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by yobbo 4y ago
> hidden O(n) situations How are these faster in imperative code?
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by yobbo 4y ago
> Ukraine produced much of the world's seed-derived cooking oil Best I can find is that Ukraine accounts for as much as 50% of exported sunflower seed oil , which is different from "much of the world's seed-derived cookin
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by yobbo 4y ago
> ... 90% of the time these mismatches come from a lack of or a flawed communication. It's important to think about how the communication is failing. The customer/manager might be comparing your performance with others who are
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by yobbo 4y ago
> To me this is insanely disrespectful of the team The team is probably underperforming relative to the expectations. This is what it feels like to be questioned and put under pressure. It is technically disrespect. To what standard shou
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by yobbo 4y ago
Commitment specific to language/vendor and debugging clunkiness are valid points. However, if having code outside the db is even an alternative for you, you are already far more deeply committed to some language/framework, or your
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by yobbo 4y ago
> How do you check that the stored procedures in the DB are exactly as defined in Git? How do you know that a binary is produced by some code in git? Because you built it. Same principle applies. But also, the db can list its code.
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by yobbo 4y ago
Or it was an instant destruction of value? The old logotype was great in many ways. The original "logo" of the web.
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by yobbo 4y ago
The big difference was iTunes/store integration, which would have been impossible for any of the smaller companies.
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by yobbo 4y ago
> There is this beauty of economics – you don’t have to make anyone poorer in order for you to become richer. Actually, economics doesn't create wealth. Technology and industry creates wealth. In the case of facebook, you'd hav
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by yobbo 4y ago
The topics in that book are good typical "study material" but; 1) we can easily make anyone fail an interview by asking them to derive algorithms or formulas from there, and 2) all these topics predate deep learning, and everythin
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by yobbo 4y ago
Adam functions as a low-pass filter (and/or "compressor") on the gradient. It filters out "noise", which is "wild" during start of training. This is basically what all "optimizers" achieve in var
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by yobbo 4y ago
> For example FedEx flies Boeing jets This, in particular, is a bad argument since jets are replaceable and interchangeable. Possibly, the only thing that is not replaceable in FedEx is their information system.
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by yobbo 4y ago
Did they pass typical memory/reliability tests and so on?
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by yobbo 4y ago
Not really a meaningful dichotomy. There is a smooth curve between cloud and dedicated DCs, which has various levels of managed servers, co-location, and managed DCs. (A managed DC can be a secure room in a DC "complex" that share
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by yobbo 4y ago
> Yeah, easy money from FED is drying up for banks It's impossible to know certainly how much and where it was having effect. Housing market was just one place, which caused a sort of wealth effect as households' equity increas
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by yobbo 4y ago
> If you have a pulse and can barely pass fizz buzz you’re employed with 200k salary If this was true; it is not an "efficient market" we are observing, neither in SaaS or developer employment. These companies would be outcompe
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by yobbo 4y ago
> They also built pyramids without excavators but that doesn't mean it's not helpful False analogy. The point here is that productivity in old Microsoft was far higher, and that the failing piece in modern development might not
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by yobbo 4y ago
> Combined with employing more than 8000 people, this means that Atlassian is unprofitable In 1991, Microsoft had 8000 employees. It was producing DOS, Windows 3*, Office, OS/2, tools and compilers. Windows NT was in development. Th
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by yobbo 4y ago
> "Mmm... it looks like you are implementing your own bubble sort from scratch. Would you like to click here and use <insert better sort>." Theoretically, it should be possible. There might not exist demos of these sorts
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by yobbo 4y ago
> The images are obviously going to be copyrighted Copyrights are inadvertent and sometimes unintuitive. If the images are created by the product manufacturers, then they hold the copyrights. If the supermarkets edit the images, then the
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by yobbo 4y ago
Only relevant if they are actually duplicating the "data company's" database; which is not what web-scraping is. For example; creating a map from air photographs is not "duplicating" another geo coded database. The
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by yobbo 4y ago
> is it still subject to the database rights Someone is creating a phone book as a service to companies. Elsewhere, these companies are publishing their phone numbers to get more customers. Then the phone book creators demand license fee
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by yobbo 4y ago
The "data company" does not "own" the data. Especially not if it was collected independently by trolley.co.uk. And old case that is sometimes used to illustrate how copyright works: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by yobbo 4y ago
> You are one Instagram DM away from moving onto the next one. Is this reality for the HN audience?
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by yobbo 4y ago
> This reads like a meeting of two flawed personalities They weren't equals organizationally. The manager was failing at his job, and the contractor was calling attention to it. While it can be argued this is unprofessional, the que
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by yobbo 4y ago
The benefits of using Rust come as a consequence of a team that learns and chooses Rust on its own. It is likely a more committed team, which would produced better code in any language. Migrating a team of PHP, Javascript and Go programmers
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by yobbo 4y ago
The game has no relation to reality, but also remember that economic theory is only a rough description of what "seemed to make sense" at some point.
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by yobbo 4y ago
Hydro-power dams, nuclear fuel storage, bunkers, maybe some bridges/roads. I'm guessing/hoping most horrible concrete construction will be destroyed by humans.
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by yobbo 4y ago
Seems like engineers and artists were the same persons or worked together. Seems this held true up until the industrial revolution.
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by yobbo 4y ago
It's to fill stomachs so that the portion sizes seem bigger.

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