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by icsa 7mo ago
What is the quality of software that gets shipped? What is the rate of defects and security issues? What are the support costs once the software is shipped?
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by icsa 7mo ago
Sample output for a significant github repository?
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by icsa 8mo ago
> With this design, it’s possible to run native SQL selects on tables with hundreds of thousands to millions of columns, with predictable (sub-second) latency when accessing a subset of columns. What is the design?
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by icsa 9mo ago
How well does this approach work with C++ source code - which is notoriously difficult to parse, given context-dependent semantics?
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by icsa 9mo ago
Tieredsort seems like a good balance between performance and complexity. Enough complexity (yet still relatively simple) to get very good performance.
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by icsa 10mo ago
No one had the motivation to fix it, including management. Many of the developers saw the problem as job security.
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by icsa 10mo ago
Anecdote: I consulted for a large manufacturing firm building an application to track the logical design of a very complex product. They modeled the parts as objects. No problem. I was stunned to see the following pattern throughout the cod
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by icsa 10mo ago
In the United States, we all used to take a required course called Civics. We learned how government and justice worked.
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by icsa 11mo ago
45% slower to run everywhere from a single binary... I'll take that deal any day!
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by icsa 11mo ago
I think that there are a few critical issues that are not being considered: * LLMs don't understand the syntax of q (or any other programming language). * LLMs don't understand the semantics of q (or any other programming language
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by icsa 11mo ago
"English as a programming language" has neither well-defined syntax nor well-defined semantics. There should be no expectation of a "correct" translation to any programming language. N.B. Formal languages for specifying
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by icsa 1y ago
IIRC, the percentage of Black students admitted to elite public schools was 10% in 1975. What happened in the last 50 years to move that number down by a factor of 10 - literal decimation?
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by icsa 1y ago
Software Engineering is only about 60 years old - i.e. the term has existed. At the point in the history of civil engineering, they didn't even know what a right angle was. Civil engineers were able to provide much utility before the u
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by icsa 2y ago
In my suburban middle school in Northern NJ, everyone (boys & girls) was required to take: * Wood shop * Metal shop * Cooking * Sewing * Typing I never saw an injury. Learning to work with our hands safely was quite valuable.
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by icsa 2y ago
AI won't replace software devs for a key reason. The hardest part about writing software is the requirements & specifications. Some ambiguous thoughts rendered as an LLM prompt is neither. The output will only be as precise as the
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by icsa 2y ago
Regarding Aro (new C compiler in the Zig toochain), it seems that a C compiler written in Zig shortens considerably the path to supporting constexpr in C using Zig's comptime capabilities.
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by icsa 2y ago
There is precedent for no federal income tax in the United States. Prior to the federal income tax (1913), all federal government expenses were covered by duties, tariffs, and levies.
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by icsa 2y ago
This discussion of graph search is the best thing I've seen in quite some time. Discussing and highlighting the difference between related graph search techniques made getting to A* very intuitive.
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by icsa 2y ago
To your point, profile your data as you would your code. A sorted array of bit locations would represent a sparse bit set well enough to start, with O(N) storage and O(log N) access. Once the sets became large and/or dense, another dat
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by icsa 2y ago
Moral of the story: First, use an array. If an array doesn't work, try something else.
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by icsa 2y ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/tech-jobs-have-dried...
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by icsa 2y ago
B-Tree
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by icsa 2y ago
Because none of the COVID vaccines were vaccines in the traditional sense. They did not prevent infection nor disease. The definition of 'vaccine' was changed to 'stimulates the immune system'. Likely to avoid litigation
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by icsa 2y ago
If the arrays of objects can conform to a single schema (across all scalar attributes), then make a second table to hold the objects in the arrays. Now you have a two table schema with (at most) one join in a given query. Check out Vertica.
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by icsa 2y ago
If the attributes are scalar, I would still suggest a column store that supports null values. Column compression will save you much space and give you excellent OLAP query performance. As the schema evolves, simply add new columns.
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by icsa 2y ago
For what kind of data? For what kinds of queries? If the columns are scalar then consider a column store.
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by icsa 2y ago
I'm reviewing models, at the moment. Model selection will depend greatly on the hardware capabilities at each school. Phi-3 could be a good starting point. The project is an idea at the moment. My contact in Kenya has direct access to
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by icsa 2y ago
Yes. However, it is uncommon. I have been a Data Engineer, SWE, CTO, and a professional technical interviewer. If you're willing to post your email address, I'm happy to send you a message, receive and review your resume, and do a
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by icsa 2y ago
Btw, I support some Kenyan high school students and am looking at supplying a few schools with llamafile+models on flash drives for their computer science curricula.
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by icsa 2y ago
What feedback have you received, regarding your resume? Which kinds of roles are you trying to secure?

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