mikebenfield
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Having worked at two big tech companies, I’d say one was the most laid-back, stress free environment I’ve ever worked in, and the other was pretty middle of the road.
I'm all in favor of talking about drawbacks of AI coding and potential future problems. No problem. But at this point just the blanket statement that you'll never use it is not reasonable. It's the equivalent of a…
> What is hard about it? Young children seem to pick it up with ease. It cannot be that hard? They do? I've known plenty of kids and young adults who utterly failed to become even borderline competent at programming.
> artificial deadlines preventing me from writing proper unit tests, or the requirement for code review from people on my team who don't even work on the same codebase as I do on a daily basis I have never experienced…
You've missed the point. The point is that the women in question demand it. There is no shortage of women on social media ranting about how lazy or cheap men are who want to do coffee or drinks for a first date. Or…
Practically that would be very likely to be the case to the reader, but grammatically no, it's still ambiguous. > They went to Oregon with Betty, a maid and a cook. Betty could be both a maid and a cook. So there is…
What's much more sensible than taking an IQ test is looking at your experience with math to date.
Or more. Actually some of them seem inverted. Simple compiler takes 3 months but a GameBoy emulator takes 2 weeks? That’s not my experience at all.
C++ has indeed added many features that help with memory safety, at the cost of getting increasingly more complicated and harder to work with.
I think the idea that Lisp was so much more productive than other languages originates from a much earlier time. But now the most important features of Lisp - like garbage collection - are commonly available in most…
I always thought calling it Xbox One was the most bizarre choice in the history of branding and marketing. Given how common it is to retroactively refer to the first item in a series as "One" (Rambo 1, Rocky 1,…
I tried to use a CPAP machine for a while. I honestly could never figure out how I was supposed to breathe with it. At all. It seemed to be physically impossible. I'd try for a while each night, then get frustrated and…
Big O notation deals with asymptotic behavior of a function - in other words, as N goes to infinity. If we're accepting the premise that N has an upper bound, the rest of the discussion is meaningless. Presumably the…
> Working at an office sucks because of some combination of {long commute, open office plan, team not being there} Working at an office sucks because it is a massive constraint on where you can live, even if you can…
> driving through mostly forested areas Yeah, well that's just not the case at all here. The drive from Stallings to downtown Charlotte is almost entirely on Independence Boulevard, which is very much a stroad (…
So there's a pretty big push for urbanism the last few years. There's lots of YouTube channels and other social media stuff dedicated to the idea that the US needs more walkable neighborhoods, more bike infrastructure,…
There are sometimes apartments spotted around in a suburby area, but due to the nature of US suburbs they don't really get many of the advantages density should bring - everything you might want to go to is still at…
I don't really see how you can choose one without at least a rough idea of the other. How do you know what data structure to use if you have no idea how you'll be accessing the data?
> Is this deep deep flaw endemic to humanity across cultural lines? Yes, almost certainly. > Are millennials/ Gen Z the first generation where men anre (perhaps?) allowed to be almost as emotional as women? This does…
I don't know, but I see unnecessary all caps in other words too - it's not infrequent that I see JAVA and sometimes RUST (for the programming languages). Kind of irks me, but obviously doesn't really matter. Ultimately…
> building more housing doesn’t reduce the demand for housing This is so obviously contrary to experience and common sense I'd characterize it as delusional.
> in scripting languages, a statement does not depend on the following ones to be executed, meaning that the code can just be read through I'm pretty sure this is nonsense and is not a consistent way to distinguish…
> plus 8 bytes for the tag The tag can often be stored inline in the data, so doesn't necessarily require extra space. > because they always take up as much space as the largest wrapped type Yeah... but what's the…
People have to make judgments about which experts in which fields to trust. Should I believe a Catholic priest (or a Muslim imam, or a Jewish rabbi) when it comes to questions about the nature of the universe? What…
> And Go has succeeded despite these condescending diatribes on how a language needs to have a Hindley-Milner type system with ADTs and type classes to be useful Fine. But it's beside your parent comment's point. The…