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by braindouche 8y ago
>In theory this sounds great but in reality every major application, game, operating system and even website is written in an OOP style. Why is that? People should first answer that question. Ok, try this on for size: OOP in general has
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by braindouche 8y ago
Nonsense. The water in a hookah cools the smoke, but doesn't really do much filtering, and it DOES NOT remove nicotine. Hookah smoke is fairly low in nicotine, but that's because most shisha is "washed" to remove most of
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by braindouche 8y ago
>I sometimes wonder if the problem isn't exactly the opposite of what people think they are. Women are underrepresented in tech because they get more support, not less. More choices, and they get pushed to go for the truly glamorous
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by braindouche 8y ago
This has also been my experience. Enterprise systems really went all-in on Angular 1 for some reason (I personally suspect because it bridges reactive and MVC), and when it was time to move to a fully-reactive front-end framework, in my opi
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by braindouche 8y ago
I'm a programmer and as I told my auto mechanic, my job and his job are incredibly similar most of the time: take the thing, use experience and references to figure out why the thing isn't working, then use tools and resources to
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by braindouche 8y ago
Give it ten years, you'll change your tune.
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by braindouche 8y ago
Tell that to all 50,000 people in my company, and the product owner I'm working for, who are forced to use it by Infrastructure, and 0.0% of our customers.
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by braindouche 8y ago
Yeah, that was me, sorry. I wasn't given a choice.
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by braindouche 8y ago
I mean, yes there's nothing wrong with engineers struggling and pushing their skills and boundaries, it's how we grow and improve. But persistent struggling with daily tasks is indicative of a deeper problem. There might be miss
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by braindouche 8y ago
I'll go so far as to say here's my College Drop Out Self Taught In The Rust Belt Salary: 2006-2016: $25k-$45kyr, $40-$120 per hour. The first half I ran a very small agency that maxed out at 4 people and I wrote all the code, the
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by braindouche 8y ago
"(unless you can manage to turn the road system into a closed system, like rail is)" I still don't understand why everyone is working so hard trying to make smart cars when it seems like smart roads that control dumb cars wou
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by braindouche 8y ago
That's optimistic. I usually see it at about 4 years, which is absurd, and directly leads to the 26-year-old senior dev I worked under a couple of jobs ago, who's primary concern in code reviews was that I always cache my jQuery s
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by braindouche 8y ago
As a gay woman engineer, I've always had the policy that, while I'm at work, any part of you that touches me, I get to keep. What ever happened to that fad where an animal shelter would release a flock of puppies in your office fo
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by braindouche 8y ago
That's reasonable, but at the same time, unless it's a top-secret clearance job, don't threaten me with doing web development on an air-gapped machine. We both know it's absurd, just don't do it.
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by braindouche 8y ago
> if you feel like you will never get a fair cut of wealth in the current fiat economy, well, start a whole new economy where you hold all the tokens. wait, so crypto is the foundation of the failboy economy? Clean your room and hodl? I.
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by braindouche 8y ago
Precisely. As I frequently like to remind those around me (because I'm a total drag), "Coding isn't easy, but it's also not the hard part of programming".
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by braindouche 9y ago
As a woman... we have a secret: a lot of us also choose to "hide" behind gender-neutral usernames. It's a thing that makes life easier on the internet.
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by braindouche 9y ago
That's a pretty good tax bill for a house assessed at $150,000, which to me suggests that the neighborhood hasn't been reassessed since it was built. I bet that won't last much longer.
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by braindouche 9y ago
> you lose the cascading advantage while at the same time you maintain the cascading disadvantages. You can't prevent CSS from cascading unless all your styles are inline, or you've OOCSSed your project so thoroughly that you&#
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by braindouche 9y ago
Pilot 78g beats Pilot Metro in weight and nib quality, in my opinion, though metros are prettier on the whole. I'm particularly fond of the B and BB variations.
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by braindouche 9y ago
Scoping CSS is great, you can do static analysis, idiot-proof just-in-time stylesheet loading, and when done correctly it eliminates a lot of specificity issues. It doesn't scale well though. Eventually you develop http-call bloat, and
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by braindouche 9y ago
The web is a flexible place. When I started writing code for money, I was working up user-facing PHP interfaces to databases, and I was called a back-end developer. 7 years later, doing fundamentally the same work only moreso, I was called
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by braindouche 9y ago
I disagree by agreeing, sort of. Geekspace is alienating, but with some notable exceptions I don't believe it's on purpose. I know loads of amazing girl geeks (we are mighty), and my anecdotal observations suggest that there might
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by braindouche 9y ago
Then check out Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution, and an older copy at that. Keto diets are roughly equivalent to Atkins' "induction phase", and Atkins followers have known for decades that you can stay on induction (against the
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by braindouche 9y ago
Still weighs a ton. And they've been in basically continuous manufacture ever since the old days. And they have full 100+ key layouts with a lot of alternative layouts. And they cost a third of the kickstarted model F. And they have re
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by braindouche 9y ago
I don't know if I ever describe programming as easy, but I know I've told people that coding is "the easy part" of software development. (The hard part is the software engineering. Any idiot can write code, but it takes
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by braindouche 9y ago
It's completely insane. There's no reason to be a workaholic at any age, and there's no excuse for exploiting your employees.
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by braindouche 9y ago
There isn't a kindle version. There is an iPad App version that I can recommend highly.
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by braindouche 9y ago
My local DMV is far more enjoyable to go to than my local car lot.