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by vii 4y ago
Even worse, it normalizes being a vindictive egotist. People need to be grown up about feedback especially if they're in powerful positions. Not ok to be offended.
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by vii 5y ago
After having interviewed hundreds of engineers, I agree with the premise that elite TopCoder competition programmers are great not just at brainteasers. It takes a lot of discipline to improve skill to solve that fast, so they are smart and
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by vii 5y ago
Some of this advice is great, like getting out of the way, guiding people with how to think about trade-offs and doing daily coding. But it doesn't feel like 'Principal' level advice, at least in terms of Big Tech and the blo
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by vii 5y ago
Is that a false claim? The expectation that an SSD or even SD-card is infinitely rewriteable (practically speaking) is implicit in the marketing. The idea that a drive can't be rewritten too many times should be explicit (like SMR HDDs
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by vii 6y ago
Being considered the go-to person means you are first in line to make small tweaks (and config changes in code). This increases the change count. If there is a review process where another engineer has to approve work, this exacerbates the
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by vii 6y ago
Rob Pike wrote this about handling errors https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values This is like an option type but manually built. Go is painful if you don't want to write high-quality heavily exercised production cod
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What the heck is the value of “-n % n” in programming languages?(lemire.me)
27 points by vii 6y ago|29 comments
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Type in the exact number of machines to proceed(rachelbythebay.com)
554 points by vii 6y ago|332 comments
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by vii 6y ago
well that's the subject of the Linux kernel thread as the original patch was just to remove a warning from the use of the Intel MSR https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200907094843.1949-1-Jason@zx2... I guess it's
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by vii 6y ago
This write up covers a lot of ground from specific issues around language and protocol transport layer choice to general advice that organisational change without a strong senior sponsor is hard. If you feel that quality needs to be increas
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by vii 6y ago
Coming up with the idea of a portable personal computing device is easy. It's even possible to manufacture it (e.g. the Apple Newton). However it won't affect people's lives until it is quite polished. Similarly figuring out
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by vii 6y ago
There were plenty of platform specific problems with Flash. Steve Jobs famously ranted about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash That said, cross platform compatibility is always going to be hard. I&#x27
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Remembering a classic “time travel” bug(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by vii 6y ago|0 comments
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Binpacking little things onto big things with PAE(rachelbythebay.com)
3 points by vii 6y ago|0 comments
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by vii 6y ago
For the recursive functor application example on a tree, normal meta-programming would be a macro taking the type as an argument, and then generating the resulting case by case application code, at compile time. This would be much clearer a
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by vii 6y ago
This paper is surprisingly accessibly written given the complexities involved and depth of expertise of the author, DJB, who has made great contributions to many fields. Unfortunately nearly all decision making processes are vulnerable to t
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by vii 6y ago
The power of the Apple brand is so extreme that the fact that many users experience near weekly or daily crashes from this bug (or series of bugs) does not convince them to buy other machines. The CalDigit TS3 dock is pretty solid for me on
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by vii 6y ago
Setting a good objective function is pretty hard. In this context of consumer goods, it is at the intersection of three difficult problems: - equivalent to incentivising salespeople, which is known to be very difficult, as short term incent
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by vii 6y ago
There are many alternatives for distributed tracing like Lightstep, Jaeger and so on but the ambitious level of integration with log searching (like ELK) and payload tracking is like an integrated in-house Splunk. Great idea and great to se
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by vii 6y ago
The title is a little confusing as DNS over HTTPS is the technology that comes to mind for DNS privacy. That hides the DNS queries in an HTTPS tunnel, which means fewer actors can see or spoof DNS results. The QNAME minimisation technique d
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by vii 6y ago
The recommendation algorithm generally tries to avoid showing directly similar content. It's surprising it is all cats especially if you ever swipe. Perhaps this is an A-B test and you are in a group with lower boredom avoidance settin
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by vii 6y ago
Same for the Nintendo Switch. Older firmware has exploits, which allow installing Ubuntu, etc. To prevent exploiting, old firmware refuses to boot if the new firmware has ever booted. This is marked by blowing fuses. Note - there is even a
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by vii 6y ago
It's not surprising that a simple theorem doesn't deal with practical trade-offs. In my experience if you feel you are running up against the CAP theorem you need to take a moment to think about the real needs of your application
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by vii 6y ago
From the underlying paper there are several interesting snippets https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.01694.pdf > while maintainers are aware of that they sometimes intentionally bypass the process, they were surprised of the
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by vii 6y ago
Well it might blow up some software not expecting these tiny tick sizes but there is an economic motive for larger tick sizes. Traders can compete on - price - queue position Small ticks mean they compete on price and big ticks mean they co
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by vii 6y ago
It's definitely true that case-folding is generalisable to more generous equivalence notions - for example, more or less whitespace isn't a noticeable difference that people typically want two files for. People casually using thei
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by vii 6y ago
that's what the waiters told us! But here is someone who claims to have found the recipe: http://www.nogarlicnoonions.com/lentrecote-restaurant-famous... * One chicken liver * One shallot * One sprig fresh thyme, tarra
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by vii 6y ago
The practices identified here make sense. Testing pipelines on a small amount of data to make sure there are not simple typos, then doing aggregate statistical tests and specific example condition tests will catch many issues. The paper &qu
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by vii 6y ago
Single menu item steak frites restaurants are available in NYC and London and apparently Mexico City - https://relaisdevenise.com/ They import the secret sauce from France. These restaurants also make it easy to split the b
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by vii 6y ago
The idea of layering security is very powerful, acknowledged in this "Network Operations Division Cryptographic Requirements" document https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/files/NOD%20Cryptographic%...

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