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by da39a3ee 4y ago
> Fresh new hires, who’ve never known a reason to care about the Mac, trying to rewrite key portions of the OS I'm confused. Don't Apple developers develop on MacOS machines?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Please read what I wrote more carefully: I wasn't giving an opinion (other than the word "tedious"). I was pointing out the fact that there are large numbers of experienced software engineers on both sides of this argument, a
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Please don't contribute worthless and irrelevant comments like this. As you doubtless well know, piping from curl into bash is something that a large subset of respected programmers think is reasonable, and another rather tedious subse
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
What's an example of a way in which you hypothesize it will negatively impact my life?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Have you ever had a long-term romantic partner whose company you enjoyed so much that you felt tempted to substitute it for that of your friends, and have this feeling continue consistently, over many years?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
There's no incentive for people to do that: things like maps, search, and gmail are fantastic products, and on the other side of the equation it doesn't negatively impact my life in the slightest to have google profiting from hav
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
It's not an opinion; I'm simply stating a fact about the cultural background from which I come (British middle class). It will sound snobbish/arrogant. I make no apologies for that - I'm just offering it as a data point
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
> Have you never used a thesaurus? I'm not sure exactly what you're implying with this rhetorical question but, for the record, I wouldn't expect a well-educated native speaker to use a thesaurus.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
You're whining. I agree that organizations that have endless meetings are organizations with too many unintelligent people: don't work for them. But wtf? You "love building and working" and you're "forever buil
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Thanks, that's really helpful to me. In particular, I wanted to know whether creating a table dynamically from Ajax data was sufficient reason to start using Preact/Mithril, and you made it clear that in your opinion it's not
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Nope, not joking. I use a separate chrome profile for my personal life, and I keep my personal files in google drive. Even if your employer is monitoring you (which I doubt), what are you doing that you think will be so interesting to them?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
No, it's not satire! I use a separate chrome profile for my personal life, and I keep my personal files in google drive. I'm not sure what the fuss is about?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Can I ask a concrete question: say someone wants to render a table with data coming via an Ajax call to a JSON API. How should they do that with the tools you're suggesting? Use the native JS DOM API to synthesize table rows? (Just in
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
> a simple front end to which I can attach some new experiments for home brew coding This thread is about engineers looking for a simple way to just create a UI. Pandering to niche neuroses about privacy by avoiding entirely mainstream t
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
The reason is to avoid npm/node. And that's absolutely right -- I'm a backend engineer, and I've done Vue projects with npm, and npm is fantastic -- the quality and care that has gone into it is obvious; even the screen
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Huh? I've used my company laptops for my personal life for the last 15 years. Why would I want to carry two laptops everywhere? I travel. I barely remember what a personal laptop is.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Germany doesn't traditionally have a reputation for incompetence. It sounds like this podcast gives many proximate reasons for this project's failure. What are the ultimate reasons?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Jesus christ people here are boring about Copilot. It’s amazing! It works fantastically well. It’s good not to keep it on all the time, because that gets distracting, but in certain circumstances it’s genuinely useful, and always impressive
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
What this article says is not generally true: get a job at a decent company and they’ll want you to use their language elegantly and sophisticatedly. (My experience is with US tech companies).
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
This is a large part of why I’m leaving the United States after 20 years and have never wanted to buy a house here. In most streets that I’ve seen, neighborly interactions are horrendous and weird, and people seem scared of each other and t
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Ignoring an unexpected phone call is one thing, but you should never ignore a person knocking on your door. I’m afraid it sounds like you are exactly the sort of person that everyone else in this thread is complaining about and laughing abo
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Why don’t you go to her house and talk to her?
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I came away from reading that feeling that the author thinks that intoxicating drugs are simply evil substances; he seemed to have forgotten that as well as destroying lives they can also be fun to take and many people do so for pleasure.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
In other words, another management team fails to understand that many of the best software engineers work most effectively in silence, and on their own for large periods of time, and that this is best done at home. The obstinacy, arrogance,
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Yes, agreed. My work when colleagues are offline is more freeform, and usually much more efficient. It's much easier to get work done when you're not paying attention to Slack. The idiots who think that software engineers can be m
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
I worked at the weekends when I was in academia and I work at the weekends now that I'm a software engineer. Why? Because I chose both careers because they were my area of intellectual interest and I do them for pleasure, not just mone
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Yeah I came from uk undergrad to us grad school and was shocked to see that even some advanced undergrad classes, with grad students in them, were tested by infantile multiple choice questions (this was at harvard). It almost makes one wond
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Are you sure? You sound like someone who’s interested in actually doing things; the book looks like endless rambling about high level ethical/conceptual/societal context for data science. It looks about as interesting as picking u
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by da39a3ee 4y ago
Ok but I didn't intend my comment to be about HN readers; it's basically educated humans in western anglophone countries I'm criticizing. People just love giving scientific-sounding diagnoses to their problems in their lives,

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