rosenjcb

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by rosenjcb 3y ago
There's so many idiots in the AI space that are completely ignorant of how Machine Learning works. The worst are the grifters that fearmonger about AI safety by regurgitating singularity memes.
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
We use Clojure at my work and it's basically functional Java with parens. No snottiness or evangelism needed. The fact that I don't have to write Java OOP boilerplate is a big enough advantage to me. Even if you just write it like
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
You just describe Boeing's relationship with HCL and Infosys. I had to get out because I just felt like I was wasting my life bullshitting and delivering zero value to anyone.
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
Jason Scott's stuff is great. I particularly love his talk about his experience as a defendant in a 2 billion dollar lawsuit (completely frivolous).
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
It's my first startup, but so good so far. I chose one that was older (8+ years) and had a fun stack (Clojure). Doesn't pay as well as FAANG but I get some cool lottery tickets (RSU) out of it.
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
I guess it's just a difference of nomenclature theb. FAANG (especially Amazon and Microsoft) are just so big that the stratification creates a lot of roles to facilitate the org. Even at my old company (~5500 staff), our managers only
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
>A senior engineer is someone you can point in the general direction of a business problem. They rarely get requirements, and never fleshed out. Their job is to understand the problem in consultation with stakeholders, guide a team throu
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
>A senior engineer should spend the least amount of time coding compared to everything else they do during the day. If they don't, do you really need a senior engineer? How much of a 4 hour coding session is something you needed spe
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
When I moved from a remote dev job at an insurance company (~5500 employees) to a startup (~20), I was amazed with how much more async the environment was. There are no core hours, everything is a thread unless an urgent need arises, and we
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
Well, he decided that the whole world shouldn't hear about how the original founders of Tesla were removed and replaced with Musk. However, I can appreciate the distinction between muting people on your own threads vs removing people f
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
I'm confused, are you talking about banning Trump (after he lost the election)? I'm not saying the decision is right or wrong, but Twitter thought a long time about it. I'm pretty sure the board wanted him banned even earlier
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
His whole life he's had to listen to shareholders. This is his one chance to just say "Fuck it" and just do whatever he wants. I would hope the businessman and him would prevent him from doing this. However like most gag orde
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
Does anyone else feel like he's going to start doing petty shit like banning people he doesn't like (e.g. that musk flight tracker account)? He talks a lot about free speech but he has a track record of limiting speech on the plat
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
>The one thing that really is rough for me with _both_ UE and Unity is that they're both very oriented towards teams with dedicated art people who can put out assets to use. BSP-based workflows where you can quickly greybox out leve
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
This reminds me a lot of Amethyst.
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by rosenjcb 4y ago
"Coding" in Unity and UE4 simply isn't fun. UE4's C++ macro abomination is bad but I find that 90% of the value in amateur game development is in the art content. Since I'm not an artist, I've simply given up g
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
"OpenAI" except everything is closed research. Why did they even pick this name?
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
Surprisingly enough, I'm a clojure developer and I really do like the hiccup syntax in Reagent. I haven't had the courage to use it in anything professional yet though. EDIT: To answer your question, I actually think that JSX is a
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
Yeah, but the function itself doesn't return that view. The framework you're working in essentially composes the view based on the associated code and template. This is fundamentally different from just returning the view itself i
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
If the only purpose of your site is to load some text or an image, go use a framework with SSG like NextJS. Then you get fast websites without having to pretend that writing stateful updates (e.g. jQuery) to the DOM is fun.
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
No, the template is usually a static file that is read into memory and served over HTTP or locally if it's a JS only site. But before being served, it's being picked at via imperative operations. And if it's really bad, then
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
Template based UI programming is like going back to the year 2007. Your views should be reactive. Elm, Flutter, React, Et Cetera understand this. Having a function that takes data and returns a view is much better.
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
I agree. These people hating on SPAs are mostly not frontend developers. They're backend devs that think returning an HTML page is all you need to do. Modern websites are very complex.
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
That's why you keep your language small like clojure.
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
I agree: neither Linus nor FSF have authority to interpret the GPL. The way you find out if a license is enforceable is if you take it to arbitration or court. There's not enough case law in this area to smooth out our understanding of
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
It's a recipe for disaster. If you focus on what you can't control, you end up doing nothing. Focus on the actions that can best improve your life.
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
Personal anecdote: I was raised in a poor single home family (father passed) and had very little going for me when I graduated college with an econ degree and an old Buick. After burning out at a gas station job, I just sold my car and move
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
I worked at a health insurance company and had access to a lot of data (for ML research). It was impossible to lend that data to contractors for nearly any reason and this frustrated us.
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
You're right. This isn't new or controversial. I don't know why HN is so weak on data science. Maybe software devs are weak on math in general.
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by rosenjcb 5y ago
My CEO spends half of his time acting as a sales rep, writing blogs, hosting workshops, et cetera. Honestly this would overwhelm me after a while and I'm glad he's there to do the job.

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