almeria

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by almeria 5y ago
In the sense that henceforth we will no longer be allowed to use Oldspeak gendered pronouns - it is clearly mandating (in this particular context) that we adopt a more restricted form of expression.
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by almeria 5y ago
What is the SRP? What is the Open-Closed Principle? What is Liskov’s Object Replacement Principle? What is the Interface Segregation Principle? If you believe that being able to recite answers to questions like this makes you a good devel
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by almeria 5y ago
Here's about where I stopped reading: Saying that you have to code to be a CTO is like saying that, in order to design a skyscraper, you have start as a cement mixer, then work your way up to girder riveting before finally hanging dry
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by almeria 5y ago
I have literally never heard a developer utter the words "so how does the customer like the software?" I'm not surprised, given how many lousy places to work there are out there. But there are plenty of shops where this is
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by almeria 5y ago
It seems many on this thread did not live through the bad old days of waterfall and .mil standard development. Probably because for most of us they never existed - and yes, of course I mean "pre-agile". This whole "before A
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by almeria 5y ago
Given that the carless are second-class citizens in LA -- and that this is one of the most obvious and ever-present facts of life in basically every city that made the ill-fated decision to follow the Los Angeles development "model&quo
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Who needs a romantic partner when it’s friends who help us get through life?(theguardian.com)
3 points by almeria 5y ago|1 comments
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by almeria 5y ago
Another thing I only noticed when I visited Amsterdam - it's scary for pedestrians. Compared to what? Los Angeles? Cairo? Less sarcastically: I get your point, but it's a tradeoff. It's a beautifully car-free (and just pl
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by almeria 5y ago
You posted one quotation in which a Facebook employee shared his analysis of a situation Not "an employee", but an apparently very senior "communications official". I'm not sure what that quotation showed about F
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Environmentalists: Peter Thiel’s luxury NZ lodge will ‘destroy’ lake landscape(theguardian.com)
2 points by almeria 5y ago|0 comments
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by almeria 5y ago
Absolutely adore the fact that they were able to simply ignore the irrelevant NIMBYs and incumbent neighbouring homeowners. So you're saying that the descendants of the original indigenous owners, who had their land basically stolen