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nambit··on Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
If it's an experienced C++ job and you don't know the difference between rvalue/lvalue/etc, you're gonna have a tough time.
nambit··on Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of reading books?
I still have a book on programming in COBOL I need to dust off.
nambit··on Cloudmacs: access your Emacs in browser
Sometimes I'm playing a video game on steam and would like to have the steam overlay browser to do some work while I respawn.
nambit··on WeWork lays off 2,400 employees
Why?
nambit··on Currency is popular again, especially the $100 bill
How are they not substantial enough if you started with Bitcoin in 2011??
nambit··on Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network
It's not as easy as "improving" existing protocols. Look at the ipv4 -> ipv6 mess. And even then ipv6 suffers from issues that are tied to how networks were built, etc. See this great article: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

If I'm building something to give connectivity to dog tags, why not do something simpler?

nambit··on Show HN: Darklang
Will you guys be transparent on the pricing then?
nambit··on Microsoft Has First Major Impact on Chrome
You're assuming this person understands data locality, or memory latency or even memory in general.
nambit··on Ten Years of Erlang
>Is determined. Has 20 years of experience.

An average programmer is a few years out of college and is lazy.

nambit··on FTC Gets Jurisdiction for Possible Facebook Antitrust Probe
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/08/ftc-c...
nambit··on It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too
You get better at coding, just like any other skill, the more you do it. So yeah, it's ok to not code at home. But all else being equal, the people who do are better coders.
nambit··on Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)
Yeah. I use markdown hosted file and do the markdown -> html conversion entirely clientside via http://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/#!index.md. I don't think it's possible to do that at all with orgmode?
nambit··on Interviews with developers who became managers
>Remember that you are still creating software - you are just doing it through others.

Managers should not be creating software. Directly or indirectly (unless you're a product manager or in a position where you have to take PM responsibilities). I've had too many managers try to insert themselves in design decisions, micromanaging and what not. Managers should be managing people. Making people happier and more productive and communicating what your people can and cannot do with the higher ups. Even deadlines and milestones, etc should be PM responsibilities, not dev managers.

nambit··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help
Why not just create a gnome-widget that does libinput configuration under the hood?

The purpose of the fork cannot be just to provide sane defaults.

nambit··on Sway 1.0
If you're using Nvidia graphics cards, they do not support proprietary nvidia drivers btw.
nambit··on Sway 1.0
You're conflating two things. Is it that they don't support the features or is it that they're proprietary?
nambit··on Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
Is it really that great? How many apps do we use in our day to day life? Let's say 20 apps that we use regularly.

Is $100 too much for lifetime access to these apps?

nambit··on On Being a Principal Engineer
If you need a principal engineer to tell you to write unit/integration tests, that speaks volumes about the quality of engineering below him.
nambit··on A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
Don't compare a company to a tech.

As an example of a tech, if someone asked me would you want self driving cars to succeed if you could not profit off of them, I would say that's a resounding success. A lot of people are excited about this tech because of the improvement in their daily lives, not because of a profit motive. Compare that to crypto

nambit··on Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip
+1 for outlawing tipping. Add it as a fixed cost of the service or don't. No in between.
nambit··on BuzzFeed employees demand it pay out earned PTO to all laid-off U.S. staffers
Can you quantify how many paid days off you took in the last year?
nambit··on Future JavaScript: what is still missing?
How can you say they're no worse nor better? That's a loaded statement without qualification. It is entirely possible (if not highly likely) that one approach is better (for all or most use cases)
nambit··on I learnt C++ in 2018 and have no regrets
Yup. That's when I stopped reading.
nambit··on Announcing unlimited free private repos
12.5% is still a significant percent of revenue.
nambit··on Tokyo Wants People to Stand on Both Sides of the Escalator
What if I'm tired? Fuck you
nambit··on The Yoda of Silicon Valley
Yeah. Seen this happen too. That usually points to a lack of (good) senior leadership in the dev team (senior developers not product/managers).
nambit··on The Yoda of Silicon Valley
It's only after you've developed a deep understanding that any efforts at integration would be successful. If you just like orchestrating, that's fine but I've met too many managers/product managers who think up lofty ideas on how to integrate various pieces without a deeper understanding of the underlying technology.
nambit··on “Stylish” is back, and you still shouldn't use it
It's open source. You can install from source.
nambit··on Bitcoin falls below $5,000
lmao. People have seen the future and it is decentralized fax machines
nambit··on My App Is Dead in the Water
? A lot of reddit and HN apps don't display the articles in app. Some of them open browser pages. I don't see how your "All ... apps" is quantified.
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