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by betenoire 2y ago
Aren't these discussions the evidence? The fact that the author wrote a blog post and we are here discussing it. I might be missing the point of your question. This is everywhere around us in the development world. Anytime people compa
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by betenoire 2y ago
I don't understand the question... If someone has a strong opinion, and they have arguments for their opinion, but don't recognize the significance of the context in which they've formed their opinions, they have blind spots
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by betenoire 2y ago
Only software engineers pretend best practices exist outside of any useful context. - small localized team vs big distributed team - bug fixes and incremental improvements vs green field poc - saas vs system scripts Context matters, and if
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by betenoire 2y ago
That's a good point, but there's probably a bit of nuance in there considering NPM serves a solution space to the entire spectrum of developers using a technology, and Wordpress to users in need of web content management features.
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by betenoire 2y ago
When I started CS decades ago, our student passwords for our server accounts were all similarly generated. They were given to us on a slip of paper, of course, and I still remember the two I was given over 20 years later. I was (naively) bu
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by betenoire 2y ago
And when the bulk of the page is the table, it is very obnoxious to click into the window to focus, (or unfocus an input), and suddenly you are whisked away to another page
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by betenoire 2y ago
I find it ignorant to categorize languages like this. There is nothing about javascript, php, python or java keeping you from using the explicit approach described there.
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by betenoire 2y ago
funny, that's exactly how I feel about religion.
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by betenoire 2y ago
let me say in fewer words: >There is nothing to suggest that 1..100 understands math. That's like, your opinion man. I'd like it.
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by betenoire 2y ago
I think the whole point of a type fully understanding the constraints of your data suggests it would ideally. Typescript is able to do this with strings when using templates. type Suit = "C" | "D" | "H" | &
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by betenoire 2y ago
you are right, navel-gazing describes it perfectly
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by betenoire 2y ago
Seems analogous to the effect of echo chambers on humans
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by betenoire 2y ago
Kinda but not really. It actually handles type inference on string concatenation, but doesn't understand math. type N = 1 | 2 const x1:N = 1 const x2:N = 1 const sum:N = x1 + x2 Typescript (the version running on my box
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by betenoire 2y ago
I immediately thought of the government. I interned for the transportation department. I was one of these "innovation heros". It was a budget thing as explained to me. If I didn't have work to do, they told me to do homework,
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by betenoire 2y ago
> somewhat allergic to that kind of evangelism Meditation, or some sort of reflection, may reveal to you that wrapped up in "allergic to evangelism" is an illusion that you received the intended message in the intended way. Or
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by betenoire 2y ago
I don't think that's what a selection bias is. If I have two cars, and electric for getting around locally, and a guzzler for road trips, you wouldn't call it selection bias if I always chose the guzzler for the road trips. Y
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by betenoire 2y ago
Peer review. Those words mean something, your bias is showing
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by betenoire 2y ago
that's cool, I wish I had writing good enough to want my own font :) < 14.5, but if I switch this to a default size of 200, the point could be defined as 145, removing one character (the decimal place). I see a function called &quot
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by betenoire 2y ago
Right, and they are, that's my point. Quality isn't a single attribute of a system, it's a judgement call based on objectives. The objectives of a business selling software, and that of engineers is something else. Sometimes
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by betenoire 2y ago
I agree, and take it a little further. 10 engineers couldn't agree on the _point_ of quality code to begin with, let alone define how to get there. Consider two programs: 1. The spaghetti mess, half-done abstractions, inconsistent uses
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by betenoire 2y ago
not justifying the sentence because 18 years is wrong... but the headline is very misleading. He was arrested for assault during an attempted robbery, and had a history of violence.
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by betenoire 2y ago
we have css variables now, we don't even need to do that
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by betenoire 3y ago
Nah, these are broad strokes you are painting with. Sure some of them needlessly reinvent, but some back end people needlessly reinvent databases and API basics. But my experience is not the same. It has always been others telling the front
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by betenoire 3y ago
I mean, I get what you are saying I think... but was is the practical difference between "you can put me in a place where I become demotivated" and "you can't demotivate me"? The whole industry of coaching seemingly
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by betenoire 3y ago
it sounded server side code allow-list the source, so it was probably just doing a string prefix check. the code to make the friend relation doesn't happen in the browser
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by betenoire 3y ago
Something about this feels really at odds with all the "locality of behavior" virtue the creator/maintainer often promotes.
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by betenoire 3y ago
I worked for a company where we would not use features that depended on foreign keys (cascading deletes, etc.), but we would define the foreign keys 100% of the time. We ran all of our staging environments with the keys, but when it came to
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by betenoire 3y ago
To me, it's about the significant digits. 2:46 is still a quarter to three.
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by betenoire 3y ago
I think because software UIs have essentially binary actions. You either click, or you don't. You are hovering or not. You save, or you don't. Even a trumpet with only three keys, has all sorts of shades of gray depending on far y
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by betenoire 3y ago
Right, and I get that. My point was there are better ways to achieve that than simply not finishing your work

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