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by yeukhon 9y ago
Here is why working on your programming pet projects shouldn't become a metric. The Japanese bullet train was redesigned by observing how nature works: https://www.vox.com/videos/2017/11/9/16628106&#
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by yeukhon 9y ago
This is one of the most objective views on "what makes a great software engineer" so far here. People who can focus generally deliver better work, even when they don't work on pet projects after work.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
While I agree with you, in other industries such as hedge funds, "social drinking" is a regular thing.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> If you lack confidence and need frameworks, abstractions, and other bullshit to write a couple lines of code you will be a weaker programmer So you like to reinvent everything? Do you reinvent HTML & CSS because they are FRAMEWORK
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I don't think, and I absolutely don't think not joining a party would make one's interaction with another person unpleasant. I have seen both types. My old boss doesn't go to party much, but he's absolutely the easi
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by yeukhon 9y ago
>> People can post videos to their own hosted pages already. > No they cannot. Here's an example: what if make a nice tutorial, put it on my web site and submit it here and r/programming? If the thing is well done, people
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I had a really really nice manager. He's technical but he admits he isn't catching up with the current technology landscape quickly, especially in his role he didn't have to be hands-on at all. From time to time he'd sai
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Also adding Google NYC Developer Meetup talks (been to these events a few times, and found them really interesting) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD8A7B6D66DDD297
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I'd add that most technical companies today, unless at the scale of Google/Facebook do not necessarily (and most likely don't) have very sophisticated tooling in place. You can imagine Jenkins is always in place and codes are
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Bitcoin has always been slow compared to other alt-coins such as Litecoin.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I read Spotify. I am not sure if this is a good thing at all, sorry, just don't think it's a good thing.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I did read the rest of the comment. So I am asking if someone is either making this up or if not it's important to shame Apple for its secrecy. That's my view on responsible disclosure; either ack someone's hard work or let e
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> Oh, wow - I've reported this problem along with na example exploit to Apple about 6-7 years ago Any proofs? Perhaps you can demand a bounty payout or sue them ignoring!
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Ask HN: Books or papers on large-scale architecture
6 points by yeukhon 9y ago|1 comments
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Ada is quite common in aircraft system programming. P.S. I thought I read SPARC.
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No. This is how major retail stores do these days... Maycs' Best Buy.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
While the US dollar value is indeed going down a bit lately, there is one thing about global economy. At this very era, no matter what the deficit is, the US federal government will continue to borrow money from creditors. Sure at some poin
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by yeukhon 9y ago
So what exactly do you propose? I agree that yes drug dealers and likes don’t stop selling drugs or killing people because of prison sentence. But they are afraid of cops because they prefer not to get locked up. Likewise capital punishment
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They were released because the mainland government was forced to explain why the owners were arrested (but a lot of people believe they were kidnapped). In particular, one of the owners is a British citizen. While pro-mainland argued that t
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by yeukhon 9y ago
While it is true that even under Hu, HK government was pressured to take orders from the mainland government, it is evident that the current regime is less tolerant to any democratic opinions. HK government is forced to implement the "
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Why registered a new account to comment on this? You can't be serious right? They told a story based on a script. Sorry, I cannot trust someone who just created a new account to make a comment like this.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
"Liberalize things" can you cite any, because as someone who is familiar with China, Xi's regime is less liberal than ever. The country does welcome foreign investors, but that's about it (and that comes with a lot of re
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by yeukhon 9y ago
There is, Bitbucket was exclusively Hg before Bitbucket saw Git's popularity. This is my opinion: Bitbucket is like the new Sourceforge. I'd be interested to see a survey on Hg and Git usage today.
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You are referring to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0512 aren't you?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Basically, Mercurial is migrating away from Python as its primary and core programming language. You don't say Git is written in Python even if Git were to have a few Python code (I actually don't know, never read Git code), would
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I am not sure if I wasn't clear. I have never worked for FB, so I don't know how internally FB handles this. But my understanding is, FB uses Hg for its main repository. However, FB has developed open source projects which most of
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by yeukhon 9y ago
FB has git repositories on GitHub, for example, React.
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So my understanding is the hg developers are planning to rewrite a large part of hg in Rust. If so, this is an unfortunate blow to Python, because often I hear (and I do as well) Python developers cite hg as one of the largest Python-based
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by yeukhon 9y ago
At first I have the "lol really that's blunt, no way I am gonna use it", then I thought to myself, yeah that's really blunt and should give some credit for being blunt. But it'd be better if Yelp would at least give
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Ask HN: Annotate research paper
1 points by yeukhon 9y ago|0 comments

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