Arainach

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by Arainach 1y ago
It doesn't. There are words explicitly to draw attention. There's TODO and IMPORTANT and WARNING. A swear is inferior to any of these.
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by Arainach 1y ago
Cursing adds nothing to the code. "// Stupid fucking hack" is worse than "stupid hack" (more characters while conveying no extra information) and much worse than "work around Lotus 123 leap year calculati
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by Arainach 1y ago
There are far more than two types; all of the most effective programmers I've ever worked with can do everything you mentioned and write professionally. If we have to boil it down to two types, however, I'd split it as "peo
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by Arainach 1y ago
Hopefully in a few decades the last of the people who think that using respectful discourse means no fun can be had will be gone and we can stop rehashing these threads. You're contributing to something that runs on billions of devices
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by Arainach 1y ago
>mediocre people will produce even worse work and will weed themselves out. [[Citation needed]] I don't believe anyone who has experienced working with other people - in the workspace, in school, whatever - believes that people get
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by Arainach 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what's your use case for it? Years ago I preferred Sumatra/Foxit to Adobe, but every major browser has supported rendering PDFs for at least a decade and I haven't had needed or wanted a dedicated PDF reade
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by Arainach 1y ago
Productivity per capita is dramatically up since the 1970s. Wages are flat. Employers are greedy and short sighted. Employers would rather pay more to hire someone new who doesn't know their business than give a raise to an existing em
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by Arainach 1y ago
Piper's syntax is Perforce syntax. I moved to Google from Microsoft and back when employee orientation involved going to Mountain View and going into labs to learn the basics, it was amusing to see fresh college hires confused at not-g
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by Arainach 1y ago
I strongly object to "look it up yourself" which is the argument of charlatans and lazy people. If you make a claim, support it yourself.
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by Arainach 1y ago
Animations are not necessarily bullshit, but all of the sites in the linked list of rewards are. Sites which hijack scroll to do something else ("you scrolled down and watch the window in this picture of a house open up and reveal the
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by Arainach 1y ago
Dogs have nothing to do with it. People are choosing not to have kids, especially in America, because they can barely pay for rent, food, and (if they're fortunate) healthcare for themselves. Going out to eat is a luxury that even sof
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by Arainach 1y ago
>I can source dozens of neutral sources. Look it up yourself. The anthem of people spewing bullshit across the internet for 30 years.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Puppies are 100 percent part of the reason for the westernized world’s population problem. I know dozens of couples who were pairs of high earners but one quit their job to stay at home with their child because it was cheaper than payin
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by Arainach 1y ago
My experience is that CTOs don't care about animations, rounded corners, or what not - they care about metrics. These artsy bullshit layouts are suggested by design teams and the technical side either doesn't care/is content
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by Arainach 1y ago
>When we forget that, we get nonsense like "the chatbot told him he was the messiah," as though language could be blamed for the projection. Words have power, and those that create words - or create machines that create words -
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by Arainach 1y ago
>Around the 40-commit mark, manual commits became frequent This matches my experience: some shiny (even sometimes impressive) greenspace demos but dramatically less useful maintaining a codebase - which for any successful product is 90%
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by Arainach 1y ago
>If this is successful (and I hope it is), the world will have no choice but to follow. Why do you believe this is so? It's important to remember that many of the dominant enterprise software companies aren't there as the resul
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by Arainach 1y ago
What right to privacy? There is no right to have your interactions with a company (1) remain private, nor should there be. Even if there was you agree to let OpenAI do essentially whatever they want with your data - including hand it over
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by Arainach 1y ago
To be explicitly clear: Microsoft is spending the time to build basic features like "links clicked actually open in your default browser" and still blocking access to these features in most of the world. That's not an antipa
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by Arainach 1y ago
The link to download the article seems broken.
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by Arainach 1y ago
>pull in arbitrary code from the tree, or from other trees online, into their context windows, run standard Unix tools to navigate the tree and extract information, interact with Git, run existing tooling, like linters, formatters, and m
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by Arainach 1y ago
The article focuses a lot on how this reduces friction when working across time zones but glazes over how it makes interacting with everything local require a conversion. 5 days a week I am working with people in Seattle, NYC, Munich, and o
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by Arainach 1y ago
I disagree. The first Trump administration showed that not only were some competent people interested in working in the Trump cabinet, plenty of other competent people were content to keep doing their non-political jobs well for the govern
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by Arainach 1y ago
Your causality is wrong. This adminstration has no interest in working with competent people. They're fired huge numbers of them, gone out of their way to make life hell for those left so they quit, and are moving faster than ever im
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by Arainach 1y ago
* Tooling improvements benefit everyone. Maybe that's a faster compiler, an improved linter, code search, code review tools, bug database integration, a presubmit check that formats your docs - it doesn't matter, everyone has acc
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by Arainach 1y ago
This is the same debate as "Home Assistant vs Google Assistant" or "Linux on the Laptop vs Windows/Mac". If you love poking around and tweaking things OSSC is on an absolute sense capable of a few more things at th
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by Arainach 1y ago
Losing geopolitical influence, respect, and significance. Losing economic impact. Dramatically losing scientists, researchers, innovation, and the things to build future technologies. Losing the lead in electric vehicles and renewable energ
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by Arainach 1y ago
What you're describing as toxic positivity is refusing to criticize things as they're happening. That's very different from not badmouthing people and teams behind their backs when they're not around to respond.
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by Arainach 1y ago
Constant negativity kills team morale. Even if the complaints are about things which are individually valid, the pattern is toxic. Imagine a sports team. After running around for 45 minutes you're all probably tired. Would you rather w
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by Arainach 1y ago
Unlikely in practice. "My house burned down and inside was my spouse, who was my reco ery contact" "My recovery contact died / isn't speaking to me / is backpacking in the Himalayas" The problem isn't

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