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jherico commented on Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it? · Posted by u/zackoverflow

trevor-e · 9 months ago

This thread is certainly eye opening. It reminds me of a post I saw somewhere, maybe on Reddit, where someone was describing their experience working as an intern at an old-school tech shop. All of the developers there were hardcore Vim/Emacs users with 20+ years of experience.

The intern was tasked with a large-scale refactoring of some modules which the senior devs estimated would take months of work to complete. After shadowing a senior dev to get an idea of the work involved, they realized the dev was literally string replacing a lot of the code, hence why the estimate was ridiculously long. The intern instead loaded the project into IntelliJ and used the built-in refactoring tools to get the task done in a couple days. This caused a bit of an internal shit-storm with the product owners because the intern made the devs "look bad".

jherico · 9 months ago

The intern didn't make them "look bad". They were bad. I mean, I'm sure that they were great developers in some sense, but refusing to ever update your toolkit because you've always gotten along just fine with what you already use is a great way to get sped past by the next generation who start from a better baseline.

jherico commented on Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago monash.edu/science/news-e... · Posted by u/geox

GenerocUsername · a year ago

The moon is pretty reflective... If the rings were oriented just right it might actually mirror lots of light that would have missed earth and bounce it down to ground. Possible it would heat the earth.

jherico · a year ago

My suggestion is not to blow up the moon, but to launch payloads from earth via nuclear pulse propulsion containing extremely low albedo material, like coal dust, and create an artificial ring that way.

jherico commented on Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago monash.edu/science/news-e... · Posted by u/geox

jherico · a year ago

Yes! It says the rings would have caused a cooling effect. Vindication that my mad science plan of giving the Earth an artificial ring system to combat climate change is viable!

jherico commented on AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source phoronix.com/review/radeo... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

gdiamos · 2 years ago

These were a huge pain in the ass when I tried this 20 years ago on Ocelot.

Eventually one of the NVIDIA engineers just asked me to join and I did. :-P

jherico · 2 years ago

Do the job you want, not the job you have, eh?

jherico commented on How do I become a graphics programmer? gpuopen.com/learn/how_do_... · Posted by u/pjmlp

raytopia · 2 years ago

If you want to be a retro graphics programmer reject shaders and return to glBegin.

jherico · 2 years ago

I'm sure there's a set of shaders that will basically let you emulate the fixed function pipeline without having to endure the shitty performance implications of passing a vertex list to the GPU every single frame.

jherico commented on iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine 404media.co/activists-pet... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

Aaronstotle · 2 years ago

For anyone interested in a good video about this, there is YT video that details how the Ice Cream Machine's being broken is essentially a scheme that McDonald's corporate runs on their franchisees.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4

jherico · 2 years ago

I've seen this video and while it's informative overall, it's also about 10 minutes or less of information stretched out to 30 minutes. super repetitive throughout and trying to constantly tickle you with the idea that resolution to questions are coming any second now.

jherico commented on Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (2008) scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Bender

lazide · 2 years ago

Uh no?

The water at the ground level on the ocean will have the same pressure as the water at ground level in the pipe. The water at 230m down in the pipe will be the same as the water 230m down in the ocean.

Even if the pipe is capped on both ends.

jherico · 2 years ago

a pipe 230m tall with the bottom at ground level would experience the same hydrostatic pressure as water 230m under the ocean. the pressure comes from the weight of water above it, not distance from sea level. this is literally how water towers work.

jherico commented on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers stanforddaily.com/2023/07... · Posted by u/dralley

koheripbal · 2 years ago

Given the rampant nepotism in Stanford admissions, the whole school needs to shut down.

jherico · 2 years ago

I feel like with the skyrocketing costs of education in the US, fixing the problem is probably a better path than "burn it all down"

jherico commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

mavelikara · 2 years ago

Orum | Staff Software Engineer | Remote (US and Canada only) | Full-time | https://orum.com/

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Our current technology stack includes NodeJS with Typescript, Ruby, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform, and FreeSWITCH.

What we would love to see:

* 8+ years of experience as a software engineer

* 5+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team

* Minimum of 1+ years in an architect, principal, or staff engineer role

* Proven track record of owning products and features through their lifecycles - from discovery to deployment

* Strong familiarity with NodeJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and React

* Experience measuring and tuning the performance of NodeJS applications

* Familiar with Unix shell scripting

More details here: https://www.orum.com/careers

jherico · 2 years ago

Put that coffee down. Coffee is for closers.

jherico commented on Over 100 artists are boycotting concert venues using facial recognition rollingstone.com/music/mu... · Posted by u/obscurette

theamk · 2 years ago

I don't see a business need here. The business of Ticketmaster is to sell tickets. As long as there is no fraud/scalping involved, they have no need to know who is going to be using them.

I can maybe grudgingly agree that the info on actual purchasers might be useful to design better site.. but you don't need to track your customers long term to see A/B test results. And the other people are clearly out of scope, since they don't actually use the website and thus do not care about it.

jherico · 2 years ago

the dream of every ticket seller is to extract as much money as each ticket user is willing to pay. knowing who's getting tickets means more opportunities for differential pricing.