deltaonefour

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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Just coming from Hong Kong or Tokyo I don't understand how someone can write an article like this without feeling completely embarrassed. Bart is a symbol of American incompetence. It's like, ok, unique decision on the broad gauge
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
>These aren't just random libraries that some FAANG dev worked on in their free time. These are company-released libraries and frameworks, that have full time employees working on them. If these companies are willing to pay FAANG en
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
>If smart people are working on these problems, I would expect them to be hard. This isn't a logical statement. Who says smart people can't work on easy problems? Is there some rule that says smart people HAVE to work on smart
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
>It doesn't take a complicated renderer to make a usable browser. 99.9% of front end web developers and back-end as well won't even know how to begin to do this in C or C++. Nowadays to even build a trivial renderer in C or C++
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Nah. That's crossing over to not being a web dev anymore if you're writing a browser engine in C++ and the renderer is in vulkan or opengl. If someones writing a rendering engine in javascript and html. Well, that person is basica
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Try stremio. It's a completely legal app, that's still updated. But it becomes just like popcorn time after you download a few plugins. And those plugins are downloadable from within the app itself.
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Yeah or change the laws everywhere so copyright isn't a crime. Easy peasy.
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
>(optimizations, caching, architecture, etc) These things are trivial compared to what other fields of software engineering have to deal with (and other fields have to deal with all this stuff too along with extra harder stuff as well) A
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
He hasn't been in the industry long enough to see that most of the pillars of software engineering are built on top of massive tech debt. When I say tech debt I mean design flaws created by designer who simply could not anticipate the
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
I think the opposite. The tools keep changing because they think they have a solution to a problem and they end up creating something that's relatively ineffective. If you been in other areas of software engineering like embedded devel
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Ah I see. My mistake.
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
This stuff is foundational to things that check for program correctness. For examples type checkers check if the program is type correct. The foundations of these checkers rest on the content of these pages. It goes even further then this i
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Two high level abstractions that compile into another high level abstraction called SQL. Why increase the complexity of something that's already a high level abstraction? Abstractions are about simplification. An orm and sqlc are not i
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Orms are a huge mistake. SQL is already a very high level API that compiles to low level algorithms? Why put another very high level API on top of that? To top it off SQL is a leaky abstraction by nature. Two high level SQL queries with eq
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Python is data oriented. Nobody is talking about origins of programming languages. That is a separate topic. We are talking about the language as it stands now based on how it's used and the ecosystem. I never said Ruby was data orient
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
I know. But the syntax is still script style. The syntax is more closer to Python then it is to C++.
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
It is. Ruby and python are in the same class despite python being more data oriented. Julia is the same thing. Data oriented.
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Perfect! Thanks!
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
--edit, i thought the original author was countering me. Turns out it's another person so I'm editing the comment to appropriately respond. >The real problem here is that you're extrapolating way past a reasonable intuitio
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
script style languages specifically designed with modern concepts and to be highly performant. V8 is likely the fastest interpreter (javascript) for a script style language but these languages should be a step above and beyond v8 in terms o
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
>Oftentimes, intuition is not correct. However oftentimes statistical data is not AVAILABLE. Thus you must make a claim with available evidence. >Similarly, simply because you believe that ebook sales reduce print book sales intuitive
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
There's 3 languages in the same class. Julia, Nim and Crystal. I'm specifically curious about Crystal vs. Nim. Benchmarks show that crystal is pretty much faster, but I'd also like to know the advantages of why someone would
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Agreed. But also no denying the fact Blade Runner had horrible pacing. Pacing is hard to get right in a movie. It is a separate pillar of measurement for a movie. A movie can rate 10 out of 10 for setting and character development and 3 for
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Matrix also came out much later. The kids who watched the Matrix when it came out, most of them don't even know what blade runner was because it came out before a lot them were born. Also matrix doesn't fully hold up with time. It
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
i personally found LOTR to be "groundbreaking" for it's time. But if LOTR came out after say something like GOT. Well GOT is better in that sense. The key difference between modern cinema and previous cinema is pacing; and th
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
An important part of movies is pacing. Many fans (not all and not the majority, but a lot) are so snobbish, they can't see the fact that Blade Runner has really bad pacing. Blade runner is great, I like the movie, but it lacks pacing a
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
That's what they say. I want to see the actual data. I think part of the problem is that really in order to get proper data.... You have to actually hire the people who failed the interview. So i actually doubt google has any good inte
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Causative experiments are quite different from correlations. Correlations are observations only, causative experiments are not. To determine causation we'd have to have a set of isolated people and a set of social people and for each s
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
>Again, I believe the basic conclusion that isolation is bad for your brain is likely true, but I'm not sure I agree that this is strong evidence for it. The entire human body responds to moderate stress by improving itself. Studies
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by deltaonefour 4y ago
Does anyone have actual metrics about whether this stuff works or not? All I see is anecdote after anecdote in both directions. In god we trust, all others must bring data.

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