Scarblac

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by Scarblac 3y ago
In my experience pinning down user requirements (and then getting feedback on your understanding of their needs, and iterating on that) is one of the most important parts of software development, not just in "web design". It'
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I disagree with the equivalence between "you don't want any manager" and "you want to hide your work". I don't want to hide my work, I just think the reason most of our managers are non-managers is because the
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It can't be less sensible JSON than syntactically invalid JSON. All the tokens higher on the list are syntax errors.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's not hard, but they just make the build of our monorepo take longer and longer without finding actual bugs, in my experience. I feel most unit tests should be commented out once the thing under test is done.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> if you're working with people who randomly 'forget' things while they are doing development, then I guarantee that you're working with people who also write buggy code. In fact, in this case, it was ME who wrote tha
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The developer that forgets to make disable work, will also forget to write this kind of test for it. Once the behaviour is added, it'll never be randomly removed again so the test isn't needed then. It looks nice but never helped
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I know how to make tests for _logic_, that's usually in Typescript functions (e. g., React hooks). But for components, that call some of those hooks and then render some JSX, I've never been able to write a test that found a bug l
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by Scarblac 3y ago
In his defence, just that abiogenesis sounds impossible to him doesn't necessarily mean that he has an alternative explanation.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's a huge Wikipedia page with lots of information, no you didn't learn all that in middle school.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It makes sense if you know your content isn't nice for humans (e.g. full of ads and tracking stuff) but you want it to rank high anyway.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
What I haven't seen mentioned yet is Discord. Many simple questions can be answered in chat, and there are active Discords for many things. Personally I hate it, but it is popular.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Also answers becoming obsolete because newer versions of the technology came out. E.g. Python 2 answers aren't relevant anymore, but still there.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
So if you have a few grams of soil and want to know how many species of micro organisms are in there, you're setting them up with dates to see which ones will end up breeding?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Probably the most amazing story like this in football (soccer): https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/sep/05/harry-... A fan complains about a striker during a practice match of top flight
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by Scarblac 3y ago
And also, I assume, because the concept of "species" isn't all that well defined?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
No, ice grows now, so during summer in the north. Or winter in the south, same thing.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
But also, why is meritocracy so above any criticism? Why is it considered so great? It would be fairer to just pick at random. Or even better, make sure everyone who wants a good education can get one.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That's the Arctic, the chart for the Antarctic is further down and has 1970-2023.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Antarctic sea ice is also extremely low for the time of year (see https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ ), so it's not only the north.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Then imagine he said "all-round developers who in their current job spend 95%+ of their programming time writing Typescript", if that's less offensive.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
They did not use standard components, but designed everything themselves, so they could control the repair market and everything. Like Apple does. If as a result 10%-20% of bikes sold need repairs, while still in the warranty period , you&
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I was in my 40s and starting thinking more in terms of how much time I had left rather than what I wanted to do at some unspecified "later". I also had young kids and a depressed jobless wife, so I wasn't completely free to d
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by Scarblac 3y ago
And the first time I read about those crabs, I checked Wikipedia to see if they were real too. Too many hoaxes on the Internet, but most of them are trivial to find out if they're real.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
In practice it isn't even that much more likely to break, or even add features to. The code is just much uglier and more complex than it could be, and probably slower. But it runs and keeps running. Most of the time those business type
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by Scarblac 3y ago
One of the reasons why Terry Pratchett's _Discworld_ books are so beloved by its fans is that he was very widely read, and put lots of things in his books where you go "ha, nice world building, gives his fantasy world a good fanta
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> As a non-religious person, I find the indignation about the idea of turning one flavor of house of worship to the god of Abraham into another flavor of house of worship to the god of Abraham to be pretty amusing. It didn't happen
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Hopefully there's something in between a pure secular state vs fundamentalism and theocracy that they'll settle on.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
What do you mean with "area left"?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Also, why does one need to pass probation to get paid? Surely you also get paid before that?

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