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by azangru 3y ago
> faster than this guy escaping a dystopia in Asia, and trying not to be deported back While that guy may have an advantage over you in motivation, you might have an advantage over him in communication.
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by azangru 3y ago
I hated Snow Crash (it aged poorly), but loved REAMDE. Cryptonomicon and Seveneves were decent; Termination Shock got fun in the end; whereas The Rise and Fall of DODO was more interesting in the beginning. Not sure how I feel about Fall -
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by azangru 3y ago
> It really comes down to where you want to create the split: in code or on the org chart? Deciding on the architecture of an application based on the org chart is probably not a good idea.
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by azangru 3y ago
> People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software" The fact? Should? In "word processing software"? Why shouldn't it happen in "text editing
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by azangru 3y ago
> When does an SPA make sense? I didn't quite get the answer — if it is that an SPA makes sense when you have front-end and back-end specialists on your team, then it is surely the wrong answer. Perhaps I misunderstood. I like Alex
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by azangru 3y ago
No idea. I am as much of an idiot as you are. But questions of this kind were supposed to detect candidates who were able to think.
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by azangru 3y ago
> most interview procedures/ways in recent ~10+years do not check if interviewees can think Oh, I remember questions that were ostensibly designed to detect whether an interviewee can think. "Why are manhole covers round?"
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by azangru 3y ago
> I know in the best of times these programs were tenuous and full of questionable promises Screw promises. A coding bootcamp is the best guided way, other than college, of acquiring basic knowledge and skills of a software developer. It
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> unlike CoffeeScript I don’t understand why people are still using it Gasp! Does this mean you know why people are still using CoffeeScript?
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> Which brings some simplicity to the client And puts all the complexity on the backend :-) As far as I've seen, front-end developers are generally quite happy about graphql. Back-end developers on the other hand are a different sto
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by azangru 3y ago
> more and more people ditch the frontend/backend split and moving to Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, SolidStart, and so on. All this is javascript land. Unless your question implies that javascript kills everything else, then the answer
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by azangru 3y ago
Hah! I remember posting this link to HN shortly after that talk, back in 2018. Went completely unnoticed :-) [0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16362607
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by azangru 3y ago
> It's not worse when you append site:reddit.com to every single search Could you give some examples of search queries that would benefit from filtering by reddit? (My own example: I've been looking for recommendations for a so
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by azangru 3y ago
> Scrum is broken That section describes various scenarios how scrum can be misapplied — starting from a team that doesn't find value in it ("Does your team still attend the stand-up meeting [without PO and SM in the office]? I
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by azangru 3y ago
> I find this to be a problem with agile, but not so much with Scrum. I am seeing problems left and right. Mostly because people often copy the activities (they would often even call them rituals or ceremonies, as if to make it even more
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by azangru 3y ago
> Scrum practitioners/coaches always seemed to have this idea that if Scrum wasnt working then you werent doing it properly. And if people mean different things by the word scrum, it is rather hard to tell whether they are doing i
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by azangru 3y ago
> if you don't do it entirely this way, you're not extreme programming But isn't this... OK? Extreme programming is probably defined as a certain set of practices, and if you are doing a subset of that, you are doing somet
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by azangru 3y ago
Hmm, my reading of the title was, is anyone working on something that they have a good reason to suspect will turn out to be nothing. I.e. does anyone think they are doing a bullshit job. I am not sure how one can work on absolutely nothing
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by azangru 3y ago
> You can be somewhere for 10 years Our organization has a policy that it hires developers on 3-year contracts, and renews them no more than two times. So when you have reached 9 years in the org; when you have become intimately familiar
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by azangru 3y ago
> What if your boss just tells you to learn polars, and you don’t know why? Saying what something is, is just good communication Shouldn't the good communication happen when the boss tells you to learn polars? Like, why are you tell
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by azangru 3y ago
I love how an education in moral philosophy did not interfere with piracy.
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by azangru 3y ago
Does the article discuss how to wean the parents' generation off of Facebook? I don't think it does... And if not, then grandparent's question stands - what is it that Meta must be prevented from doing?
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by azangru 3y ago
> Most (nearly all?) religious texts of major world religions were originally written in languages other than English, and so if SE were to try to host those texts the site would have to make an editorial call about which translations of
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by azangru 3y ago
> This proposal makes the same mistake as various stream implementations (including RxJS in the past) of making operators methods on the observable. I don't think they are making a mistake. I am sure Ben knows what he is doing, give
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by azangru 3y ago
> especially since Observables have been widely available and actively worked on for a long time, without seeing wide adoption Take a look at the "Userland libraries" section [0] of the proposal (almost certainly written by Ben
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by azangru 3y ago
> except that "reactivity" does not meet the bar of developers collectively having landed on a solution to a common problem Now that everyone seems to be in love with signals, there is work going on in the web components commu
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by azangru 3y ago
plus efficacy :-)
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by azangru 3y ago
Judging by the comments here, nobody is doing pair programming / mob programming?
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by azangru 3y ago
Same! After failing to find the table of contents, I decided that that was an intentional downgrade of the online version of the book as compared to the paid-for print one.
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by azangru 3y ago
Let's consider the implications of this statement. If it were true, all capable programmers would be good communicators. Are they?

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