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by Lutger 3y ago
I used to do that when I started out with C/C++...15 years ago. Now my patience is running out after 10 minutes. Tooling has become so much better, but it seems not that much with some C/C++ projects. At least the build times are
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by Lutger 3y ago
Just a side-note regarding energy mistakes: Germany single-handedly funded R&D for solar energy to the place where it is now the cheapest form of energy available. And then more or less gave the industry away to China. That was one happ
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by Lutger 3y ago
He said Russia can do what it wants. Given Russia's track record, rape will not be the worst of offenses.
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by Lutger 3y ago
The problem with Trump is the same as with your post: you don't even know what you're talking about. The 2 percent was agreed on only in 2014 as a response to Russian annexation of Crimea, and the goal was to reach it in 10 years,
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by Lutger 3y ago
It is not about what America has or hasn't done, good or bad, but all about the possibility of Trump. The idea of the US getting a president as immature as yourself, who rather aligns himself with the gangsters of the world, whose idea
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by Lutger 3y ago
I'm afraid the answer is 'not having nukes'.
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by Lutger 3y ago
And that is time you don't spend on refining your query, so it makes you actually less effective at searching if you consider people do not have infinite time.
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by Lutger 3y ago
We need opinion pieces as much as (so-called) unbiased reporting. This one puts things into perspective, rather than merely summarizing facts and viewpoints. I appreciate that it clearly does so and doesn't pretend to be unbiased. Nor
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by Lutger 3y ago
Well, that is quite top-down and organized. If it works, then great. But I wouldn't push everything into such a plan. On the other hand, I've worked in such a disconnected 'bottom-up' org that after about 8 years, finall
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by Lutger 3y ago
I see this type of backlash against process a lot here. But I don't think 'just good people' is the answer. A lone hero can do a lot, maybe a band of them kick real ass, but it doesn't really scale beyond that nor does i
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by Lutger 3y ago
I respect your PTSD. And it does sound like that management would be able to burn out developers with any kind of methodology. I mean, you are lucky they were not into SAFe or you might have quit the field altogether.
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by Lutger 3y ago
2 and 3 are often intertwined. A lack of proper reward sometimes is exactly what lack of organization means or results in. I've worked at many different jobs, the really dysfunctional ones tend to punish rather than reward good work. A
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by Lutger 3y ago
python has `__getattr__` (and a lot of other dunder magic), what is still missing? With named arguments and (kw)args, there is even more ergonomic magic I think. And django's orm also has similar magical abilities as activerecord. I th
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by Lutger 3y ago
I don't appreciate it either, maybe I'm a bit dull. I feel tricked as it is unclear from a quick glance what I am looking at is really an advertisement, not a tutorial or some kind of reference. And as an advertisement, it may or
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by Lutger 3y ago
You make two mistakes here which are very common in this topic. One, just because there have been plants where there is permafrost before, doesn't mean there is nothing new about this event. Everybody who studies a little bit about cli
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by Lutger 3y ago
> ...they're probably better served by a different product anyway. And you are doing both them and yourself a favor by making this clear. You might lose a couple of customers. But you would have lost them anyway and unhappy customer
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by Lutger 3y ago
The pasture raised cow with a nice life is an extremely rare species. Almost every cow used to extract milk and meat in industrial farming - which is most of them in the west - is living in deprivation, agony and pain.
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by Lutger 3y ago
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by Lutger 3y ago
The floor heating itself isn't that expensive, the problem is you need to redo you floor, which sometimes means destroying it and doing a new install. We wanted a new floor anyway so not a problem, but if you have something expensive i
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by Lutger 3y ago
It isn't great, but perhaps surprisingly so using gas to create electricity and the electricity for a heat pump, is still a lot better than using a regular gas boiler. In other words, you'll get more heat out of a m3 of gas when y
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by Lutger 3y ago
I didn't know Figma was going bankrupt, is it?
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by Lutger 3y ago
It doesn't "scold" you, it merely mentions a potential bias inherent in some words, if and only if you turn it on. It is a tool. The spelling checker also doesn't "scold" you, it just helps you improve your doc
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by Lutger 3y ago
Exactly. However I think its a bit more complicated than a grey area. There is just no hard distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge, even though the distinction is useful. It is not that any tacit bit of knowledge eludes articulati
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by Lutger 3y ago
Framing abuse and alienation as heroism is how capitalism extracts value from the most precious resource in our decadent lives: time and energy. Within the confines of my insignificant job, I appreciate more the professionalism of a properl
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by Lutger 3y ago
It does, however it also does for Django. Breaking changes can vary between 'these one or two things out of thousands must be changed' and 'yeah we did a rewrite and its a new library but we kept the name as its pretty well k
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by Lutger 3y ago
I remember that D was instrumental for building the core product of weka.io, a fast distributed filesystem. Not one of the tech giants, but not a small company either: https://www.weka.io/
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by Lutger 3y ago
No doubt Sociomantic Labs, which was acquired in 2014, was a major driving force there. The company was very succesful and hired a lot of the best developers interested in D at that time.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Neat summary. I think many developers experience the degree to which biz and user diverges as a source of problems: the more divergence, the more problems.
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by Lutger 3y ago
Or just code that works and nobody wants or needs to spend money on changing. I've written such code, very crappy stuff. And then coming back to the client many, many years later, finding it all just humming along, driving their busine
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by Lutger 3y ago
Exactly. Taking advantage of vulnerable people is not a legitimate defense, the fact that they are easily exploitable makes the behavior even less moral.

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