Ah, "heisenbugs". I'm glad there's another person on the planet using this term. :)
It's a reference to the principle right?
Where have I been these past few years?
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Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#62Always sad to be reminded how many good people get their careers swallowed up by a corporation. The public sphere suffers. I have a lot of anger towards Google in particular, who seems to relish in having private resources, secrets, learning and technology that only the annointed may access. I should probably talk to my therapist about that.
Honest question: how else do you pay the bills?
My philosophy: sell luxuries in narrow channels but distribute medicine broadly.
It's pretty subjective what fits in which bin, people should decide for themselves. But Google certainly has resources that they consider to be "medicine" for their employees and yet they keep those products in-house.
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#63Ah, "heisenbugs". I'm glad there's another person on the planet using this term. :)
I didn't think it was that uncommon.
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#64Ah, "heisenbugs". I'm glad there's another person on the planet using this term. :)
It's a reference to the principle right?
I guess you're referring to the uncertainty principle, but this one is more related to the observer effect[1] (also described by Heisenberg): Observing a system alters its state.
In terms of software, it describes bug that change their behaviour (usually vanish) when being investigated. The reason is often a racing condition that swaps to one side due to blocking one thread through a debugger or additional delay through print statements.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fat finger downvoted you. Here's my verbal upvote. This was news to me, thanks.
These days there's an "unvote" text link added next to their name, or "undown" for the case of a downvote.
In addition, on my mobile, when I accidentally or intentionally hit the downvote, it doesn't take the first couple of times. This has saved me numerous unintentional downvotes. Thanks, HN!
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#66Always sad to be reminded how many good people get their careers swallowed up by a corporation. The public sphere suffers. I have a lot of anger towards Google in particular, who seems to relish in having private resources, secrets, learning and technology that only the annointed may access. I should probably talk to my therapist about that.
Damn, how did you survive the 80s/90s!
(I think I can guess the answer).
Things could always be better, but at least it's routine now for stuff like Swift, GoLang, Rust, Protobufs, Cassandra, etc. to get built for internal use and then shared with the world. A far cry from software's dark ages.
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#67Ah, "heisenbugs". I'm glad there's another person on the planet using this term. :)
Nearly all erlang devs knows it. It is the class they try to get rid of by using erlang.
Re: Where have I been these past few years?
#68I know its a common phrase like "hair on fire", but seriously, "jumping on live grenades" is super gross. That probably happened last week in Syria. I get it, its just an expression we use in the industry. Its all good to hear it, but lets maybe stop using it.
hang out to dry
beat a dead horse
bang for your buck
pull X out of your a--
cut off at the knees
sweat bullets
squeeze blood from a turnip