creamytaco

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by creamytaco 5y ago
Typical zero substance self-help opinion piece masquerading as something better. Complete waste of time.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Thse are all not only solved problems, but solved extremely well. Rust is a bad solution to this problem. You should be using dynasm https://luajit.org/dynasm.html instead of plain C.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Not very wise to export your (assumed) copyright-infringing activity over to a third party that has complete records of who you are. Folks have been sued for less.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
It's called "commoditization". Since programming is now a commodity, the barrier to entry had to be lowered in order to pump up the numbers. Growth at all costs! There is still rock-solid engineering to be found, usually in d
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by creamytaco 5y ago
His web3 skepticism did not stop him from getting involved with "MobileCoin" some time ago, or was that conveniently forgotten? https://www.wired.com/story/mobilecoin-cryptocurrency/
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I don't see how this is in any way competitive with the current options. It would't be competitive at sub-$500 pricing, nevermind $2000+. And then there's the platform bit which is the final nail on the coffin. Let's not
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Start with: Varela / Maturana - The Tree of Knowledge Miller - Living Systems Prepare to have your mind blown apart.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
alias .. but exa is not backwards compatible with ls OOPS Which is why I stick with ls (and grep instead of rg and coreutils instead of shiny rust equivalent), I can't deal with the cognitive dissonance that arises from these differenc
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by creamytaco 5y ago
"I've never read anything that wasn't a bad regurgitation of ideas better presented elsewhere from this guy, and I have to wonder why he has amassed such a following." I wrote this 2 months ago, my opinion hasn't ch
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Having lived in SF for more than a decade, I couldn't agree more. When I left, years ago, the guilt syndrome was so prevalent among well-compensated young tech workers that one could talk about mass-psychosis. I'm told it's g
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by creamytaco 5y ago
> that have basis on European ways of handling these sort of issues I suggest you try shoplifting in any European country and see what happens.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
The world doesn't run on "well-meaning" but realpolitik (look it up). The sort of discriminatory policies you espouse besides being corrosive poison to the unifying forces that create a nation state, fail to account for compe
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by creamytaco 5y ago
> - Designing Data Driven Applications - Kleppmann OK > - The Art of Unix Programming - Raymond Waste of time > Pretty much any of the programming books published by No Starch Press Waste of time (mostly) > 1) Learn SQL OK >
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by creamytaco 5y ago
You can keep rearranging words around trying to make reality fit your expectations, but I'd say this isn't a useful modeling strategy for going about life. This is what you're missing.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I guess that's how they make money and can afford great customer service, which is also something I'm fine with: I couldn't care less what their interest rate is since I'll never ever pay interest. If that's on the
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by creamytaco 5y ago
What you wrote makes me view the Guardian take suspiciously rather than the OP and also fails to address in any way the argument since you -conveniently- ignore all but a tiny fraction that you found a Guardian opinion piece to seemingly no
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I left SF and California years ago and started voting Republican at about the same time. The trigger was me reserving judgment and simply observing how the environment around me changed for the worst, while at the same time having to bring
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Relying on libraries written in C is not an issue if the library doesn't make assumptions about / isn't tied to, a particular architecture. Some do but most (especially newer codebases written to C11 and beyond) don't.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I guess you found out you can't rely on Capital One. Never had a problem with AMEX.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Every engineering-driven fintech company I know of (having myself worked there or having friends who work there) is doubling down on every single one of the processes I mentioned.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I worked at engineers-call-the-shots fintech and later SV shops for many years. No, their in-house code is not worse than open-source. In fact one can safely say that top companies that attract top talent also have methodologies in place th
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Reviewing code is the elephant in the room. Filosotile -perhaps out of ignorance or disconnect- fails to mention that the vast majority of open source projects (log4j being a great recent example) are absolute shit. Nobody should be buildin
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Engineering is not about whether someone "can code", but whether someone can _engineer solutions to problems_. Has this person demonstrated that through the projects he chooses to put on display (and advertise as signal for his ab
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Your post ought to be ample proof that subjective opinions (like the one you display here) are not solid grounds for hiring decisions. When looking at this person's Github page, I -unlike you- see a vast number of trivial projects that
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by creamytaco 5y ago
You're being disingenuous. With Manifest v3, it is not possible any more to block requests dynamically which has huge implications for the efficacy of ad blocking (example: forget blocking youtube ads). Additionally, you're limite
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Python is terrible at juggling files, setting up pipelines and working with processes. The resulting code is more complicated than the equivalent bash, not to mention longer, and hidden gotchas abound (subprocess deadlocks anyone?). I'
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by creamytaco 5y ago
For most uses, I consider all of these unwanted at best and potential disasters at worst. If you use them, make sure you understand exactly what each of these do. If you just follow a dictum you found on HN blindly and just copy-paste them,
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by creamytaco 5y ago
There's one problem with rants such as these, it's too easy for someone to be exposed as clueless and broadcast his lack of knowledge and assumption-heavy development process to the world. How is that as an advertisement for one&#
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by creamytaco 5y ago
This is either outright bullshit or a clumsy attempt at historical revisionism. Web2 didn't introduce technology that wasn't existing before. It was the unwashed masses flooding what had previously been a space of high SNR AND the
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by creamytaco 5y ago
The Mister ecosystem is based on open hardware / software, besides the FPGA which is a necessary evil (and can be replaced in the future). The "mister multisystem" (which is a proprietary design) comes across like a slap in t

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