andrewzah

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by andrewzah 5y ago
I’ll gladly dig my own career grave for $100 million.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
"I tried to meet new people at hobbies and dance lessons, but guess what - they're all full of lonely developers and other socially awkward people - short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for hus
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by andrewzah 5y ago
"There, done." Except, we're not done. YAML has multiple footguns like this, which I have to remember, forever. And anyone who works with YAML. It's unintuitive and confusing, and costs space in my brain that I really sh
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by andrewzah 5y ago
...Can we not have more projects move to a proprietary, closed source chat system? (And one that tracks every mouse movement you make...) Zulip, Discourse, Element(formerly Riot) / Matrix all exist and are fairly nice. And of course, I
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Ah. I used to use Zola but I migrated to Hugo myself.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
It’s a theme for Hugo. https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/hugo-theme-terminal/
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Flow is completely, totally different. GP is discussing self-reflection and learning to be mindful of oneself and one's surroundings - which is basically meditation.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
It's a pithy saying. It's basically shorthand for: "nobody wants to put in the work and adjust their lifestyle to achieve that goal of being ripped". But I wouldn't say doing 3x or 5x sets of lifting heavy weights e
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by andrewzah 5y ago
College degrees aren't standardized and most of the time don't really mean anything. Ask some TAs for computer science courses about how confident they are in undergrads' ability to code. There isn't a standard license t
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Sitting at a computer for 10 hours a day isn't a gendered thing. There is nothing about computer science or programming that is gender specific. It, ideally, should sit around 50-50, ±5%. So yes, it is a problem that it so heavily skew
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by andrewzah 5y ago
That's like most hobbies/careers. People want to learn the guitar|piano|violin, until they realize the amount of work it takes. People want to get fit and jacked, until they realize the amount of work it takes. People want to be a
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by andrewzah 5y ago
The average developer isn't often doing "engineering". Until we have actual standards and a certification process, "engineer[ing]" doesn't mean anything. The average software developer doesn't even know mu
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by andrewzah 5y ago
In my opinion, there is no expectation for someone to accept your requests or PRs. It's definitely not the norm, but I reserve the right to not do anything that I don't want to do. You don't know someone's life situation
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by andrewzah 5y ago
I'm not talking about society in general. I'm talking about random F/OSS projects on github. There is zero expectation when looking at someone's project from afar.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
No. No. No. There is no such thing as this "social contract". I publish software on github with MIT or (A)GPL licenses for various reasons: * In case someone else has the same issue I did * In case someone is working on something
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Supporting async isn’t a bad thing. It is annoying when working with async stuff and suddenly a library doesn’t support futures or streams. But I do agree that it seems that people jump to use async instead of e.g. threads. I think there sh
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by andrewzah 5y ago
That has nothing to do with people erroneously blaming the "decay of society" or the "loss of traditional values" on things like rap music or videogames. We can talk about how the internet has made things like porn ubiqu
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Language exchanges, live music, hobby meetups (via fb/insta/meetup.com), etc.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
I will never understand how people can suggest a specific musical genre or a medium is responsible for ruining society or "destroying values like the value of work" with a straight face. When I ask for empirical proof of such thin
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Words/terms aren't static, and can change over time. I'm not against skepticism or conspiracy theories, but this one doesn't really make sense. Word usage and dictionary definitions update all the time.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
There are some misconceptions, I think, here. 1. People learn more than 1 language. What I'm referring to here is complete beginners who need to learn -how- to program. Once they grok that, it's not difficult to move to other lang
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by andrewzah 5y ago
To be frank, why would one choose a language with a small community over any of the major languages? Beginners have to learn -how- to program on top of the language's syntax and toolchain itself, so it helps tremendously to be able to
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by andrewzah 5y ago
You can use a ZNC bouncer, or a client like TheLounge. It's always "online" so I see the context for any pings. It's trivial to set up.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_isolate The largest one is likely Korean. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_language#Classificati...
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by andrewzah 5y ago
"either working on screens that are too small (14" really isn't enough to be productive)" I work primarily from a 13" xps. Given the high-res display + that I can switch desktops easily via i3, it's really a no
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Lichess has a monthly subscription you can get for $5 or a custom amount. Does nothing except except make your badge a different color. Totally worth it to support such a great site.
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by andrewzah 5y ago
"CSS is not a markup language at all" Ok. It's a style sheet language. This doesn't change any of the reasons that I've listed as to why people don't prefer working with it. "all code is about "update
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by andrewzah 5y ago
FreeBSD runs pretty nice on thinkpads. I've thrown it (and OpenBSD) on my x201s and x220s. There are a few pain points: * getting used to the BSD version of utilities. make frequently breaks for me, and last time I used gmake there wer
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by andrewzah 5y ago
Surely this is satire? If not, this has to be one of the dumbest takes I've seen this year. CSS is mostly maligned because: * it is a markup language. * it's not about "problem solving" so much as "update stylesheet
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by andrewzah 5y ago
I've found discogs to be especially dangerous to my wallet. It's extremely tempting to pick up <$10 cds and rip them.

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