BigJono

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by BigJono 7y ago
The comparison isn't between 40 people's right to live vs every terrorist's right to free speech. It's between some probabalistic chance that 40 people's right to live isn't violated in the future due to these
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by BigJono 7y ago
For sure. It's also very good for onboarding (and better utilising cheaper/less knoweledgeable devs by constraining them, but people don't like to admit that). The flip side is that abstractions (usually in the form of extern
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by BigJono 7y ago
Some abstractions don't seem to give anything useful at all other than homogeneity across code bases and slightly nicer looking (but not simpler) code, and yet they still see wide use.
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by BigJono 7y ago
Yes you're paying the same amount, for an asset that's worth a variable amount. The only time the amount that asset doesn't matter is if you plan to never ever sell it, which isn't realistic for most people (see elsewher
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by BigJono 7y ago
I still don't get it. If your house is worth less than your mortgage, then you're gambling on an increase in it's value. It's like taking out a loan and gambling with it to try and pay off a debt.
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by BigJono 7y ago
I think the point is that it does the complete opposite if the market goes the other way, assuming you're taking out a loan to buy. If you have a net worth of $100k and take out a loan for a $500k property, as little as a 20% drop can
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by BigJono 8y ago
Yeah, same as Ctrl-Shift-R in the browser for me. Even when I'm running a hot reloading server on my project I'll start off pretty much every manual test with a hard refresh because it's so trivial that it's easier than
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by BigJono 8y ago
I wonder if this is a uniquely American problem. Over here (Australia) it's always a couple of short sentences ('how'zit goin'?', 'yeah good') then awkward silence the rest of the trip. Unless the cricket
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by BigJono 8y ago
I wasn't attacking sass either, I've got large projects in production with both approaches. I was countering the point that it's 'impossible' or 'unreasonably hard' as someone else put it to write maintain
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by BigJono 8y ago
Almost as annoying as being told the tech stack you've been using for decades is unreasonably difficult to use despite the almost literal millions of maintainable and successful projects deployed with it. If you want to talk about stra
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by BigJono 8y ago
Sorry, I'll elaborate. These kind of sweeping statements are usually pretty obviously false. You can write anything cleanly at scale. Those MS-DOS sources that were released a while back are pleasant enough to read despite being in ass
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by BigJono 8y ago
The most common pattern in industry is to slather everything with libraries until you end up doing 10x the amount of work you needed to do. An actual 'good' approach is to mostly utilise vanilla tooling like you suggest, but there
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by BigJono 8y ago
Why would sass have any effect on whether or not you have conflicts? You can just do things in plain CSS with descendant (' ') selectors, same as if they were nested in sass.
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by BigJono 8y ago
My theory on this is that small dev teams are an order of magnitude more productive than large ones, and most large companies cannot help themselves when it comes time to assign team sizes. You can definitely win a war with superior marketi
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by BigJono 8y ago
I get that "what don't I get?" feeling all the time. Overengineering is basically an epidemic at this point, at least in the JS/front-end industry. My guess is there's a correlation between overengineering and caree
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by BigJono 8y ago
Keep in mind these are all salaried workers. From an economics point of view, companies don't need to get anywhere near a linear increase in productivity from those extra work hours. They just need to not get negative gains from burnou
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by BigJono 8y ago
I wonder how many of us believe that heart disease and cancer will be gone by the time we're old?
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by BigJono 8y ago
Eh, I'd say that's pretty insignificant to a CS pro, in the same way learning what every hero/champ does in DotA/LoL seems daunting at first but is pretty trivial once you have 1,000+ hours in the game. You're just
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by BigJono 8y ago
I don't know about "many"? The only famously successful one I can think of off the top of my head is Bertrand Grospellier. And I guess Benger got some publicity when he made the WSOP main event. Is there a whole host of ex e-
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by BigJono 8y ago
I'd love to find out what it is that the truly consistent teams are doing that other teams aren't. For example Astralis (currently) or SK Telecom (LoL) or Fnatic (CS) a few years ago. Every now and then a team comes along that jus
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by BigJono 8y ago
I find a good replacement for a traditional agile standup is a board based one. Rather than going through each person where it feels like you're being put on the spot individually, you go through each card on the board and ask what nee
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by BigJono 8y ago
Can we stop grouping React, Redux and Sagas when discussing complexity/bloat? They all have totally different complexity profiles. For example React adds tons of software complexity but very little development complexity, whereas Redux
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by BigJono 8y ago
That's a huge drop for 3 years. I wonder what it is now? (presumably 2 censuses later).
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by BigJono 8y ago
Well I assume the first thing you do if you cop a notice is talk to a lawyer, and if the government's request is illegal, the American lawyer will tell you so. Since this legislation, the Australian lawyer is going to have to tell you
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by BigJono 8y ago
Did I misread his post? It read to me like he is saying the complete opposite: That the example in the article sounds more threatening than just being genuine.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I've been using it for 6 months now, and I still can't wait to go back to React, for the exact same reason you mentioned. I'm 'fluent' in Vue now, and it hasn't grown on me in the slightest.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I dunno about that. Try being a JS dev that likes mutability and dislikes static typing.
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by BigJono 8y ago
Well, going by some of the false positive reports about Tumblr's NSFW filter here I'm not entirely sure we could call Tumblr "production ready" at the moment either, heh.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I have no problem with Steam's notifications since they appear for a second then piss off. Windows notifications are fucking awful. They stay in your tray with a taunting (1) symbol until you get rid of them, the collective amount of t
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by BigJono 8y ago
Because "simple" and "complex" both have two completely different meanings in software engineering. Something can be simple and/or it can be simple to use. Usually they're inversely correlated. You're both

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