Davertron

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by Davertron 7y ago
I think this is a pretty important point. Often times I think I'm interested in doing something or I like the idea of it, but it doesn't take me very long to realize that I'm completely disinterested because of the actuality
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by Davertron 7y ago
> BUT you know that you should. If you don’t, you’re making things worse! If you don’t write the tests, you may even break something and you won’t realize!!! Slowly adding tests is fine if your goal is to increase the total code under te
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by Davertron 7y ago
I guess I'll be the exception here. I'm in a psudeo-open workspace right now which is pretty much what you're talking about except that we're not in a room, it's what the company calls a "pod" with high wa
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by Davertron 7y ago
I learned to play hockey about 5 years ago. Part of that was going to stick and puck sessions during the week, where I could basically do whatever I wanted; work on skating, stick handling, etc. Sometimes there would be literally no one els
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by Davertron 7y ago
OK, but are there actually more people who believe in this now, or are you just more aware of it?
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by Davertron 7y ago
I agree that it's not uncommon to hear things on the development team that basically amount to "if it weren't for our users our application would be so much simpler" :) We have spent a significant chunk of time working d
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by Davertron 7y ago
I think this plays a role in the difficulty of the migration, because yes, the interface has changed quite a bit. In general, we tried to hew as close to the old paradigms as made sense. We never changed anything just because we didn't
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by Davertron 7y ago
My team has been working on a big-bang rewrite for about 5 years now. It started out as the "strangle" approach. Early on, everyone was on board with killing the old thing. But of course, you can't stop developing new feature
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by Davertron 7y ago
This has been a major frustration for me as a UI developer on the current application I work on. The UI is often hamstrung by how the backend API was implemented. There are frequently cases where we stitch together pre-existing API function
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AI Dungeon(aidungeon.io)
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by Davertron 7y ago
I hear a lot (and believe myself I suppose) that I would rather hire someone that knows how to learn than someone who currently knows thing x but can't pick up and learn things on their own. But I feel like it's VERY hard to figur
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by Davertron 7y ago
We use Ag-grid at my company. It's probably the most fully-featured data grid I've ever worked with on the Web, but it definitely has some pain points. I think it basically supports almost everything mentioned in this article out
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by Davertron 7y ago
Agreed. > The way this code was implemented, the code blocks the page from loading for 250ms, resulting in a much slower internet experience. Of all the things to complain about that load on almost every web page you visit this seems lik
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by Davertron 7y ago
Yeah, this. At my current company, which I would consider large (20k+ employees) and bureaucratic, we've actually gotten this part right. Managers in no way control what the team is working on or deadlines for that work. They behave mo
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by Davertron 7y ago
Same. I'm just horribly bad at self-marketing and generally have zero interest in getting attention. I used to think that as long as I was doing good work people would notice, and sometimes if you're lucky that can happen, but the
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by Davertron 7y ago
Maybe I'm just missing the point of his article then. The way I read this though is "hey there are lots of devs out there who never post on social media or write blog posts. That's because they don't care about technolog
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by Davertron 7y ago
Yeah, I agree, although probably even a few years ago I wouldn't have to be honest. I think there's just a lot of black and white thinking going on around this stuff, I.e. you're either this or that (I.e. cutting edge rock st
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by Davertron 7y ago
I don't think the point of his article is that this is a "problem" to be solved. And personally, I don't think these people owe you anything. Twitter etc. are all open platforms, there's nothing preventing your stuf
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by Davertron 7y ago
The fact that you go mostly "unseen" online seems completely orthogonal to whether you love programming and keep up with the latest technologies, etc. I would consider myself "dark matter" in the respect that no one know
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by Davertron 7y ago
Does anyone have resources for other shortcut calculations for similar things? This particular one comes up a lot when speaking with my wife's family (they're from Mexico) but I've never tried to come up with a shortcut befor
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by Davertron 7y ago
I don't feel quite as strongly as you, but I generally agree. I don't mind if the person is picture-in-picture-style in one of the corners, but I really would rather see something useful on the screen vs. just the person talking t
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by Davertron 7y ago
I feel the same way as the parent, and I would say I have a strong preference for Video. I wouldn't need crazy production value, even if you just did something Khan-Academy-style and wrote down terms and showed diagrams of how some of
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by Davertron 7y ago
> Node.js, as a language, is almost worthless without its immense open-source ecosystem. You won’t find any real-world applications running on Node without the use of dozens or hundreds of npm libraries simply because Node is not useful
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by Davertron 7y ago
Someone at my company recently showed us blueprints in Unreal engine, and everyone there (mostly web developers) had a blast having them mess with different things. The presenter started with the FPS template I believe, and then we were thr
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by Davertron 7y ago
I had the same experience...at IBM. Still the biggest company I've worked for and the least bureaucratic. I know that this was pure luck based on where I landed but I think big companies often get a bad rap and people assume that there
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by Davertron 7y ago
I've had subcontracting roles like this in the past. Still not zero interaction, but if you build a network of strong people and you're known for getting shit done, what I've found is other developers that know and trust you
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by Davertron 7y ago
I think there's a very large scale of "corporate" crap though, and so why not seek to be on the low end of that scale? I've worked at a bunch of companies at this point, and I can tell you for a fact that there is a big
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by Davertron 8y ago
Ugh, I'm living through this right now on an app I've been working on in my company for 3 years. Someone will create a user survey that gets a 5% response rate and use it to justify/rationalize some decision. They think that
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by Davertron 8y ago
I don't know this for a fact, but I always assumed that it was just to create a false sense of urgency around your booking.
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by Davertron 8y ago
Depends on your area. I live in a small town and there just aren't that many people you can meet. Maybe there's an online mentoring site to connect people out there?

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