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by urthor 4y ago
I think OP just found a really well done C file. You can definitely see many famous projects on GitHub, where even though the code is logical , you can't help feel it's a bit all over the place. cpython isn't all sun and ros
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by urthor 4y ago
Games and films are both an exercise in project management. Films are an exercise in getting everything you need in your 70 or so days of filming. The days you've rented the exorbitantly expensive cameras, trailers, lights, etc. Games
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by urthor 4y ago
The difference is that, having worked in the industry, I can say that film directors are given exactly the power they are advertised as having. The film industry has learnt through many trials and errors it has to happen this way. Software
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by urthor 4y ago
I find the presence of the "auteur" is valuable because it's a signal to people. When there's a single leader who's highly motivated to do critically acclaimed work, it signals to talent that this is a project aimed
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by urthor 4y ago
My experience is the opposite. I've seen many extraordinarily talented people who got into this field originally because of the dream.
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by urthor 4y ago
My issue is that I've seen people attempt to do these things. And fail miserably. One project I've worked on, something like 5-10 out of every 200 people successfully misspelt their own name in text forms. Non-professionals c
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by urthor 4y ago
I expect people to do their best, within their capabilities. Nana and Papa are not technologically literate enough to perform the kinds of configurations you suggest. In depth custom password manager configuration isn't for them. They
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by urthor 4y ago
I'm unfamiliar with the term GP. However, what you've said is exactly right. A tech lead codes less, but they directly contribute to producing the engineering artifact. They are an "actual contributor with direct responsibili
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by urthor 4y ago
Management and architecture roles are essentially interchangeable. "People who go to meetings and don't directly contribute to the product." Aka communication overhead. I don't think it's about job titles. It'
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by urthor 4y ago
Yeah exactly. However, what I'd say is that a short launch from rest is an even more obscure use case than the one numpy supports. numpy has made the correct compromise IMO, optimizing for long lived programs and notebooks.
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by urthor 4y ago
What a ridiculous thing to say. Nana and Papa are not locksmiths. Nana and Papa still deserve to have a front door to their house that can't be lockpicked. Normal people, who have other interests in life than configuring technology, sh
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by urthor 4y ago
https://baptiste-wicht.com/posts/2012/12/cpp-benchmark-vecto... From 2012. std::deque does very well. Suspect the difference is fairly anaemic. Usually if you're choosing data structures, you pick a &qu
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by urthor 4y ago
Isn't Numpy about making things go fast? People who expect things to go fast want it all cached up front, for very obvious reasons. Seems straightforward.
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by urthor 4y ago
Moving senior engineers into management is the smart thing sadly. My experience with F500 companies, doing anything causes an incredible amount of grief. The most productive thing for seniors IS stopping coding. Going to meetings is the onl
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by urthor 4y ago
It's also. Schools just plain old don't have much money. Big tech has an advantage going into schools because schools LOVE end to end contracts that do everything. No other vendors but Google and Microsoft are willing to fight ove
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by urthor 4y ago
Ask.moe is the opposite of what consumers actually need. Consumers don't need another monetization model exploiting their web search. They need a distinct web index/crawler infrastructure that bypasses SEO.
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by urthor 4y ago
You need roads to move irregularly shaped construction equipment. The solution isn't to remove roads. The solution is a London style congestion tax. Which planning economists have cried out for, for ages.
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by urthor 4y ago
This is due to the different vision of what engineers/researchers and consumers want. Researchers/Engineers want bottom up progress. They place incremental development at the heart of their system. Partially since researchers h
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by urthor 4y ago
That's competition. Little stores have to sell better shit than big stores to be worth the money. I see plenty of little stores that work where I live. They have to be upmarket, but they work.
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by urthor 4y ago
In Japan it's very, very important to maintain the appearance of such things. What actually happened is more complicated. There are few traditions of a huge press expose. The executive MIGHT get a pay cut. Or they might take a pay
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by urthor 4y ago
What you've said about old school managers is actually very wise and rings true. That old school mentality of "promote the person who sits down the earliest" actually has a lot of truth behind it. Is it necessarily rigorously
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by urthor 4y ago
It reminds me of what we got from Hilary Clinton in 2016. Whatever you think of the Clintons, the photos by the articles on the Fox News website or the New York post didn't show a human being. It'd be an art gallery of photographi
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by urthor 4y ago
I agree, but it depends on a few factors. A hot desking setup where you can't sit next to your colleagues like OP described is a total waste of time.
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by urthor 4y ago
Well we've got a world of 7 billion people. Maybe 6 billion of those are stuck in a variation of poverty, deprivation or living in a country with awful access to education and other necessities. I'd say we have a good 200-300 year
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by urthor 4y ago
It's better for retention. Better retention means a lower salary bill. They never offered a pay increase for coming into the office.
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by urthor 4y ago
The issue is the perception society doesn't reward integrity. Those with integrity are very clearly perceived as the handicapped in modern America. Nowhere is this more clear than cryptocurrency and gun reform.
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by urthor 4y ago
I did that for one class. It was both extremely time efficient and effective. The downside to oral examinations however is you can't really grade curve them. Which is a beautiful thing, but also not what the faculty wants. The faculty
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by urthor 4y ago
The number of programming jobs that require statistics is huge though? The MLE job market is booming.
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by urthor 4y ago
Continued growth is perfectly possible. We waste so much in our current world. It's actually totally possible to continue "growth," aka increased human output per hour, whilst consuming less resources. Our economy is merely b
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by urthor 4y ago
Wait what. So the street you want to avoid in SF is... Market Street? That just reads like "don't go to Oakland."

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