BigJono

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by BigJono 8y ago
I just chucked Ubuntu on a Dell, it's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with it so far.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I don't think I've met anyone that's passionate about their job. About programming? Sure! But it's really, really difficult to be passionate about a specific job unless it's your own company.
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by BigJono 8y ago
It could also be that you're committing some common flaws that make your job listings much less actionable than your competitors. I'm not overly specialised or senior, but even at my level I find that when I'm actively lookin
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by BigJono 8y ago
I think by 'seal the doom' he just means that this result shows that OpenAI is almost definitely going to be able to defeat a pro team in an unrestricted game of DotA. Which I'm still not completely sold on. It's likely,
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by BigJono 8y ago
It really depends on what kind of software you're building. A large new CRUD feature (which is what most of us are building 95% of the time) can easily be split among many people. But a complex data visualisation, or a novel algorithm,
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by BigJono 8y ago
Oh for sure, I'm not saying not to involve other people, just that the actual implementation for some things is most efficient if it falls to one person.
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by BigJono 8y ago
A task should be something that can be done independently by one person. Sometimes you have a big chunk of work that's tightly coupled and can take months to implement, how do you best track that? In my experience what happens is one o
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by BigJono 8y ago
There's right and wrong ways to do stuff in every other ecosystem too. The difference is some of the wrong ways get baked into 'best practices' and you can't engineer a clean code base even if you want to.
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by BigJono 8y ago
Shouldn't the fiscal equalisation strategy result in better infrastructure and more incentives for businesses and people to move to smaller states? It seems like the market is focused entirely on Sydney and Melbourne, and it's ord
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by BigJono 8y ago
It's trivial to learn as well. You use const for everything until you get an error for trying to reassign it.
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by BigJono 8y ago
To be fair, beginners should stay far away from most of the tooling around React. In-fact a lot of veterans should too. Most people only use stuff like Redux or Immutable out of habit rather than necessity, or as a crutch to constrain the
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by BigJono 8y ago
My friends always used to do: A) Build a navy! B) Stop building a navy! A) Build a navy! B) Stop building a navy!
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by BigJono 8y ago
Rocket League has a pretty serious inflection point on the learning curve where the game suddenly becomes much more fun. Basically once you can control the ball enough where your optimal strategy isn't "punt the ball as far as you
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by BigJono 8y ago
This is why I've always thought Rocket League would take off in a big way, it's as trivial to understand as most physical sports. So far I've been proven wrong, but who knows, maybe it'll turn around.
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by BigJono 8y ago
If you spend well over 50% of your day in a certain place you should damn well enjoy being there. This sort of outlook might work for those of us that are workaholics, but for everyone else it's a major mental health hazard. Not everyo
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by BigJono 8y ago
> Without a concrete plan it was really hard for the rest of us to help or say what's really important. And so began the feature creep for something that was suppose to be a quick prototype ended up being whole implementation which
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by BigJono 8y ago
Nah, it's mostly true (I'm one of those young webdevs), but I'd attribute the pain points in front-end development to slightly different problems than the state of browser inconsistencies and spec problems. IME 70% of the pro
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by BigJono 8y ago
It's especially bad with games because music gets updated and changed all the time. Official soundtracks often leave tracks out, take for example Civilization V which has an official soundtrack with like 30 tracks, when the game itself
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by BigJono 8y ago
Similarly interesting is a fairly recent Polish black metal band that incorporates Catholic hymns/chants in their music. Although in this case I think it's likely done in irony, or with sacriligeous intent. https://yout
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by BigJono 8y ago
I didn't get that from his comment at all. Sounds like you're conjuring up a straw man here. 30,000 babies and 30,000 adults with a lifetime of experiences are two very different things. It's perfectly possible to believe tha
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by BigJono 8y ago
That's the companies fault for interviewing you with a HR person. When I do the hiring for my teams I explicitly don't let non-technical people do more than the absolute most basic filtering (i.e this person can't spell for s
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by BigJono 8y ago
I find the highly negative labelling of people as "dismissive" to be offensive. I think you need to learn some respect and decency yourself.
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by BigJono 8y ago
That's funny, because it's pretty common to set a 'dev' branch to default and reserve the master branch for production code.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I'd also argue that it's exclusive of people who dislike arbitrary impediments to their dev work. Words like master and slave have semantic meaning going back decades in computing. Avoiding their use introduces ambiguity and makes
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by BigJono 8y ago
I mean, you're always going to run into this problem with this kind of library. Building a big, complex data visualisation pretty much requires expert knowledge in whatever language/environment you're doing it in. Law of Leak
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by BigJono 8y ago
The documentation. https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Tutorials
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by BigJono 8y ago
I must be missing something, this doesn't answer the question at all. Literally everything you said is true for just building the graph in JS/SVG. What does D3 give on top of that?
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by BigJono 8y ago
Literally the exact same bullshit that just effectively banned online poker in Australia earlier this year.
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by BigJono 8y ago
Destigmatise and expand welfare. That's exactly what it's there for, so you don't have swathes of people doing jack shit for 8 hours a day and helping no-one. If even 10% of those displaced by getting rid of bullshit jobs go
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by BigJono 8y ago
You completely missed the point. My point isn't that node is better or worse than any of them, my point is that if you're starting from scratch with no back-end knowledge, then the benefit of already knowing the language you'

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