont.
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by thedance 7y ago
100,000 people die of old age every day.
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by thedance 7y ago
I 100% agree. The fact that Google app on iOS can tell me where I parked my car is very useful to me. The fact that my docs and emails show up in Google search results is damned handy. And, as a Xoogler who has worked at a number of othe
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by thedance 7y ago
The events we are currently experiencing represent a large quantity of activation energy that could destabilize many metastable equilibria in our lives. I've already arranged to work remotely through the end of 2020. I see no reason
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by thedance 7y ago
The most interesting part of this piece is how it strongly implies that the BGP announcement thing in question is single-threaded. The "overloaded" machine is showing utilization just below 1 CPU, while the normal ones are loafin
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by thedance 7y ago
It's not that they don't know, it's that they don't care. Hot machines go into an attention queue and some tech eventually fixes it. Meanwhile, they serve. As I commented elsewhere, I think it's an effective ince

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