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by artsyca 7y ago
What are you doing on HN don't you have a pointless feature to deliver that'll die in MR
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'd venture 99% of pair coding is done by people who don't know why they're even doing it and set themselves up for failure at the outset ultimately crying sour grapes
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'd choose not programming over a team of solo virtuosos and 10x feature factory cogs myself
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by artsyca 7y ago
Make sure to buy two copies so you can read it twice as fast
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by artsyca 7y ago
I've had this reaction to working in some large corporations I went in thinking it would be just amazing and expecting an exemplary brand experience only to land in HR hell with some dirty scoundrel managers and rampant corruption all
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by artsyca 7y ago
So many frameworks have borrowed from Ember more than Ember itself becoming mainstream I'd like to see the idiomatic approach become widespread whatever the idiom
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by artsyca 7y ago
It's the golden standard for how ambitious web apps should be structured built tested and and deployed nothing comes close once you've experienced ember you can't possibly equate to the industry status quo
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by artsyca 7y ago
It's no tragedy Ember is a niche product and the community is unique and hasn't gone the way of angular or react with all the false corporate stereotypes
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by artsyca 7y ago
Conway's principle
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by artsyca 7y ago
Actually you can have the best of both worlds it's a failure of imagination
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by artsyca 7y ago
People always come up with examples of eccentrics who dress like eccentrics I'm not interested in working with Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk or Einstein himself I'm interested in working with regular pe
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'd have to agree that it's necessary to view the professional sphere in terms of investment and investment is not only financial it's also effort and agency If you're a professional you ought to have some sort of profes
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by artsyca 7y ago
There's a story about a bowl of M&M's that made up a famous rock act's rider it was a heuristic to determine the fitness of the venue if they couldn't get a bowl of brown M&M's ready how could they be truste
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by artsyca 7y ago
I had a manager like that dude he was house poor and had only one ratty Hilfiger sweater There's no way to relate to people like that and confrontation being avoided is the only way out
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by artsyca 7y ago
We are "Knowledge Workers" for crying out loud our role is to create knowledge and spread it that's all we're supposed to be doing all the issues that arise are based on people not knowing what learning really is and not
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by artsyca 7y ago
Came here looking for POODR glad I'm not alone in suggesting this most notably TRUE software Transparent Reasonable Usable and Exemplary ought to be the norm in our industry As for feedback I typically start the feedback cycle very ear
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by artsyca 7y ago
Centrifugal force is a fictional force it's due to centripetal acceleration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_force
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by artsyca 7y ago
Turns out Adam's reality distortion field was more of a contact buzz
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by artsyca 7y ago
This could explain why SoftDank viewed this as an out of the park home run they miscalculated the landscape in other parts of the world it seems
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yet I'm downvoted as usual the whole point of these shibboleths is that they're hard to pronounce but the LondonDerry/Derry example set forth is not hard to pronounce but based on cultural context anyone can call San Francisc
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by artsyca 7y ago
How about 'lollapalooza' this word was similarly used to distinguish friend and foe
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by artsyca 7y ago
I've worked at all sorts of companies but it's actually been the same company over and over it's the broken top down hierarchy mixed with control dramas and disempowerment where initiative is punishable and the only way to ge
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by artsyca 7y ago
I thought we're not meant to call ourselves programmers If you're doing it for any reason other than to gain transcendetal enlightenment you're in the wrong space
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by artsyca 7y ago
No way -- you're still standing so you must be one of us
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yes because it's hard until it isn't whereas the other way around it's a bunch of green neophytes all thumbs
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'd call that implied obsolescence
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Absolutely going on by mistake or design with exports from certain manufacturing-rich countries
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by artsyca 7y ago
I started on an apple][ where anything you typed simply said SYNTAX ERROR and there was no stack overflow
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by artsyca 7y ago
You can't get there from here I say thrust people into a trial by fire and convince them to choose another profession until only the hardcore remain but who's hardcore anymore in this world of where's waldos and salty emotico
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by artsyca 7y ago
You're leaning too heavily on rationalism whereas computer science is both an art and a science and its definitely not for everyone hence the preference for sheer barriers to entry

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