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by abenga 1y ago
Here is an excellent opportunity for those who believe in the continued development of X to pick up maintenance and push it forward. Time will tell at the end.
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by abenga 1y ago
Why would benevolence preclude competence?
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by abenga 1y ago
The problem is not that I don't know how to do it. I am just asserting that Effort(Reading Code) > Effort(Writing Code) especially if `git blame` will spit out my name, not saying anything about their absolute difficulty.
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by abenga 1y ago
I don't commit entire libraries as written by me. Documentation is also far easier to read. Reviewing PRs is quite involving, since I want to do it well. Easier than typing code for sure.
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by abenga 1y ago
This is a lie, unless you are just speaking of the mechanics of cursorily skimming it. Reading code to understand it enough to commit it in my name is harder and slower than writing it myself.
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by abenga 1y ago
Every place I have worked has had meticulously tracked PTO days that most people delayed taking until the end of the year; there were notably fewer people in the office in December.
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by abenga 1y ago
I think they mean (to stretch the analogy), we are razing trees to build rapidly changing highways so much now that the tree you plant today may be chopped down in a couple of years through no fault of your own.
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by abenga 1y ago
> There is such a thing as objectively productive and unproductive periods in any genre or medium. A few great movies are made in any period of history, along with a lot of commercial stuff along with B-D grade crap. Not all movies made
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by abenga 1y ago
This just sounds like everyone remembering music/movies/other art that came out when we were coming of age extremely fondly. Young people starting to game now will remember a different set of games from you.
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by abenga 1y ago
I was thinking of Angela Collier's video (she is a famous YouTuber around these parts) where she listed the rebrand/longer lines as one of the reasons people don't go as much.
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by abenga 1y ago
Isn't the perceived worsening of service (maybe more the various boycotts) one of the reasons Target is hemorrhaging foot traffic?
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by abenga 1y ago
I have seen several. One interesting one was a "how I became an airline pilot at 21" video where the (obviously smart and hard working) young man talked about a life where he went to a high school with an aviation club, interning
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by abenga 1y ago
Amazon (used to?) list import charges when I import stuff into my country. It's surprising that they wouldn't the other way.
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by abenga 1y ago
How does an independent Youtube lose the incentive to show you a large amount of ads?
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by abenga 1y ago
> Why are we optimizing a programming language for people who don't know it, instead of optimizing it for people who actually program in it? Everyone who actually programs in a language was once a person who didn't know it. La
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by abenga 1y ago
Those both seem a little bit more consistent than the Ruby example, however. To understand the JS example for example, you only need know that to call a method on an object, you do `object.method(arguments)`, and this is chained in a straig
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by abenga 1y ago
All not-exactly-popular languages.
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by abenga 1y ago
I don't know much Ruby outside of a few toy examples I wrote a long time ago. For most languages, there would be parentheses around objects you pass to functions, like `.filter({|x| x.odd? })`. This lends some consistency and makes it
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by abenga 1y ago
To a beginner who is used to ordinary imperative languages, that Ruby line is extremely difficult to understand. Is `.filter` a method or a property of `xs`? Is `{ |x| x.odd? }` an argument to a method or just a statement that comes after `
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by abenga 1y ago
I will never ever ever knowingly consume media written by AI. Worst case, I will only consume media written before some cutoff, 2020 say.
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by abenga 1y ago
Because the country will die soon (in civilization time scale)?
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by abenga 1y ago
That is the exact wrong answer that all models give.
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by abenga 1y ago
> Why should I have a junior developer who is going to do negative work instead of poaching a mid developer who is probably underpaid since salary compression and inversion are real? The tragedy of the commons in a nutshell. Maybe everyo
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by abenga 1y ago
Aren't authorities notoriously unable to get into Apple products unless allowed?
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by abenga 1y ago
You are dismissing a lot of science off-hand by trivializing it snidely. Exactly which part do you think is wrong?
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by abenga 1y ago
And a comment we'll file with all the other stuff complaining about "wokeness".
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by abenga 1y ago
Sadly no. I was rooting for Reagan, short though her days were.
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by abenga 1y ago
> I’d be interested to hear more about this if its no trouble. For women, at least, you could not be independent (legally at least). You needed a man to co-sign applications to open bank accounts/credit cards/etc. Fewer well pa
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by abenga 1y ago
I don't think the massive strikes were as peaceful as you imply.
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by abenga 1y ago
> How would you restrict the existence of unicorns? Enact and enforce anti trust laws.

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