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by bpyne 7y ago
I had a programming languages survey class in college. The thrust of the course was different languages for different applications. It's not startling that the person, whose comment you quoted, doesn't find the functional paradigm
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by bpyne 7y ago
"Do you agree there's a spectrum here (with stuff like Brainfuck being on one end)?" I'm in complete agreement with you. My contention is that a person who works with a certain language, even Brainfuck, all day every day
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by bpyne 7y ago
I can understand not knowing the details of your coworkers' modules. This has been true everywhere I worked. However..... Where I work now, on-call was long ago relegated to nothing more than a routing task. The on-call person takes th
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by bpyne 7y ago
1) No, that would be ridiculous. My point is that a developer working with Haskell daily to develop an application would have no problem reading it in the middle of the night. The biggest problem for a developer, who may not have written th
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by bpyne 7y ago
Only a person from the team who wrote the code to begin with should create an emergency fix. Since any developer from that team already knows Haskell, from having worked on the code base, the criticism is ridiculous.
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by bpyne 7y ago
I can't upvote your comment enough. The use-case for a developer implementing a fix after being pulled out of sleep should be life-and-death circumstances.
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by bpyne 7y ago
"1) Production code should be understandable by an on-call person at 4 am. If business logic is buried under layers of lenses, monad transformers and arrows, good luck troubleshooting it under stress. And real systems do break, no matt
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by bpyne 7y ago
"need to belong"..."The tendency of people with this need is to weaponize The Thing, and to wield it against those outside the movement and those they do not deem as worthy of inclusion in the movement." So many examples
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by bpyne 7y ago
Yup. Power user was the name we used back then. If you had a good one, (s)he could save you support time.
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by bpyne 7y ago
That's the super-user syndrome. They know enough to get themselves into a bind but not enough to get themselves out. It's difficult just trying to get an accurate description of the problem because they lace the description with t
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by bpyne 7y ago
I read only up to the point in which I had to pay to continue. Was the article only focusing on sandwiches? If so, is that the biggest food in common for lunches between the US and Great Britain? I tend to bring my lunch M-Th and get takeou
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by bpyne 7y ago
People in the US prefer inexpensive. They have a certain price point they don't want to go beyond. The Eatery I described was as far from "fancy" as possible. Dishes were under $10 and were rich in vegetable and protein conte
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by bpyne 7y ago
I could get behind this. But it has to be different from current mall fare. I hate chain restaurants. Food courts tend to be sandwiches or fried crap passed off as ethnic. When I lived in Boston there was a place in Chinatown called the Eat
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by bpyne 7y ago
Sorry, no, not an MS employee. I use MBP at home and would use it at work if I had the choice. But, the Win10 engineers did a nice job in making the os usable. I haven't once had a BSoD that wiped out my setup while testing software. I
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by bpyne 7y ago
My employer mandates it so I use Win10 at work. At home, I'm macOS. I replied elsewhere in this comment thread that Win10 is the first Windows version that I found usable. I don't game. So, I probably don't stress the os the
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by bpyne 7y ago
I use macOS at home but have Win10 in the office. I've been using Windows in some capacity since 3.1. Win10 is the first one I've found usable. Going from Win XP at home to OS X, I found it astounding that my PowerBook could go mo
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by bpyne 7y ago
I miss disk jockeys. The ones who were knowledgeable about music, played B sides, and had some personality were gems. I found a station (KSLG) in northern California that still does this. I like Spotify and there's a place for it. But
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by bpyne 7y ago
What we call multitasking is usually task switching, according to an article I read after a similar discussion on HN. The dividing line has something to do with only one task at a time being able to use an area of the brain. As long as one
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by bpyne 7y ago
It's not unreasonable. My team is usually in by 9, 9:30 at the latest. We take 20 minutes to get coffee and discuss issues, what needs to be done, etc. Then we set about completing tasks. A startup I worked at in the mid-90's had
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by bpyne 7y ago
I can completely see it. In the hands of a controlling manager, it can be abused. My manager recognizes that we're usually in the office by 9-9:30 so we walk regularly at 9:30. Late day meetings are great too if it works better for the
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by bpyne 7y ago
The idea behind early and/or late walks is to not interrupt developer flow in peak cognitive hours. My current manager is one of few in my career who recognizes the reduction in productivity that comes from interrupting the flow. Softw
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by bpyne 7y ago
There are two times of the day to catch software engineers: the start and end of the day. Usually at the start of the day we haven't gotten our minds into "programming mode" yet. By the end of the day, mental fatigue is setti
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by bpyne 7y ago
Thanks for the tip. I right-clicked on a thread in Outlook and sure enough "Ignore" was there.
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by bpyne 7y ago
That's one of the ways Slack is more chatroom-like. Good point. Email would be a bit clunkier as someone from the email thread would have to forward it to you or reply all with you in it. It's an alternative, but not as slick as S
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by bpyne 7y ago
50+ here... Email has been the major communication vehicle through my career. The work team I joined a year ago uses Slack. Our employer's official vehicle for "chat" is Teams. My team's high school interns prefer Discor
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by bpyne 7y ago
" It doesn't include things like lawyers and computer programmers" When my daughter was in 4th or 5th grade they had a "career day" in which students could meet parents who were in jobs they found interesting. I off
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by bpyne 7y ago
I didn't mean no learning on the job. The time to learn is between projects. If your employer keeps people on projects constantly, then learning happens between tasks.
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by bpyne 7y ago
COBOL/CICS was supplanted mostly because mainframes were supplanted due to smaller organizations, that wanted to use computer technology, not being able to afford a mainframe. Companies could lease time. But I don't remember it be
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by bpyne 7y ago
I'm only part way through the presentation, but I loved this line. "And when people succumb to this instinct they tell themselves that they’re giving developers freedom. And sure, it is freedom, but it's a very narrow definit
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by bpyne 7y ago
Organizations have to find their own way of working. It's going to change based on the size of the organization, its goals, and its people. With the exception of 1.5 years in a software company, most of my organizations have been inter

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