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by dave_sid 8mo ago
You’re hard. Seriously hard.
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by dave_sid 8mo ago
It’s not. It’s raining here.
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by dave_sid 8mo ago
I think you need to lighten up and adapt the way programmers have adapted since the 50s. There’s been a lot of pomposity over the past ten years around “craft”, you’d think we’re all precious Renaissance artists pining for recognition over
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by dave_sid 9mo ago
If he can only remember two programming languages then he wouldn’t stand a chance in today’s dev ops, t-shaped, m-shaped world I’m afraid. Imagine asking him to help setup an CI pipeline, or some infrastructure but he’s worried learning a b
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by dave_sid 9mo ago
Using a common language between platforms, whether it’s Swift or Kotlin always sounds great on the surface but I don’t think adds the expected efficiencies when it comes to the crunch. I expect teams would always still end up with two codeb
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by dave_sid 9mo ago
Mockito is fine if you know how to write tests. You can write bad tests with Mockito or many other frameworks if that’s what you do. You can even write bad tests while programming in Rust from high up in your ivory tower. You can write good
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by dave_sid 10mo ago
Yes. American chocolate doesn’t really taste like any cocoa beans were invoked in the process at any point. It’s like chocolate would taste like if Ronald McDonald had invented it.
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by dave_sid 10mo ago
They wouldn’t have to fix the entire codebase to be doing the right thing. That approach would be more likely taken by a junior who would soon find they are fighting a losing battle. The senior engineer would accept the state of the world a
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by dave_sid 10mo ago
You can’t often demote them because usually the people responsible for bad initial design decisions left the company years ago with a desperate need to go and start a new mess somewhere else.
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by dave_sid 11mo ago
Victorian Dad is on HN
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by dave_sid 11mo ago
Both
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by dave_sid 2y ago
There may be a reason for it, but best to understand what that reason is before applying the same approach.
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by dave_sid 2y ago
Doing something because all the big companies do it also leads to cargo cult mentality. You should know exactly why you are building every little part of your system. “Oh Google used a really annoying captcha on that page, I better do that
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by dave_sid 3y ago
Or refactor it
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by dave_sid 5y ago
Grad schemes are generally the way any graduates get introduced to a company in any career.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
I’d certainly say don’t be rude to recruiters. Some people seem to get unnecessarily wound up by recruiters and forget that we are all adults just trying to do our job. It doesn’t hurt to be polite and might just work in your favour in the
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by dave_sid 5y ago
Don’t forget this gem https://youtu.be/gXCN1DhHTZA
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by dave_sid 5y ago
Actually I’m wrong it was SL2! Same era. https://youtu.be/xI8S1Nn6NRk
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by dave_sid 5y ago
SL2 sampled it in this classic dance track from the 90’s https://youtu.be/xI8S1Nn6NRk I had no idea until now where the sample came from.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
I’m sure the prodigy sampled it
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by dave_sid 5y ago
Absolutely love this.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
How about a sister site called notyourip.com that shows someone else’s IP address?
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by dave_sid 5y ago
I only know the one where he talked over the top of a Daft Punk track. I already had the CD with the Daft Punk track which was really the same song so I just kept that one.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
It all matters to me. And if it matters to anyone it matters. So the OP must be right.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
So it lets you type faster than you can think but that’s only useful if you are copying existing text and for that you can just use OCR.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
Sounds more like an idea you have for a movie than reality
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by dave_sid 5y ago
Kinesis Advantage keyboards saved my career. I had bad carpal tunnel syndrome. I tried evening out there. This is the only thing that remotely worked.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
So cool an article about synths is at the top of HN.
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by dave_sid 5y ago
It’s pretty quiet back here
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by dave_sid 5y ago
RIP

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