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by zac23or 4y ago
Yes, the benchmark is not scientific or correct or ... It's just to give you an idea of how slow Rails is. And anything in Rails is slow, from templates to ActiveJob.
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by zac23or 4y ago
I work everyday with Rails. In my experience, Ruby is not super slow. In my machine, I can create 1M of empty hashs on 0.17sec. Benchmark.measure{1000000.times{Hash.new}} @total = 0.1706789999999998s It's very good for a dynam
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by zac23or 4y ago
Ridiculous! What is the next? A revised version of Mein Kampf?
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by zac23or 4y ago
From a business point of view, performance and reliability (and code quality) are irrelevant. The most important thing is that the product has a market to explore. We can see this in many products. I've been working with software since
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by zac23or 4y ago
Dilbert is a documentary!
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by zac23or 4y ago
A good companion for the flow manifest is eXtreme Go Horse: https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axioms-of-the-extreme-go-horse... Axiom 8 is the most important.
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by zac23or 4y ago
I hate, hate code reviews. Seems to attract crazy people. An example: My old boss did a code review on my code and sent ALL CHANGES via chat. Not instructions, code. "Please do it". I did. And in the reassessment he hated the code
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by zac23or 4y ago
Seeing HN become "customer service" for many companies (including faang) is sad.
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by zac23or 4y ago
Huawei is not different from Apple, Google, etc. No company really standing up for democracy. Companies defend their business and profits. And the idea "If you are not a customer, you are a product". it is totally innocent. EVERYT
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by zac23or 4y ago
Bland is ok. Other EVs: https://www.hotcars.com/ugliest-evs-produced-so-far/ reply
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by zac23or 4y ago
You're right. Cybertruck is also an abomination.
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by zac23or 4y ago
> and it's not meant to "look like a car", it's meant to be useful and practical How many "Ugly electric practical and useful electric cars" sell well?
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by zac23or 4y ago
It is necessary not to look ridiculous.
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by zac23or 4y ago
Most people care a lot.
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by zac23or 4y ago
A lot of expensive eletric cars are ugly too. like BMW i3. https://www.hotcars.com/ugliest-evs-produced-so-far/
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by zac23or 4y ago
Its ugly! A key to Tesla's success is that its cars look like cars, not abominations. Many electric car makers seem to hate cars.
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by zac23or 4y ago
Work on the software is very difficult to judge. In a company I worked for, only very technical groups get an A+ grade in the internal evaluation, because the evaluators don't understand anything. If you worked on the FFMPG + some obsc
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Two Games are 7 Years Apart(youtube.com)
1 points by zac23or 4y ago|0 comments
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by zac23or 4y ago
In Brazil we have a saying: The government makes it difficult to sell facilities.
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by zac23or 4y ago
Prioritizing hiring over retention is the least bad thing a company does. Companies do terrible things, like: - Dissolve good teams. - Losing great employees for nothing - Prohibition of documenting procedures (Yes, I've worked on one
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by zac23or 4y ago
At the end of the livestream, the balance of the Syrian test account was $33. TikTok had taken 69% of the value of the gifts.
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by zac23or 4y ago
>Tik-Tok takes 50% 70% > for some of these people, perhaps the perspective is positive. For desperate people, anything can be positive, but it's still exploitation.
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by zac23or 4y ago
New technology to modernize an old way of making money: Exploitation of desperate humans
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Microsoft Office will be replaced by Microsoft 365 – part of its ongoing refresh(engadget.com)
1 points by zac23or 4y ago|0 comments
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by zac23or 4y ago
I worked a lot on my first job. I thought this company was my company, and I tried to help a lot, failing in every attempt. Boy... it was very painful. After 6 years without a raise, I went to another company. After my departure, 4 people a
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by zac23or 4y ago
I used a ThinkPad between 2010 and 2012. For me it's a normal machine with nothing special. I don't understand the cult status.
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Uvalde school district suspends entire police force(abcnews.go.com)
19 points by zac23or 4y ago|4 comments
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by zac23or 4y ago
Every time someone criticizes scrum/agile, "No true Scotsman" is the most common response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by zac23or 4y ago
> and they seem to have assumed at least 5 more years of basic improvements) but the suggestion that they haven't addressed the problem at all is just wrong. In five years, the problem may no longer exist. Perhaps the plan is to wai
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by zac23or 4y ago
> hydrogen fuel cell system. It's not a battery.

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