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by azangru 3y ago
> Server side rendering is essentially a hack to work around web crawlers' inability to parse dynamic single page apps... My first issue with this is that it doesn't make sense to me why someone would build a high-exposure publ
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by azangru 3y ago
> As somebody from the "Global South", it's ridiculous to say that the average quality of work in top universities in, say, India, is on the same level as the average quality of work in top universities, in, say, the US. I
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by azangru 3y ago
Would you consider Hacker News a social medium? I keep using Hacker News, and follow several people on Mastodon or Twitter in read-only mode (don't have an account) to keep up on the news about web development.
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by azangru 3y ago
> Have you ever participated in a research community? Yes. A little bit. Though not in CS. > You’re going to be at a severe disadvantage compared to peers in the US > ... > if you want to have a scientific career What does havin
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by azangru 3y ago
> How about just give up and quit your job? It would have the same effect. If by "it would have the same effect" you mean that it will be ignored, then maybe. But if you are saying that not attending international conferences i
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by azangru 3y ago
They seem to be using common names from NCBI taxonomy. For example, "cattle" instead of "cow".
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by azangru 3y ago
Especially since they have it in the description of the genus Canis >:-(
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by azangru 3y ago
Cool! Thank you for sharing the video. Such a strange design choice!
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by azangru 3y ago
> Teams of good people have always been agile in the truest sense - they will find a way to organise themselves to collectively get the job done. The word "good" here is very vague :-) People can be well-intentioned ("good
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by azangru 3y ago
> Huh? Why don't lots of successful open source softwares run on agile, then? What open-source projects in particular do you have in mind? And what do they run on, exactly? And what would this model look like if transplanted into
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by azangru 3y ago
Has anyone tried their Starfighter? They've been selling it for about a year; but I have yet to see a proper review. Wait time of 4-5 months is a dealbreaker for me; but perhaps someone has gone through with it?
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by azangru 3y ago
Yes. Dave Farley added to this confusion by publishing a video, through GOTO conferences, titled Agile vs Kanban: Which is Better? [0]. And he, of all people, should know better. [0] - https://youtu.be/N9coClM4qf8
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by azangru 3y ago
> But most of all, agile doesn’t fit in the context of this particular project, because the client changes priorities very frequently. The whole point of agile software development was to make it possible to adapt to an environment with
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by azangru 3y ago
> Last December, after much consideration and several experiences of fighting misinformation on climate change and COVID-19, Jarochowska closed her account, feeling that her reputation could be at risk if she kept using the platform. She
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by azangru 3y ago
From the part of the article where the author draws the moral of the story: > As America descends into the California model of madness and tech-mediated kakistocracy, the smart and adventurous Americans; the kind that found tech companie
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by azangru 3y ago
Xitter is pronounced as outhouse, right?
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by azangru 3y ago
> Admiration for the USSR among English intellectuals predates WW2. While this may be so — although I am sure there were enough intellectuals in both camps — it cannot explain the atmosphere that Orwell is describing: > At this moment
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by azangru 3y ago
> People working in science have employed this process for a long time. Hit your local academic library and look for periodicals called "Annual Review of whatever". More generally, look for review articles and you'll see t
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by azangru 3y ago
Yes, I was about to suggest that instead of "JS Is Weird", the site would be more appropriately called "My inputs are weird".
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by azangru 3y ago
> 0.2 + 0.1 === 0.3 This isn't just javascript though. It's harder to find a language for which this would be true than the other way around.
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by azangru 3y ago
> rather than an abstract "we think they're probably bad". I think this is the inflection they actually used when they talked about Huawei routers.
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by azangru 3y ago
> That campaign seems to have ended, and nobody cares if your project has either anymore. Has the movement to rename every master branch to main quietened down as well?
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by azangru 3y ago
> If you don't, you will probably have twitter brigades trying to smear your name. Do Twitter crowds actually do that? Do they keep track of anyone more or less prominent, and write in their comments "Have you spoken out agains
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by azangru 3y ago
> Your impression was absolutely wrong. Before war, Microsoft and other big western companies along with police hunted companies which tried to use pirate software. So it was not a good idea to use pirate software for company in Russia,
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by azangru 3y ago
Another example of political language from the article, in addition to what was described in a sibling comment: > Do we want, at a time when Russia is considering the UK as an enemy, to be providing all our personal details to a server i
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by azangru 3y ago
What if you don't need a massive ecosystem? For example, the project I am currently working on has (checks package.json) react-router, react bindings for redux, and react-spring (the latter could easily be dropped; it is almost not use
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by azangru 3y ago
Vanilla js is always the winner. Question is though, how many of us are good enough to write vanilla the way that it stays the winner.
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by azangru 3y ago
> but self-administering the modern React deployment chain is tedious Is it? It's not the React part that's adding to the tedium, I am sure; that part can be trivially automated away. Is it any more tedious than self-administer
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by azangru 3y ago
> bad actors have an inherent right to exercise their bad actions? It's on every individual to defend themselves against whatever harm is being inflicted, and society should stand by because, again, inherent right to be awful should
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by azangru 3y ago
I am curious, since there seem to be many linguists in this thread, could anyone place Ken Schwaber's (one of the co-creators of scrum) accent? The most noticeable characteristic about it is that his /æ/ in words like "h

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