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I think the sincerity of this makes this the funniest thing I've read on HN.

I don't think it is. For a start, it's not the lean/agile way to have a large capital cost for your idea. If the idea dies, so does all that money you've wasted. Secondly, the exam…

The problem facing these tools is a catch-22 really - diagrams are useful when understanding big messy codebases but big messy codebases are hard to visualise. For instance, I freq…

Just learn python, it has general applicability and is fairly easy to pick up.

Housing market is screaming out for a lot more regulation than this, so I welcome it.

Build it the stupid way first is short sighted imo but this might just be an exaggerated way of saying premature optimisation is wasteful. Just putting it out there, but I think Kn…

IMO a lot of teams can do CD but chose not to as they don't have the risk appetite or maybe the resources to handle problems occurred at deployment time. (Tests, however many we ha…

SOAs when implemented correctly don’t have any of the issues Michael describes; for one, cascading errors shouldn’t happen and devs should test for this in their game days.

Years ago when I first graduated went to an interview for a Java dev role. Spent the full day there getting pulled apart by whiteboard interviews, exam papers, and daft questions t…

I work using R almost everyday and I think many of the problems that are unique to R could be solved by having a couple of experienced SWE in the core team to point R in the right …

I’m interested in seeing what stages you have on you’re board and how this works in multi disciplinary teams

I wish folk would move away from the world war two nostalgia, it's debilitating and wasn't at all hard and fast, even if a 90 minute movie cut leads you to believe that.

Not familiar with game development but how would a continous delivery approach work in this case? surely the MVP that could be delivered is the complete game?

I’ve got one criticism in that the over generalisation remark shouldn’t really exist in well designed DRY code - if two function calls and one doesn’t even use most of the paramete…

I don’t see how it can be both 1 and 9 though. In my mind it can only be 1 because anything to right of the division sign should be fully evaluated first before using the result in…

Its a certainty that given any prompt there will be likely one gnarly output, especially the longer that output becomes. What I'd like to see is an estimate of the uncertainty of t…

Skimmed the paper so couldn't possibly give it a fair review but I always feel there's something off when people make comparisons of ANNs to actual biological brains. Even more so …

This simply isn't needed, and if it is it can be done by a charity or any group of people, not something that should be built into the infrastructure of the web itself. You have to…

No idea where you got this statisti, but I guarantee no user would be happy to wait hours or (god forbid) days on a search result.

Off the top of my head I'm thinking that there's a serious lack of thought in these use cases, especially string manipulation which I could imagine becoming painfully slow as the d…