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    Comment #43878002

    > Imagine you are sitting in a meeting at work. The discussion is around the plan your team had set in motion last quarter, and the results are being reviewed. Data is being twiste…

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    Comment #43749888

    You may also want to pass a resource through something like a channel, promise/future pair or similar. So it's not just down/up the callstack, sometimes it's "sideways". In those c…

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    Comment #43742813

    It makes things easier. Usually the move constructor (or move assignment operator) will cause the moved-from object to stop being responsible for releasing a resource, moving the r…

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    Comment #43739724

    The author of the post claims that defer eliminates the need for RAII. Well, goto also eliminates the "need" but language features are about making life easier, and life is much ea…

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    Comment #43732144

    Yeah it's weird but the author of this post claiming that defer can replace RAII kinda suggests that. RAII isn't just about releasing the resource you acquired in the current scope…

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    Comment #43732115

    > It’s a simple keyword, but it singlehandedly eliminates the need for any kind of RAII. What if you want to put a resource object (which needs a cleanup on destruction) into a vec…

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    Comment #42843026

    To the author, if you're reading this: If you were on such good terms with VP of Eng and C-levels, why didn't you reach out to them and ask what's going on? They could interfere an…

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    Comment #42831960

    Surely there must be a way to counteract this with an app...

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    Comment #42829780

    Ok, I was thinking about something else than stylistic preferences, e.g. making an off-by-one error in an implementation of an algorithm during live coding. Something that indeed w…

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    Comment #42822620

    > The main issue that I see is that interviewers get extra picky with all the minor details and they fail candidates due to minor issues that would get solved in a code review or j…

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    Comment #42774253

    Ahhahah that's beautiful, I'm crying. Skynet sends Terminator to eradicate humanity, the Terminator uses this as its internal reasoning engine... "instructions unclear, dick caught…

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    Comment #42640181

    I think most women are aware that if they go to a nightclub and wear their most attractive outfit, they will receive a lot of attention. And yes, if you receive a lot of attention,…

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    Comment #42638391

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42638374

    OP will surely deliver, let's just wait.

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    Comment #42525656

    Do you mean you implement your own CoT on top of some open source available GPT? (Basically making the model talk to itself to figure out stuff)

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    Comment #42525641

    The economy is meant to serve some people; some people take out of economy more than they give, some people give more than they take.

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    Comment #42353320

    What if your job sucks so much energy out of you, it's even hard to imagine to do something on the side?

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    Comment #41504166

    Thank you for the insights.

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    Comment #41494208

    > It is reasonable to be skeptical of advice on marketing from someone who is selling a product. OTOH you should probably be even more skeptical of marketing advice from someone wh…

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    Comment #41489031

    Of course they do

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    Ask HN: Research on Effectiveness of FOMO Marketing?

    Hi, I'm currently reading "Unscripted - The Great Rat Race Escape" by MJ Demarco (recommended), and there he presents the "SCAIDA" marketing strategy (Self-centered, Attention, Int…

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    Comment #33854513

    Same experience. I've spent hours trying to teach it about Peano numbers. "A thingie is either N or Sx where x is a thingie". After sufficient explanations, it could produce valid …

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    Comment #33849978

    I'm trying to teach it addition. I'm failing. > Definition: a "thingie" is either a "nuthingie", or "s(x)" where x is a thingie. So the possible thingies are: nuthingie, s(nuthingi…

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    Comment #33653652

    This model doesn't cover the staging area though.