grumpy_coder

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by grumpy_coder 3mo ago
You have to have access to far more than $250k to be willing to blow that creating a startup. I may give my kids $250k for a house to live in. I do not have enough for them to yolo it on a dot com startup.
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by grumpy_coder 3mo ago
Unfortunately were I live... The sports clubs were bought out by private equity and charge large fees. The local park is rented to the same private sports teams 7 days a week. The local elementary closed it's playground. (been open for
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by grumpy_coder 6mo ago
The cuts include workers in senior director and vice president roles, as well as managers, product developers, product managers, program managers, software developers, site reliability developers, technical analysts, user experience develop
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by grumpy_coder 9mo ago
The schools studied in that paper are free, or close to free. Not $50,000 per anum And I don't think OP was suggesting it's the quality of education that affects outcomes in attendees of expensive private high schools.
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
Yeah, I think the first mistake is thinking 'large software project' is specific enough to have any good advice at all. Large software projects could include AAA console videogame, or banking mobile app, or embedded vehicle entert
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
A fine time to cancel Larabee properly and get serious about specialized GPU hardware five years earlier.
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
The grocery bagger on a zero hour contract needs to be able to survive when not given 40 hours. Also the 5% unemployed people in a 'full employment' economy need to be able to survive when sacrificed to control inflation.
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
Have you seen how much money we are shoveling into 'AI'
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
Boeing has consistently underperformed the market massively since the MD merger. Making maybe 3% after inflation
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
Monorepo very often means bazel for tooling (rbe and caching tests) and that means one WORKSPACE with common versions of libs. Monorepo also means a team 'vetting' new thirdparty libs, and a team telling you your CI takes too long
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
Related video about releasing games on linux, i.e. dlopen() all the things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeMPCSqQ-34
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by grumpy_coder 1y ago
in this context 'your boss' is usually a level or two above your direct manager on org chart Take it as the most senior person you can get regular face time with, this also needs to be gamed.
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
More like the willfully blind engineers, disingenuously claim to believe that absurd bullshit. There's not a lot genuine left in that company.
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
Should managers exist? We got along better before all these managers arrived, could ship huge projects with 100 people and one ceo. And the ceo wrote code and didn't do any of the nonsense most managers fill their days with.
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
Then when you need to buy a house you have to leave. Net migration to London from the rest of England and Wales is only positive for those aged 20 to 27 There's plenty of great experienced people outside London, but all the rich (busin
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
Me too. At least i can be wrong in private that way.
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
This sounds far more real to me than the original post. All the technical issues in the world don't bother me unduly, it really is the managers who make you hate work. Money wise these corps are a system of their own, they pay enough t
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
I believe the conclusion is correct in 2025, but the article in a way just perpetuates the 'misinformation', making it seem like finding if your code will compile to a dynamic branch or not is easier than it is. The unfortunate tr
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
"it will almost certainly double in value in 7 years" implies 10% is an almost certain long term return. It is not. 10 years is a common rule of thumb to double your investment, this is a good guess since after adjusting for infla
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
I see an over-reliance on automated tests recently. Often suggesting just passing the CI tests is enough to approve a change. In ancient code it's just as important to limit the blast radius of your changes, and have a good reason for
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
It's also important to realize claim denial isn't the same for all customers. When I was classed as an executive at a large blue chip company, my claims were approved quickly and easily at the company specific hotline. With the sa
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
That game already exists. Intel and Amd had an odd relationship for years when Intel needed Amd so they could claim that competition existed. Cross licensing instruction sets and the like.
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
They are referring to the liz truss budget.
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
100% this; unfortunately also often seeing junior devs called staff after job hopping for 3 or 4 years never really learning anything. Junior job titles are nearly as much of a mess as interviewing them. Particularly in recent hot topics li
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
"Instead of using typical supercomputer networking solutions like Infiniband, Tesla chose to adapt Ethernet to their needs with a modified transport layer." So, they need to compare it to Infiniband, not TCP, and definitely not so
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
Generally, nobody has authority. Even the highest executive has to fight procurement in a big corp. Own a VC-backed startup, the investors want you to get prior agreement on 'large' purchases. Maybe if you are the sole owner of a
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
It's a nice idea, but not clear that it can truly interoperate with vanilla C++ libs which I think is required. Seems to be waiting for modules to be finalized, but whether cpp2 can call cpp, and cpp can call cpp2 without implementing
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by grumpy_coder 2y ago
The lack of those smelly poor people also makes for a nicer environment.
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
All hit-driven industries, TV, movies, toys, games, anime, etc... need to be forced to pay the people who make them royalties. Money is always tight most of the time, but when someone makes a hit they need legal protection to a fair share o
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by grumpy_coder 3y ago
A good starting point for making actually working games is text. I used Twine with my kids relatively successfully. https://twinery.org/

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