beryilma

7 ms·

1.
by beryilma 1y ago
> Sold out, please go back and pick another option. Funny how a "free" PDF book can be sold out.
2.
by beryilma 2y ago
As much as I appreciate the author's effort, if I have to enter my email to get the "free" book, then the book is not free.
3.
by beryilma 2y ago
One might even argue that a Turing Machine (computers) is really one dimensional.
4.
by beryilma 2y ago
This is 5 times more readable than FP example above for the same computation. The FP example uses variable book(s) five times, where using it once was sufficient for SQL. Perhaps FP languages could have learned something from SQL...
5.
by beryilma 2y ago
Github, nodejs, and PM2. I can deploy to my local machine AND to EC2 with a single deploy command using PM2 configuration facilities. This works quite well for side projects. I also have nginx and postges running on both locations with loca
6.
by beryilma 2y ago
> Lately, I've built simple websites and small web apps in vanilla Javascript and CSS Any public links?
7.
by beryilma 2y ago
a.k.a. Emacs.
8.
by beryilma 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what level of $ amount are you talking about?
9.
by beryilma 2y ago
> but I started to realize that pushing 50 and being as cynical as I now am, I'm pretty much unemployable as an IC. Well that's me. My theory is that it is not age that makes one unemployable in the software industry, but the u
10.
by beryilma 2y ago
"Uncle Bob" is not a software engineer (as he calls himself) and anything he says on the subject is theoretical at best, and snake oil at worst. Can anyone point to any substantial piece of code that he wrote before he can be tak
11.
by beryilma 2y ago
The problem with software estimation is that the requirements change constantly because customers often don't know what they want until they see a prototype or a mock of the system. Then, you constantly get unspecified, subtle requirem
12.
by beryilma 2y ago
Relevant HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592543
13.
by beryilma 2y ago
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia remain insane weirdos to me. Until you open a file that has 10 different coding styles from 5 different developers. Just the variations of variable naming schemes alone
14.
by beryilma 2y ago
> Yes, you guessed it, let's go with Electron and CoffeeScript. > The main tech stack is still CoffeeScript, but we changed the UI framework from React to Riot.js. > I've installed Babel, Mocha, ESLint, and added librarie
15.
by beryilma 2y ago
> June 28, 2025: All new developments must comply. I don't know what the consequences would be for companies, but there is no way this is happening by June 28.
16.
by beryilma 2y ago
> A dead program may continue to be used for execution in a computer and to produce useful results. The actual state of death becomes visible when demands for modifications of the program cannot be intelligently answered. I totally belie
17.
by beryilma 2y ago
> We handle all the management, including rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting—proactively selling losing stocks to potentially save on taxes - For a non-retirement portfolio, isn't rebalancing is a taxable event? Rebalancing by sell
18.
by beryilma 2y ago
> I've noticed quality issues in your code recently... Why is it always the report who is the source of the problem and not the manager? How about "I've created a toxic work environment and put my reports under a lot of st
19.
by beryilma 2y ago
I really believe in the ownership model, which is why I hate the Jira ticket-based development model so much. There was a time in my company where a single developer, who owned the product, would ship an entire app in a year. Now we have a
20.
by beryilma 2y ago
>> "Hi, I'm one of the 100K alumni who went to the same school as you did, can we do coffee?" is I have absolutely gotten similar requests from students through my Alumni organization and have accepted them in the past.
21.
by beryilma 2y ago
> because all their relationships are transactional and they aren’t offering anything of value Why is a transactional relationship considered bad? And why would one consider a transactional relationship as something not offering value? I
22.
by beryilma 2y ago
I know of a graduate-level software engineering course at a reputable US university, where getting kicked out of the project group is a possibility and gets the person an automatic F grade.
23.
by beryilma 2y ago
Raspberry Pi 400 as my home internet and exercise video computer.
24.
by beryilma 2y ago
What are the dumb phone options in the US? I want to get one.
25.
by beryilma 2y ago
There must be a German word for what the article does with its title against its content.
26.
by beryilma 2y ago
Performance reviews are a scam. I know from my manager days that the performance ratings at my company were determined even before any manager or self-reviews were written. Reviews match the performance ratings; not the other way around. It
27.
by beryilma 2y ago
Along the same lines, if you are a bad student for whatever reason, the best thing you can do to improve your grades without any extra work is to ask questions during class and talk to your teacher before/after class. I guarantee resul
28.
by beryilma 2y ago
This has everything to do with propagation of significant digits. Since the data in the mentioned experiment are "exact" measurements without uncertainty, the data is being treated as infinite (or rather, machine) precision, where
29.
by beryilma 2y ago
This seems to be written by someone who has no idea of what they are talking about. Propagation of significant digits over algebraic operations is a solved problem. Adding more digits than the minimum necessary significant digits does not g
30.
by beryilma 2y ago
Not that it is everybody's cup of tea, but Emacs Org mode has Scheduled and Deadline dates, along with Effort estimates.

More ›