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by thebackup 7mo ago
This was my first thought as well, just from reading the title.
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by thebackup 2y ago
I took a functional programming in Haskell course first year in Uni without having much previous programming experience at all. Quite early in the course we were tasked with implementing a huge bidirectional graph and an efficient shortest
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by thebackup 3y ago
Capital M is for Mega. I would use duration_s and duration_ms. const duration_ms = 1000 * duration_s And _us for microsec. const duration_us = 1000 * duration_ms But then the tool would probably reject my code for not following the naming c
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by thebackup 3y ago
I see, wow. Thanks for the info.
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by thebackup 3y ago
I don’t work for Google and have no insight in what the average Google job pays, but $99 per day is basically my entire salary (after taxes etc.).
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by thebackup 3y ago
Will give it a go. But probably it’ll take another generation or two before it’s good enough.
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by thebackup 3y ago
I second this. My impressions so far are pretty much the same. Have been trying to get ChatGPT to generate code for some algorithms that are pretty close to well known implementations but with some twists and it absolutely fails no matter h
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by thebackup 4y ago
Agreed. A comment can also explain things that a function name cannot. I’m all for splitting code into paragraphs with a well written comment above each. Of course I also extract functions, but only when there are obvious benefit, like remo
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by thebackup 4y ago
I'm having a hard time believing that world's top talent in software development are fighting to get into Swiss banking. What makes you think that the brightest people are striving to get employment at your bank?
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by thebackup 4y ago
I mostly write C++ and I would love to use CLion, but my employer won’t pay for the license fees, so my choices are VSCode or Eclipse.
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by thebackup 5y ago
I'll have a look a the book. Thanks!
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by thebackup 5y ago
My experience is that the expectations on what your average engineer should be able to handle has grown enormously during the last 10 years or so. Working both with large distributed systems and medium size monolithic systems I have seen th
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by thebackup 5y ago
Thanks for this comment. A very interesting observation. Do you have any thoughts regarding American companies that are established in Europe, shouldn't they be able to introduce that American culture in their European offices?
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by thebackup 5y ago
It's hard to answer your question without actually experiencing the differences first hand. It's not like we don't have visible poverty in Sweden. Almost every day I see people digging through the public trash bins for bottle
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by thebackup 5y ago
It’s interesting to see these salary levels. A senior developer (10+ years of experience) here in Sweden is paid less than their entry level salary. The difference in pay between Europe and the US seems huge. I wonder why.
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by thebackup 5y ago
Premature optimization is a common disease amongst C and C++ devs. I often come across code that is written in an obscure/complex way just because someone thought execution speed triumphs code readability. In most cases (around 9 times
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by thebackup 5y ago
You only work 7h per day minus lunch break? Sounds sweet. Do you get paid for full time? I usually work 7am to 4pm but lately we have been ordered to work overtime so currently I am doing 7am to 5pm and a couple of hours extra on Saturdays.
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by thebackup 5y ago
Where can I get some of this high paid, asynchronous, uninterrupted, and self-scheduled work?
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by thebackup 5y ago
I read Clean Code in 2010 and trying out and applying some of the principles really helped to make my code more maintainable. Now over 10 years later I have come to realize that you cannot set up too many rules on how to structure and write
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by thebackup 5y ago
I don't know about Facebook but here in Sweden we have several systems where you need to use Google, and of course accept Google's terms in order to do that. One example is the health care centers and hospitals that uses Google Ma
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by thebackup 5y ago
I see your point. I have friends that put GPS trackers on their kids "just in case they get abducted by a sexual predator". It does happen that kids get taken, however it's more likely that they get hit by lightning... and a
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by thebackup 5y ago
I understand that a lot of parents are positive to the parental control and supervision that you describe, I am not that kind of parent. I want the relationship with my kids to be built on trust and honesty. My two boys make mistakes someti
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by thebackup 5y ago
I don’t believe in BDUF:ing even regulations too much, better to get a toothless first version out in the wild and then tweak it when in place.
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by thebackup 6y ago
I’m in Sweden, so Scandinavia. Every company I know has 40h work weeks. Lunch break is not included so if you start working at 8, take a 1 hour lunch break around 12, then you can log off at 17.