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How can programmers be lazy if programming is hard?

tomaszs — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 19:17:01 +0000

Article URL: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/how-can-programmers-be-lazy-if-coding-is-hard-927c08b41780

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071203

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomaszs in "A math professor who objects to diversity statements"

tomaszs — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:43:52 +0000

Don't use the linked archive.is, the page contains copyright infringements

New comment by tomaszs in "Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies at 88"

tomaszs — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:43:29 +0000

Don't use the linked archive.ph, the page contains copyright infringements

New comment by tomaszs in "Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds"

tomaszs — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:42:54 +0000

Don't use the linked archive.ph, the page contains copyright infringements

New comment by tomaszs in "Mistral looks set to challenge AI frontrunners Google and OpenAI"

tomaszs — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:42:37 +0000

Don't use the linked archive.ph, the page contains copyright infringements

New comment by tomaszs in "A pair of DeepMind scientists talking with investors about forming an AI startup"

tomaszs — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:42:24 +0000

Don't use the linked archive.ph, the page contains copyright infringements

New comment by tomaszs in "Why do big companies ask unrealistic software engineering interview questions?"

tomaszs — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:35:25 +0000

don't use this page, the page is infringing copyright laws

New comment by tomaszs in "What's something difficult programmers make look easy?"

tomaszs — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:01:32 +0000

So you're using a page that stole my article. Thank you

New comment by tomaszs in "What's something difficult programmers make look easy?"

tomaszs — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:00:44 +0000

The article is available for free. Just use the link at the top. It's not paywalled

New comment by tomaszs in "What's something difficult programmers make look easy?"

tomaszs — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:53:24 +0000

in early games it was a metod to save RAM too, for a short time but it did. Because you didn't have to store all mip map parts in the RAM

What's something difficult programmers make look easy?

tomaszs — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:35:23 +0000

Article URL: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/whats-something-very-hard-that-programmers-make-look-easy-80ef5e7a104b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061522

Points: 30

# Comments: 69

Do pro software developers memorize stuff?

tomaszs — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:34:17 +0000

Article URL: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/do-pro-software-developers-memorize-programming-00b282d0b1a4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39048837

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Why do big companies ask unrealistic software engineering interview questions?

tomaszs — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:31:46 +0000

Article URL: https://tomaszs2.medium.com/why-do-big-companies-ask-unrealistic-software-engineering-interview-questions-cb23639ca5d0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39012127

Points: 41

# Comments: 90

New comment by tomaszs in "I spent €200 on Google Ads so you won't have to"

tomaszs — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:20:58 +0000

My pleasure. There's a lot of interesting things in that industry. For example ads are mostly clicked by babies

New comment by tomaszs in "I spent €200 on Google Ads so you won't have to"

tomaszs — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:47:27 +0000

The competition is not against current bidders, but also against historical bidders and averages. It means that even if no one is competing for a ad place, you play against virtual bidders.

That's one reason why ads are so expensive, maximizing bids by companies with high LTV causes bidding to be too expensive for bidders that didn't max out LTV in terms of very wide market.

It's especially troubling because impression campaigns also max out bids.

All in all having a good ROAS is not trivial for conversion based campaigns

New comment by tomaszs in "OpenAI responds to NYT lawsuit, says 'regurgitation' of content is a 'rare bug'"

tomaszs — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:30:40 +0000

I've asked OpenAI chatbot about building a complicated commercial system that processes copyrighted data in a way that attribution is lost and authors are not compensated.

The chatbot told me it doesn't mean copyright laws are lifted and the authors should be compensated and attributed.

Their own system is against them on this one