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andyg_blog commented on If you truncate a UUID I will truncate your fingers gieseanw.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/andyg_blog

Nair0 · 3 months ago

Actually didn't know the stuff explained in here. Also really love the tone of the post, angrily explaining stuff, good read!

andyg_blog · 3 months ago

Really appreciate it. I love mixing humor with technical communication. This post is topical because strangely I encountered GUID truncation three times in the last week.

Posted by u/andyg_blog 3 months ago

If you truncate a UUID I will truncate your fingers gieseanw.wordpress.com/20...

andyg_blog commented on Multiple status ladders are better than a monoculture shakeddown.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

andyg_blog · 9 months ago

I'm skeptical these status ladders truly exist outside of the author's imagination, but then again I've never been part of that side of tech culture. It doesn't ring true of my own experience where pretty much every technical person sees other technical people on equal footing. This includes "big names" in tech that I've spoken with.

Edited to add: what's hypothetical about Alice being happy to run a coffee shop or Bob satisfied being a 90th percentile engineer (measured how?)? Plenty of these people exist, I've met them!

andyg_blog commented on Push Ifs Up and Fors Down matklad.github.io/2023/11... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

andyg_blog · 10 months ago

A more general rule is to push ifs close to the source of input: https://gieseanw.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/dont-push-ifs-up-p...

It's really about finding the entry points into your program from the outside (including data you fetch from another service), and then massaging in such a way that you make as many guarantees as possible (preferably encoded into your types) by the time it reaches any core logic, especially the resource heavy parts.

Posted by u/andyg_blog a year ago

Minimum Reviewable Unit gieseanw.wordpress.com/20...

andyg_blog commented on Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack? · Posted by u/etlaM

andyg_blog · a year ago

Markdown that is then unceremoniously shoveled to WordPress with some finagling of the images. I'm not trying to experiment with fancy tech when I write, just trying to get the words out of my head.

If something gets mathy I'll use LaTex.

andyg_blog · a year ago

You can downvote me all you want. I'm not claiming any kind of superiority of WordPress but merely answering the question in the OP. I've had this blog for 15 years now, long before WordPress was so reviled. It just works and I'm still on their free tier.

andyg_blog commented on Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack? · Posted by u/etlaM

andyg_blog · a year ago

Markdown that is then unceremoniously shoveled to WordPress with some finagling of the images. I'm not trying to experiment with fancy tech when I write, just trying to get the words out of my head.

If something gets mathy I'll use LaTex.

andyg_blog commented on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE wired.com/story/elon-musk... · Posted by u/medler

nailer · a year ago

Why? The article is provably false - these are demonstrably not inexperienced engineers.

andyg_blog · a year ago

Please elaborate? I define experience in terms of mostly "time" spent on something. And I consider any engineer with less than 5 yrs of experience as "inexperienced" regardless of whether they are talented or not. I've met many talented, but inexperienced engineers who still needed redirecting.

andyg_blog commented on F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf] open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg... · Posted by u/HeliumHydride

andyg_blog · a year ago

I agree that we should have safe-by-default "decay" behavior to a plain ol std::string, but I'm also picking up that many aren't certain it's a useful syntactic sugar in top of the fmt lib? Many other languages have this same syntax and it quickly becomes your go-to way to concatenate variables into a string. Even if it didn't handle utf-8 out of the box, so what? The amount of utility is still worth it.

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