allknowingfrog

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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
There was a time when "Black" was considered offensive and "African-American" was the generally-approved nomenclature. You seem to be implying that the "-American" pattern emerged as some sort of white conspira
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
You characterized Zig as "not a language for grown-ups" because it enforces a consistent syntax. I was expressing the opposite opinion. You seem to be objecting to a whole bunch of things that I didn't say. I'm just a gu
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
In my experience, grown-ups appreciate the reduction in cognitive overhead that a consistent syntax introduces. You're welcome to decide that Zig isn't for you, but characterizing the project as "disrespectful" and immat
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
It is, yeah. I've done tutorials in C and Rust and even Haskell at one time or another, but never anything serious. What do you recommend?
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
Ah, then I accept your advice. I happen to like programming, but I also view it as a practical skill and a means to an end. That's the lens through which I was viewing your post. If your central point was that you personally enjoy Lisp
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I've also been dabbling in Go recently, and I'm finding that the culture surrounding it is one of actually understanding what your code does. My main language is Ruby. It hits many of the same high notes that Lisp programmers talk
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
A PG article about "doing what you love" was recently shared and discussed on HN [1], and I think a lot of the same logic applies. The nature of a job is that someone is paying you to do what they want you to do. If we're t
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I'm still fairly new to Go, but I've been iterating on the idea of approaching HTML as basic string generation and ditching all of the other complexity. I have a single function that generates HTML tags from name, content and prop
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
Sure, but that sounds like a culture problem, not a problem with the meeting schedule. If you have abusive higher-ups, avoiding them is not a solution. Honestly, the whole premise of the discussion is kind of silly at that point. If you don
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
If you lack the confidence and the comfort to report "no interesting progress" once a day, I either pity your emotional state or your team dynamic. Daily standups should not be overwhelming, and abolishing them is an avoidance str
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
This sentiment is commonly summarized as "work to live, don't live to work", and I frankly categorize it as defeatist position. I'm living at work just like I'm living when I take a shower or prepare a meal. I striv
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
Did you pick up any management experience on your way to becoming "too old for this crap"? I just passed the decade mark in my software career, and I've gone from individual contributor to tech lead twice now. I've mento
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
Well, the question was about junior engineers. In my experience, they will occasionally burn a whole day without making real progress. Communication is one of the many skills that differentiate juniors from more senior resources.
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
You'll find yourself choosing between getting "your" work done and doing everything else on the list. It's important to accept that enabling everyone else is part of your job. In my experience, code review is the single
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I don't see an obvious mechanism for leaving said feedback. If I'm dumb enough to miss it, maybe others are too. Could you point us in the right direction?
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
Not documenting the existence/process/details/outcome is exactly the distinction that I intended to make when I called it a "sanity check". I was really just offering a data point, not a comprehensive guide to best
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
We also built our Stripe integration using only the testing tools they provide. The first real payment in production was completed by our product guy, but only as a sanity check. Maybe we got lucky, or maybe Stripe is just that easy to inte
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
It's not quite a free trial, but the FAQ at the bottom promises "no questions asked" refunds upon request.
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
In my mind, having a separate bank account is no different from being a physically separate human being. The taller partner will be the one who grabs more things off of high shelves. The partner with a higher salary will pay more of the bil
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I share your frustration, but not your confidence that it will impact the success of the game. The "daily challenge" format, though annoying, does seem to hook people.
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
Using htmx allows you to completely skip a layer of JSON serialization and parsing. It eliminates the complexity of maintaining a second, frontend application, as well as all of its build tools and dependencies. It even opens up the freedom
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I've been following projects like Hotwire and HTMX for awhile now, and I haven't seen anyone argue that scraping is a major reason to adopt this approach. I also don't see a lot of opposition to the idea of incorporating some
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I don't disagree, but I also hear "table stakes" used more often as a hand-wavy justification for a feature list than as a genuine, informed evaluation of customer demand. This seems to align with the sentiment of the parent
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
If your developer machines behave differently from your CI environment, how do you reproduce issues? If you can solve one, can't you solve the other?
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
I love the idea of TUIs, but I honestly don't have a lot of experience with them. There's a lovely Go library called Wish that I keep looking for reasons to use. https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
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by allknowingfrog 2y ago
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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by allknowingfrog 3y ago
The Wish library for Go tries to provide a similar experience for the modern world (using SSH). It may be worth a look for anyone feeling nostalgic about the decline of telnet. https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish
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by allknowingfrog 3y ago
I rather doubt that George is concerned with attribution at this point, but I freely admit that I was probably misquoting somebody.
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by allknowingfrog 3y ago
I think we're saying the same thing. My intention was to point out the subjective nature of the original comment, not to kill the discussion.
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by allknowingfrog 3y ago
Have you ever noticed that everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac, and everyone who drives slower than you is a moron? I think code abstraction fits a similar pattern.

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