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Certainly chicken is increasingly popular, fish and chips is almost a boutique food these days since fish is expensive and also very easy to make badly. Whereas chicken is cheaper and easier https://archive.is/Mu1DL

Comment · 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be a problem for Nest devices running on Fuchsia OS to get the hardware support they need? Most companies building consumer electronics products rely on hardware vendors to provide working kernels, drivers, etc. Speculatively, if you were able to leverage Android/Linux hardware support without the overhead of the rest of the Android OS, that would free up Nest from having to handle that problem.

Comment · 2 years ago

If you're new to this area, I would first start by understanding which profiling tools you can use depending on the OS, languages and systems involved.

Even if your system is not C++, I've always enjoyed this talk and the subsequent discussion which tackles some of the problems associated with some programming practices and the impact on performance.

CppCon 2014: Mike Acton 'Data-Oriented Design and C++' https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc

Comment · 2 years ago

If it helps I think you're right to take this approach.

In my experience defining error as 'handled' or handleable in code can often not be particularly helpful. Are the values from errno(3) always considered as handled?

EINVAL is almost always in "your" terms a fault, ENOSPC or EPIPE likely could only be handled as complete failures.

What I see too often is code which which propagates

Comment · 2 years ago

The best product manager I worked with was just an exceptionally bright person, they were able to understand complexity of implementation (and even have a reasonable chance of doing it themselves) vs understanding the business need. Just basically a value add to the company without being an engineering manager.

Unfortunately most product managers are just people who sit in the role. They are just gatekeepers who take either credit or blame. They often have little skin in the game.

Overall, if you have a product management organisation, you're doing it wrong.

Comment · 3 years ago

Since I only use reddit logged in and having the user preference set to the old UI, the most effective way for me to go cold turkey is to logout. Any twitch response to back to reddit presents the newer layout and I'm instantly compelled to close the browser tab again.

Comment · 3 years ago

In my opinion, it always helps if you get to know the people reviewing your work personally. Sometimes, this happens naturally. You don't have to be buddies; however, if you understand a person's background, biases, and experience, it adds a lot of context to anything they say.

Comment · 4 years ago

This is all over the US media, there's no engineering content here yet, just a disaster.

Comment · 4 years ago

This is quite ghoulish and fits into the latter category IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Comment · 4 years ago

This has no place on HN

Comment · 4 years ago

Indeed. So imagine doing performance profiling on a 90s UI framework from Psion and then getting feedback from S60 three months later after an integration cycle that you have a core perf or latency problem.