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by vkazanov 3y ago
In my 17 years in the industry I saw working agile twice. Both were small places, both used post-it notes. Both were consultancies, each team dedicated to an independent project. Everything else, world-class, public, private, consultants or
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The book is a well-written and charismatic collection of the author's ideas andunderstanding of programming in general mostly from an OOP angle, which was all the rage everywhere during 2000s. He also likes his compilers a lot and it s
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This feels a lot like many Prolog-likes, and also tuple-based DBs, and also a bunch of other things. The README doesn't explain the way it solves the real DBMS problems: consistency, isolation, etc. Without looking at the code my bet i
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by vkazanov 3y ago
I've seen this direct CTO work scale to a billion-a-year online business with hundreds of engineers :-) Problems come when a company goes public and now there's no single personal that can accept responsibility for technical commi
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This makes sense in a small company context when, say, a competent CTO/CEO personally knows everyone and can resolve conflicts, bottlenecks, disfunctions quickly. But what if a company in question is a relatively big, 1000s of employee
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And how should one measure the "good at their jobs" metric?
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I think what parent meant was that Euler spent a few decades in Russia because of the funding provided by the empire. He spoke fluent Russian, even though there was a large German-speaking community there. But it was typical for scientists
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by vkazanov 3y ago
C might not be strictly necessary as a language one would write in. But all of those problems that C++, Rust or Zig solve - these all are discussed in terms of C. Toolchains, OSes, concepts of static and dynamic linkage are all defined in t
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This might sound rough but the lesson should be "don't be an idiot". Time for shouting "king's naked!" comes eventually but people who ignore timing will end up losing this game. The secret to this is to unders
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Many in this industry dislike C++'s approach to language design: "let's add everything and see what sticks".
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They will probably come with macro-based aliases, the same way they did it elsewhere.
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Wow, suggesting polymorphic types to WG14 is... brave!
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As many other things in life it cab be seen as work. My journey to effective body weight control was 10 years long. Misinformation is everywhere these days... But... it doesn't have to be hard. For me gamification of the calorie coutin
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by vkazanov 3y ago
I would suggest to be careful with cutting out things, this leads to bouncing back, like all dramatic changes. I noticed that carbs such as bread or pasta really help with food satisfaction, unlike fat-intence or protein foods. Remove sugar
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Fully agree. The science of body metabolism is hard. But the rules for weight loss are simple: move more, eat less. For some people it's just "Move more, eat the same". "Eat less" means "less calories", v
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I understand that you don't mean 10 pounds in a strict sense but even 20 pounds is an easily achievable and sustainable goal for fellow overweight 40-something HN readers. It doesn't take more than restricted calorie intake and mo
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I was of the roughly same opinion, especially after getting familiar with relational theory. Despite all the horrors of SQL-the-language, the backing model is close to being universal for data storage and manipulation. Having said that, we
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True. Emacs has a different model of configuration. It is natural for people familiar with lisp machines or smalltalk programmers but is alien for the rest of first time users. But the original comment was not about this expectation mismatc
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Emacs has everything you list (and much more). Builtin, only rnabling needed: version control, lsp support, fuzzy-like search across all things and completion. External packages expand on the vanilla experience but most of the things are ju
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by vkazanov 3y ago
Yes, this is the one. Time flies! And VM jits didn't change all that much.
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You can get your assembly-written kernel right now for every OS out there: just compile Linux using a RISC-V backend of your favourite compiler.
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...and many jitted vms do not even reach a stable point at all, there was a big paper on this a couple of years ago.
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Hm. You probably pushed the diet too far. I went down from 93kg to 78 and then from 90kg to 78. I didn't go for low carb or sugar, just ensured enough protein and overall calorie deficit. Right now I am just carefully float around 80 k
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My estimate is coming from a research done 15-20 years ago and implemented in a calculator[1]. It is not precise but works well enough based on my personal history of walking more to lose extra weight. I switched to weight lifting, walking
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Yes, to a limited extend. But monitoring calorie intake vs expenditure really does make a difference. I went through multiple cycles of controlled 10kg+ weight gain and loss, and I must say that just by walking extra couple miles a day whil
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Just walking around burns quite a lot of calories. 10-15k steps a day can burn up to 500-600 kcal. That's like 20-30% of a recommended daily intake! Note that this is the least traumatic way of calorie usage.
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I think what people usually miss about statistical results is that it's just a corelation. The conclusion should be: 1. Eating less leads to better body composition and less internal organ strain in general. 2. Reasonable amounts of ph
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LF invests A LOT in the ecosystem around linux: containers, virtualisation, standards, etc. This article is just the stupidest form of sensationalism.
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A simple search engine is certainly doable from scratch in a matter of weeks, complete with most things expected from a search engine. Similar to compilers or tiny OSes, one can go as hardcore as necessary, or just stick to basic stuff. Of
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Math-wise Euler was more about establishing standard approaches than anything else. In addition to that, his contributions to graph theory and topology were substantial if not defining. His contributions in physics were truly groundbreaking

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