damagednoob

12 ms·

61.
by damagednoob 4y ago
Rapid release is fine but companies will try and cheat: 1. Release often 2. When a release goes badly (and they will) do some version of '5 whys' and fix the root cause. 3. Continue to release often That step 2 is often missing an
62.
by damagednoob 4y ago
So is this none of one those 'increasingly ill-named' type of things. I guess it's easier to include everything then to try and define what is and isn't a programming language.
63.
by damagednoob 4y ago
JSON[1] is a programming language? [1]: https://pldb.com/languages/json.html
64.
by damagednoob 4y ago
A couple of things: Tories have done well to court the people that show up at the polls with things like keeping the Triple-Lock pension guarantee[1]. Like the Democrats, Labour's demographics have started to shift more to the well-edu
65.
by damagednoob 4y ago
For me, compilers tend to be complex so it's a way to show that it can be done. Also, dogfooding[1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
66.
by damagednoob 4y ago
At the beginning of this video[1], Avery talks about the beginning of Shazam. [1]: https://youtu.be/YVTnj3OIhwI
67.
by damagednoob 4y ago
I quote this one pretty regularly: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/01/02
68.
by damagednoob 4y ago
> Go singlecore is actually slower than Python This is news to me. Do you have something newer then a 13 year old blog post that shows this?
69.
by damagednoob 4y ago
That is true however the abstract of the study notes: "In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four weeks before the 2018 US midterm election... ...(ii) reduced both factual news knowledge and political p
70.
by damagednoob 4y ago
Where is the crossover point from 'ignorance is bliss' to 'uninformed'? There's no doubt in my mind that women (and men) would be happier if they didn't know about the Roe verdict in America. But wouldn't
71.
by damagednoob 4y ago
I was listening to interview with Brian May and he recounted a story of how they lost fidelity when using analogue tape due to a faulty machine [1]. [1]: https://youtu.be/mgkvU5eCaYo&t=32m13s
72.
by damagednoob 4y ago
Not too mention C#, Python and for some, Javascript.
73.
by damagednoob 4y ago
I think what will prove more important than standards will be a common suite of tests used by all implementations. Sun used to have TCK[1] that was used by a few implementations. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tec
74.
by damagednoob 4y ago
I guess I'm being nitpicky but... > Python is an out and out object-oriented paradigm. Is this true? I thought it was considered 'multi-paradigm'. You could write a program without using a class for instance which is diffi
75.
by damagednoob 4y ago
The media doesn't deal in statistically representative samples. It highlights notable events of the day and therefore by definition only deals with the extremes.
76.
by damagednoob 4y ago
Not only privacy, but also reliability in my experience. If you add in a CDN you now have a point of failure you have no control over that (Murphy's Law) fails at the most inopportune time. In all web frameworks it's pretty trivia
77.
by damagednoob 4y ago
I dunno, the points about UX, merge queue and LFS all ring true for me. All those things are solved outside of Git AFAIK.
78.
by damagednoob 4y ago
I've stopped using anything language specific like Guard or nodemon. Instead I use the inotify commands on Linux and entr/ack on macOS so no matter what I'm doing, I can watch for changes in a directory.
79.
by damagednoob 4y ago
From my understanding, DevOps was never about technical solutions/processes. It was about giving the same business goals to Dev and Ops. The idea being to eliminate the tension netween these departments because the goal of Dev was to s
80.
by damagednoob 4y ago
As another alternative, you can use in2csv[1] to convert excel documents to csv and pipe them into the other tools of csvkit. [1]: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/1_getting_s...
81.
by damagednoob 4y ago
You conflate Capitalism (developed during the Renaissance[1]) with Colonialism (around since the Iron Age[2]). How is point no 4 related to Capitalism? Where is the willing buyer/willing seller for point 6? Is your argument that there
82.
by damagednoob 4y ago
* Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin[1] * Great Chinese Famine[2] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Sovi... . [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr
83.
by damagednoob 4y ago
This is one of the reasons why I love to work from home. I'm not beholden to company policy that seeks to improve productivity at the expense of how I choose to structure my day. Maybe I eat at my desk so I can spend that hour lunch br
84.
by damagednoob 4y ago
New Zealand. Why not?
85.
by damagednoob 4y ago
> Very few organizations give their employees real license to do good things, to tackle the work well & encompass broad wins. I sympathise with your argument but the problem is that the Dunning–Kruger effect exists for both the emplo
86.
by damagednoob 4y ago
Not programming games but Starcraft and Quake (keys set to esdf instead of wasd). They taught my left hand where to be on the home row and I credit them for indirectly teaching me touch typing.
87.
by damagednoob 5y ago
> It's really sad that we've lost the ability to connect to so many of the services we use with third party clients. https://meetfranz.com/
88.
by damagednoob 5y ago
I've always found csvkit to be good enough for my command line needs: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
89.
by damagednoob 5y ago
> "If you want to shoot a gun, you need to get a permit." > Not in the US, This statement seems to lack nuance and could be the reason for the downvotes. > Federal law does not require individuals to obtain a license or p
90.
by damagednoob 5y ago
Given the author, is Zig being used at HashiCorp? If so, in what capacity?

More ›