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by blowski 4y ago
> I don't think I would have looked closely if the word massive wasn't there This is exactly why editorialising is bad. I don't want people to start inserting superlatives into their submissions to get more attention.
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by blowski 4y ago
The guidelines say: > Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. "Massive" is an assessment inserted by the submitter. I agree with the assessment, but I'd rather see that
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by blowski 4y ago
True, but the HN guidelines also say not to editorialise headlines.
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by blowski 4y ago
I can't see how this differs from any other article about a large, dominant employer in an area. It could be a coal-mine, theme park, or university, and there'd be a very similar comments.
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by blowski 4y ago
They’re also easy to learn when all you want to know is syntax. What about: * dependency management and releases * deploying and running in prod * footguns that affect performance or security * libraries for helping development * language-s
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by blowski 4y ago
The British Highway Code uses similar terminology. Breaking a “must” rule is a punishable offence, where “should” rules are just for advice.
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by blowski 4y ago
This seems to focus on code style in terms of placement of brackets and new lines. From personal experience, I know there are some programmers with awful code style - random brackets, lines and indents everywhere. But above that low bar? I
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by blowski 4y ago
Originally, so you could group related VLANs together. e.g. VLAN30 is Marketing, then later you need a second marketing team so they have VLAN31. If you’d had VLAN1, 2, 3, etc, you couldn’t do this. That everyone does it - even on small hom
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by blowski 4y ago
Use Firefox and this plugin. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...
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by blowski 4y ago
I’ve seen a version of this list with “Never use a short word where a diminuitive one will suffice”.
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by blowski 4y ago
In general I agree with you about Hemingway. But it tends to focus on clarity of individual sentences without thinking about the document as a whole. In the wrong hands, it encourages monotony.
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by blowski 4y ago
It's also karma-farming. Go find a popular post and re-post it for easy internet points.
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by blowski 4y ago
> Just the same three questions ad nauseum A lot of Reddit seems like that.
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by blowski 4y ago
The old adage is more “never do a big bang rewrite”, where the launch of v2 is one big step. An incremental rewrite, where perhaps you change a single component or bit of the UI, is always necessary. Although even there people moan about “c
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by blowski 4y ago
An extreme version of this might be: > I saw Bob about to stab Alice, so I beat Bob to it and shot her in the head. I did nothing wrong since the outcome would have been the same regardless of my actions.
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by blowski 4y ago
This is exactly the Prisoner's Dilemma, and also shows up in arguments why we need to build insane numbers of nuclear weapons. The logic rests on a faulty assumption that there is a binary choice - either you build it this way, or some
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by blowski 4y ago
I took the OP's comment as meaning "it's not necessary for this to happen" rather than "it's necessary for this not to happen", a nuance which can be confusing, especially for non-native English speakers.
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by blowski 4y ago
In addition to this, I found with Otter and Gong that it doesn’t understand internal jargon very well. When you say “the fizzbuzz microservice is blocked by Istio” the note-taking is appalling - yet those are key to understanding the point
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by blowski 4y ago
As others said, the root comment was flagged for being a shallow dismissal (all it said was "overrated"). You can see them by enabling "showdead" on your profile, or you can go here. https://news.ycombinator.c
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by blowski 4y ago
The lecturer in that seemed both so knowledgable and passionate about their subject that he was just riffing, it was incredibly good. A lot of the courses are more like somebody reading out a textbook.
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by blowski 4y ago
Is it any worse? Or perhaps Tesla is now in the trough of disillusionment stage of the hype cycle, so every bit of negative news is made out to be a big deal.
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by blowski 4y ago
What causes fear of clowns? Probably the prevalence of both evil clowns (John Wayne Gacy, Stephen King's It, the recent Evil Clown meme). That, and the prevalence of the fear of clowns.
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by blowski 4y ago
In my experience, it's a loss leader designed to bleed you dry with never-ending "bug fixes" you have to pay for. 1. Put the cheapest junior they have to install and configure their default platform for you and present it. 2.
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by blowski 4y ago
A lot of SQL is not particularly declarative. You know precisely how you want it to run and you keep writing code until it runs that way.
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by blowski 4y ago
Both are painful. When I'm struggling, is it better to know that I justly deserve it as a consequence of my own choices, or that fate has capriciously inflicted those struggles on me? Whichever situation I find myself in, I'd rath
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by blowski 4y ago
It's horrible feeling like the world has passed you by, perhaps even more so when it's forced on you by external factors rather than choices you've made. That being said, I wonder if you should challenge your assumption that
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by blowski 4y ago
I used to have to show a photocard with my travel pass. It had a picture of a lemming on it and yet it was never rejected.
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by blowski 4y ago
Woah there Betsy, I wasn't accusing anyone of anything, I literally didn't understand the comment as well as you apparently did. So the second part of my comment stands. In the case of such a civil engineer, I'd focus on &quo
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by blowski 4y ago
Probably not by the definitions you're using, or at least they don't care about them. Either way, this is one of those age old debates about descriptive vs prescriptive language that will have absolutely no impact whatsoever. Peop
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by blowski 4y ago
We all believe our job is so challenging and has such special requirements that it _can't_ be automated. It requires someone with the kind of experience learned with wisdom over a long time. Blah blah blah.

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