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by CodeMage 1y ago
This fails to address the question you replied to. When "our code" is memory-safe and "their code" isn't, it's still "Our Product™" that ends up with a CVE that costs us money and reputation, because
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> Keep in mind the goal is to teach someone who has zero ideas about datastructures what they are, not to give some analogies to an experienced software engineer. I agree, which is exactly the problem I have with your objections. If you&
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by CodeMage 1y ago
My bad, I didn't realize :)
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by CodeMage 1y ago
I don't see any part of my comment where I blamed the kids. I explicitly said that it's a flaw in the way our society approaches education.
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by CodeMage 1y ago
That was pretty much my point. Most kids won't use trig in real life, so making trig more interesting is only half of what we need to do. The other half is making kids more interested in learning.
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by CodeMage 1y ago
Okay, maybe I'm dumb, but I don't get how the first 3 are "simply plain wrong". They're open-ended enough that I have no trouble imagining how you could use those 3 data structures for those 3 purposes, so I must be
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by CodeMage 1y ago
"When do I ever need to use trig in real life" is an interesting question, because it points out certain flaws in the way our society approaches education. One of those flaws is the one you pointed out: the examples we use are not
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by CodeMage 1y ago
Dependency management should most definitely be one of the main criteria for evaluating how good a build system is. What's misguided is intentionally opting for worse dependency management in an attempt to solve a people problem, i.e.
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by CodeMage 1y ago
Is it a reference? It doesn't look like something anyone would consistently be reaching for. It looks more like a fun visualization of some core concepts, something you would show people as a cool thing you made. Even if it was a refer
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by CodeMage 1y ago
I occasionally read about programming when I'm not programming. Some of that reading happens on my phone.
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by CodeMage 1y ago
No, it's not. The key concept here is the reduction of coverage . The opening part of the post makes certain claims -- "catch bugs before they ship" and "keep our master branch always clean" -- that can only be tru
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by CodeMage 1y ago
When you press Enter in the search box, Firefox finds the next occurrence of your search pattern. An easy fix that doesn't require an extension is to press Esc first, which closes the search box, and then you can press Enter.
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by CodeMage 1y ago
It's coding, it just isn't professional software engineering. The first non-toy program I ever wrote was in BASIC, on ZX Spectrum 48, and although I don't have it anymore, I remember it was one of the shittiest, most atrociou
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by CodeMage 1y ago
Bingo! Not to mention that "dealing with juniors" is one of the critical ways for a senior engineer to grow.
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> All of my senior, staff, principals love it because we can make something faster than having to deal with a junior because it’s trivial to write the spec/requirement for Claude etc… How will you make new senior, staff, and princip
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by CodeMage 1y ago
That's interesting and sounds like a hole in my knowledge of history. I'm curious, were those monarchies actually dictatorships? The UK still has a monarch, but it's not a dictatorship.
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> We (Eastern Europeans) could not do neither of those things without risking jail time and we still managed to topple dictatorships. As someone who was born and grew up in post-Communist Yugoslavia, there are a few things I can offer as
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by CodeMage 1y ago
The first time someone accused me of being a bot because I use em dashes for inserting parentheticals, I was flabbergasted and then pissed off. I have plenty of concerns about GenAI, but I honestly didn't expect one of the problems to
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by CodeMage 1y ago
What happens? This. This happens, the things we're seeing. He's already defying multiple court orders and the Congress is not impeaching him. Oh, some of the politicians are introducing articles of impeachment, but you can see qui
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> Answers like this are sort of what makes me wonder what most engineers are smoking when they think AI isn’t valuable. Honestly, I wonder if I'm living in some parallel universe, because my experience is that "most engineers&q
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> What’s the government doing to stop the “king” from wrecking the country the government is supposed to serve? Nothing, because the government can't actually do anything in this situation. Trump's regime exploited the inher
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by CodeMage 1y ago
I always thought it meant "I'll go check if it's raining (and never come back)", but it turns out that a rain check is an IOU given out when an outdoor activity is disrupted by weather, so you can use it for a later even
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> What do you mean not their fault? I've seen wrong parts delivered by suppliers, so yes responsibility of an engineer who puts together a circuit is definitely checking that the parts are correct. Let's not move the goal posts
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by CodeMage 1y ago
> Should they expect a good performance evaluation? They should expect that particular incident to not affect their performance evaluation, since it was very much not their fault. In your hypothetical scenario, your hypothetical junior e
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by CodeMage 1y ago
Oh, wow, Novel Netware. That takes me back to high school. Our computer lab had Novel Netware, I forget which version. Every once in a while, our regular programming classes (Pascal in first two years, C and Assembly Language in third year,
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by CodeMage 2y ago
> Every other fantasy-type movie in a modern setting I cannot take seriously...Avengers, Harry Potter, Star Wars, etc. > Like, just use a gun. Whatever you were going to attack with, put that in a gun, and attack at 45rpm, 3000 ft&#x2
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by CodeMage 2y ago
Counterpoint by Diogenes: "Behold, a man!"
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by CodeMage 2y ago
"Whose Blog Is It Anyway"
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by CodeMage 2y ago
> "what's the favorite bug you've ever fixed?" Questions like this are why I'm beginning to dread the whole hiring process. It's a great question in some situations, but absolutely dreadful in others. If you
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by CodeMage 2y ago
> This approach has given us the oft-repeated (but slightly fallacious) line that 'correlation does not imply causation' (I would say that it can imply it, just often not much more). I always thought that this expression used t

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