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by robbrit 7y ago
He also now has a strong incentive to stick to what he said. Complying with China after publicly saying he wouldn't would be an even bigger PR disaster than what Blizzard is facing right now.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Yep they are two very different languages. However with the possible exception of the build times argument, the points for choosing Go over C++ also apply to Go over C.
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by robbrit 7y ago
They touched on this in the article, but I'll go into more detail here since it's been fashionable for years to bash on "Blub" languages like Java or Go. I myself was guilty of this for a long time until I started using
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by robbrit 7y ago
What I meant was the machine learning systems that have developed in the last decade since the 2008 crash. Many of these are black boxes with thousands to millions of variables, and it's very difficult to understand exactly why a ML al
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by robbrit 7y ago
> it is easier these days to find Go devs than C devs Not really actually, there are still loads of C devs (or C++ at least) and a lot more jobs in C and C++ than for Go. Having made engineering decisions between C++ and Go, my key reas
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by robbrit 7y ago
Having Go experience on my resume, I do get a lot of recruiters reaching out to me for Go jobs. It's quite popular for infrastructure work. This is in the US, not sure if it's the same in other countries.
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by robbrit 7y ago
> "Machines are taking control of investing..... Funds run by computers that follow rules set by humans" One of the points that the article makes is that this statement is changing, that computers are increasingly creating thei
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by robbrit 7y ago
Be careful, these are the first step to being turned into a Cyberman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQs3gVobcfg
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by robbrit 7y ago
Speaking for Canada rather than Europe but I imagine the argument is mostly the same. The supply and demand ratios are different. Canada has very few pure software firms like Google or Amazon compared to the US, so there is significantly le
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by robbrit 7y ago
77 is a large enough sample size to produce statistically significant results in a lot of cases, depending on the problem. For example, using 77 men and women, you could easily see a statistically significant difference in height between ge
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by robbrit 7y ago
> most of us have seen managers try to improve quarterly numbers at the expense of company health Yep, this does happen. The point though, is to let shareholders rather than managers decide if this is a good choice. If managers are sacri
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by robbrit 7y ago
From the article: > In this study, we tested 77 undergraduates who were randomly assigned to play either a popular video game (Portal 2) or a popular brain training game (Lumosity) for 8 h.
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by robbrit 7y ago
> it's still javascript This is exactly the reason why Typescript took off and none of the other compile-to-JS languages did (other than a brief flash by CoffeeScript). Dart had a very similar problem as Reason - it wasn't Java
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by robbrit 7y ago
Not that I've worked in a lot of places, but everywhere that I've worked that uses C at all treats it this way. Writing new C code is considered a no-no.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Downside is that a lot of startups are not that interesting. They're just filling a business niche.
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by robbrit 7y ago
From my experience hiring in startups (and personal life experience, having left the startup world at 28), over-30s have higher salary requirements than startups can afford. It's not even just a Bay Area thing; in pretty much all marke
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by robbrit 7y ago
They do set up shop elsewhere. The problem is that the BigCos are also doing the same (NYC, Seattle, Austin, Boulder, etc.) and bringing their high salaries with them.
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by robbrit 7y ago
BigCos like Google and Microsoft can afford to pay big bucks and collude together. Startups on the other hand can't always afford to pay $100k+ for a junior engineer.
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by robbrit 7y ago
"Don't Tread on Me" is pretty light as far as Metallica goes. I wonder what the cougar would have done if she had unloaded "Battery" or "Dyer's Eve" on it.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Does anybody know how hard it is for non-Chinese citizens to live and work in China? One of the competitive advantages of the US has been its ability to draw top talent from all over the world and not just its own citizens. Chinese citizens
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by robbrit 7y ago
I've never found that sticking strictly to the Law of Demeter makes your life that much easier for the reasons under "Disadvantages" in the article. I prefer a more relaxed form of the law: you can do something like a.b().c()
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Google Receives Patent for NN Dropout(patents.google.com)
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by robbrit 7y ago
Are you looking to get into a graduate program in CS? Or just move into a different field?
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by robbrit 7y ago
You might be able to get into a Master's program without a Bachelor's in CS, provided you can demonstrate understanding of the material. OSSU has a great curriculum for replicating that: https://github.com/ossu&#
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by robbrit 7y ago
And this is why GET requests should not modify state.
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by robbrit 7y ago
Technically yes, however it is not type-safe. Idiomatic Go usually tries to be at least somewhat type-safe, and so the standard library's sort package uses interfaces instead of comparison functions. This is a bit more tedious to write
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by robbrit 7y ago
A lot of the time in Go you do have to copy-paste-tweak - sorting lists for example requires quite a bit of boiler plate. That doesn't mean the code above is good, just that the lack of generics sometimes makes copy-pasting in Go inevi
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by robbrit 7y ago
Never mind that BBC is funded by royal charter rather than by customers, so they get paid whether people read them or not. You're confusing accuracy with bias. It is possible to give an accurate account of a story despite having a bias
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by robbrit 7y ago
In the era of fake news and clickbait, I'm very happy to shell out some coin for quality news. I've found WSJ to be one of the most objective newspapers out there (along with BBC) since they focus on describing what happens, rathe
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by robbrit 7y ago
Japan (where Softbank is from) and Saudi Arabia are not geopolitical rivals to the USA. China is. This isn't about morality.

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