c0mptonFP

6 ms·

1.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Unrelated means two things are not related in any sense. Orthogonal means two things are unrelated with respect to a specific property. Unrelated is more general, and less precise. Orthogonal restricts the "unrelatedness" to the s
2.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
You hit the nail on the head, mostly. > then you read the room and go with the layer of abstraction needed. Finding the right layer of abstraction is orthogonal to the write-speak axis. When speaking to my colleagues, I use technical jar
3.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
The sole purpose of guns is to harm/kill. Not comparable to ML.
4.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
AFAICS the edit history goes back to May 2022, however the site has existed long before that. Not convinced
5.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
She's doing everything in her power to become famous/viral. Look at the amount of work she puts into SEO and her own Wikipedia page. She's a Wikipedia editor that edits her own page. Can't get more self-absorbed than tha
6.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Could you tell me more about your experiences with effective waiting culture? I'm having a hard time believing that a e.g. a high-level manager/exec with 20 meetings per day, and a 60 hour work week is able to be on time with a pu
7.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
A developer who doesn't have a holistic view on their systems is a liability.
8.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Ok, next time an engineer on my team can't stop himself from talking about his SIMD lock-free distributed queue, I'll just keep listening. Maybe I get to sleep in the office too.
9.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Without interruptions, I would not be able to finish meetings on time. EVER. Information exchange is always the bottleneck in larger organizations, so efficiency of meetings is really important. I will interrupt someone if I understood th
10.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Neither do magnets.
11.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
You can have open ledgers without compromising anonymity, via ZK cryptography.
12.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
I wish, brother. I wish it was more like that...
13.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
It's popular because these war stories you find in blog posts are pure survivorship bias. If I'd let every fucking team member go on an exploratory bug hunt whenever they feel like it (hint: that would be always) we would never ge
14.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> We need more people and companies like this, who are willing to go beyond "oh it fails randomly sometimes" and track down the underlying issues. I absolutely disagree. Most capable engineers I know have this urge to go down r
15.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Because our main work environment is the shell..? Writing code in a terminal is seamless and fast, and it fits very well in a tmux workflow.
16.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> > From Communist Russia's collapse due to Marxism... The delivery of this nonchalant line in particular made me cringe hard.
17.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Try starting a technology company called Apple, and tell me how that works out for you. aCtUaLLy, aPpLes hAvE eXisTeD bEfoRe 1976
18.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
One minor correction: mobile numbers are used for spam and bot prevention. You can't have a discord or signal account without a valid phone number. Think about that for a second. But yeah, not being able to use proper 2FA devices annoy
19.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> The problem: the web has a terrible UI toolkit for desktop apps. It has clickable links and basic forms, that's all I think you're not giving credit to the best part about the web: CSS. I've been programming GUIs with Ja
20.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Line spacing is atrocious
21.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Gotta drink a verification can to enable it
22.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
That's one of the thing that riles me up. The vast majority of programmers, especially in the open source community, don't take licensing seriously.
23.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> keeping it playable is easily the most effective way of crafting a game because it enables you to routinely playtest and understand your progress. Obviously. > A key element of that is making the game legible and for that you do nee
24.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> Polish as you go Best way to end up bikeshedding.
25.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Yup, better get rid of your GitHub account then as well
26.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
> but they absolutely adore figma that has never been anything but subscription. Doesn't Figma have a free tier? That changes everything.
27.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
You're reframing the desire for privacy as a dystopian paranoia. That doesn't do much good tbh
28.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Are you by any chance running windows?
29.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
Being mindful of system library versions is deployment 101. They're dependencies after all. Also, I do prefer to avoid dynamic linking altogether.
30.
by c0mptonFP 4y ago
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding a few points, maybe someone can help me out. > Traits bias the Self parameter, which can make some multi-parameter traits rather odd. Can someone show me an example? What does bias mean here

More ›