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by amw-zero 6y ago
The difference between Dennis Ritchie and the average programmer of today is, Dennis Ritchie did not write bugs in the first place.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I feel like you don't understand the definition of "peer to peer." The fact that you require nodes to ultimate do the hosting of data does not make IPFS centralized.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Still. Just think about how much effort has to go into each of those transactions. It’s mind blowing from that angle. Acquisitions can take months individually.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Here’s the thing. If someone spent a week writing code, and the first time you’re seeing it is at code review, the chances of nitpicking as well as dissenting on the actual design go way up. Talking over the plan in advance is much more eff
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I think the "CRUD app" classification is never accurate. For example, your app almost certainly performs queries that have a where clause. That means that the R step has logic, which means you can (and I know I do) get the logic w
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I'm with you. I feel like all actual business problems have a lot of applicable CS solutions. Maybe if you're building UI-heavy stuff, there's less theory required there?
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by amw-zero 6y ago
A business is founded on reciprocity. If you really provide value, you won't get fired to save 5 dollars.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I resent that. The difference between pure privilege and entitlement is that, when you are entitled, you expect your privilege and don't acknowledge what you should be reciprocating for it. That's what made me react so strongly to
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I'm not against click bait personally. You have to get people in the door! And I'm not against bootcamps at all. They have a much denser amount of value-per-time-spent than college. I was just making a general comment on the topic
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I'm not against happiness. Read the wording of that statement: "Engineers need to be kept happy." This is a statement rooted in fear - that if you don't entertain programmers with things that they enjoy, they will leave.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Yes, I wish for a lot of things.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I'm obviously not saying that you should purposefully treat employees like garbage. The parent comment's tone was as if a business needs to beg for workers, and to make sure that programmers are kept happy with fancy and trendy te
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I’m not saying you should abuse employees. It’s pretty weird how much we think engineers need to be coddled and kept engaged though. First of all, if you have to consciously think about this, your company probably isn’t engaging to begin wi
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Can someone explain the trend of fetishizing the “bootcamp fairytale” whereby someone doesn’t have a CS background but ends up as a working programmer after going to a bootcamp? Let me explain. I didn’t study CS in college, but I did stud C
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by amw-zero 6y ago
How do you think the field of carpentry feels about this? Do you think they tell young carpenters in the field to convince homeowners to build their next closet in clay, because wood is old and boring?
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by amw-zero 6y ago
What is this idea that “engineers need to be kept happy?” Are programmers children that we need to entertain in order for them to do their job?
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by amw-zero 6y ago
That’s a very insightful reply. I hadn’t thought about the fact that the number of working computer scientists today probably does dwarf the number of mathematicians around when ZFC was a current topic.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I can’t read things like this without bringing up Leslie Lamport, the creator of TLA+. His position is that all you need for understanding computation is “regular” mathematics, i.e. set theory and predicate logic. With just this level of ma
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by amw-zero 6y ago
How do you handle finding occurrences of a specific variable with the same name as another one? Simple text search has the power equivalence of a dull butter knife.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I can say this. I highly doubt we’re done innovating with how software is made. I feel like systems development has gone extremely out of fashion in the past couple decades. The OS’s and tools we have are good enough to get a lot of stuff d
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by amw-zero 6y ago
> specifically engineered to be low churn This is not actually possible. You're kidding yourself if you think such a document is "future proof."
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Oh, so the solution is to just add another thing to “remember” to do. That must be what I’ve been missing all these years. Yes, that’s extra thick sarcasm.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
How do you keep this up to date though? That's the biggest problem with documentation. Having some kind of append-only format, like ADR, can help, since the documentation specifically is tied to a decision at a single point in time. St
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Does it make homebrew less valuable if there are other package managers for other OS’s that have more users?
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by amw-zero 6y ago
That’s a lot of buzzwords you got there
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by amw-zero 6y ago
The author’s point is that shrinking can take a very long time, and that’s what you should consider turning it off. In my experience this is also true. They’re saying that sometimes it’s better to just see the error in full and try and figu
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Hypothesis does what you’re talking about. It stores failing examples and chooses them during subsequent runs.
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by amw-zero 6y ago
I’m a big fan of ReasonML. It’s the best combination of practicality and conceptual ideology. Yes, it’s functional, and encourages you to write pure logic that operates on values. But it also allows you to mutate state when you want. The ty
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Did anyone have a choice in the matter?
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by amw-zero 6y ago
Interesting perspective about “real” coding. The purpose of software for me is to solve problems for people. Infrastructure-leave code doesn’t directly help users, though of course it does indirectly. But I think the low level stuff is fun

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