azangru

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by azangru 3y ago
> As I mentioned before, sprint planning meetings are unproductive because they lead to “designing by committee” and focus on getting estimations right, which is not only a waste of time, but also impossible to do in a stochastic process
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by azangru 3y ago
> Twitter was ... a walled garden controlled by mainstream media and government officials in an unethical manner. > Twitter is now a more ethically managed shithole that doesn't manipulate audiences for narrative alignment. >
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by azangru 3y ago
> "Deceptive patterns" is now the preferred term Preferred by whom though? The authors of the article preferred "dark patterns" — probably as something more commonly used in their circles.
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by azangru 3y ago
Oh, I totally forgot how mad I am at React because, with the new hooks-based approach, it has removed the semantic of "do this side effect just once when a component mounts". Mounting a component is such a crucial part of the life
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by azangru 3y ago
> React has a lot less going on. I don't think that's quite true anymore. As someone sarcastically remarked on Twitter [0], React has patched native events with synthetic events; has rolled out its own scheduler in order to ach
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by azangru 3y ago
> They did a wonderful job with C# and .NET Core. And typescript!
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by azangru 3y ago
> it didn't really make any sense to develop a competing browser from scratch I don't think they were doing it from scratch. Their scratch happened all the way back.
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by azangru 3y ago
When they do, then our goals will misalign :-)
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by azangru 3y ago
> What could you possibly mean? That they are annoyed by the implication that a company's contracts with a governmental agency should have any bearing on whether one should consider using their product, I would have thought.
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by azangru 3y ago
> Their goals only align with yours if your goal is to make GitHub more profitable. Er, no. Their goal is to make github more profitable. My goal is to have a convenient code repository that facilitates both devops and code collaboration
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by azangru 3y ago
First, what's a brogrammer job? Second, how is productivity being lost? If, as you say, the loss happens _while_ trying to improve interview skills, then, presumably, the person working on the improvement is looking for a job, and eith
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by azangru 4y ago
> To this day I believe there is quite little cooperation between the Russian government and Telegram I find it fascinating that Telegram is (and was back when they tried to block it) the most popular messenger and possibly even social n
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by azangru 4y ago
I do not know how a team of peers can deal with a bad team member; this is a good point. But on the other hand, I've seen teams that do have underperforming developers despite also having a manager. So a manager is no protection agains
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by azangru 4y ago
Sometimes, for some confusing piece of functionality that I am developing, I would write pseudocode in a comment first to see whether it makes sense; and would use it as an outline for implementing the feature. I've found it useful. I&
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by azangru 4y ago
...And you don't even need jQuery.
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by azangru 4y ago
The article reminded me that I don't understand what managers are for :-) Especially if a manager is in fact a software engineer promoted to that role. The promotion likely occurs because a) the person is good at being a developer, and
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by azangru 4y ago
What does he mean by a red cross in the Compatibility column for JavaScript? What is javascript incompatible with?
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by azangru 4y ago
And to think that StackOverflow is using Imgur for image upload!
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by azangru 4y ago
RSS feed from their site, I imagine.
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by azangru 4y ago
> Everyone's in a gang and god help you if you aren't everyone will have a go at you. Don't you have to be sufficiently active or prominent on the social media to be attacked? (Yes, I remember the example of some hapless l
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by azangru 4y ago
> Long gone in the past are websites that purely displayed static, seldom changing content to visitors. Today, almost all user interfaces are web applications instead of websites. Erm, how much of the web is still powered by Wordpress, a
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by azangru 4y ago
> They poached pretty much the entire react team I remember they got Sebastian :-) Who else?
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by azangru 4y ago
What's the similarity?:-) In the current AI hype, you can interact with the AI.
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by azangru 4y ago
Because you don't mind people using it?
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by azangru 4y ago
Sorry for the dumb question; but what is the purpose of marketing an open-source library? The more popular a library becomes, the heavier the burden on the maintainer. Why would a maintainer go out of their way to increase the popularity of
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by azangru 4y ago
There was a thread on HN recently [0], in which many expressed an opinion that "senior developer" role is a "force multiplier" involving semi-managerial and mentoring responsibilities. It amused me, therefore, to read th
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by azangru 4y ago
> If you’re the first ‘principal’ engineer in your company of course you don’t know what you have to do to succeed On the other hand, if you are the first (and, therefore, the only?) 'principal engineer' in your company, how do
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by azangru 4y ago
Well, we are still in the "play silly games" territory, aren't we? What should comparing a string to a number equal anyway?
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by azangru 4y ago
Amusingly, she writes: > Once I became a principal engineer, it quickly became clear to me that my job involved a lot more than closing tickets and writing code to achieve things. If we take this sentence at face value, are we to conclud
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by azangru 4y ago
> Actually, probably I'd get the train so that I can have a few pints Oh, I agree with that; that's very relatable; but then, that's what being poor always has been like — prioritize, economize, save, think about whether y

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