atomicity

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by atomicity 5y ago
They are implicitly comparing media sources to non-"media staples", such as your gut or your dreams. There may be "general information sources" better than those. Seems like Node.js isn't the only language where peo
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by atomicity 5y ago
So, global-yet-Western corporations outsourced manufacturing to to China, some "unfair" trades that have long-term benefits for China happened, and now Chinese companies can now compete against those corporations (at least on Amaz
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by atomicity 5y ago
The commenter you replied to seemed to be comparing 2 situations. That seems normal to me. Comparing things seems to be great way to understand complex issues. What makes the comment a wrong way to discuss? Is it a bad form of comparison fo
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by atomicity 5y ago
Nice anecdote, I tried to speak more to the point that I think that most US citizens are right to support the US escalating the conflict against China. Their values align with their actions. Furthermore, people that think they can convince
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by atomicity 5y ago
My assumptions: 1. Hedonism is "fairly correct". In a well-fed and low-violence society, the pleasure/pain axis explains >40% of what every human cares about, especially chronic pleasure/pain. - 1a. Both the US and Ch
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by atomicity 5y ago
I've never understood why people support the escalating US-China conflict since it's so easy to just keep focusing on win-win collaborations but your comment gave me an insight. Please let me know if this is wrong, but I think thi
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by atomicity 5y ago
The author seems to be say in the article that writing readable code, at least for yourself, is still an important goal. I think they are arguing against why a writer shouldn't be expected to take it further. For example, should a new
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by atomicity 5y ago
Except that people are too lazy to use exceptions that are checked at compile time. The main benefit of Go is that the people that defined the library ecosystem actually decided to handle errors. It's the bare minimum, but it's be
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by atomicity 5y ago
I think the larger problem is that everybody expects that they have to get better, and they have to get better quickly. That's why people injure themselves doing pretty much anything requiring physical exertion. Recovery is important.
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by atomicity 5y ago
I've heard stuff before about the fact that conglomerates like Tencent make it hard for Chinese startups to get money. Is that true and potentially the larger factor? Given that it's so easy to spend 3+ hours a day on internet ent
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by atomicity 5y ago
Is China doing anything so that it's worthwhile for students to learn practical skills rather than focus on getting into a college? It's harder to get society to value college degrees less, but I don't see much changing unles
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by atomicity 5y ago
Do you mean that Chinese education must involve Western values? For example, is logical reasoning a Western value, and the Chinese government cannot exist if their citizens think logically? Maybe freedom is something that is universally des
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by atomicity 5y ago
It's sort of hard to compare these approaches, since it's not like Amazon and Apple only have 1 principle that they follow. I'll try to analyze them in a generic way. Disclaimer that I don't have experience in marketing
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by atomicity 5y ago
This is something I try to mention a lot, but mostly focused on the importance of onboarding. Either, your company makes sure that almost everybody contributes above their salary, or you need to fire often without hurting your "culture
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by atomicity 5y ago
I feel like this mindset is actually responsible for a lot of modern-day unhappiness. Why are 1st world countries somehow more lonely? Something I've noticed while talking to my older relatives outside of the US is that their social li
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by atomicity 5y ago
Yeah, what exactly makes the 36k US lives lost more important to focus on during Memorial Day? The best arguments I can think of: 1. This memorial must be acknowledged or practiced by the Hackernews community, because it's _mostly_ US-
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by atomicity 5y ago
A recently completed starter task for the project you are working on usually is a good idea. However, you need to make sure that the task is truly a starter task, not just a task that doesn't require much code. It is easy to create a t
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by atomicity 5y ago
I do not understand how you cannot easily "spin" a prototype that the company wants to sell into a good thing. When you write that awesome prototype, your management will be thinking about rewarding you, not blaming you. They will
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by atomicity 5y ago
If you have a PBs of data that you rarely access, it seems to make sense to compress it first. I've rarely seen any non-giants with PBs of data properly compressed. For example, small JSON files converted into larger, compressed parque
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by atomicity 6y ago
The term "batch job" (as opposed to "service") appears frequently in the Google K8s-like scheduler papers: https://research.google/pubs/pub41684/ https://research.google/pubs&#x
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by atomicity 6y ago
What happened to the "average programmer" over time? They seem to be building things that make more money now. Isn't that the main reason companies pay for software engineers? I believe the "decline" is due to the f
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by atomicity 6y ago
Yeah, like the other reply, I'd mostly say testing DAGs was an issue. Airflow-related configuration is easy to get wrong and it silently fails a lot. Now that I think about it though, most of the time I spent on testing wasn't cau
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by atomicity 6y ago
Nothing is more popular yet, but there are better architected options out there. It's hit 17k GitHub stars and was used by the team I was previously at. I don't think anything will beat it unless something from the CI/CD or &
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by atomicity 6y ago
But we don't value things solely based on their natural resource composition; we pay far more for "labor" and other intangibles. As a result of the above, the value of a natural resource changes over time. For example, natura
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by atomicity 6y ago
I don't know if this means something is truly wrong. AI is a mix of engineering and scientific research, just like most CS subfields. Recently, the emphasis has shifted towards engineering, as the applications of neural nets have skyro
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by atomicity 6y ago
Nightly to seconds = developers can see the data generated within seconds. This generally has implications on data quality, because you aren't fixing data quality issues once they occur in prod. This also makes it far easier to develop
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by atomicity 6y ago
It's ok to not forcefully grow your income, but stagnating income is correlated with your skillset becoming outdated. If you haven't worked on your network or your interview skills, you can find it hard to find a new job. In addit
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by atomicity 6y ago
This is downvoted but I found it interesting that the English word "slave" is derived from Slav. From the Wiki article [0]: "In medieval wars many Slavs were captured and enslaved, which led to the word slav becoming synonym
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by atomicity 6y ago
Did you misread? The author wants readable code and accepts "style" differences.
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by atomicity 6y ago
I've seen a lot of engineers that rely on their intuition and end up just creating shit that works and is surprisingly maintainable. I've also seen a lot of different ideas on what a "clear and sound thought process" is.

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