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by belfalas 4y ago
Just to pile on - Kent Beck was one of the authors of JUnit. His credentials are pretty solid.
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Mercury Programming Language(mercurylang.org)
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by belfalas 4y ago
Meh. It’s a normal part of the hype cycle around a piece of tech that is having its big moment on the stage. Some years back the HN front page was all Docker all the time. I think it’s actually not a bad thing if there are ‘too many’ posts
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by belfalas 4y ago
It's not a new song at all but 'Portrait of Tracy' by Jaco Pastorius is a beautiful piece for electric bass. It makes heavy use of harmonics which was very unique at the time and is still unique today.
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Zero Kilometer Cooking(bostonglobe.com)
2 points by belfalas 4y ago|1 comments
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My First Flame (1994)(newyorker.com)
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by belfalas 4y ago
I was friends with someone who did Teach for America in Mississippi. They paddled the kids in the school which my friend at first found shocking, she refused to participate. The explanation that made the most "sense" was that, at
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by belfalas 4y ago
Thanks! There is a lot the software world could learn from permaculture. I think software in many ways is more akin to gardening than building physical buildings.
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Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck has died at 78(datebook.sfchronicle.com)
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by belfalas 4y ago
Um. In what I wrote I said a week or a month. That is not a large amount of time. I think you missed the spirit of my writeup.
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by belfalas 4y ago
> What strikes me is that it actually is easier to write new code than to properly maintain/refactor old, foreign code. Working with large amount of old code requires a lot of hard, real planning and decisionmaking and learning to
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by belfalas 4y ago
What you say is sadly true, our industry is overrun with bullshit artists and hustlers who are really only looking out for number one and the short term. I find it demoralizing at times as well. What I've found is that good companies a
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by belfalas 4y ago
> the realization that people skills are actually no less important than tech skills in a tech setting. Yes, and this is hard to accept: they are more important than technical skills. I have worked with many truly brilliant engineers
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by belfalas 4y ago
I posted it in a reply to a different comment on the thread.
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by belfalas 4y ago
There’s a service called printme1 that’s great, I’ve used it many times. Or, if you’re into arts and crafts, you can get good home binding machines that are not very expensive. It’s actually pretty fun IMHO to punch and bind the paper but Y
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by belfalas 4y ago
No, never. If the role needed someone with specific expertise or if CORS was a “hot item” for day to day development, then sure. But I’ve found that I usually don’t need to ask very complex questions to figure out if someone has skills or n
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by belfalas 4y ago
Haha yes, for sure. I mean that it’s good to understand that HTTP is built on top of other things. I can’t tell you how valuable it’s been at times to understand how packets flow over a network. When ECONNREFUSED first rears its ugly head m
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by belfalas 4y ago
“I have just met you…and I love you.” ;)
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by belfalas 4y ago
Yep, that is definitely a skill. And you are doing exactly what I recommend: slow down and take the time to read the thing and understand it. Then go forward from there. Your interest also shows that you are intrinsically motivated, which m
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by belfalas 4y ago
Have you yourself read the RFC? EDIT: to clarify, when I say “problems with HTTP” I mean actually understanding the protocol. Many people for example are unaware of the power of the Cache-Control header and all the things it can do. I used
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by belfalas 4y ago
That’s kind, thank you.
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by belfalas 4y ago
Also, you should study up on TCP/IP networking. You should be able to telnet to an HTTP server and write out a correct request by hand and have it work.
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by belfalas 4y ago
Many more beyond this but these are my for sures. People / Soft Skills: * How to win friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie * Secrets of Consulting - Gerald Weinberg * Peopleware - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister * Nurtured by L
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by belfalas 4y ago
> In essence, developers treat "legacy" code as if it was some kind of framework or language runtime -- to be used but never to be studied to have its internals understood. (I will never understand this approach to development
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by belfalas 4y ago
> I'm bummed that they didn't spend at least a LITTLE more time on the question of "why do these people like Osho so much" I am not an Osho follower but I have read some of his book and thought they were insightful.
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by belfalas 4y ago
All of human culture is immature. We still think bombing each other out of existence is a valid way to resolve our differences.
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by belfalas 4y ago
For 20 years they’ve gotten it for free. Why start paying now? Apple is not a friend to the little guy, quite the opposite. Remember, Steve Jobs was good friends with Larry Ellison who famously said that open source is there to be exploited
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by belfalas 4y ago
> Nothing I've said here is privileged, in fact most airlines operate this exact way. I consulted for a few large carriers and this was my conclusion also. In fact most very large American enterprises have all the same issues. Wit
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by belfalas 4y ago
>It feels to me as if many Americans are one job away from total collapse, like their country is only ok for people with a good employment and an utter nightmare for everyone else, with no safety net at all except your own savings. Yes
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by belfalas 4y ago
That makes absolutely no sense. Climate activists destroying art isn't right either. When you get to the point that you feel it necessary to destroy things to advance your cause you've entered down the path of leaving behind your

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