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by brundolf 4y ago
Joel's posts are always so good. Content and presentation
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by brundolf 4y ago
It's weird to see the author talk about "information density" with monospace fonts. Am I missing something, maybe misinterpreting what he means by it?
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by brundolf 4y ago
MS strategy for Teams adoption: buy up companies one by one and force them to use it
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by brundolf 4y ago
Yep I would even add a further layer for public companies (vs large private companies): we might think of "those in charge" as management, and large companies certainly put more distance between them and folks on the ground, but p
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by brundolf 4y ago
> No company is loyal to its employees. People are capable of loyalty, but companies are simply not capable of loyalty. The smaller the company, the less distinction there is between "the company" and "the people who own i
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by brundolf 4y ago
I think there's still a meaningful difference between runtime plugins (which to my understanding have to exist locally on the file system, outside of normal dependencies) vs normal dependencies that just sometimes have a native compone
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by brundolf 4y ago
In my experience they're pretty rare. Not many Node packages need a native build (mostly node-sass in my experience, which has now been deprecated in favor of a Dart implementation which I believe compiles to JavaScript), and I don&#x2
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by brundolf 4y ago
Yeah that's fair. Personally I'm not too worried about that use-case, but it is something that would be tricky to solve with URLs that get treated as black boxes
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by brundolf 4y ago
That's fair, I could see that
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by brundolf 4y ago
I can't think of a situation where I'd need my repl to be statically typed, since it's for disposable code; I'm not even sure I would want it to be. Did you have a case where that would be helpful?
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by brundolf 4y ago
Import maps take care of the first, like I said: https://deno.land/manual@v1.30.3/basics/import_maps And Deno supports lockfiles for the second: https://deno.land/manual@v1.30.3/basics/mo
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by brundolf 4y ago
As soon as Deno introduced me to the idea of just using URLs for importing dependencies, it immediately felt like obviously the best way Want a private repository? Stand up an apache server. Or an S3 bucket. CDN in front? Sure, why not Want
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by brundolf 4y ago
You don't really need Docker even with Node (because it has good dependency management), and especially with Deno (good built-in tooling too)
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by brundolf 4y ago
Fixed: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/46691#discussi...
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by brundolf 4y ago
I don't think it's really appropriate or feasible or even helpful for most things. At least for myself, if I read through the entirety of a language's documentation I wouldn't remember half of it, and I probably wouldn&#
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by brundolf 4y ago
In 15 years of programming I’ve never read the docs for anything front-to-back. I look at the docs when I have a specific question It’s crazy to suggest something this surprising wouldn’t be a problem just because it’s technically in the
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by brundolf 4y ago
Cloning functions seems like a bad idea even if it's "handled" by the cloning logic. An easy footgun: you've got a function on an object that references the object itself. You clone the whole object. The cloned object ha
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by brundolf 4y ago
There are different people on this website and they can have different opinions about things
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by brundolf 4y ago
iOS does have a feature that throttles the CPU on deeply worn-down batteries to save battery life, however, after it got some publicity a few years ago they made it user-toggleable from the settings menu (Battery > Battery Health & C
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by brundolf 4y ago
I'm at one, and I know people at others, and I haven't heard anything about layoffs from any of them
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by brundolf 4y ago
Do you have another contact channel for those of us without telegram?
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Ask HN: Is the layoff split along public/private companies?
1 points by brundolf 4y ago|2 comments
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by brundolf 4y ago
Whenever monkey patching comes up, I always remember the time when a popular JS library forced an upcoming standard to change its name so as not to conflict with its monkey-patched addition: https://developer.chrome.com/blog
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Disney’s laying off 7k as streaming boom comes to an end(theverge.com)
47 points by brundolf 4y ago|16 comments
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by brundolf 4y ago
Yup, there's a reason I don't work at bigger companies :)
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by brundolf 4y ago
> I've also had situations where the whims of higher-ups were misunderstood by my direct manager and direct communication unraveled the mistery I'd guess this is more likely to happen with non-technical managers. Not sure, but
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by brundolf 4y ago
To counter-anecdote: I've basically never had a bad manager. Several have been exceptional, shielding me from the whims of higher-ups while making sure I don't burn out by encouraging me to take more time off, etc It probably help
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by brundolf 4y ago
Yeah, a lot of layoffs make a lot more sense when you re-evaluate the assumption that these CEOs are hiring people with the intent of keeping them indefinitely. For many, I'd bet this was the plan all along
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by brundolf 4y ago
Satya Nadella 180'd Microsoft's culture on a dime. You're right that it isn't just about specific decisions, it's about pervasive culture, but I think a given CEO is (or at least can be) the person who defines the c
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by brundolf 4y ago
Well the home page sure has some flair

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