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by virtualized 9y ago
Important for what? For interviews? In the real world, inefficient software wins because it appears to do more work. When the slow behemoth has to learn a new trick, you feel like a hero for taming the beast. You get praise when you reduce
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by virtualized 9y ago
I work on embedded devices and no one really cares whether changing a setting takes 30 seconds or 30 milliseconds. It does not matter that most of the RAM is wasted by unnecessary copies of unnecessary data. People still buy these devices a
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by virtualized 9y ago
Because "non tech users" like bad web design? Why would they?
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by virtualized 9y ago
Most "senior developers" I know don't know much about data structures. Standards are pretty low in the industry. One reason might be that optimizing for memory consumption or handling "large scale data" almost never
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by virtualized 9y ago
I usually like to pay for a premium account on other sites even if I wouldn't have to, but for some reason I don't do it on Reddit. In hindsight, my gut feeling was right, because they are in fact backstabbing butts in seats who s
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by virtualized 9y ago
I assumed that 10-20 people would not include anyone who ever physically touches a server. Now that I think about it, it might make sense to not outsource hardware issues at Reddit's scale. I don't know how many people you need to
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by virtualized 9y ago
You don't have to A/B test whether a good product is better than a redesigned crappy one.
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by virtualized 9y ago
But.. but I began to like Reddit. Now they want to take it away from me by destroying it. > It’s going on a hiring spree Ouch. > redesigning its website For no reason other than giving the unnecessary people from the hiring spree some
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by virtualized 9y ago
tl;dr: If you use C++ like Java and don't care about performance at all, it will be half as efficient as hand-optimized C. Which is pretty remarkable actually. In favor of C++. Why didn't the author rewrite it in C++? It's no
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by virtualized 9y ago
If I write the foo function in assembler, it will also be slower than just a+b. The assembler won't be able to inline the function, which makes the C version possibly more efficient. You are comparing apples and oranges.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Apparently, yes. I have never used Netflix, but Amazon cannot even start a video half of the time. I have to reload the page and usually it works.
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by virtualized 9y ago
It's a web site with a fixed bar at the top. More than I need to know.
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by virtualized 9y ago
"You just ordered a lawn mower from us. Here are more lawn mowers for you" "You might like this movie because you have watched other movies with _the_ in the title before"
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by virtualized 9y ago
We will make humans brains more computer-like instead of making computers more human-like. Some day, the last cyborg will replace their remaining flesh with metal. Strong AI the hard way.
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by virtualized 9y ago
The Judgement Day scenario is a strawman. Of course humanity will not be replaced by killers robots over night. When we learn how to connect our brains to computers - without our eyes, ears and hands as bottlenecks in between - humanity&#x2
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by virtualized 9y ago
"Main Features of PVS-Studio" is one of those walls of text that I meant.
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by virtualized 9y ago
I don't remember reading about any of that even though I am a regular reader of your "checked projects" series. All of the relevant information on your web site is hidden in some wall of text. Please consider hiring someone w
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by virtualized 9y ago
"How to use PVS-Studio for Free" is ridiculous. "Handing out PVS-Studio Analyzer Licenses to Security Experts" - sorry, tl;dr
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by virtualized 9y ago
That's a changelog. I don't mean once-a-year posts that no one reads because they are too long. I mean regular, valuable information about the product.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Yes, PVS-Studio is very good and useful for avoiding bugs. No, companies don't really care about avoiding bugs. No one at Samsung will risk delaying the release of the next plastic crap product by fixing any problems. Why would they? D
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by virtualized 9y ago
Because server has become a synonym for "Ubuntu pet machine that developers SSH into to paste random commands from Stack Overflow". People who do that are the target audience of "serverless".
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by virtualized 9y ago
WiFi can do without a wire where it matters. A server cannot do anything without being a server.
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by virtualized 9y ago
These were already the promises of "the Cloud" until everyone started calling their Raspberry Pis at home a "cloud". Now the same thing has got another stupid name: Serverless. I wonder what the same stuff will be called
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by virtualized 9y ago
I remember the weird company name due to frequent TV ads. I don't remember the product. Only the weird name and the confusion about the unclear product stuck.
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by virtualized 9y ago
Isn't Dropbox basically a sync client for S3?
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by virtualized 9y ago
2) and 3) The metric is internal company bullshit. The opinion of one "manager" has more weight than opinions of millions of customers. A dysfunctional organization such as Microsoft does not have a way to limit the damages caused
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by virtualized 9y ago
"Glueing commands together" is called programming. That's what programming languages are for. Bash etc are just really bad programming languages that lure you into a trap of unnecessary complexity with their superstitial expr
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by virtualized 10y ago
A typical Microsoft / cowboy programmer "solution". Ever wonder why Microsoft products are so buggy and unrealiable in every possible way? That's because they are built from hacks upon hacks just like this one with no re
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by virtualized 10y ago
> After a second or two he notices he ran it on db1.cluster.gitlab.com, instead of db2.cluster.gitlab.com Everyone is talking about backups, but why not about this? How is it even possible to delete the production database by accident? W
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by virtualized 10y ago
The main reason for DRM is old people in positions of power who don't get computers. Locking your door helps against physical theft, so why not do "the same" for digital goods? DRM is a cargo cult.

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