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by allenu 5y ago
I really enjoyed the post and yes immediately thought of Uzumaki. I think it’s my favorite thing that he’s done.
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by allenu 5y ago
When I was a kid and learned about BASIC, I would write little snippets of code in my paper notebook. I didn’t have a computer at home at the time. One time we were doing a math test in the computer room with Apple IIes and we were allowed
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by allenu 5y ago
I love coding too, basically for the same reasons. There’s something about creating things from scratch, making them better, and debugging issues that can’t be matched by other hobbies. You just have more control and speed in working on thi
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by allenu 5y ago
Another way to look at emphasizing latency/feedback is to "increase learning". There's a great book, Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, that covers this. The idea is that there are so many unknowns within a pro
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by allenu 5y ago
I never saw them as trying to solve a problem. It's just a nice little thing to make your neighborhood cozier.
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by allenu 5y ago
There are a ton of these all over my neighborhood in Seattle and even though I don't use them, I love that they are there. It adds a bit of warmth to the area and I love just peeking in to see what each little library has available.
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by allenu 5y ago
I think you're right about the timeline. I do remember livejournal being around before Blogger, which is around when "blogging" became a term. I remember getting into a few people's web-based online diaries in the late &
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by allenu 5y ago
I really don't remember tech people poo-pooing some of the examples you gave as "couldn't you..." I think you're looking at these examples with too fine a lens of implementation, especially in retrospect. the web: I
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by allenu 5y ago
Oh, I don't mean the tool called Slack. I mean slack as in having some time and space to work on things, and also not having work too specified ahead of time. When things are broken down into tickets, it's hard to feel like you&#x
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by allenu 5y ago
I think there's low-key some of that, as a sort of way to "pass the buck", i.e. somebody who owns some outcome thinks, I don't like how the output of this system, let me go upstream and talk to this team to see if they c
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by allenu 5y ago
Something that I've noticed recently is that in my work life, I'm finding there's more bureaucracy in what I do, mostly in the name of "efficiency". When you encounter a problem to solve, there's often a proces
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by allenu 5y ago
In my opinion, improving user experience isn’t something that is easily done piecemeal. It’s one of those things that can require architectural changes to get right, and so it’s difficult to improve on existing projects. Fixing bugs and mak
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by allenu 6y ago
Yep, I agree. In my ideal world, everybody (including me) would have pristine commits that are broken up logically. There wouldn't be small commits created as part of code review to fix things up based on feedback. You'd just have
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by allenu 6y ago
My first job out of college was doing embedded development and since then I've moved onto Mac and iOS development with a little bit of web frontend and backend work. I have to say, the embedded stuff feels way more like you have contro
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by allenu 6y ago
Yup, I agree it's likely not a popular opinion. In my experience, developers love developing frameworks and tools, even when it isn't necessary. I mean, it's just fun. Developers are biased to do things that make work interes
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by allenu 6y ago
I'm 43 and have been coding in some capacity for nearly 30 years now. I've had a few times where I got tired of coding and usually what I realized is that the type of coding I did at work wasn't that interesting, or else the
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by allenu 6y ago
Yeah, it's really awful. Many podcasts I choose to listen to because the hosts have soothing voices and there isn't any annoying yelling, but when Spotify inserts the ads in there, it absolutely ruins the experience since the ads
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by allenu 6y ago
Glad to see someone post this. The album is great and quite an inspirational listen.
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by allenu 6y ago
I agree. I can’t even turn them on and off away from my home for some reason. That was the main reason I bought them. The other reason was for the color temperature and dim control.
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by allenu 6y ago
Heh, I don't have landline today, but I do remember having a fax modem in the '90s and using it once before. Before WFH I would normally just use the office's fax machine but because of the pandemic it wasn't an option.
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by allenu 6y ago
I sadly had to use one recently and it was to fax documents to the IRS. Their only two options were fax or mail the documents. No email. Thankfully I had a scanner (in a box somewhere) and found an online service that faxes PDFs on your beh
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by allenu 6y ago
I agree. It's quite clever, though. You have the benefit of two "engaging" articles: one for the initial predictions and one for the results years later.
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by allenu 6y ago
I recently decided to install smart bulbs in a couple of lamps. I set them to "on" permanently so that I can exclusively use the app to turn them on/off and adjust their brightness and warmth. After having them installed for
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by allenu 6y ago
Yeah, interestingly I've been buying vinyl from independent artists when I can, and usually they'll include codes to download the digital format. I finally bought a record player a few months ago and have been enjoying the experie
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by allenu 6y ago
Sadly, I think it's just that the world has moved on from albums as "coveted" goods that you treasure to just being commodities. With music streaming services, each album isn't as precious as the old days where you'
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by allenu 6y ago
This is great. It reminds me of the old web when people would do silly things like this purely for fun and not as a way to promote something.
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by allenu 6y ago
I suppose so. It's probably more akin to a club for tall people, or a club for twins. There are things specific to who you are in those cases that outsiders wouldn't "get" and I can see the value in meeting up with those
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by allenu 6y ago
I feel like it is because it's a group of people in the same field, which is constantly changing. There are topics related to the group that make sense to discuss. With smart people, I suppose any topic is on the table. It's not s
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by allenu 6y ago
To me, as an outsider, I don't see the immediate purpose of the club. I imagine most clubs are about activities or a mission. I used to go social dancing and the purpose of that group of people was to dance, and they would have various
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by allenu 6y ago
Agreed. It's kind of assembly-line development now for me. Design by committee, break up tasks into tickets, estimate how long it'll take, sprint, sprint, sprint until done, monitor releases, add more tickets, and continue ad infi

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