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by cjk 2y ago
Finally. This merger ought to have been blocked from the get-go, but better late than never. Concert ticket prices and fees are completely out of control.
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by cjk 2y ago
I really wish Flynn[1] had taken hold before Kubernetes became so popular. Deploying and managing apps was a hell of a lot less complex, and very Heroku-like. Sadly, it's no longer being developed as of 3-4y ago. [1]: https:/&#x2
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by cjk 2y ago
I buy that maintaining a CI setup is not a trivial thing, but if speed is the only other concern, why not just...spin up faster CI runners? De-centralizing test running also makes it difficult/impossible to e.g. collect test analytics
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by cjk 2y ago
Call me a curmudgeon, but I am still not a fan of Tailwind. I know a lot of newer engineers that believe it’s a perfectly acceptable alternative to learning CSS, to which I always respond: using Tailwind does not absolve you from having to
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by cjk 3y ago
D'oh. I was searching for "Audrey". I guess it was silly of me to assume they'd use her English name in the article. Thanks.
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by cjk 3y ago
I had to run the linked articles through a translator, but I didn't see any mention of Audrey Tang or claims that this was in any way an assassination attempt.
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by cjk 3y ago
Ehhhhhh. I get the sentiment, but I think this really depends on what the "main" language is and how amenable it is to scripting. Personally, I prefer writing shell scripts regardless of what the main language is in a given projec
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by cjk 3y ago
This is a comically bad take.
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by cjk 3y ago
Yeah, IMO, `go run` is a really under-appreciated part of what makes Go productive and low-friction. That, and the ability to cross-compile without installing a cross-toolchain for the target platform. Having spent an inordinate amount of t
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by cjk 3y ago
I only wish they’d realized it was time to start over before unleashing the cancer that is Electron upon the world.
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by cjk 3y ago
I stopped reading when I saw the suggestion to avoid hiring people that are insecure. Some of the best software engineers I’ve ever hired lacked self-confidence and struggled with insecurity. In my experience, those folks tended to have ext
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by cjk 3y ago
macOS has been doing memory compression for years. Basically, apps and background processes that are idle have their memory compressed, and then upon exiting idle (due to user interaction, a timer firing, etc.), the memory is decompressed.
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by cjk 3y ago
As many others have mentioned here, the backwards incentive structure is absolutely part of the problem -- i.e. businesses don't care to invest the time and money in making things efficient and performant, because the goal is to get so
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by cjk 3y ago
The last time I switched jobs was in October of 2020, so I haven’t experienced this personally, but I have a lot of friends in the same boat. Lots of said friends were affected by layoffs at various tech companies over the last couple years
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by cjk 3y ago
Super impressive level of detail (and easy to understand, at that). Cloudflare went hard on the statistics here.
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by cjk 3y ago
You make a fair point. I’m sure there are situations where those assumptions don’t hold. But, I think for most startups, there is _so much_ to do at any given time that, in general, no one should be left twiddling their thumbs, especially w
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by cjk 3y ago
Personally, I’ve seen less and less A/V setup fiddling over the last couple years. Except when screen sharing comes into play. That’s still a nightmare for some reason. And I do agree about the whiteboard thing, to a point. My team ten
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by cjk 3y ago
Really tired of this horseshit narrative that a team has to be in the same physical place in order to be productive/successful. Perhaps it’s more tempting to blame remote work than to blame one’s own leadership, or whether one has the
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by cjk 3y ago
I emphatically, categorically disagree. Maybe _perceived_ productivity and creativity is worse in some cases because remote workers can't physically be seen working, but that doesn't mean it's _actually_ worse. Almost every e
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by cjk 4y ago
In a previous life, I built and maintained a Dockerized CI pipeline (using Windows containers) for Bluetooth headphone firmware. Qualcomm only provides tools for e.g. CSR8675 platforms for Windows. What’s worse is in some cases the source c
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by cjk 4y ago
We can disagree on the user experience-based motivation. Given the lack of any kind of public data on how those decisions are made, I can't blame you for thinking that way. I do agree that developer experience is important, and that Ap
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by cjk 4y ago
Given my experience on the team, I genuinely don't believe that lack of investment, or even team size, has ever been the issue. I think that all of the recent changes and increased transparency are great, but I disagree that the motiva
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by cjk 4y ago
To this day, I don't have any reason to believe that anyone in my management chain (at closest, I was two managers down from Craig Federighi) ever considered profit when prioritizing features or bugs.
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by cjk 4y ago
This guy's about page says: It is my professional mission to build a web that works for everyone. Judging by this article, it's also his “professional mission” to present opinion as fact with no connection to reality. I w
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by cjk 4y ago
I can't vouch for any of the more recent versions of CS193P, but the original incarnation on iTunes U in ~2008 was my introduction to Objective-C and C, and I found it invaluable. I remember Loren Brichter's guest lecture on the d
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by cjk 4y ago
I prefer: brew install hub alias git=hub git create [-p] [[org/][repo name]]
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by cjk 4y ago
100% agreed -- if it wasn't clear, I wasn't trying to downplay the importance of immutable state. Just saying that it's perfectly achievable in Go with a small bit of effort.
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by cjk 4y ago
I've written a heaping pile of Go code over the last few years. I consider myself a fan, but not a fanatic. I tend to believe that Go's failings aren't any worse than the failings of most other languages, and for me, the drop
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by cjk 4y ago
Yep. First time I’ve seen anything like that on GitHub.
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by cjk 4y ago
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more upvotes/visibility given how widely used the gorilla stuff is (in particular gorilla/mux). Thanks to everyone who's contributed to gorilla/* over the years!

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