Steven Luu

Doing some stuff at Facebook. Microsoft alum. Opinions expressed here are definitely NOT mine.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@skeptrune @PawelJLisowski code review isn’t just to review the code. it’s also for others to ask questions and gain context, and for them to ask you to put inline comments or add more to the commit message so the intent is clear. when debug an issue at 3am, you aren’t around, they can figure things out.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@peakedin2009 @WinterAndFinn how many WC does Rebecca Lowes have?

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@GergelyOrosz Waste or not, I would say it got a lot of AI skeptics to jump onboard and many now happily and willingly use it for their work every day.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

Good engineers will say B is better. Great engineers will say it depends…

[Cap-EO 👨🏾‍💻 @EOEboh]

Interviewer:

Which of these two queries
performs better and why?

-- Query A
SELECT * FROM orders
WHERE YEAR(created_at) = 2024

-- Query B
SELECT * FROM orders
WHERE created_at >= '2024-01-01'
AND created_at < '2025-01-01'

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@progsdi @EOEboh The only right answer I’ve seen under the replies

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

Hey @Fastmail I just got a phishing email sent from [email protected] (sent to my email address currently hosted on FM). How is that possible?

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@excalidraw "Island"

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@geekyAyushi There's no need to over-engineer a URL shortener https://t.co/5DzbXPqfar

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@sama @paulg 10m x 10m isn't massive. should fit on the wall of a big auditorium?

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@mariioalt @OrdinaryInds @Doctorthe113 "One command"? Sure, which one? Apt or snap or flatpak or yum...? And where did it install?

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@neogoose_btw @oisyn i meant do the equivalent like the Java side where you wrap the unsafe inside a safe function, then do .expect(...) instead of just .unwrap()

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@VoxelPrismatic @neogoose_btw the C side also uses unwrap() while the java side [intentionally] uses a long line for expect(...)?

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@neogoose_btw @oisyn and cool. now do it without unsafe on the C side

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@gregmushen @DougChampion what about redundancy? MR/DR? your ISP down? power outage? basement flooding? I self-host what i can, but i hope you realize in addition to hardware, you're paying for the SLA & the up time.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@nickgillespie https://t.co/GpdHc6lC6k

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

I'm glad that Kamala Harris lost, very cautiously optimistic abt what might come next. But if politics is the main place where find meaning, community, and identity, you're screwed whatever side you're on. Politics can't do the work of living your life for you.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

All the replies in here saying "you shouldn't sort by ID" doesn't realize the database itself often uses the primary key to order how it stores data. This industry is doomed.

[Pontus Abrahamsson @pontusab]

UUIDs are not great, and they are not sortable.

Learned the hard way.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@davepl1968 c++ makes it easy to abuse.
besides, rust has a better type system, fewer to no UB.
most importantly, Cargo. c++ build and dependency management is still a mess.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@LewisCTech @davepl1968 don't forget cargo. dependency and build management in c++ is still a mess

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@davepl1968 @Shinsego @ZacksJerryRig Disagree with "not of their own making." It's these people's own doing when they choose to support Elon, that's part of the risk they take. And it is their own making for not assessing the risks associated with whom they're investing in.

[Steven Luu @stnluu]

@CountTwoOne @veerpy @im_roy_lee sounds like you have never worked in big tech. I won’t continue this conversation further as we don’t have the same knowledge baseline about this subject