hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Minimalism – An undervalued development skill
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hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Working for a startup makes less sense
right, wasn't looking for the company actually, by "where" I meant the location, which I think is NYC based on your handle! Congrats, that's a great gig!
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Working for a startup makes less sense
where is this? also, how many years of experience?
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study
All feelings are true, but they might not be valid. Invalid feelings are less actionable
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Fashionable Problems
I might be overgeneralizing, but I feel like 10-15 years ago everyone wanted to do wireless communications, now everyone wants to do AI, and probably in a few years everyone wants to do Blockchain or something else. I kinda find it hard to believe that those people are all passionate about the field, not the massive career opportunities.
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Fashionable Problems
Well, you just kinda answered your question. There is STL, Qt and Boost. Like all other languages. They do the same thing but in different capacities, you should select based on your needs. I think std::string can be supplemented for Unicode support, I am gonna say the fmt library was the supplement but I feel like I am wrong.
I used std::string and QString extensively for 4-5 years and find QString inexplicably bloated and un-intuitive for my use cases.
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Fashionable Problems
Modern c++ is pretty good, honestly. With the power of STL, you can so many neat things, and make beautiful code. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEnO6SvAMo
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: People who tend to be optimistic are likelier to live to 85 or more: study
"Optimism Bias" improves our mental and physical well-being. Biases are irrational, by definition. Our mind is supposedly rational...and rationality is not always to our benefit.
This kinda blew my mind when I was reading up some philosophy. My key takeaway was that rationality and logic is not always helpful to make decisions, esp. when it comes to complex systems such as people (i.e. relationships). As an engineer, it's tough to get past this mindset. On a daily basis I am striving to disconnect everything as much as possible because of scale and performance, but the human brain is nothing like that.
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and Hating Itself
Hmm, I think if you're good/bad at dating, you'd be like that anywhere. As in, big cities generally aren't great in dating for dudes.
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
this is why Toronto is one of the most multi-cultural and also depressing and coldest cities
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
most of these influencers think they're famous for their unique talents, that's why it might be sexist to suggest they are famous for their looks only
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
I think she's gonna be fine. Most of them are. Attractive people generally do well, attractive people with money almost always do.
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
yeah she's pretty, also ethnic (like, born and raised in the middle east)
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
yeah I watched that when it came out in 2017, I thought in the end the influencer was depicted as a good person who's earned her status, no?
hadiz | 6 years ago | on: Alienated, Alone and Angry: What the Digital Revolution Did?
A software engineering position at Uber in SF seems to be something of value to most people on HN. I know someone who quit that position to focus on her Instagram career. She was not a mode or anything, one day she just announced she's turned vegan and voila, she was an influencer. Now she owns a house in West Hollywood. All within 8-10 months.
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I joined on the brink of this decision i.e. moving to ginkgo. I was the first and only person to ask what does ginkgo do that "go test" does not for us? Nobody could really answer that.
Turns out, much like myself, and most engineers who weren't Googlers at the time, didn't really know golang and its environment. They all kinda assumed that like any other popular language, esp. for system programming (like C++) golang in its infancy requires a test framework supplement.
Well, no it doesn't. "go test" is standard which if we're lucky, means we never have to re-write tests 10-20 years down the line because it's the standard.