throwboatyface

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by throwboatyface 4y ago
A post about PID controllers without a Bode plot? Honestly the post had a lot of promise and then didn't really get into the interesting bits. Building things up in terms of the proportional, then adding integral and derivative feedbac
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
The period when Google owned Motorola was very interesting. The Moto G was a great budget device that I think was killed by carriers who wanted to push $1000 phablets that required consumers to finance them.
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
Yeah Uber was acting irresponsibly and almost killed someone. Waymo is acting responsibly and is making progress without putting people in danger. Do you think Tesla is more like Waymo or Uber?
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
It's pretty obvious that Waymo has done a million miles completely driverless with no major accidents, while Tesla has shipped a buggy and frequently updated piece of software to thousands of "beta testers" who demonstrate th
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
The lack of one true package management approach is a failure of the language. OP is advocating for a saner default like npm, instead of the current venv + pip mess.
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
In my experience if the authors get their wish then both will look 20-years-old.
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
I work at a company that did layoffs. I wasn't affected, but I happened to be looking for a new role anyways. I've had two positions get to the offer stage so far, fully remote. For mid-career devs there doesn't seem to be an
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
That's beyond a crude example, that's just fucking gross. Maybe don't compare getting fired to being sexually assaulted?
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
Even with considerable savings, it's easy to get "I can take a break" money, but it's very hard to get "fuck you" money. With the stigma against changing jobs and taking breaks in the IT industry, there's
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
No offense but at a top 5 tech company in Canada the top engineer isn't going to be an IC. They're a principal and definitely leading a team. Also the biggest tech cos have regular cost of living salary increases, especially durin
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by throwboatyface 4y ago
I used to work at an organization that shipped a Go binary that supported Linux 2.4 kernels, which afaik Golang never supported. There was nothing in the toolchain stopping us from building on an old kernel, but we were on our own for testi