nsfyn55

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by nsfyn55 6y ago
My experiences with programmers that have more than 30 years on the job fall into 1 of 2 categories... 1. Constant complaining about the state of things(too much memory, too complicated, back in my day, blah, blah, blah). Why do I have to l
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
The "Architect" role varies from business to business. If you don't understand exactly how to be successful in your current role it sounds like you have some work to do. Find out who will make the determination about whether
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
I don't think the author is a 1x programmer. He has learned the first secret of 10x programming. It's not about being a genius programmer. Its about being an efficiency expert and a problem solver. Soft skills play an outsized rol
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
>Capitalism doesn't mean an 'unregulated hellscape', capitalism requires a state to exist in order to defend the right to hold private property Oh look everyone its another armchair economist who insists his conveniently s
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
I'm not familiar with what changes occurred during the financial crisis. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac always enjoyed an implicit guarantee that their balance sheets were secured by the federal government. It was a big inside joke forever
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
He's not wrong. He should use actual logic rather than just trying.
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
Right just like there are no capitalist nations in the world. Because no nation is a completely unregulated hellscape governed by pirate kings. Spare me the semantics.
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
> It's actually owned by the government, Fannie Mae. Oh my bad. So riddle me this. Does the government secure mortages it owns?
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
The borrower is sort of using logic, but because of his extreme level of entitlement he fails to understand his premises are flawed. Low rates are a function of your total risk not your perceived status as a responsible borrower. The lender
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by nsfyn55 6y ago
Wealthy Borrower: "Why can't I refi lower?" Lender: "No, because your loan isn't secured by the government" Wealthy Borrower: "I am just using logic here, you're telling me a riskier borrower with low
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
>This article is pretty confused. Articles like this are often written by someone that manages a trivial or non-critical path system. They have strong feelings about logging because they lack other things to have strong feelings about. T
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
Unix Pipes - BWK pointed out in his memoir how a small piping implementation done in a single day changed Unix(and computing) forever.
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
This might be the most short sighted article I have ever read. One of humanity's greatest achievements was the creation of the intermodel shipping container( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container ). We
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
Is it really the trendiness? Here is what would be going through my mind... > Why after investing 11 years in Mike did Microsoft decide to let Mike go? People are tremendously expensive to a business. Losing 11 years of IP is a nightmare
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
And where does it talk about the plight of this poor, poor libertarian, law abiding man that lost his home because of an $8.41 oversight? When a story is legit it gets picked by multiple outlets. When it gets picked up by reason.com they te
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
>A taxpayer generally realizes capital gain or loss on the sale or exchange of virtual currency that is a capital asset in the hands of the taxpayer. What does this mean for crypto players that exchanged a lot of crypto, realized gains,
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
Look at that sally, a false equivocation right out of the gate. I'll just change your text so that it represents what I actually said .... >How exactly does taking steps that have previously been used in civil suits to demonstrate d
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
You asked how it would help and I explained exactly how it would help. I directly addressed your point. Your content free, one sentence response not withstanding. Is there something specific you'd like clarification about?
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
Easy. Civil law operates on a concept called "preponderance". It's not absolute in nature it's a measure of likliehood as measured by non subject matter experts(a judge and some randos). Imagine a person has fallen on y
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
They do matter but not for the reason you'd first think. It's about liability. Imagine a bank testifying in a hearing about a recent data breach. They are going to want to give the perception that they have done everything within
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by nsfyn55 7y ago
>I saw him run over forty several times, and it was not unusual for him to put a string together of twenty or thirty They are almost certainly talking about 14:1 continuous which was far and away the most popular pocket billiards game in
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by nsfyn55 8y ago
"Tech Debt" and "Code Quality" are myths. I know that is an unpopular perspective, but allow me to explain. To start with, for me everything is just a problem described in terms of its properties. What are some examples
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by nsfyn55 8y ago
When are you people going to understand that your first amendment right doesn't protect your right to post on the internet. It just stops the government from making laws that restrict your speech freedoms. Reddit and Youtube can sensor
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by nsfyn55 9y ago
I would say both, but if I had to choose one I'd choose shipping. Anyone who has ever code spelunked through a multi-year code base notices something. Most code is written and never touched again, good or bad. This means most investmen
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by nsfyn55 10y ago
OP says 10X programmer is a myth. Then describes the exact characteristics that make some programmers 10 times more productive than others. Maybe not so much a myth.
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by nsfyn55 10y ago
I'm gonna bet comment author says they use Xcode for Swift/Objc and Vim/Tmux for everything else. I just came off a small Swift project. Apple makes it difficult to code for their products outside of XCode.
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by nsfyn55 10y ago
Why does clicking blog take me to a "Hello World" application?
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by nsfyn55 10y ago
>Does anyone have any practical advice on people understand the importance of structure code, and to limit the _personal factor_? I'd take a step back. When people "don' t understand the importance of ...." the issue
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by nsfyn55 10y ago
>when it was time to review code, what we really looked out for were obvious bugs, problems with the design or architecture and where code should be located. Variable naming was inconsistent but no one really bothered to enforce them. I

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