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posedge··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
I'm surprised by this direct and candid tone.
posedge··on The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash
Given that an md5 hash is 128 bit, by simple brute force, you would need to try 2^128 variants (in expectation) to find the matching hash. Thats rougly 10^38 combinations. That's a huge number, I can't imagine that the author simply hashed variants until one happened to match, there must habe been some other technique involved.
posedge··on Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
I agree with most of what you said, but can't think of a single game that looks good on the Switch (by today's standards). Can you name some examples?
posedge··on Toxic Productivity
Can you give some examples of which things haven't changed?
posedge··on What science says: Could humans survive a nuclear war between NATO and Russia?
Care being a bit more specific?
posedge··on Boyfriend-alert – A light based alert system
Fortunately, having discord running in the background will interrupt you another 1927329 times that day for equally important things
posedge··on They're putting guns on robot dogs now
Yikes. It even looks like the killer robot dogs from black mirror.
posedge··on Web Browser Engineering
Maybe we should have a SaaS browser.
posedge··on Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American
The only true format is the programmer's yyyy-mm-dd :)
posedge··on WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but you're probably hurting yourself far more than them
posedge··on Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
I currently have a full time job. There is the option of reducing to 80%, but that comes with the respective salary cut. I'm wondering if it's worth it, also the increased productivity is not accounted for from a financial perspective.
posedge··on Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
Sounds like a dream. I'd love to work in short bursts of highly productive work instead of full work weeks of mostly lingering around and wasted time to fill the hours. I wonder though, how does it work out financially?
posedge··on Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
Agreed. For me personally, commuting is a big factor - I love not doing it... Unfortunately, permanent WFH will probably not work for me for other reasons, in particular I think that the face to face interaction with coworkers cannot be replaced...
posedge··on Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
Clever optimization engines are IMO no excuse for blindly throwing queries at it and not knowing what's going on. Every optimizer has some corner cases in which it fails and I'd argue that as a good developer you should know when they can happen.

Additionally, in this example, the rewritten query is easier to read and maintain.

posedge··on Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats
With each of those blog posts I'm fascinated by the pace at which they release new features.
posedge··on The Problem with Gradle
Yeah about that, do you have some insight on why the X background daemons are always 'incompatible' and gradle launches up new ones?
posedge··on Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
Probably better than being on Hacker News at 1 in the morning on a Tuesday.
posedge··on A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots
Are the tweets filtered for the event in any way, or is it just a random collection from all of twitter on that day?
posedge··on Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
Listening to the podcast just a minute ago as I found this post... What a coincidence. I second that recommendation.
posedge··on Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look
Something like that would be happening very gradually over time.
posedge··on Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (2012)
It amazes me that, under the right circumstances, the wiggle room can reach levels as high as 50%. I wonder what they were thinking when they made you the initial offer.
posedge··on Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?
I like the idea of a fun interview. This will take pressure off the candidate and he will be able to show his strenghts better.
posedge··on Ami, a tiny cube on wheels that French 14-year-olds can drive
Please don't say 'Europe' when you mean 'Italy'.
posedge··on I built an app to fix my depression
I'm glad I found this. I will come back to your blog and to the app. Thanks for sharing.
posedge··on Kotlin 1.4
How about tooling/the ecosystem? Python has all the scipys, pandas, scikits, tensorflows, pytorches.
posedge··on Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong
I find it both amusing and ridiculous that you have to go to such great lengths to be able to type a good swear word on the iphone.
posedge··on Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source time series database
Your story is very inspiring. I wish you all the best with this project.
posedge··on Data structures and algorithms I actually used while working at tech companies
Is it just me or is the author working on far more interesting problems than most of us?
posedge··on Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing magic instructions and fix problems
"Linux founder"

Folks, anyone who knows what Linux is also knows who Linus Torvalds is.

posedge··on Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" - Goodheart's law.

Give people a metric - any metric - and they will (conciously or otherwise) start optimizing that instead of the actual goal.

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