bird_monster

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by bird_monster 6y ago
To me, dominant is defined by lines of code currently in production. The difference between my example vs. what you defined, is that hype and/or popularity determine what people use for _new_ projects. But that doesn't really asse
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I work at a games studio, where artists/designers create and manage game assets via our game's source control. I personally dislike Git, but I absolutely think Git is a borderline-unacceptable choice for everyone that hasn't
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Given how much COBOL is still in production, I suppose it depends entirely on your definition of "dominant" ?
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by bird_monster 6y ago
It happens all the time. The last time I was looking for a new job, I interviewed at a bigger tech company in my area (SF based though). In the first screen I was open about not having recent JVM experience and 0 experience with JVM optimiz
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by bird_monster 6y ago
The most scarring interview experience I've ever had was with Amazon, when I was very young, where they exhibited a similar amount of not listening to me at all and evaluating skills that I never claimed to have. Ultimately Amazon is t
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by bird_monster 6y ago
It's def a slippery slope, but all of hiring is bound by implicit bias. If random people are evaluating random people against a set of subjective metrics, you're always going to get _some amount_ of bias in your decision making. I
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I have never seen this in practice (but I'm sure it happens all the time). At the places I've worked/hired, if a candidate's ask was below the bottom of the range we paid that role, we just paid them the bottom of the ra
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by bird_monster 6y ago
For the vast majority of developers, C/C++ native desktop applications aren't a great idea. For the vast majority of businesses, C/C++ native desktop applications aren't a great idea. If QT was going to become ___the too
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> Doing an "apt install", or just clicking install in some GUI, isn't such a big deal as you're pretending. To you. Software devs are rarely the targets of the products they build. Also, I am not pretending. It was m
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Right, and when there is a viable app store that might be possible for desktop environments (the exact reason I brought up steam). Until then, though, desktop apps are just a unanimous negative most of the time (from a "get users to ac
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Best of luck getting paying users to install each individual desktop application, as opposed to installing a browser and then navigating to multiple applications without any additional desktop/native work. I guess there might be space
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I hate javascript as much as the next person, but when I had to step into .erb templates and regress back into javascript-as-<script> blocks in HTML, holy crap did I realize how far the FE landscape has come. Watching the Turbo demo,
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by bird_monster 6y ago
That's great. Unfortunately at the time it wasn't up to me, I was brought in after the big decisions had been made and the devices had been purchased. But it just makes me sadder seeing these things actually exist and would'v
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by bird_monster 6y ago
A few years ago I was on a contract that used a horrible proprietary software/hardware combo to read data off of sensors and make it available to users. It had its own authentication system and this awful convoluted process for actual
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by bird_monster 6y ago
And as I updated my comment, you can ignore what I wrote about endings. Most of the decisions just flatout don't effect the world at all.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
If your perception of this game's story is "nudity and dildos", you just haven't played the game at all. There are story missions dealing with sex workers and their validity as humans. There are story missions addressing
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by bird_monster 6y ago
It's not about ending, but the branching story isn't actually branching at all. You make a decision and, regardless of what you chose, end up in the same place. The amount of decisions that actually stick, or actually change your
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by bird_monster 6y ago
#1 is not at all objective. I would say a world that revolves around deception, fraud, sex work, black market body modification is definitely in the realm of "Mature RPG". #2 was mostly a lie #3 Meh. You level up, you customize yo
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I believe I saw on Reddit a post that attempted to map all the dialogue/in game decision options, and found that 98% of choices ended up not mattering. Only 2% of player-choice decided which ending (of the 5) you got. edit To rephras
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> and because they never mastered it they can't really use it, and because they can't really use it they find work that doesn't strictly require it, and then conclude it's useless... But isn't this statement too
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I mean...yes. The US police department has stacked the cards in their favor, and as with every organization that believes they can act with impunity, abuse all of their power to the maximum extent they can. When they want to rob you, they c
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by bird_monster 6y ago
Yep. I kinda also think that the dev that wrote the code shouldn't be the dev that writes any of the tests, but that's much more of a philosophically sound but in-practice poor idea that I think about sometimes. I think it has an
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by bird_monster 6y ago
You're not missing anything. Police are allowed to rob you under the guise of "preventing future crime". Don't ever get caught with large sums of cash, even if your use is legitimate.
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> Or if somebody else deleted the data that your test relied on If you're relying on a shared database you're already not really testing effectively. I don't really think this is a scenario to worry about (meaning, if you&
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I might-should've rephrased my original post to suggest that mocks for non-code-you-wrote deps are a waste, but being able to inject different implementations of code you wrote for the sake of testing still has value. If you want to te
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> You should shoot for both, actually. If your tests require a live DB to run, they can't be automated (or they can be automated, but failures won't tell you much useful). Can you define a scenario in which hitting a real DB wo
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I have moved into thinking that mocks don't really have much value. Testing real things is the only way to verify real things. If you can, set up a real DB, cache, whatever, and run your services in tests with real instances of their d
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by bird_monster 6y ago
> abstract unless there's a reason not to Is the _exact_ behavior I have seen in 100% of the Java and C# codebases I've used. > But where it becomes a big problem is when it's used in a one, two, five-person project, an
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I think HN and Reddit are closer to blogging/microblogging/RSS. Seeing what other people are saying about a topic. Maybe asking a question, maybe getting a response etc. > Hacker News has done a good job of formalizing certain
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by bird_monster 6y ago
I think these code schools are clearly defining the need for vocational programs to get into tech. I don't know why these vocational programs have to be fundamentally different from the vocational programs that exist for other industri

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