BigJono

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by BigJono 7y ago
It increases anxiety and stress, which probably decreases productivity to a much greater degree than whatever benefits you'd get from time tracking. I suspect the number one factor to a successful project is a happy, healthy team. I&#x
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by BigJono 7y ago
Interesting. Misunderstood in what way? The definition used in The Wire is the only one I've heard.
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by BigJono 7y ago
I mean the classic Java > Lisp decision that Paul Graham is always talking about surely fits the bill.
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by BigJono 7y ago
I think maybe it's possible that given a very smart programmer with 1-5 years experience, the value of not having had time to learn the wrong way of doing things far outweighs the value of another 10 or 20 years experience. A lot of ou
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by BigJono 7y ago
Nothing kills time as effectively as a nice casual game of dependency jenga.
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by BigJono 7y ago
Uber's engineering is dodgy across the board. There was a good year or so period where I ran into 4 or 5 critical bugs that stopped me using the service entirely for days or weeks at a time. One of the dumbest was being unable to enter
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by BigJono 7y ago
I think that 'some' real revenue probably dwarves most industries tenfold. Look at what something like Candy Crush makes in IAP, the top 5 players could probably support the entire ad industry themselves in perpetuity without brea
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by BigJono 7y ago
This might be off topic but why does the Australian media constantly source their "expert" quotes from the Institute of Public Affairs? The entire organisation is complete bullshit. Surely they can find people with actual credibil
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by BigJono 7y ago
I think the difference is probably that in the eyes of the American government, everything Ulbricht did was bad. Whereas Hutchins did some good at some point that could be weighed against the crimes he committed. Character letters don'
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by BigJono 7y ago
This is a complete guess just based off my experience, but I know a couple of devs I'd bet on to 10x the worst of the devs I've worked with (over a long sample period), and the one thing they have in common is that they keep their
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by BigJono 7y ago
I'm not nitpicking, I just picked out the first part of your post because it's the only bit I disagree with. I'm saying it's dangerous to have this line of thought that the "correct" way to build a system is wi
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by BigJono 7y ago
Your brain is falling into the classic JS/NPM trap of thinking that dependencies are zero cost. The time it takes to use something is not 0, there's still a comparison to make. There's tons of stuff out there with APIs, doc
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by BigJono 7y ago
It's not hard to find purpose in life that doesn't revolve around sitting at a desk doing fuck all and pretending to work for 40 hours a week. People will still work. Whether it's to get a leg up from the baseline or because
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by BigJono 7y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. Lower class people have been voting for governments that give them the shaft for as long as democracy has been a thing. Why would UBI change that?
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by BigJono 7y ago
Pretty sure I've read a long time back on 2p2 that large consistant winners on certain sites have been asked to submit camera footage of their play with a clear view of screens and inputs. So this is probably something that companies l
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by BigJono 7y ago
Interesting stuff. One thing I was hoping the video would touch on is how do they know exactly where they are and how they are oriented while boring large tunnels? If you're digging 30km of tunnel, being off by half a degree in any dir
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by BigJono 7y ago
I mean, to some extent maybe, but CS is still extremely reliant on twitch mechanics and reaction speed. To put it in perspective: I've put 650 hours into Rocket League and have hit the 99th percentile. I put 2000+ hours into League bac
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by BigJono 7y ago
Damn, maybe I should have kids. I've played the first hour of Civ V over 500 times now and never finished a game.
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by BigJono 7y ago
You'd be surprised how much anti-nuclear activists would disagree with your second point. I'm sure I know a couple that would rather watch the world burn than vote for someone that will build a single reactor. I think once an issu
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by BigJono 7y ago
I don't think it's just because the devs get bored. It's because the users crack the shits if their specific use cases aren't handled, and when it comes to 'frameworks' nobody wants to switch or use anything th
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by BigJono 7y ago
I'm almost done with it as well. I can actually handle the churn and the random rewrites, a lot of them have been marked improvements, that doesn't bother me. What bothers me is when things change in ways that make them more com
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by BigJono 7y ago
This is what I don't get about hooks. Remembering Markbages great talk on 'Minimal API Surface Area'? How is having multiple ways of doing the same thing minimal API surface area? React is losing sight of what made it great w
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by BigJono 7y ago
Technical interviews have been quite useful to me in the past. Once I applied for a job, and received an online technical test where every single question used the wrong terminology for a bunch of stuff and half the "answers" in t
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by BigJono 7y ago
I like the idea but I'm not sure I see the correlation between your two examples? The 'It's OK to be white' thing works because they're taking one side of an issue and devolving it into something so basic that it&#x
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by BigJono 7y ago
How do you fix it? Any way you look at it, the person spending 12 hours a day every day sharpening their skills is going to have a much higher income on average than the person that spends their time raising kids.
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by BigJono 7y ago
Another side effect of optimism that you didn't mention is that it makes it far easier to fall for bad tooling, libraries and patterns. I find most devs default approach to new stuff is wildly optimistic ("X will solve our problem
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by BigJono 7y ago
I've been using Foobar2000 with some iPod plugin to sync my iPod classic for as long as I can remember. It's never failed me yet. That could be another option.
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by BigJono 7y ago
"We have helped them with contacts in corporations, but they have to do the interviews and “earn” the jobs." What? I'd bet there's way more "failures" (for whatever reasonable definition) out there that would h
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by BigJono 7y ago
Unusable in what way? It's still working just fine for me.
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by BigJono 7y ago
My sister works for a non-profit, and we've discussed tech projects there a few times. I think the issue from a business perspective is on the demand side of things. The problem is that the market rate is set by the companies that are

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