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The article Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths[0] also discusses this cycle. [0] https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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It's common to use multiple allocators in some domains; game developers often use a bump allocator[0] which is reset at the end of every frame. [0] https://twitter.com/SebAaltonen/status/1080235671883841541
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Could anyone recommend comedic Russian novels or short stories? Edited to add the following: Thanks for the recommendations!
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Miller v. Dept of Corrections[0] is a good example of this type of toxic work environment. [0] https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/miller-v-dept-correction...
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This is common[0] in the legal industry; most such agreements aren't public. [0] https://www.diversitylab.com/knowledge-sharing/clients-push-...
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There's nothing cowardly about apologizing when you hurt someone's feelings. If your jokes are frequently poorly received by her then I would consider telling them to other people. Some jokes can be told to anyone but many have a
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The book Game of Mates[0] has some detailed examples of this behavior. [0] https://gameofmates.com/
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I also submitted it here in 2017[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542
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(submitter) That video was where I learned about this paper and the impetus for submitting this story.
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Optimal boarding method for airline passengers (2008)(arxiv.org)
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The One Word That Drives Senseless and Irrational Habits (2015)(jamesclear.com)
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> I agree with you on that but this still makes me question the problem they are trying to solve can't they solve in Go instead of switching to Rust. High performance systems in GC languages often preallocate or use object pools to
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This sounds like an interesting read, what's the title of the book?
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This is called the German Tank Problem[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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I mostly ask industry-specific questions but here are some of the generic ones. Who do you admire on your team and why? How long does a purchase request take?
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Buy and read The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King. It's a bit dated and somewhat sexist but has a lot of helpful advice - I wish I had read it when I started my career.
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That reminds me of a job I had in the early 2000s. I was there 9 months and at the end I ranked 5th in the company for seniority.
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Betamax machines had higher picture quality but they were more expensive and tapes had much shorter recording time. I wouldn't describe this as the market selecting an inferior product.
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I would prefer if the committee devoted their efforts to making C easier to use correctly - defining undefined or implementation defined behavior, requiring stronger diagnostics, and forbidding optimizations that regularly cause issues.
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Your anecdote reminds me of this quote about Dupont's safety program. "My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the p
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That particular optimization is unlikely but there have been C compilers that optimized struct layout. 179.art, one of the SPEC2000 benchmarks, has some poorly laid out structs. Sun introduced targeted optimizations for this benchmark and s
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There's always The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Literary augury[0] is my term for that kind of literature discussion. [0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/augury
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> Question for anyone: if justice is fair and the system works, why are some lawyers paid so much more than others? TL,DR - it's a market economy and legal fees vary due to supply and demand. Here are some of the factors that legal
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> Which is yet another point against the justice system. If a regular person being accused cannot understand things nor can they afford someone who does... hiw can they defend themselves? They mostly can't in the US - our justice sy
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> No, stick with me here - what if we applied this logic to our justice system? "You're one in 300 million, who cares if you get a fair trial, let alone whether you're guilty?" Sadly we are applying exactly this appro
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Here is some advice I wish I had followed when I turned 30. Max out your 401k contributions and use an index fund. Exercise daily - you've got about a decade before fitness becomes much harder. See a therapist.
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> No, stick with me here - what if we applied this logic to our justice system? "You're one in 300 million, who cares if you get a fair trial, let alone whether you're guilty?" And that doesn't even delve into le
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Asking Sundar this type of question could get your organization banned; Google has been known to do this[0]. [0] https://www.cnet.com/news/how-cnet-got-banned-by-google/
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> If they did this, how would you prevent people from saying that is unfair, or making it seem like it is pay to play, or something like that? You can't please everyone; here is how I would frame it. Stadia developers and business p

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