danjac

13 ms·

121.
by danjac 3y ago
The problem is when you are a newbie to a space, you don't know the difference between "cool" and "what is the best practice as defined by the experts".
122.
by danjac 3y ago
Helix is quite nice, with some sensible defaults and an easier setup. The keybindings take a bit of getting used to if you are coming from it with years of vim muscle memory, but kind of make more sense when you think about it (select+actio
123.
by danjac 3y ago
This is the problem though: if you come to Neovim, and ask "what is the best formatter/linter" someone will tell you "use null-ls". Then a dozen others will say "don't use null-ls, it's been deprecate
124.
by danjac 3y ago
Yes I did. And they work fine, until you need to do that one thing (e.g. "Set up Black to format on save"). Now you are back in that world of pain of figuring out which plugin needs to be installed/configured, only now you ar
125.
by danjac 3y ago
I've been using vim for years, switched to neovim, and at this point I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use vscode for anything beyond simple text editing. The amount of work needed to get a basic IDE up and running for your
126.
by danjac 3y ago
With Alpine if you start having anything bigger than a snippet you should pull the JS out into a component using Alpine.data() [1] which can live in a <script> tag or a JS module. [1] https://alpinejs.dev/globals&#x
127.
by danjac 3y ago
It's not so much how many users have abruptly left, it's how much people are actively using Twitter and posting on it. How many people are just ghosting the site?
128.
by danjac 3y ago
Well, if you don't mind your cars randomly catching fire...
129.
by danjac 3y ago
It's Musk we're talking about here, so Hanlon's Razor probably applies. Unlike his other companies he doesn't have handlers to mitigate his poor decision-making.
130.
by danjac 3y ago
The whole concept of leaseholding is a reminder that Britain, despite its pretensions of modernity, is really just a feudal society under the surface.
131.
by danjac 3y ago
Consultancies could hire all the "rockstar" developers they want, but their culture is around generating billable hours, not building great software. A developer on the Scrum/Jira treadmill, working on one ticket at a time, w
132.
by danjac 3y ago
"his individual eventually returned the company laptop, which was bent in half. they told me that they had smoked enough DMT to understand that they had created their own god and that if my org needed further investment, to reach out t
133.
by danjac 3y ago
They might be making the "best decision", but best decision for whom? Their own career, social standing and property investment portfolio? Or the best decision for the company and employee well-being and productivity?
134.
by danjac 3y ago
You do realize that the point of this project is to maintain a DE from the early 2000s? "Why does this replica of a 68 Ford Mustang look like it's stuck in the 1960s?"
135.
by danjac 3y ago
What about insulation? A steel box in a heatwave won't be much fun either. Are there solutions for heating/cooling container homes?
136.
by danjac 3y ago
To be fair, the architect did live in one of these homes.
137.
by danjac 3y ago
OK, but ultimately the customer wants a product built, features added and bugs fixed within whatever timescale and budget. With all things being equal, they would prefer that you spend the time on those things, and not on infra. Now of cour
138.
by danjac 3y ago
I remember when early 2000s enterprise web development had J2EE, a convoluted mess of over-abstraction oversold by Sun, presumably so they could sell more servers. I recall a Sun consultant telling us that this was the "one true way&qu
139.
by danjac 3y ago
Pretty much, yes. An application developer should be able to focus on data model, business logic and user interface, and everything else at a minimum. If you are burning your available hours working on issues with your infrastructure - whet
140.
by danjac 3y ago
That assumes that they will leave their houses to their children, and not just sell them to pay for social care.
141.
by danjac 3y ago
Only if those people who are going to be disadvantaged have political power. If the majority stand to gain by new housing, and they can elect a majority of MPs under the UK system, then the NIMBY voice is moot (although there will be no dou
142.
by danjac 3y ago
This is an interesting political trap for the ruling Conservatives that they have made for themselves. The traditional Conservative voter is a home-owner. So you might be a rabid socialist in your youth, but once you get a job, save up for
143.
by danjac 3y ago
Greece was conquered by Rome in the 2nd century BC, i.e. 200 years before Christianity, let alone its Catholic and Orthodox variants.
144.
by danjac 3y ago
Sure, but the eastern half never adopted Latin to begin with, unlike the West.
145.
by danjac 3y ago
I think (or rather, hope) that this is a symptom of the low interest-rate era, and companies may be less willing to waste money and development cycles on chasing the latest shiny.
146.
by danjac 3y ago
It's interesting that while Latin spread across Western Europe (whether through conquest, commerce or religion), the eastern Mediterranean stubbornly held onto Greek long after the Western empire had fallen.
147.
by danjac 3y ago
Your first examples weren't rockets, but search engines, video hosting platforms and chatbots. Second, it's all very well "iterating until you succeed" but that's not a good approach when live humans are involved in
148.
by danjac 3y ago
It's one thing if your favourite video host or chatbot crashes, quite another if it's a self-driven car, airplane control software or, in this case, a submarine.
149.
by danjac 3y ago
Maybe, but then look at Dart - a Google language whose real-world application so far has been the niche of Flutter app development. I suspect it's a bit more than the Google stamp of approval - the innate simplicity of the language is
150.
by danjac 3y ago
That's a "nice to have" problem down the line. What I've seen is the insanity of microservices being adopted by one-pizza-team startups.

More ›