Tassos Bassoukos

@ImSh4yy @erulabs Oh man, I remember handling one of those. Weighted a ton.

@erulabs The 30GB RAM:

You can rent a $5 VM, drop in a SQLite file and some JavaScript, and have it pay off your bills every month.

@PiotrKafel If you can keep the tests around, you definitely did something with continuing impact.

I spent the last 2 days debugging a discrepancy between results from the current pricing engine and the new one. 2 days of debugging, writing tests and trying multiple things manually to find out why. I feel like I did nothing else this week. I found it. I'm exhausted. I need a weekend.

@PiotrKafel @X This is why I switched to Mastodon, Twitter is dripping in quality recently. There's exactly 2 persons that is still follow on Twitter.

One of the things I hate the most about @X is how some people try to force engagement 🙄

@PiotrKafel This is the seo-ed to hell and back, to the extent the experimental generative search experience that G now offers is much more useful than the main search (which is why it won't go anywhere, G isn't going to kill their golden goose)

@PiotrKafel Have you tried looking up anything nontrivial lately? Everyone is reblogging the same trivial tutorials, neatly stopping right where the complexity makes things interesting - and useful.

It's a bit embarrassing that Java 21 is out and most of the Twitter talks about its shorter syntax for main function 🙄

@PiotrKafel Sometimes I'm still like xkcd.com/386/ but it's getting more rare in recent years...

So much drama recently on the Tech Twitter. Typescript / Rails / Bun etc Some takes trigger me to the point I really want to respond and correct them but at the end of the day I put my phone down. It's just the internet.

@PiotrKafel My advice is to embrace the functional side. IntelliJ has some neat advices on when to switch to streams / sequences for performance, or when to use fused operators. Also, beware of extension functions, as they are an easy footgun.

@abas Yeah, I like it so far as well. I faced some problems when working with generics as they are slightly different than in Java but I think I get it now. Looking forward to writing some more code in it!

This week I have done PR reviews of code in Kotlin. The language is easy to read and when you know Java it seems it's even easier. But then I tried to write a few classes from scratch and it was not so easy anymore. I guess its time to learn Kotlin! 🥳

@PiotrKafel @TeamBlind It's a more or less toxic community where ones value is solely measured by that number.

I cannot wrap my head around @TeamBlind People post there about problems with health \ marriage \ kids and every single post ends with total compensation they have... like it matters 🤯

@PiotrKafel A counterperspective: Groupon did not understand the enshittification cycle, mistimed it, and alienated both customer bases before Groupon grew big enough to effectively execute the value capture.

When I left Groupon in 2021 I wrote a small note to myself. I didint share it with anybody. Today I talked with some people from the company which triggered memories. Sharing mostly for people I worked with while in Merchant Org but I hope others will enjoy it as well 🙏🏻

@crimebucket It is probably a surprise to many, but full stack reaction times on current self driving cars are quite a bit worse than a race car driver. This is one of the areas where optimization would help!

@PiotrKafel The counterpoint is that if you have a loan, your rates have jumped through the roof.

Interest rates for saving accounts and term deposits in Germany are currently between 2 - 3%... From one side its better than nothing. On the other hand I just realized you can get saving accounts in Poland with 8% interest rate 🙄

@panda_rocks2020 @GergelyOrosz And when I read a new piece of code, I always think wtf the author was thinking, and I can rewrite it so much cleaner and tighter - but if I dive deeper, there's _always_ some reason why things are as they are.

@GergelyOrosz but business leaders often do not think this way, their impression will be so there are many deadweights previously and they will feel fully justified in their decision

I have been increasingly surprised how Twitter kept - mostly! - functioning despite firing devs + devs quitting, not paying vendors & having trouble hiring experienced engineers. A testament to the resilience of the system built by the former team. You can only do this so long.

Would you like to be surprised? Go to the twitter homepage in incognito mode. Ingenious way to increase account numbers...

@davidthomas426 @mitsuhiko @rishmishra So over time clang extended to compile all of C++, and in the process got as slow as gcc, and llvm got up to comparable speed, and number of CPUs as gcc, and got as slow at compiling. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

@PiotrKafel Congrats man, good to hear!

I signed a thing 🥳

@PiotrKafel Yeah, I still get contacted by recruiters about opportunities in companies that have announced layoffs, and when pressed they claim that it's about a different department/vertical. TBH not even the rank-and-file within the company will know in advance of layoffs.

You would think that getting an offer is the end of a problem but not in the current market. Layoffs are still happening and you never know if the company you are signing a contract with will have another round in a few weeks \ months. This is crazy.

@PiotrKafel Hah, that view reminds me of all the Zachtronics games... Optimizations ftw

Often preparing for interviews requires more coding than one does when working. On an irrelevant note - today's coding challenge at LeetCode is Knth largest element! Have fun folks!

I need a way to filter out all the "Topic X is blowing up. Here's what you need to know/Here's N things you can do now" tweets that have started plaguing my twitter feed...

Consensus seems to be that ChatGPT/GPT-4 is getting dumber week by week (where "dumber" usually means loss of previously-available function). I'm reminded of this scene: youtube.com/watch?v=dk4P0a…