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by xpe 7y ago
Re: ‘Your potential employer will objectively evaluate your skills and knowledge during the technical interview or a test task.’ Please remove the word ‘objectively’. Employers have varying types of evaluation, none of which I would call ob
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by xpe 7y ago
A common query language, while appealing, is unlikely to fully abstract over different types of databases with different features and performance trade offs. It will be a leaky abstraction. Now, in practice, perhaps with sufficient adoption
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by xpe 7y ago
I would pay good money to see Bob Roll (one of NBC’s main pair of English-speaking commentators) use his famous gesticulations to explain the various signal hops.
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by xpe 7y ago
Many people seem to have setup a false choice between the two. Some people, especially politicians, benefit from the false dichotomy. I would hope that intellectually honest people can see there is large design space for the role of governm
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by xpe 7y ago
I’m curious: what sorts of things does your team do instead of code reviews? Does your team have norms around code quality? How are these maintained? What happens when a commit needs improvement? Does the team discuss it somehow? Does someo
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by xpe 7y ago
Your comments make you look worse than a better version of your current self. You continue to make unwarranted assumptions and snide remarks.
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by xpe 7y ago
I was trying to constructively and civilly offer feedback. You did not reply in the same spirit. Your comment was rude; many people would ignore it. In the past (and occasionally even recently) I’ve been rude, arrogant, or not valued people
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by xpe 7y ago
First, you have the choice to be arrogant or not arrogant. I would suggest that you’ll be more successful if you choose the latter. Second, not all team norms and guidelines can practically be discussed in advance. It is much better for a r
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by xpe 7y ago
HN moderators: can you make this read-only and redirect comments to the other thread from earlier today please?
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by xpe 7y ago
How are you 99% sure? That sounds amazingly precise. I would ask everyone to pause a minute before posting and ask if the comment adds substance to the discussion. If you have support for your argument, include it. If you use numbers, pleas
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by xpe 7y ago
Your argument about the magnification of power is interesting. I agree that gerrymandering tends in this direction. I’m not convinced this is (1) a healthy thing overall, (2) compatible with reasonable definitions of representation, nor (3)
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by xpe 7y ago
You are missing the point when you say ‘It is no more a danger today than it has ever been in the past...’. With more detailed data and computation, the dangers of gerrymandering are more powerful than ever.
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by xpe 7y ago
I disagree with your overall take, but I appreciate the thoughtfulness your arguments. I wish other people would not downvote a well-reasoned comment.
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by xpe 7y ago
A quote from the above Atlantic article: “Excessive partisanship in districting leads to results that reasonably seem unjust,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. “But the fact that such gerrymandering is ‘incompatible with democratic princip
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by xpe 7y ago
I’ve read some knee jerk reactions here on HN. I would encourage everyone to dig deeper. I suggest starting by reading this Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/partisan-g..
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by xpe 8y ago
It does not necessarily mean a lack of trust. It could be different incentives or priorities. For example, some users might desire major redesigns of past work but not bear the cost of the rework. As such, they might perceive some small imp
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by xpe 8y ago
This is, simultaneously: * an all-too-realistic snapshot of corporate life * a sobering commentary on the state of conference call norms and terribly interoperating related technologies * if Bladerunner met Office Space * a playbook on how
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by xpe 10y ago
A quick search on Amazon gives: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition Writing Compilers and Interpreters: A Software Engineering Approach Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice Compilers
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by xpe 12y ago
For a better sense of what he means, check out the video go get more detail about some of the complexities. As a counter-point, a codebase can be well documented and yet be hard to understand if the abstractions are not meaningful to the re
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by xpe 12y ago
He mentions these topics with regards to distributed hash tables: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_(peer-to-peer) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
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What if Ansible used XML for configuration management?(djwonk.tumblr.com)
48 points by xpe 12y ago|54 comments
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by xpe 13y ago
For me (and lots of other people, too) Clojure is a fantastically acceptable flavor of LISP.