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by cweagans 5y ago
I don’t think those are exceptions. The signal to noise ratio is about the same (at least in my admittedly anecdotal experience of being a hiring manager off and on since 2013 or so). Nobody is truly unemployable. Filtering through 19 candi
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by cweagans 5y ago
You can be a terrible engineer with a degree. You can also be an excellent engineer without one. To me, that pretty clearly makes the case that a CS degree is not an indicator of future success in a given role. IMO, CS degrees don't pr
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by cweagans 5y ago
There are plenty of non-web jobs out there. I started in web and I'm actively trying to move away from it. That said: web is a great way to get your feet wet. There's more to it than just making a page look pretty. You can get exp
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by cweagans 5y ago
"Merry Christmas, friend. Please fuck off to Norway." :D
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by cweagans 5y ago
It seems like a huge problem for leadership to have decided that you're just going to go 6-12 months without a CMS. If your website is critical to the business, then it seems (perhaps) worthwhile to just pay for another year on your cu
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by cweagans 5y ago
Personally, I don't have time to spend on solving the same problem twice. I want a guarantee that something isn't going to break again. Yeah, it probably won't break again in the exact same way, but if you're writing you
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by cweagans 5y ago
4 hour tests are a nonstarter, but ponder this: how can you guarantee that bug will never happen again? You can be pretty sure. You can reason about the code that you’re now familiar with and infer (based on your current understanding) that
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by cweagans 5y ago
Types do a great job at assuring you’re getting generally the right kind of data in and out of different functions/methods, but they don’t assure that the program is actually doing the right thing. Strong typing just helps to assure th
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by cweagans 5y ago
You’re not going to convince people to change their views with words alone as a new team member. Just do what you need to do in order to be productive. If that means writing tests, do it. It doesn’t matter if there’s CI in place. Maybe only
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by cweagans 5y ago
There was an interesting article about this recently. https://lithub.com/on-the-link-between-great-thinking-and-ob...
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by cweagans 5y ago
IMO, "don't implement your own crypto" is more about the bits that actually _do_ the encryption. Use a battle tested library for that (e.g. libsodium). Wiring it up is a little different. You can misuse a library, but it&#x27
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by cweagans 5y ago
Flutter, for sure. It feels like a much more thoughtful system overall. I'm not as impressed with the Dart ecosystem as I am with the Flutter one, mostly because the Dart ecosystem lacks widely used/supported frameworks for server
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by cweagans 5y ago
A whole-screen refresh is slow, but typing does not require refreshing the entire screen. You can update small regions of the screen very quickly (which is what devices like e.g. the Remarkable do for writing).
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by cweagans 5y ago
If you want to turn your internet off, be my guest. A more comprehensive solution (imo) is required at the educational system level: we're kind of okay-ish at getting people to memorize things and take tests, but when actual critical t
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by cweagans 5y ago
I am also 30, don't have a degree, have a good job, and make good money. First, and perhaps most important: there is _zero_ shame in going back to school at any age. That said, don't derail your career for this. Career success (IM
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by cweagans 5y ago
Yes. https://omscs.gatech.edu/program-info/admission-criteria > Applicants who do not meet these criteria will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis; however, work experience will not take the place of an undergradua
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by cweagans 5y ago
> Maybe I'll just point others to this discussion about whether lockdowns are a scientific response to the pandemic or not, from March 2020 Here's the problem: this is a bunch of random people talking in an informal setting. No
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by cweagans 5y ago
> Many people haven't taken the vaccinations because they understand that they're not very helpful for them or their community. Let's not confuse understanding and opining. > The COVID vaccines don't work properly
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by cweagans 5y ago
I'm not a _huge_ gamer, but I've been very happy with my MacBook Pro (I have the 16" Intel one) + GeForce Now for me ~1-2x per week gaming sessions. There are other similar cloud gaming services if GeForce Now doesn't ha
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by cweagans 5y ago
Do you? You went without WhatsApp for a week.
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by cweagans 5y ago
You don’t have to put everything on your resume. Leave and leave the current job off of your resume.
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by cweagans 5y ago
It is not widespread enough to justify continuing to work on it, and making an active decision to not include a feature anymore due to little use is not a bug. The Chrome team published some good information about exactly how widely FTP is
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by cweagans 5y ago
tbh, I forgot about that, but it wasn't exactly a green field project, right? They started with a fork of Trident. It'd be hard to know without an engineer from Microsoft chiming in, but it's entirely possible that the first
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by cweagans 5y ago
If it were still in widespread use, I might agree with you.
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by cweagans 5y ago
Very few webpages link to FTP content. The right thing to do is to outsource that bit of functionality to an FTP client. Continuing to support a protocol that has largely been superseded and is very rarely used is self-evidently wrong.
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by cweagans 5y ago
"If Microsoft can't do it, nobody can" is not an argument that holds a lot of water for me, especially if we're talking about web browsers. Microsoft has a track record of braindead decision making when it comes to the
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by cweagans 5y ago
mRNA vaccines were originally invented for cancer treatment (late 90s). AFAIK, there wasn't much success.
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by cweagans 5y ago
I don't think I'd make that assumption. https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/M1_compatible_games_mas... , for instance, has a number of games that do pretty well in Parallels.
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by cweagans 5y ago
I can’t tell if you’re being willfully obtuse or not. Harvesting people’s data for the express purpose of manipulating them into thinking/buying things that they otherwise wouldn’t is wrong in every sense of the word. Capitalism has it
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by cweagans 5y ago
Yes! I use it via Setapp (along with several other apps), so it’s really affordable

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