aerhardt

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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   IT restricting apps in professional contexts has been a thing for ages. Regulating all comms, including personal channels, in certain high-stakes contexts is not uncommon either. Real Madrid footballers have guidelines on what they can say
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   I am not in academia so I cannot say, but I have observed plenty of controversy from the outside and have seen other commenters in HN express their disillusionment on academic debate. Regardless I’m not proposing that HN or analogous platfo
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   I agree with the sentiment, sometimes people in HN - myself included - are very hot-headed. Discussion is not always positive. It’s one of the reasons I’ve built a public profile - I found that sometimes I too get caught in negative dynamic
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   I miss forums. They were a better format for debate IMO. HN is one of my favorite places on the internet - the themes, the people and the tone are really cool. But the ephemeral nature of posts is not good for discussing ideas. Threads for
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   > The idea that you can staff whole teams of people (and their dependencies!) in a way that they're all guaranteed to sit within a short walk of each other is straight-up madness. Beyond a certain scale this is quite impossible. If
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   Things that have helped in sticking to it thus far: - I do it before work, right after my normal wake-up routine (get dressed, meditate, coffee). No excuses on this one. Been waking up 30min / 1 hour earlier. - It has to be programming
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   I don't always code as much as I'd like to in my job, and following some advice here, I've started coding an hour every morning, first thing in the morning, since Jan 1st. I've only missed one day, which reminds me of my
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   > Comparing to the 90's is a complete strawman. The quote from the article does not mention a particular timeframe in which it has regressed, so where is the strawman, exactly? > Developer productivity has been regressing for the
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   by aerhardt 4y ago

   You can use dependency injection in Python while remaining completely pythonic - nothing in the Python I write resembles Java. Dependency injection is not mutually exclusive with using defaults either, so I'm not sure what we're t
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    by aerhardt 4y ago

    I think the example is indeed contrived - you said it yourself! To me it doesn't illustrate the problem with default parameters specifically. For example it shows that the programmer doesn't know dependency injection and first-cla
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    by aerhardt 4y ago

    I agree with the sentiment in the article, but there's so much demand on programmers' time that it feels the urgent often gets in the way of the important. I've always wondered if a paid product might work for this? There see
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    by aerhardt 4y ago

    Very interesting insights. I hadn't thought about it, but looking back, I've observed exactly the same phenomena regarding junior hires and founders.