arinlen

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by arinlen 4y ago
> But the flip side is you don't have to save $,000s for your kids college tuition, generally much lower property tax and cheaper healthcare. Irrelevant. Just because you work for a US company that does not mean your kids should g
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Amazon engineer salaries are in the 90th+ percentile in the tech industry FANG engineers are typically in the 99th percentile of tech excellence. Amazon engineers are not well paid when compared to professionals of the same league. A
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by arinlen 4y ago
To me, Medium is a platform for those who desperately want to monetize text even (and mainly) if they have nothing to write about.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> "functioning" is an exaggeration. Most of the German trains are slower than 300kph most of the time. This is a silly red herring. Top speed means nothing. The only key factor is door-to-door travel time, and it means nothin
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by arinlen 4y ago
> A clarification. They’ve not worked in rail. They’ve worked in hyperloop. A fantasy technology that does not, and probably never will, exist. Hyperloop is a marketing project which is based on the assumption that a few PR drones can
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The article takes the premise that HSR should go 320 kph (200mph) and then explains why that is infeasible in many places. Top speed means close to nothing, and it's one of the reason why the definition of high speed rail is not
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Read the article—the author prefaces with their experience riding trains all over the world and has worked in rail. That's like claiming they rode taxis a lot and has owned a car, and somehow that makes them an authority on publ
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The author tries to make the argument that there's physical limits to high speed rail that mean it'll never catch on. But the limits are far more political than physical. The author is showing considerable ignorance on the
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I think this would throw cold water on some feminist claims of only women get prosecuted for fraud like Elizabeth Holmes and men aren't. I believe you're making stuff up. I went through the trouble of googling for your &quo
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by arinlen 4y ago
> That being said ‘the more words you know, the more things you can say’ as my old English teacher used to say. Sure, you can say more things. That's great, if your goal is to talk a lot without caring if anyone else around you is
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by arinlen 4y ago
> You really believe that it’s because of a single rep? Then you also might also believe that most management disasters are “programming errors” like that sometimes say? It's uncanny how all of the world's problems are either
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by arinlen 4y ago
> You're going after the wrong people here. Journalists hungry for clickbait can't wait for incompetent customer reps to tweet some stupid shit. So the "journalist" can blow it out of proportion. It's literally
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I first thought to post some links to code bases that, in my eyes, aptly counter argue your claim. ...but then you realized they weren't supportive of your baseless assertion, and arguably were a hot mess as well.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> > The point is not to never use frameworks, but to isolate them. To call them from a single place. One that we own. That we are responsible for and that we limit very much in what it can touch. I had the misfortune of working on a
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I think many, maybe most, companies that try to build loosely coupled and highly cohesive code bases end up failing and it ends up being a mess. Companies who try to build any type of codebase end up with a mess. Always. No exception
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by arinlen 4y ago
> But, what the commented is saying is that it is not just that we do not know everything so our theories are incomplete, it is that the "scientifically derived knowledge" that we do know, is mostly false. This is your person
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by arinlen 4y ago
One thing that I miss in C++ is a bit more clarity on how copy elision and NRVO kick in. To me it feels a bit hand-wavy. This article makes a good point in showcasing clear examples.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I think once you see how the sausage is made you start to see science for what it is: just another complicated, fallible process built by many fallible people with a wide set of perverse incentives that produce a lot of good things an
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Further, we found we had to spend $10Ks at a time to send NY/London staff over there monthly to figure out wtf was going on. These offshoring firms were running some serious scams. We once had a guy come back (mid 2000s) and say
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Indians were by far the hardest to work with. They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager. I recall that Amazon went through the trouble of paying for TV ads proudly stating that they now have in I
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by arinlen 4y ago
> POSIX is the part of the C standard library in UNIX, that should have been part of ISO C as well. I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is specified in an ISO standard, and
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Fossil is a distributed version control and in fact it is "more" distributed than git if you consider that people tend to tie it with centralized services like GitHub to get more than just the VCS part. The GitHub blurb mak
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by arinlen 4y ago
> In counterpoint, a recent 60 Minutes piece on Paul MacCartney showed him playing an impromptu concert in his local pub. While playing one of his old hits – I can't recall which one – he suddenly started to stumble and couldn&#x27
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I disagree with this perspective. You should have multiple accounts but only if your organisation requires it for isolation or data protection reasons and only enough to perform the task. I'm not sure where you got your take fro
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Is the reason that he wants it administered by "good white people" because every other ethnic group (including the "bad white people") is nakedly self-interested when it comes to racial preference? Systems like th
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by arinlen 4y ago
> They’ll pick Hispanics who answer to “Latinx” but never one that believes that abortion is wrong. They’ll pick Muslims that endorses white American views of gender roles. They’ll pick the Asian that says Asian values are a “model mino
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I know next to nothing about kernel programming, but I'm not sure here what Linus' objection to the comment he is responding to here is. You should read the email thread, as Linhas explains in clear terms. Take for instance
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It's hard to believe I have to say that after the many decades of people getting it drilled into their heads "Do not open random email attachments" (...) You need to take a step back and figure out what you're fai
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State Chart XML (Scxml): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction(w3.org)
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I'm not aware of sub-state-machines as a standard concept. That just means you've never looked into it nor have much experience with state machines. Sub-state machines are even supported as a basic features in some popular

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