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by dajtxx 2y ago
The comment above warns against it due to the embedded timestamp info as a info leak risk. Perhaps that was a problem for them in some circumstance.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
Could it be people don't want to hire someone who would record and upload their sacking from a previous job? I don't know what that indicates about a person but it's probably some sort of red flag. Particularly when there are
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by dajtxx 2y ago
I don't agree with your last statement. I've been programming forever, and I understand recursion, and I use it, but I never equate it with loops in my mind (unless I'm deliberately thinking that way, like now) and I always f
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by dajtxx 2y ago
I think most people learn about loops before they've learned about functions because your first example maps obviously to your last. I don't think your middle example would be obvious to most people learning about functions until
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by dajtxx 2y ago
I think sw engs have always played a large part in the success of space missions, including emergencies. Even the apollo and early unmanned missions would have been disasters without sw engs finding ways to just get things working.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
I often ask myself this. I think of how much I (used) to pay for coffee & lunch each week, but balk at buying a game or tool. It took years to convince myself to buy a coffee machine but I'm pretty sure it will pay for itself in le
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by dajtxx 2y ago
The lack of tracking, ads, saas, spa, etc. When the internet and web were more about data than commerce, specifically surveillance capitalism.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
My chickens roost in a tree in the back yard. It's an easy tree for them to get into, they can walk/climb up from the ground a fair way then an easy flap to get to their preferred branches. In summer they disappear into the leaves
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by dajtxx 2y ago
Yeah, it's pretty annoying. I could happily live without animation, transparency, and rounded corners in my UI. Not sure what new 'features' I couldn't live without. I don't use the background indexing/search s
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by dajtxx 2y ago
Or windows in a VM. Parallels makes that painless if you can use arm.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
Until organisations start to treat people as valued employees rather than disposable cogs whose only value is to make investors richer, this will continue.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
We are a capitalist society so we do not like spending too much money in things that are not either clear and immediate threats or stand to make rich people a lot richer relatively quickly. It should be easy to argue that the chip situation
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by dajtxx 2y ago
That’s me. I am not smart enough to be a C++ programmer.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
I'm with you. Any company that uses the word 'disruption' simply means making investors richer and everyone else worse off in numerous ways, and the utopian vision of people simply getting 'better jobs' when displac
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by dajtxx 2y ago
I looked into using LISTEN/NOTIFY recently and I must be misunderstanding. How is it different to polling a table? It seemed like it had all the same machinery behind it.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
I have in the distant past. I am so grateful I don’t have to anymore. Even the embedded space seems to have mostly ditched for-pay IDEs and compilers.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
Because I'm old and I'm sick to death of everything being a web app. Because I hate web app programming so it limits my employment options :-)
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by dajtxx 2y ago
Home computers didn't need multi-user capability or much in the way of security (other than anti-virus) back then. I'd argue they still don't. I don't think these two things were the problem. I can take or leave shared l
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by dajtxx 2y ago
My team mates over reliance on ai coding tools worries me.
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by dajtxx 2y ago
BASIC, 80s style. Just to get an idea of what programming is. Even line numbers are sort of easier to understand than labels. Any language created in the last 40 years is too complicated for a self learner who isn’t a natural.
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by dajtxx 3y ago
I’m finding ave harder to watch as time goes by. He’s got some conspiracy stuff going on and while he’s clearly intelligent & educated I wonder if he all that much smarter than most of us or if he’s just bluffing sometimes. He’d be fun
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by dajtxx 3y ago
I’m not sure where TOT sits. He’s not particularly ‘how to do it’ like mrpete222 or maybe Presso, but he’s not trivial dumb stuff either. He’s entertaining and I think YT would be worse without him.
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by dajtxx 3y ago
With RSI, osteo-arthritis, and carpal tunnel all coming on and the need to work for another 15 years, I’d love to control a mouse with my brain. And type.
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by dajtxx 3y ago
Yeah, it’s really demoralising for those of us not on SV / FAANG salaries reading the comments on HN.
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by dajtxx 3y ago
Lol, I’ve been at this for 36 years and am in more debt than ever with 4 kids to still support. I’m doing it wrong.
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by dajtxx 3y ago
I do something a bit similar, I'm usually happy to ask the dumb questions to spark discussion so other people don't have to.
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by dajtxx 3y ago
For someone who didn't earn much it was a godsend. It looked and felt enough like real UNIX that I was happy to buy it for home use. However work was all Xenix/UNIX/AIX/Ultrix/etc.
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by dajtxx 3y ago
My hobby is model engineering and it's quite stressful when you're hours or days into a part and every new operation risks ruining it. Not only have you wasted that time and effort but also the material, and if you stuff it up you
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by dajtxx 3y ago
That was not the article I was expecting! Really enjoyed it. I think the guy is underselling himself. He's running his own successful business, something I cannot imagine doing. He's hitting new (even if similar) problems every da
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by dajtxx 3y ago
I don't think you need to be particularly smart to be an avg software developer; the older I get the more I realise how average I am. When I started work as a teenager I used to think I was a brilliant programmer - hah, no way! But I d

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