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Re:Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:50PM (#26231749)
I didn't want to
Re:Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position on Monday February 22, 2021 @05:49PM (#26231733)
How dare you
Re:Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position on Monday February 22, 2021 @06:12AM (#26223185)
No
Being 15yo.
In the source code it says "I have discovered truly marvelous weights for this, which this header file is too small to contain"
Re:Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out on Thursday January 28, 2021 @10:25AM (#25943204)
You're overestimating the competency, drive, and intelligence of an average developer.

Fortunate are you to have worked with people to give you such a point of view.

Re:Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:28AM (#25941462)
I remember this as a Firefox plugin back in the early 2000's. Why is this news?
Re:Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf] on Monday January 25, 2021 @04:04AM (#25901061)
It's not penalty or step size. It's loss as in amount of information lossd (not encoded in your network) compared to one perfectly encoding ground truth. Learning rate, as in what is the maximum amount of delta you are allowed to change your inputs to minimise your information loss analogous to how quickly you can possibly learn in one experiment.
Re:What Can You Put in a Refrigerator? (2015) on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:05PM (#25827232)
Hacker news really has gone down hill of late..
> Watching a movie? Is the movie good enough you want to give up 2 hours billable?

Lie?

Re:The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:38PM (#25720205)
I'm in two minds about this (deeper integration with a particular vendor - i.e. "serverless")

Reduced time to market is incredibly valuable. Current client base is well in its millions. Ability to test to few and roll out to many instantly is invaluable. You no longer have to hire competent software developers who understand all patterns and practices to make scalable code and infrastructure. Just need them to work on a particular unit or function.

The thing which scares me is, some of these companies are decades of years old, hundreds. How long has AWS/GCP/Azure abstractions been around for? How quick are we to graveyard some of these platforms. Quite. A lot quicker than you can lift, shift and rewrite your solution to elsewhere.

Re:Vuejs rejects close to 75% of outside contributions on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:17PM (#25719982)
Ahhh the applying Torvalds approach to code reviews.
It's far less nuanced than that. It's the "old man shouts at cloud" meme, grumpy, lazy, old man wants to communicate to the word using methods he already knows.
Re:Show HN: Array – A Better Python List on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:53AM (#25715119)
Why would I use this over numpy?
Because it implies you are invested in the particular technology enough to care about minutiae.

Personally I just like using it as banal objection to win arguments.

Because that's its most common use - to impersonate as a privileged user - so su quite naturally becomes super user
Re:Apple Fixes Bagel Emoji (2019) on Saturday January 09, 2021 @02:26PM (#25703666)
Uh oh. It's not vegan then.
Re:Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F# on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:58AM (#25699346)
what do you think HTTP GET /foo.js does? This is no different.
Re:Best of show – abuse of libc on Friday January 08, 2021 @06:58PM (#25692763)
>Format specifiers can take extra “arguments”. - "%hhn": store the number of bytes written mod 256 to the char pointer ...

Oh boy. I'll put that down for my "thing I don't think I wanted to know" of the day.

Metaphorically speaking. I.e. not quite DnD, but likely would want to be contained
Re:Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020 on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:57AM (#25683172)
abstruse

Completely agree, your solution is more clear.

Re:Peter Norvig's “pytudes” for Advent of Code 2020 on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:51AM (#25683146)
I wouldn't worry about it. Jobs that require this are few and far between - so the necessity isn't there. HN have a wideon for this leetcode stuff. In reality, unless it's your hobby, you don't need to be able.
Re:How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:39AM (#25683098)
Why would they? What business sense would this make? The image they want to portray would be that they are capable of everything in-house - Their staff are not only experts in robotics but also art too. In reality it's not quite true.

Just like you also don't see them saying "Thanks to PwC for developing our software."

No thanks. I am not giving you my résumé so you can harvest it for job seeker market insights.
Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:05PM (#25678917)
What was that on?
Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:03PM (#25678900)
They self document what they did at work in their own private time. Companies engender this behaviour by calling them "heroes" or "MVP". Particular product/technology gets exposure, free (as in beer) advertising, and similarly as free digestible documentation (project walkthrough) from your staff.

If you forced employee to publish on a wiki, it would feel far too much like work. Having it on a privately owned public forum gives a sense of personal ownership and development.

>We recently migrated our internal CLI tool from Node JS to Golang

Why? Out of things to do? Wanted to look productive?

Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:35AM (#25670309)
I'm gonna stay on WhatsApp. Can't beat convenience. Also good luck getting granny and grandpa to move to some weird ass app that barely works or has weird onboarding or unintuitive UX.

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