mm007emko

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by mm007emko 2y ago
I am from Europe and I have worked with many Europeans, Americans and Asians. Quality of sub-contractor colleagues from India was, same as from anywhere else, directly proportional to what the company paid for them. Good pay = skilled and h
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by mm007emko 2y ago
Which is very sad, if you think about it. None of that benefits me as a user, it's for their benefit.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
If no government bans it and mandates Linux kernel to be rewritten in Rust (and all higher language FFIs to be compatible with Rust rather than C), it's here to stay.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
As a GCC user I know that GCC has a runtime library exception in the license. This doesn't.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Looks great, however it's licensed under GPL. Does it mean that ALL programs in that language have to be GPL as well?
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by mm007emko 3y ago
And what's the point of having Lisp if you can't use it? Unpopular opinion alert: Bigger companies want programmers to be replacible resources which means they need to have huge talent pools. If you choose your tech stack for the
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by mm007emko 3y ago
I think that many websites even nowadays don't need all that jazz and many would improve if less JavaScript was on them. How many times have you loaded a website only to watch a couple of JavaScript "spinners" for everything
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by mm007emko 3y ago
I remember jQuery from it's heyday when we used it as a replacement for Mootools. Since many people are going from React to HTMX, maybe we've made a full circle and we'll see web using just plain jQuery as well?
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Exactly. I have been using git for my .emacs files and there is little I really miss from Emacs for editing files and even quite a lot of coding.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
No, it was during a day. I had a trailer behind a bicycle with my then two year old son who wanted chips. So I tried McDonald's. Since there was no secure way to lock the bicycle (well, locks don't really work either) I tried driv
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by mm007emko 3y ago
"Often refuse to serve you" means that they sometimes do? I tried to go through a drive-thru on a bicycle in Czechia and they told me to fuck off.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Thanks!
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by mm007emko 3y ago
At the time we were reluctant to update even our linux servers. We had only critical security fix repos enabled and checked them once a week. No, we didn't update PHP unless strictly needed.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Well, speaking of myself, I had always heard from managers that "people who work from home don't work", "it's more effective and efficient to be in the office", "you have to live the company culture"
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by mm007emko 3y ago
I worked for a tech startup, well, quite a long time ago. All of us were in the same office. In case of some HR manager reads it: by "office" I mean "office". A room with doors, windows, a couple of desks each dedicated
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Armed Bear Common Lisp, 1.9.2, released(abcl.org)
4 points by mm007emko 3y ago|0 comments
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by mm007emko 3y ago
I have a shit job (Python DevOps in tel. co. industry). No problem with that. Previous job was in applied research. Very interesting, unfortunately the work conditions and compensation were much worse than my present-day shitshow. Life is n
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Java programs might not run in debugger very well either, depends on where and how you place breakpoints. However I'd be glad if profilers (and notably memory profiler) would slow down a Python program only as much as valgrind does C.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
LLMs like (Chat)GPT won't take your job. Software engineering is a creative job. Language models are not creative. Imagine that instead of using SQL to query a database of knowledge you use plain English. They can't create anythin
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Without Scala, Clojure or Kotlin this probably would have not happened.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Same here.
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Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.5 released(sbcl.org)
130 points by mm007emko 3y ago|31 comments
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Sure. But I'm a software engineer who is finishing a Ph.D. in applied informatics (coincidently in an area of time series prediction using ML). I'm not a manager. When I mentioned "AI Winter" in front of them they didn&#
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by mm007emko 3y ago
The company I work for just jumped on the bandwagon and is actually searching for people with ML/AI experience. If you can use Spark, TensorFlow, Scikit and Keras, you actually have a better chance of getting the job than a Ph.D. who k
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by mm007emko 3y ago
Keyboard-driven UI on Android? Well, for the brave and true hackers (if you don't connect a keyboard to your android device which you can ... but why having an android device then?)
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by mm007emko 3y ago
3:10. Honestly, I would expect meatspin at the final page.
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by mm007emko 3y ago
I remember chasing memory bugs in C# and Java projects at work. These are usually considered memory-safe languages yet their sophisticated garbage collectors are not panacea. There is a reason things like this https://docs.oracle
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by mm007emko 3y ago
The same applies to SBCL (a fork of CMUCL) which has more active development now. The funny thing is that the name of the compiler is Python. But this Python actually produces fast programs :) .
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by mm007emko 3y ago
I have LispWorks (I like the IDE) and although the hybbyist, non-commercial licenses are not out-of-reach for many (if not most) people, many (even companies) prefer running on free-of-charge stuff. My current employer doesn't even pay
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by mm007emko 3y ago
I use SBCL for research in nature-inspired algorithms. Not only you can use the same fast linear algebra libraries (BLAS, Lapack) as for instance NumPy does, recently they added support for SIMD instructions so you no longer have to call C

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