bc4m

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by bc4m 4y ago
The Emacs welcome screen links to a tutorial, a guided tour, and manual, all of which are inside Emacs. I would say its help functionality is potentially its greatest strength.
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by bc4m 4y ago
Dude, incredible work. I've only discovered CL in the last couple of months and everything I learn and discover brings me so much joy after being solidly disillusioned with programming after a decade-ish career. The first page of your
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by bc4m 5y ago
Mineshaft! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y
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by bc4m 5y ago
Microsoft's interview loop was the easiest I've ever had, it's the only job I've had where I've felt my ethics challenged, and my org's leadership was comically ruthless. You joined a good org and that's
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by bc4m 5y ago
Yes, but they left out explicit murder-for-hire charges in the indictment for that trial. They filed a separate indictment with those charges in a different state which they dropped after the first trial ended. It's not exactly the sam
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by bc4m 5y ago
Why would I spend any time stepping through lines I'm not interested in? I set breakpoints on the important parts and let the program run until a breakpoint is hit. I stop at a breakpoint only after another breakpoint is hit all the ti
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by bc4m 5y ago
This is the only argument for print debugging I can understand. Given the debugger experience I've had at every job in the last 10 years (IDE-driven, set breakpoints in editor, inspect state visually) it's mind-boggling that anyon
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by bc4m 5y ago
I'm getting the impression a lot of people don't know basic debugger features like "continue" or setting breakpoints while paused at a breakpoint.
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by bc4m 5y ago
Why would one step through the whole program? Use the approach you describe for print statements, but for breakpoints instead. Set them, inspect the relevant state when one is hit, then resume execution until the next is hit.
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by bc4m 6y ago
Yeah, but what's the cost? RAID5's striping with parity is a cost-saving approach compared to mirroring. If you can afford to mirror all your data that will always be the better option.
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by bc4m 6y ago
What is the mdadm use-case that requires lvm? I've used mdadm happily for over a decade and never used lvm.
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by bc4m 6y ago
If you can afford to purchase 2x the disks for RAID10 you will certainly get better performance and availability. RAID5 is an approach that gives you lower cost in return for slower writes and less fault tolerance. Everything is a trade-off
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by bc4m 6y ago
No, e2scrub_all is a filesystem-level check which serves a different purpose. mdadm scrubbing is in various states of broken across major distros. It used to be that each distro had their own cron-based scrubbing scripts. At some point mdad
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by bc4m 14y ago
I like to think most people in our field are naturally curious, so make sure your environment doesn't stifle that attitude. Hold group learning sessions for new technologies, code reviews, and so forth. As a senior explicitly seek out advic
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by bc4m 15y ago
Given his comment it's a good bet he's running Linux. There is no Silverlight for Linux so his complaint is pretty legitimate .