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Lots of fun counter examples to this. Complex numbers were introduced in the 1600s with no practical application for almost 300 years until they were used in electromagnetism and q…

i notice a huge difference between working on large systems with lots of microservices and building small apps or tools for myself. The large system work is what you describe, but …

it's used extensively in java and it would be my first choice when starting a java project. I don't think I'd use it in Go though.

i like reactive programming in other languages but it is at odds with Go's philosophy of simplicity and avoiding big abstractions

Ya except people with innate talent are frequently lazy and take their talent for granted. You can often outwork these people and get better than them

I kind of agree with you. On the one hang OP is logically correct, on the other it's very sad and a form of a tragedy of the commons. If everyone gave candid feedback we'd all be b…

Even when it is the case you can logically come to a resolution but if you don't emotional feel it, the problem/conflict is not solved and will come up again. In my experience this…

Good luck with that :)

I think this blind spot exists because the pure engineering/logic mindset is such a massive superpower in so many elements of life, people fail to consider that it might not always…

A lot of people should be mad at Marc Tessier-Lavigne, not just HN folks. He lied for personal gain at the expense of scientific progress and millions of patients who suffer

The controversy over the amyloid hypothesis comes from a Stanford professor faking data[1] and setting the field back decades. The amount of harm this individual caused is hard to …

in poker AI solvers tell you what the optimal play is and it's your job to reverse engineer the principles behind it. It cuts a lot of the guess work out but there's still plenty o…

For comparison if you run your own hardware and do a memcached KV lookup with a different server on the same rack, p99 times are slightly under 1ms. Given the guarantees of cosmosd…

I had a lightbulb moment recently where I had a recruiter ask me if I had any experience building recommendation systems. While I don't use that word on my resume, my resume is ful…

> only take action when there is actual evidence and proof of harm being done. Sounds like a good way to kill a lot of people

Imagine a scenario where option B does 10x better than option A during the morning hours but -2x worse the rest of the day. If you start the multi armed bandit in the morning it co…

git bisect is an absolute power feature everybody should be aware of. I use it maybe once or twice a year at most but it's the difference between fixing a bug in an hour vs spendin…

Figure out the core technologies they use and become an expert at them. Read the documentation of those technologies like a book. Is kafka at the heart of the stack? Learn everythi…

this is a great write up, thank you

but there isn't actually a second set of eyes because the second set of eyes you're thinking about is complaining about formatting or slamming the approve button without actually l…

It would obviously be crazy to roll your own numpy or lightgbm. But there's plenty of bloat in the library space where the cost of integration and upkeep is far more expensive than…

It's crazy because the JDs will be so extremely specific to a niche skillset and I still won't get a reply.

The internet is unusable without ublock origin and privacy bafger. When I use my friend's computers without ad block I have to fix that first

If I'm not having fun learning something I can't stick with it. Efficiency without tenacity/grit is useless. It's kind of a tautology that "more efficient is better", but I agree i…