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by cname 9y ago
How did you get from "very nice people" to "hateful" and "whiny"?
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by cname 9y ago
Some people can pick up the basics of programming fairly quickly, but I'm not sure most people can. Someone who truly groks software development after only a few weeks is probably an outlier. With a basic understanding, some people c
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by cname 9y ago
I was wondering the same thing, so I found cyberferret's comment (and the answers) useful. It might be helpful to anyone who's skimming through here.
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by cname 9y ago
What if one chimpanzee sometimes stepped away from the group and all their bickering, noise, ego-driven shenanigans, and other distractions? Maybe that chimpanzee would pick more bananas (and share them with the group). Office culture is of
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by cname 9y ago
> ...schedules, robbing your life with all the waiting, limited load carrying capacity, forced interactions with antisocial individuals, etc. Reading this, the first thing that comes to mind is daily traffic in the city. Rush hours are s
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by cname 9y ago
> ...probably boring everyone to death with their 'meat is murder' views. It seems to me that this type of attitude is a big part of why people don't stick with being vegetarian or vegan. There's a lot of direct and i
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by cname 10y ago
Hmm... so executives/managers aren't as affected by open office plans and also tend to lack empathy... so we get open office plans or maybe, if we're lucky, cube walls. I know I'm generalizing and not all managers lack e
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by cname 10y ago
Is it possible that companies, teams within companies, and/or individuals might exploit "Hanlon's Razor" to their own benefit? It's easy to say "Oh, whoops" and often there's no easy way to prove inco
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by cname 10y ago
This lets people get away with playing dumb. Maybe it's not wise to automatically assume malice if incompetence could be a factor, but it's also not correct to rule out malice just because incompetence is a possible explanation.
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by cname 10y ago
I've definitely been there fiddling around with abstractions or whatever. I guess I think you're really starting to get good when you see yourself doing that kind of thing and make yourself stop and figure out what the real goal i
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by cname 10y ago
I think a good metric for "advanced/senior programmer" is "writes reasonably clean code from the start". Not perfectly clean, but reasonably well-architected--at least easy to read and change. At a certain point,
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by cname 10y ago
Making a decision to change is important not just because of the direct impact it may have but also because it's empowering. Being empowered is enabling and has an amplifying effect on both personal and social change.
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by cname 10y ago
I also recommend brown noise. It's much nicer than white noise. I use the `play` command that's part of `sox` for this.
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by cname 10y ago
I wonder how old you are (not asking though) and/or how long you've been sitting/programming 14 hours a day. A decade ago, I could do the same. Now I wish I hadn't because my back and shoulders are so messed up. Interest
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by cname 10y ago
You might say that programs that encourage girls are "discriminatory" in some pedantic sense, but they don't keep boys from learning about math and science, nor do they discourage boys from going into STEM fields. The differe
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by cname 10y ago
Aiming STEM programs at girls isn't sexist. That just isn't what "sexist" means. Those programs exist to correct an imbalance caused by actual sexism.
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by cname 10y ago
Having written a handful of apps using Angular 1, I would say it's true that you have to learn Angular's way of doing things, but most of the code for the apps I've written is plain JS. Angular 2 no longer has its own module
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by cname 10y ago
Since ES6 is valid TypeScript, it seems like you could move to Angular 2 without learning much about TypeScript (beyond how to run the compiler).
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by cname 10y ago
I'm confused. Are you saying that Trump is not part of what you're calling the "Republic Elite"? Or that he's not part of the billionaire class? That he's not highly connected? Are you saying he actually car
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by cname 10y ago
Well, there's also massive scaling, which the average web developer isn't experienced with. Then there's creating a consistent experience across various devices and browsers. So, sure, anyway halfway competent developer could
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by cname 10y ago
You're making the incorrect assumption that vegetarians are replacing whatever meat they were eating with the more-expensive meat substitutes. As I noted in my comment above, there are plenty of meat substitutes and alternatives that a
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by cname 10y ago
You can't just compare to ground beef though. Plenty of meat and cheese products are the same price or more than equivalent meat alternatives. [Aside: Actually, it's kind of interesting to consider that meat alternatives top out a
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by cname 10y ago
You might like to hear about such things, but most people only want to hear about weekend activities they consider "fun" (e.g., going out drinking) or "normal" (e.g., doing stuff with the kids). If you say you spent
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by cname 10y ago
I have all three browsers open on Mac OS with multiple tabs open in each. I measured the tab plus address bars of each: - Firefox: 79px - Chrome: 72px - Safari: 61px
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by cname 10y ago
Can you explain how a basic income equates to "communism"?
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by cname 10y ago
In Django, the validation & type coercion would typically happen in a Form object (or, if you're using Django REST Framework, a Serializer). That step at least is outside of the ORM and seems much more explicit to me. Also, in Djan
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by cname 10y ago
At least as often as not, people don't ask those "why?" type questions out of simple curiosity. In my experience, there's often a component of defensiveness, regardless of how you answer. And saying that it's okay t
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by cname 10y ago
Who are you responding to? I can't see where anyone is insisting that everyone else should change.
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by cname 10y ago
> I can find a restroom ... Did you mean "can't" or maybe "can never"? In most cities I've been to, including SF, it's been really hard to find public restrooms.
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by cname 10y ago
I can almost see your point, but these days I think most people who are interested in programming languages know to scroll, and that doesn't seem particularly onerous to me. Granted, they probably should make it a little more obvious

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