BigJono

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by BigJono 8y ago
Yeah and poor access to Internet in metro areas is a thing here in Australia. There's plenty of people here (myself included) in the middle of the city with 5/0.5 connections.
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by BigJono 8y ago
In my experience face to face communication is great for resolving contentious technical disagreements because whoever is doing the most thinking and the least talking falls behind, thinks "fuck this" and capitulates instantly; us
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by BigJono 8y ago
I don't see it. Any old idiot can learn a programming language. The difficulty doesn't come from the language, it comes from the environment and tooling.
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by BigJono 8y ago
Not everything that gets added is stuff that people reasonably need, either. If you cater to everyone's needs, then you'll end up with 10 solutions for the same problem, because every one of your users has their preferred one. I t
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by BigJono 8y ago
I'm on board with this. There's nothing wrong with a good old fashioned call to action at the end of the article. Encourage subscription by producing good content, not by abusing your reader's time and attention.
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by BigJono 8y ago
I don't know if they bribe each other, but there's definitely a lot of people shilling garbage libraries because they have income streams dependent on it. Certain people here have alerts set up for certain topics so they can come
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by BigJono 8y ago
In Melbourne at least it seems like the system is run exactly at capacity. If one train has to stop at a platform for 3 minutes extra because of a signal fault or a sick passenger, every train on that line (and probably 2 other lines) for t
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by BigJono 8y ago
I'd definitely recommend the community balance patch. It completely overhauls a lot of the game's mechanics though, so it's a decent idea to play with just the official expansions for a bit to see how it changes the game.
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by BigJono 8y ago
That'd be an absolute dream. Never going to happen with the current political climate though. The Victorian government could barely get some level crossings removed without Murdoch and the Liberals shitting all over it. It's basic
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by BigJono 8y ago
This is the most important question I ask in every interview. The goal isn't to get someone to piss and moan about every little thing, it's to see if they can identify any downsides to the tech they use. IME >80% of candidates
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by BigJono 9y ago
Interesting. I've got the opposite problem. I can't even remember the last time I woke up in the middle of the night without an extremely loud alarm clock, and I feel like absolute death if I try and get up with less than 8-9 hour
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by BigJono 9y ago
I mean, that's a valid strategy. As long as you're ok with potentially being the first company to get absolutely smoked by it.
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by BigJono 9y ago
Has anyone else noticed a small 'click' when scrubbing to a section of that video where data is being transferred. I'm assuming that's not co-incidental?
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by BigJono 9y ago
Same thing happens to me, if I have so much as a day or two without an alarm I just careen off into ridiculous sleeping patterns. I have to set alarms during the weekend just to keep on course. If I have a week or more off I start to run of
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by BigJono 9y ago
This only works if you can actually wake up with a low amount of sleep. I put one of those alarms on my phone where you have to solve maths problems to turn it off. All I've managed to do so far is train myself to do maths in my sleep.
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by BigJono 9y ago
Nah, I disagree. I do like test cricket but I absolutely have to be doing something else at the same time to watch it (like playing a game or programming). It's a terrible spectator sport. On the other hand, limited overs cricket doesn
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by BigJono 9y ago
I think the author still has a point when talking about "very" large applications. His example of all the Google widgets is a good one. Even if you were to hand-craft all of them with optimised code (which I imagine is what they d
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by BigJono 9y ago
Yes but nobody considers the cost/benefit of having that over a specialist with the same amount of experience. What takes longer? A full-stack guy trying to figure out how to work around some obscure front-end quirk (like the restricti
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by BigJono 9y ago
This is exactly what I try not to do when hiring. I don't want someone that's built a bloody todo list in Angular, React and Vue. I want someone that's generated revenue by building quality software in one of them. I think
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by BigJono 9y ago
Also, survival aside, I'm of the opinion that "just because" is a perfectly valid reason to set up colonies, terraform planets etc. I wasn't born for the moon landing. I feel like I'm going to be upset if I make it
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by BigJono 9y ago
Keep in mind that 6-10mbps isn't going to be enough for casual users in a few years. Take gaming for example. Companies are regularly releasing 6-10 GB patches willy nilly because they assume their customers can download them in a matt
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by BigJono 9y ago
In my experience, examples are only useful if they have two points of comparison side by side. For example if I'm looking into a new library that claims to simplify my app's architecture or reduce boilerplate, I need to see what t
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by BigJono 9y ago
Context is a way to pass state down the component tree without it having to go through intermediate nodes. Say context doesn't exist, and you have a branch of components A -> B -> C, if C depends on some state in A, B would have
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by BigJono 9y ago
On the topic of mac keyboards and mice, I've never had any uncomfortableness or pain at work, until I started a job where I was given your standard Apple combo of peripherals. Suddenly, pain everywhere. The tips of my fingers were bu
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by BigJono 9y ago
This is an absolutely terrible idea. Don't do this. Your job as traffic is to be as predictable as possible. You're just going to cause more accidents by driving erratically.
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by BigJono 9y ago
For what it's worth, my experience with Parcel so far has been a show stopping bug that makes CSS Modules unusable with it, was quite difficult to diagnose (as with any bug in a dependency, I spent yonks looking at my own codebase), an
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by BigJono 9y ago
How many opiate addicts does the average person know today (sans internet access)? I know for me it's 0, and I don't exactly run in the most wholesome friend groups. My guess is it's always been a problem to the same extent,
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by BigJono 9y ago
That sounds like a dream. I'm sharing a 6/1 connection with 3 housemates and 2 partners. I honestly feel like I'm back in the days of dial-up.
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by BigJono 9y ago
Maybe this is an overreaction to being stuck with Australian internet for the past decade, but if anyone in my neighbourhood was to resist the installation of fibre it'd be fucking on for young and old.
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by BigJono 9y ago
I think it's far more likely that if this process takes place, CS degrees will morph more towards areas like philosophy and mathematics than software engineering. I doubt they're going to be teaching the exact same way in 30 years

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