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by codinghorror 8y ago
It's not 40% faster at "almost all other benchmarks". In Geekbench 4 single core, it's about 15% faster, and in many other benchmarks about the same. That's why the official guidance from Apple is that the XS should
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by codinghorror 8y ago
JS perf has tightly tracked single threaded CPU perf for a long, long time -- as long as I can remember. That said, it is certainly possible memory speed is also a factor, see https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/t
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by codinghorror 8y ago
As I said in my reply to that, it could also be in combination with the much faster memory / caches on A12 -- see https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...
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by codinghorror 8y ago
At this point? Sanity.
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by codinghorror 8y ago
Welcome to The Strategy Tax
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by codinghorror 8y ago
oh my goooosh this is amazing. See: https://blog.codinghorror.com/heres-the-programming-game-you... and specifically http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/01/rob...
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by codinghorror 8y ago
I wouldn't say I care about it on HN but it is a site topic (programming) that is relevant to my career, so it aligns with my interests. Reddit is just.. irrelevant.. to basically everything. It's fine for entertainment at best.
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by codinghorror 8y ago
I can't imagine a world where anyone would care about their Reddit account karma. I periodically destroy any Reddit account I have to use as a matter of online hygiene. (and yes, I destroyed the account I did an AMA on a while back as
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by codinghorror 8y ago
it's still true, the sweet spot just moved to 2 cores instead of 1
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by codinghorror 8y ago
> It's the Rails convenience stuff which slows things down massively. Yeah no kidding.. https://samsaffron.com/archive/2018/06/01/an-analysis-of-mem...
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by codinghorror 8y ago
You may not have gotten an offer, but you do get something else of incalculable value: my upvote!
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by codinghorror 8y ago
that's right and instead you should outsource them to us
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Also note that the pattern of splitting into experts and newbies is common in the SE engine, look at English vs. English Learners and Math vs. Mathoverflow. You are correct.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
> I wish I could see the actual comments from others that irritated Rob but it seems like I can't find his SO profile. (Did Rob Conery delete his SO profile?[1]) You and me both. Rob emailed me about this and I asked him the same th
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Downvotes do cost 1 rep already. They have for almost a decade now.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
I completely agree that anonymous downvotes are an unfettered negative _in systems of discussion and opinion_.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
We hadn’t quite figured out that opinions and discussion questions were not a good fit in the early days.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Stack Overflow is for facts, data, and science. Head over to Quora to see how the other path turned out.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
It is wildly inaccurate to call HN or Reddit “strong moderation” — the tooling alone is abysmally bad, plus Reddit can’t put the “post anything you want as long as it is not literally illegal” genie back in the bottle so easily after a deca
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by codinghorror 9y ago
For example here https://wpengine-careers.com — seems way more representative of the “average developer” job than Google. Getting in to Google is elite, like making the NBA, and they have extreme barriers to entry. I don’t think
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by codinghorror 9y ago
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce... For web developers, it's 34%, which is roughly the same as dentists. Computer "science" is kinda BS as a field.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
> Then you invite in to the community people who have been socialised as men, have grown up as men, have spent most of their professional lives as men and who have often contributed to exactly the kind of working environment that makes w
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by codinghorror 9y ago
This is completely credible if it has built in adblocking.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Still dead!
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Look up the marshmallow experiment.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Well, sort of, but it is a complex, slippery slope and easiest to just avoid the realm of opinion altogether.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Anywhere but Stack Overflow. It is a great big Internet!
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Completely incorrect. You can edit answers as an anonymous user and have been able to since.. 2010-ish?
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by codinghorror 9y ago
Completely incorrect, you can answer any question as a brand new user. As another commenter pointed out, maybe you meant commenting? Which isn’t answering the question, but leaving a post-it note on an existing answer or question.
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by codinghorror 9y ago
The people who are dissatisfied invariably ask opinion based questions. That is not what Stack Overflow is for. Sure, there is always more than one way to do it, and any good SO question often has three solid viable answers — but if there a

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