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by citrusx 10y ago
Translation: We hired a consultant to write this thing 5 years ago, haven't touched it since, and now we can't find the guy so we can update it.
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by citrusx 10y ago
Who else thinks that this whole mess around trying to implement ES modules demonstrates that they were a bad idea to begin with?
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by citrusx 10y ago
I'll be another data point for "I'd totally leave if after reading this email, even if I wanted to stay before I read it." As a point of reference, a (long-established) company gave me over $50k (cash) in severance after
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by citrusx 10y ago
Terminal.app is actually pretty broken in a lot of ways. If you use iTerm2 for a few weeks, even with minimal or no customization, you'll feel the difference if you go back.
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by citrusx 10y ago
Spaces. The variability in the ways tabs are displayed, which you can not control, make tabs a non-starter. Spaces always look like spaces. So when you use them, your text looks the same wherever it is displayed, and that requires no addit
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by citrusx 10y ago
Note that the offer was "highly illiquid", and the yearly salary offer was only $130k. Personally, I don't consider any of the "might vest and become valuable" parts of an offer to be actual compensation. But, your
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by citrusx 11y ago
FWIW (non-technical readers)... The issue, I think, is that the \w escape sequence doesn't include characters that are outside what Unicode considered "word characters" at the time it was originally implemented. So, non-west
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by citrusx 11y ago
As a former preview user of Clubhouse, I can say that it's easily my favorite work/story manager to date. It gives you what you need for keeping track of your work in an agile environment, and more or less just stays out of your
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by citrusx 11y ago
As long as you're learning, you should do whatever feels right. Don't overthink it. You can always switch things up if you feel like you're overdoing anything. One benefit to doing your own thing, is that it can help beef u
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by citrusx 11y ago
This is a pretty miserable example of PL advocacy. There may be good reasons to use Go. The attempt to make the case here is lazy, and largely uninformed.
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by citrusx 11y ago
My advice, to take with appropriate salt: Leave. It's a seller's market for people with your skills right now. There's no guarantee that you'll find a new environment that doesn't have one of these cancer-in-the-lo
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by citrusx 11y ago
Use CoffeeScript. Even after all the work that TC39 put into ES6/ES2015, it's still not nearly as well done or helpful as CoffeeScript is. You'll be going against all of the "cool kids" by rejecting ES6, but you&#x