galbar

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by galbar 3mo ago
As someone that gets very annoyed when having to do LeetCode in interviews... Knowing algorithms, data structures and their memory and time complexities is very relevant for SWE. I've had teammates that didn't understand them and
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by galbar 4mo ago
The activity that needed and still needs to be protected is problem solving: - Understanding the problem at hand - Putting all the pieces together so that they solve the right problem the right way - Making sure that the solution facilitate
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by galbar 5mo ago
I was just thinking about forge federation this morning. It'd be nice to base the federation on email, which has been working fine for decades (boring tech and all that), and build UIs on top of it to facilitate collaboration.
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by galbar 5mo ago
These projects quickly reach a point where evolving it further is too costly and risky. To the point that the org owning it will choose to stop development to do a re-implementation which, despite being a very costly and risky endeavor, end
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by galbar 5mo ago
It is my understanding that a lot of EU governments are setting up their own matrix servers.
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by galbar 5mo ago
FWIW, I have managed 10 simultaneous live transcoded streams on a ARC B580 and it could have managed a few more. With couple of them you cold be fine. The other aspect is you could share the media storage over NFS and have multiple jellyfin
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by galbar 6mo ago
It's not a good look to break userspace applications without a deprecation period where both old and new solutions exist, allowing for a transition period.
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by galbar 6mo ago
Software is applied mathematics, though
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by galbar 6mo ago
But not across the Pyrenees :_)
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by galbar 6mo ago
>The fix isn't "apply traditional methods" I would argue they are. Those traditional methods aim at keeping complexity low so that reading code is easier and requires less effort, which accelerates code review.
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by galbar 6mo ago
This article describes the body of knowledge I was taught when I joined the industry and parallels with my experience with and thoughts about AI. I have come to the realization that most people in the industry don't know this body of k
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by galbar 7mo ago
This is something I've been wondering about... If boilerplate was such a big issue, we should have worked on improving code generation. In fact, many tools and frameworks exist that did this already: - rails has fantastic code generati
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by galbar 7mo ago
The git plugin in oh-my-zsh has an alias for this: gbda It also has one for squash-merged branches: gbds Very useful I've been using them for years
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by galbar 7mo ago
I am a daily user, family and friends chatting on Matrix. My take is that there are two layers of friction: a) people that care about chat encryption and would be willing to change, already did, to Telegram and/or Signal. "I'
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by galbar 10mo ago
For a casual CS server the ratio could perfectly be 1:50 and that'd be fine. That's how it used to be with, i.e., CS:Source. Then, there are companies that ran a bunch of them, which lowered the ratio even further. IMO, it's
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by galbar 11mo ago
They come from science. Engineering applies laws, concepts and knowledge discovered through science. Engineering and science are not the same, they are different disciplines with different outcome expectations.
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by galbar 1y ago
Our job as SWEs is to convert the vertical slice of functionality into something that fits well and robustly in the various technical layers that need to be touched. The process that I outlined above explicitly creates the space for SWEs to
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by galbar 1y ago
My take on this is that, from a SW development POV, user stories are not the right unit of work. Instead, I treat user stories as "Epics". Stake holders can track that Epic for progress, as the unit of work from their POV. Interna
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by galbar 1y ago
Hasn't balancing quality (in this context due diligence) and speed (AI code gen.) been the name of the game in the industry for ever? Management should have enough experience by now to understand the trade-off.
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by galbar 1y ago
Python has Protocols. They work like Go interfaces
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by galbar 1y ago
I have said many times to teammates: the only code that is perfect is the one that hasn't left our minds. The moment it's written down it becomes flawed and imperfect. This doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make it as goo
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by galbar 1y ago
I just want to add that I also have a Docker Swarm running, with four small nodes for my personal stuff plus a couple of friends' companies. No issues whatsoever and it is so easy to manage. It just works!
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by galbar 1y ago
I'm not bothered by if nor def. public void can be annoying but it's also fast to type and it doesn't bother me. For import I always try my best at having some kind of autoimport. I too use vim and use macros for many things.
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by galbar 1y ago
>I'd bet that no one actually likes to write code And you'd be wrong. I, for one, enjoy the process of handcrafting the individual mechanisms of the systems I create.
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by galbar 2y ago
This is how I feel. I mentioned this to a couple of friends over a beer and their answer was that there are many not "decently competent programmer"s in the industry currently and they benefit immensely from this technology, at th
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by galbar 2y ago
For whatever it is worth, I have reached the same conclusion and I have been building systems like you describe for the last few years. Recently I changed jobs. In the new team they love their ORM with all the foreign keys and direct mappin
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Technology for the American Family(nationalaffairs.com)
1 points by galbar 2y ago|0 comments
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by galbar 2y ago
The most obvious one: with open(self.file_path, 'r') as openFile: for line in f: `f` does not exist. It should be `openFile`.
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by galbar 2y ago
There is definitely an argument to be made about the lack of script writing quality in the last few years. I used to go to the cinema almost weekly, but since a few years ago it doesn't seem worth it: The stories being told are shiny b
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by galbar 2y ago
I believe they are referring to what The Critical Drinker (a youtuber that does movie and TV shows critics) calls "The Message". He explains it here: https://youtu.be/F2ngB-zjVmM?feature=shared&t=105 (starting

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