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by whiterknight 2y ago
The friction you are feeling is that arrays of structs require the computer to do more work to access individual members.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Nope. I stand by all comments in this thread.
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We also have a culture of building complex systems that rely on constant support from industrial society, over simple circuit boards which can live for decades.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
These responses are telling me there is in fact room in the market. Take pdf viewers for example. I hated all of them until I found Zarthura. I’m glad someone took the time to make that.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
I have to generously conclude that people who think all is well live in communities of similarly educated high achieving adult. At least 20% of adults are incapable of following a schedule, let alone holding a white collar job. To put it an
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Bots are designed to waste your time and save the company time: - either it has no authority and is simply restating publicly available information - it has authority but only after pressuring it. In which case I have to spend time to find
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by whiterknight 2y ago
You have a future in management.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> any way you look at it this nation is almost dangerously over-employed Look at labor participation rates. And percentage of stem degree holders working in stem fields.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Would you like to work with a business that treats your time and problems this way?
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Is there a small and portable one you recommend?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
You don’t return readable errors from backend to user? You don’t wait for requests to confirm before assuming they do?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
I don’t think everyone wants American values. I don’t think you can run a successful international organization without respecting the local law and customs.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Why does HN and assume they can simply not follow the law in the country they do business? They should be mad at Brazil.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
"Bad engineering" in adhoc ways tends to mean new ideas are being explored. Sophisticated deployments, logistics, procedures, tends to mean you're optimizing or extending existing system. That's not to disparage the latt
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by whiterknight 2y ago
HN often gets caught up in emotional highs and lows. Remember the talk here about Facebook in 2021? I’m feeling bullish.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
> a group of the top level execs are all in the office on a particular day when the office 'feels empty' > internal deadline being missed What indicators would justify a change in WFH policy?
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Common Lisp isn’t Haskell. The basic construct is an imperative prog block with goto.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
His comparison to the military is weird. It’s well known that from a strict money to time exchange it’s not a great deal. But the target market is also 19 year olds who don’t have social capital, not Harvard undergrads. So yes, improving yo
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by whiterknight 2y ago
Just because you see some doesn’t mean they don’t.
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by whiterknight 2y ago
The mistake is assuming grades are an objective measurement, and not gamification to try to help you learn.
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by whiterknight 3y ago
I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but it’s really hard to imagine a counter factual. There are probably 5 fruits just as tasty as blueberries that you would like, but haven’t been promoted to you. Are you defrauded because you ended up w
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by whiterknight 3y ago
Every purchase you have ever made is likely influenced by marketing. As you’re pointing out, it’s not always evil to be told about something you like.
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by whiterknight 3y ago
https://www.sqlite.org/queryplanner.html
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by whiterknight 3y ago
> however, that's just their reason for not directly coming to the obsd developers In other words they intend to hurt the reputation of people they don’t like rather than fix problems. They literally said, the website would not exis
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by whiterknight 3y ago
Ok, then as an employee I must value your stock compensation at 0.
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by whiterknight 3y ago
I’ll be satisfied with a market cap thanks. They won’t even tell you how many shares there are.
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by whiterknight 3y ago
Your first paragraph kind of describes employees behavior in general.
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by whiterknight 3y ago
Actually their stated reason for making the site is that they don’t like the politics of openbsd devs > Because the OpenBSD community is notorious for not being nice and welcoming:
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by whiterknight 3y ago
No. Every creation and discovery is influenced by culture and individuals. Even if you assume the same level of skill and effort will be used (it won’t) there are still many paths and forks to take. Consider that most “ui designers” come fr
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by whiterknight 3y ago
The real costs of theft and personal injury lawsuits.

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