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by ptr 9mo ago
Apple software used to exhibit reasonable UX for “edge cases” just like the one you described. This was one of my main reasons for going Mac — they cared about the details. Sad to see that seems to be going away.
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Trump signs proclamation adding $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications(apnews.com)
8 points by ptr 1y ago|13 comments
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Simple Sabotage for Software(erikbern.com)
3 points by ptr 3y ago|0 comments
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Spotify Will Cut Headcount by 17% to Confront Slower Growth(bloomberg.com)
5 points by ptr 3y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 3y ago
Yes — the Wikipedia article that I linked says so as well. But Polestar is headquartered in Sweden, and the cars are designed by Swedes in Sweden. It’s a Swedish brand.
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by ptr 3y ago
Polestar is Swedish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar
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by ptr 3y ago
It’s not just you — something happened with me where I mentally checked out from the MacOS train after Lion. The versions from Mavericks and up are “those newfangled versions with their silly names”. And Mavericks is 10 years old! Maybe it
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by ptr 3y ago
Coroutines are an abstraction though.
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by ptr 3y ago
Something that coroutines made a big impact on for us was testing. Multi-step integration tests became a breeze. With state machines, each test would need its own FSM, and callbacks would make the flow hard to read.
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by ptr 3y ago
Great teams self-manage. Managers and management generally exist to ensure a baseline, but they can’t really do much more. In a strong team, everyone displays leadership properties, and they typically don’t listen to non-technical managemen
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by ptr 3y ago
As a software engineer (consultant/contractor), you can easily make 80k USD post tax in Sweden. That’s not too bad.
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The Swedish Pandemic Approach: Now we know the results(larskarlsson.com)
29 points by ptr 4y ago|21 comments
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The unspoken truth about managing geeks(computerworld.com)
3 points by ptr 4y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 4y ago
You don’t have to, most people buy their apartment. If you don’t have the money when you’re young, parents tend to help out with the down payment. The more you get from your parents, the closer to the city center you can live. I can see why
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by ptr 4y ago
Since services are basically modules in monoliths, does that mean that we should have cute names for those as well?
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by ptr 4y ago
I’m not sure that’s it. Sure, Norway was invaded but it was a pretty “benign” invasion in comparison to what happened to others. Same with Denmark. Would be interesting to see their stock market returns.
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by ptr 4y ago
Nominal Swedish stock market return 1879-2012: 10.9% arithmetic mean, 9.0% geometric mean. Real return: 7.9%/6.1%. And Sweden isn’t really the world’s dominant superpower. https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media
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by ptr 4y ago
I’ve been on the stakeholder side in similar situations. Rather than saying that they were very busy and that it can take a while to get my task done, they strung me along (“we’ll take it up in next sprint planning”, “oh we missed your task
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by ptr 4y ago
Sprints are also detrimental to “soft values” in my experience: * Engineers rushing to wrap up for the sprint (stress and decreased quality is bad for morale) * Engineers getting monitored and measured on a task level since all tasks need t
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by ptr 4y ago
The argument is usually that sprints just add overhead on top of picking the highest prio work from the backlog. Ie, sprints don’t have to be replaced with anything since there are no benefits.
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by ptr 4y ago
Parts of Russia are in Europe.
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by ptr 4y ago
Where in the world are nuclear disasters “in vogue”?
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by ptr 4y ago
How do you deal with errors? Do you check them at every callsite and manually “bubble up”, or do you use exceptions? I’d love to use coroutines but we don’t use exceptions and I’m not super excited about handling errors manually.
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by ptr 4y ago
I wonder if it’s the Internet’s fault. Maybe people have become so jaded by Online discourse and carry it over into IRL?
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by ptr 4y ago
That’s exactly what it was, https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2015/11/analysen-a... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seafox_drone
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by ptr 4y ago
That's what Putin thinks at least.
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by ptr 4y ago
What important piece of the puzzle are western media omitting that makes this not a war between Russia and Ukraine? What is the whole truth, according to you? Ironically, you're the one omitting right now.
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by ptr 4y ago
1. You're contradicting yourself: in your third point, you say that I shouldn't trust that civilians are getting murdered, raped and tortured. But in your first point, you say that I should be expecting such behavior. 2. I'd
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by ptr 4y ago
This isn’t unique to Ukraine. As an example, all Swedes are required by law to help out in case of an invasion.
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by ptr 4y ago
Ukrainians in occupied territories seem to get murdered, tortured and raped. So yeah I think it’s fair to say they’d be better off without the Russians.

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