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by blunte 6y ago
Very true. Marketed "fun" is usually not. And frankly, I don't have energy or patience to play the marketing game. But I do know what fun is. I worked in the gaming industry at one point, and later in life I worked in plac
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by blunte 6y ago
I'm a worker in the trenches myself. If you read a different story, that's based on your perception or experience rather than my motives. You can look through my previous posts. I want everyone to be happy and fulfilled, and mo
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by blunte 6y ago
This is true, and forgive me - I do forget this often. When I lived in one room of a shared apartment, I probably would have jumped off the balcony by now due to too much time with my roommate. But! If remote is the new way, then we don&#x
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by blunte 6y ago
agreed. I have just found by my own experience that when nice free lunch is supplied (finance company, not SV startup), we typically talked about work and tech stuff anyway. those who went out for lunch did because they needed some air and
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by blunte 6y ago
That's a good approach. I think a lot of companies are going to downsize their office space in the future. Having a company place to meet is a good idea. I predict there will be some variants of WeWork which will focus on this concep
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by blunte 6y ago
Le Sigh, during COVID I don't go anywhere. Carrying a monitor is not a problem. But when I traveled, many co-working spaces offer halfway decent monitors for rent. And if you're staying for a while, you can buy one locally and
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by blunte 6y ago
Is that what you read? No, I am creating the kind of company I would have loved to work for. Salary is fine, but I know firsthand that if there is good free food, I will stay and work through lunch (or at least talk with my colleagues abou
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by blunte 6y ago
Hey, they can spend 1-2 years with me, learn to be a good developer, and then happily go do whatever they want. I'm not binding them to be with me and my company forever. This is not the US startup scene. There are decent alternative
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by blunte 6y ago
No you're certainly not the only one. I've found a good way to filter recruiters is to tell them up front, "I will only do full remote with occasional, non-regular office visits." Once you've tasted freedom...
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by blunte 6y ago
I much prefer a 4k monitor as my primary, and my laptop below it (open, as a small second screen). Going outside, working just off the laptop, is a definite shift. It usually means less coding, but sometimes it pushes me to be productive i
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by blunte 6y ago
In my remote experience, I definitely don't talk to my colleagues that much. But when you're trying to build a small company, one approach is to make it feel like a family. And families always have people we like and people we li
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by blunte 6y ago
Wow, the author has a pretty miserable company :(. That said, I share most of the opinions even though I quite like the office environment of my company. I abso-fking-love choosing where I work (and to some degree, when). Being able to tak
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by blunte 6y ago
My list wasn't comprehensive, but I think it is a reasonably fundamental set. Without those "soft skills", the developer will not be great. On the other hand, if someone has most of my list, then they are probably quite capa
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by blunte 6y ago
The thing is, much of the skills it takes to be a decent programmer are skills that we should endeavor to teach to and instill within everyone. These are things like: - attention to detail - development of a sense of when attention to detai
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by blunte 6y ago
In my case it was a team of 1 working on OTP 19 and 20. Since that is now 3+ years ago, it is quite possible things have improved in the single-thread performance area.
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by blunte 6y ago
I should have been clearer in my final note. My Elixir vs Python example was for standalone batch (script) processing. It was not in the context of a webapp. The case was a recurring calculation system which would take a few hundred thous
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by blunte 6y ago
I fear it would be difficult to hire Elixir people as well, but now I realize it's actually also hard to hire decent Ruby/Rails people. Honestly I think we should just accept anyone who can demonstrate thinking and programming sk
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by blunte 6y ago
Looking purely at webapps, Liveview is the killer feature of Phoenix. Other than that, I would say that any place with a complex service oriented environment where you could leverage the Erlang VM would be an obvious place to use Phoenix fo
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by blunte 6y ago
To add to the author's experience, I spent 18 months of production time with Elixir and Phoenix. As he says, the templates are compiled and are blindingly fast compared to Rails. Pattern matching is really really nice when used in the
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by blunte 6y ago
There's been talk in the past of having some levels of certification required to be called a software developer/engineer. I'm not convinced this is a bad thing. To be a pilot, you have to at least jump through a lot of hurdl
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by blunte 6y ago
The problem here is less “Pat” and more the managers or systems which allow Pat to reach the point in his career where he believes he is a good developer. Some of Pat’s failings can be identified these days by code linters; and at least per
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by blunte 6y ago
It's so good, so fast, and so easy, (and so obviously useful), I just cannot fathom why Windows doesn't have a comparable answer for this.
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by blunte 6y ago
I may be missing something, but aren't you describing Finder's Gallery View? In that mode, you can left/right arrow your way through the entire set of files in a folder, viewing each one (image or pdf or whatever).
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by blunte 6y ago
Windows Explorer Preview is just not the same. It's either always on or always off, and it takes up space, and it does not pop up above other content. Quicklook is there only when you want it; it pops up a good sized window on top of
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by blunte 6y ago
What is the more common case: a user switches to a hidden app and then does NOT want to actually see a window from that app, or the user switches to an app and wants to see it. I don't need to do research to answer this question. If a
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by blunte 6y ago
Tomato Tomato. As another person clarified, I'm probably trying to switch to the most recent window of a given application. For all practical purposes, the window and the application are the same thing. There may be additional windo
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by blunte 6y ago
This exactly.
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by blunte 6y ago
If infantry are more safe, they are more likely to be deployed. This merely prolongs the greater problem. I want everyone to be safe, but rather than providing various safeguards and defenses, I suggest we avoid the conflict entirely. Work
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by blunte 6y ago
Preview is one of the most underrated pieces of software in the world today. I make the assumption that Quicklook uses Preview (because surely it must). Being able to hit spacebar on just about any kind of selected document/image type
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by blunte 6y ago
If you want no misunderstandings, be explicit. This applies to YAML and life in general. There's an annoying but fairly accurate saying about assumptions that applies. If you want something to be a specific type, you better have an e

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