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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, came here to say the same thing. Tables + metatables mean that pretty much any structure you want is available. Single Inheritance + Interfaces, Multiple Inheritance, Component Based Design are all things I've seen in the wild on
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by vvanders 8y ago
DHH hits this pretty well, I don't have the exact link off hand but the difference for him from tons of net worth was not nearly what he was expecting. Once your basic needs are met community + fufilling work are generally what has an
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by vvanders 8y ago
You build that into the contract when you launch the phone. Pretty standard stuff, just costs money.
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by vvanders 8y ago
Oh it can still happen, didn't they just "lose" 4500 mail-in ballots over on one of the states earlier this week?
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by vvanders 8y ago
If you like the 4:3 the 3:2 of SurfaceBook is an okay compromise for something that's a bit easier to source.
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by vvanders 8y ago
On the other side I see huge potential for WASM because all the things I worked with in C/C++/Rust that required a client-side install are now available to me on the browser. Stuff like UnrealEngine running in browser, low-latency
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by vvanders 8y ago
Hey now that sounds a lot like our '81 Vanagon!
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by vvanders 8y ago
I love the digital stuff, definitely an awesome space. Another great group is Summits On The Air[1] which basically involves hauling a radio up to the highest peaks and seeing how many people you can contact from the top of the mountain. It
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by vvanders 8y ago
I would have given a +1 for creativity. If the interviewer didn't say that standard libraries were off bounds that's fair game IMO. I've asked similar questions and if I forget all the constraints just a simple, hah that&#x27
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, that's a pattern we used all over the place in games where we also abused the hell out of pointers(some in-place loaders I've seen would turn your hair white) because the pattern has other merits.
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by vvanders 8y ago
+1 I'd love to see lobbying for symbol rate limits replaced with bandwith limits for digital but it's not even on their radar.
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by vvanders 8y ago
I'm with ya on IPAs, hard to beat a good Belgian sour (or any Belgian beer for that matter).
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by vvanders 8y ago
That's because a manager's job is all just interrupt driven. It takes good management to realize that their direct reports need a different environment to thrive.
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by vvanders 8y ago
> Working from 10-7 keeps us both happy. I'm sorry but: fuck that shit. When I was in that industry I worked 8am-6pm because I was able to be more productive when the office was empty than being some night owl who stayed in the offi
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by vvanders 8y ago
Congrats, you've found the 2% of the industry that isn't insane. For many of us who fell into the other 98% the statistics aren't in your favor and some of the bigger publishers(EA, Microsoft) tend to go in ~6 year cycles. Ha
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by vvanders 8y ago
I think the main argument is that Elixir isn't as mainstream which is a fair point. That said I agree with everything, Erlang pioneered in this space and has shown to scale very well[1] in a proven way over the last few decades. [1]
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by vvanders 8y ago
> Programming with threads is hard - it's hard to synchronize access to data structures without causing deadlocks; it's hard to reason about multiple threads accessing the same data, it's hard to choose the right locking g
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by vvanders 8y ago
Oh man, so much this. I'm going to steal the "knife fights ... over resistors". That so perfectly captures the whole process.
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by vvanders 8y ago
You're the one that raised the metaphor, but okay? I'm not saying that you can't do performance work without having done that. Just that you'll be at a disadvantage since you're at the mercy of whatever your HW vend
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by vvanders 8y ago
That'd be like saying your end user should understand cache misses, however if you're starting a car design/repair shop you might want to know about how transmissions work. The primary reason for dropping down to native is to
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by vvanders 8y ago
> The way a computer works is based off of transistors and some concepts built on top of that (ALUs for example). However, there is no need to know about any of that because you're presented with an abstraction (assembly). I'd
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yup, the 5s+ delay difference with the new version was the exact kick in the butt I needed to finish my migration to fastmail.
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by vvanders 8y ago
Hah, in the EE space we call those optoisolators[1]. Super handy when connection questionable prototypes over USB. Never considered using it in a networking environment but that does the trick! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by vvanders 8y ago
Ubiquiti has some cheap(er) switches($200) that'll do two SFP[1] ports[2]. Pretty cool that you can swap the physical transceiver, however like you said not really worth the hassle with the price of cat6/5e these days. [1] https:
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by vvanders 8y ago
I don't think I've seen anyone claiming that Rust is a perfect language without flaws. Heck I'd hold up all of the huge strides that have been made in errors, usability and constant feedback as a counter example of that. You
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yeah, +1 to all of that. I spent maybe ~15 years writing C++ over hobby + career timespan. Was a huge proponent of the language but spent the last 2-3 years over in Java land while doing all my greenfield work in Rust. Came back to another
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by vvanders 8y ago
Yup, all of this. Their HW really is that good for the cost. Ars' article[1] was the thing that pushed me over the edge and don't regret it at all. Rock solid APs, central management, isolated vlan+ssid just for IoT, just all arou
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by vvanders 8y ago
Nah, not sure it really stuck. Both times I saw it they were more interested in being 'technically right' rather than see the trust between companies that they were destroying. It's interesting because in that environment bui
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by vvanders 8y ago
Oh yeah, I was in gamedev before this and NDA process back then was quite involved. These days with the ability to run on production hardware that's a lot less restricted. I'd say that SoC vendors are a bit more strict about NDAs
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by vvanders 8y ago
I've been the point engineer in these types of interactions(over on the GPU space, but still plenty of IP to worry about there). You're very , very careful to make sure this doesn't happen, up to and including having two d

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