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by zaphar 5y ago
Philosophically I think the monorepo is better. However it is my experience that most commonly available dev tooling assumes multi-repo setups and that ends up requiring you to write a lot more tooling and glue for CI/CD than you might
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by zaphar 5y ago
What problem with HN's design do you see? What js or css would improve it? Change for changes sake is an anti-pattern as far as I can tell. In the absence of a clear problem I fail to see why a change is needed.
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by zaphar 5y ago
The solution to a broken system is not to replace it with another equally broken system. It is to replace it with a better one. The argument from people who are skeptical of the entire premise of smart contracts is that it looks to them lik
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by zaphar 5y ago
SOX work can be such a shock to a company the first time around. Because many of the systems have not had to meet these obligations before they typically aren't built in a way to control scope and SOX tends to bleed into places where i
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by zaphar 5y ago
eBPF is far too limited to run a WASM runtime. That's why the proposed article approach is even possible.
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by zaphar 5y ago
Close. If I execute say want to run some function asynchronously I use the go keyword to execute it. But I can't get a return value if I do that so I need some other mechanism to get the return value. One way is to pass a channel into
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Software dev salaries are going up quite a bit. And when I was 17 I probably had enough experience doing software dev to justify getting hired. It's even easier today to get relevant experience at that age. I don't really see it a
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by zaphar 5y ago
There have always been inflection points in history. It's unreasonable to assume that there won't be any. Everytime society comes out of an inflection point there is a field of critics bemoaning the fact that we are no longer in a
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by zaphar 5y ago
The go keyword executes the called function asynchronously so g() and f() won't block h(). If you need a computed result from g() or f() then you'll need to use a channel or a shared mutex guarded value to get it. A channel is the
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by zaphar 5y ago
This is the entire point of most PoW mechanisms. It's a way of "proving" that an miner expended a certain amount of effort or energy to validate a transaction. It also requires that expenditure to be significant enough that g
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by zaphar 5y ago
Shove some cash under a mattress or store it in a vault and you can be sure you are holding real dollars not fractional ones. Just holding a real dollar says nothing about the value of the dollar you are holding. Same as just holding a real
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It takes roughly about one generation for a population to get conditioned to think the government will bail them out. One great depression and the majority of that generation will make it their goal to get a government in place that will &q
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I'm not sure if this qualifies but focus stealing by a window is a feature that all operating systems and applications seem to support and it still angers me every single time it happens.
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The answer to this question can be pretty complicated. Here are a few of the reasons a company might still need a coding test from you: 1. Using the same test allows them to normalize your "skill level"[0] against the rest of the
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by zaphar 5y ago
For example, you take your ill-gotten gains and just randomly send $1 to a million different addresses, some owned by you, some owned by random people or exchanges or whatever. Nobody's going to say no to free money, s
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I wear the most common uniform I've seen anywhere. The t-shirt.
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It's a distraction. The existing tool works good enough, and they have other more important things to do than learn a new tool.
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by zaphar 5y ago
Many folks are rightly pointing out that the picture of the company painted in this article sounds pretty toxic. I want to mention one point about confidence or as Kevin calls it swagger. Confidence, let's you say I'm valuable eno
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by zaphar 5y ago
If you can write javascript that solves problems you are a software engineer. Your skill level will vary in comparison to other people but there is no reason you can't call yourself a software engineer. If you want continue to increase
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by zaphar 5y ago
I think the case that they are inescapable risks is pretty strong. I think the history of formal design and software engineering is pretty clear that the designing a foolproof system is effectively and practically speaking impossible except
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by zaphar 5y ago
Start interviewing. There are places out there where the pay is really good and you have time for hobbies. They may still have similar pathologies as other places but at least you'll have a life outside of work. You don't have to
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by zaphar 5y ago
There is always going to be some nuance. But there is a big difference between implementing your own database and implementing your own deployment script. Starting out small and adding tools to your toolbox is going to be a judgement call.
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by zaphar 5y ago
I would say the biggest practice that smaller companies should not emulate is "rolling your own" otherwise known as "not invented here". For a large FAANG company creating your own versions of things can potentially pay
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by zaphar 5y ago
I think I could make an argument that who wrote it is not important when it comes to the question of who you should hold accountable for a bill. Rep. Massie introduced it and attached his name to it as a sponsor. Therefore Rep. Massie shoul
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by zaphar 5y ago
I would ignore the CS degree requirement. In my experience there are plenty of shops that will happily look at someone with no degree as long as it's supplemented with some other way of showing you have relevant experience. If you want
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One persons moderation is another persons censorship. The activity of moderation is indistinguishable from the activity of censorship. The only difference is which group decides the censorship is acceptable. If moderation is just the curren
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by zaphar 5y ago
Achieving any kind of success at that is very much an outlier and can't possibly scale to all the forums currently on the internet at the moment. You may get a handful of places that reach the level that HN currently maintains but the
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by zaphar 5y ago
Tactics that were true 20+ years ago are not necessarily still true today. The E E E trope is pithy and a shared cultural experience in our history. This does not immediately imply it is true now. You made no supporting argument as to why t
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by zaphar 5y ago
You say that but then the system goes down and the CTO is walking up to your desk asking why it's down and exactly when can they expect it to be up and don't you know we are bleeding money right now? What you call byzantine an SRE
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I think it mostly works best when you've lived it. Which I did. And the resurfacing of that video brought back a lot of memories.

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