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by deckard1 5y ago
Time is an excellent filter of quality. Back when I was a kid my mom had a box of 7" vinyl records she gave me. For every Elton John or Hendrix she had, there were dozens of absolute garbage records. People often make the claim that mu
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by deckard1 5y ago
I can't even count the number of times I've seen a unit test giving a false positive (or, perhaps more accurately, not even run) because the developer forgot to properly use async/await or use the done callback.
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by deckard1 5y ago
There were people also defending Theranos and WeWork. I take all articles and comments here with a huge grain of salt. Especially Paul Graham. https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm Way back in 2
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There are actually a few of these. https://github.com/zpl-c/tinyscheme/blob/master/source/schem... And Scheme in one defun (SIOD), although it seems the recent version of this has been split into mu
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> Obviously if you are a transformative electric car company it is better to make your profits by selling transformative electric cars than by moving the price of cryptocurrency with your tweets. Selling the cars is better for the enviro
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> You're responding to something I didn't say here. ... > other companies could have done the same and probably still succeeded. Come the fuck on. I'm literally replying to this idea that any other company could do the
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Musk has a cult of personality. He's practically a real-life walking talking meme at this point, which seems to be the real driver behind crypto. Could Jeff Bezos or Zuckerberg move bitcoin like that? From a tweet? Doesn't seem li
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most websites are going to be JS-first. If it makes sense for you to augment your site with JS, then sure knock yourself out and reverse it.
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The flip side of this is what I would term standup-driven-development. You work just enough to have something to say that day. Rinse and repeat for the next day. The incentive isn't to do more or better work. The incentive is to have s
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I've worked at a company that probably hit every single one of these. Don't even get me started on microservices. If your company name isn't Amazon or Google, then what are you even doing? Just don't. One company I worke
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> Do others get actual dev time to clear that up Depends on how much influence your PM has over your team and whether your team really cares about going back and cleaning it up or would they rather go and do resume-building features inst
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Apple and Google already have a symbiotic anti-competitive relationship on the iPhone worth billions of dollars. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s... Only reason Google can&#x2
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by deckard1 5y ago
> (also, "docker" in production nowadays is mostly a shortcut for k8s, and that is a whole new amount of investment required) It didn't help that Docker tied docker compose to swarm and then swarm kinda died. So I'm r
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by deckard1 5y ago
The real difference is Perl has typed variables, such as hashes or arrays, which other languages typically do not. Which does make it convenient when you need to clone the object, such as "%b = %a" example. Perl borrows the sigil
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by deckard1 5y ago
> Those metrics come at the cost of spying on your users. You can do analytics without doing Google Analytics. More people need to understand this. There is nothing wrong with analytics (other than code/network bloat from overuse).
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> 512 pixels of content centered in however wide your window is I'll still take it over Paul Graham's blog with all the text way over there on the left edge.
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by deckard1 6y ago
most things suck on networked file systems. I still have trauma from having to use NFS more than a decade ago, on systems that would freeze on boot because the network couldn't be reached or the NFS server was down. I'd also never
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by deckard1 6y ago
> I can sell a house faster than I can get out of a lease. Closing on a house = pain. You have inspections, appraisal, loan applications, contingencies, counter offers, staging, open houses, closed showings, and at least an entire day of
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by deckard1 6y ago
> The real solution is to drop bitcoin and use better technology. Walk into WalMart with cash and buy a prepaid gift card. Voilà. And the best part: it works literally everywhere. Both the buying and the using. Unlike flavor-of-the-week
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by deckard1 6y ago
I've often thought that, maybe, PoW crypto could be the Great Filter. I feel like there is a good sci-fi book here. Bitcoin continues to gain speculators, continues to rise in "value", and humans are largely powerless to stop
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by deckard1 6y ago
It's weird seeing this argument that green energy is somehow free and infinite energy. And yet, look at the market for Nvidia and AMD GPUs right now. The miners already know that gamers have been pushed out of the high end GPU market.
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by deckard1 6y ago
I don't think it matters how dominate the iPhone is. Google and Apple are joined at the hip. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s... You think Google is going to piss off App
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by deckard1 6y ago
If I'm looking at values in node, I typically do console.dir(obj, { depth: null }) However, if you need to inspect some object in a browser, don't forget you can just insert: debugger Which can be helpful at
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by deckard1 6y ago
This is all outlined by Fred Brooks in 1975. I've beat this dead horse before, but I suppose I'll beat it again. In the late '90s and early aughts everyone read Mythical Man-Month. There is even a law attributed to him, Brook
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by deckard1 6y ago
> but it heavily depends on the specifics of the plan > Amazon's plans have networks so broad that this is unlikely to happen I mean, this doesn't sound reassuring you know. "unlikely" and "depends on the spec
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by deckard1 6y ago
to give you an idea of 1999, I was running Quake 3 on Linux with official Nvidia Riva TNT support and X11. X11 also ran fine in 1995. Granted, I think fvwm2 was probably state of the art for window managers at the time. From '95 to alm
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by deckard1 6y ago
prior to the No Surprises Act just signed (and maybe after too?) ERISA allowed for balance billing. Which means not even California laws against balance billing would apply. For anyone not living in the permanently-fucked US, an explanation
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I read up a bit on this when I was setting it up. > What ensures that the hibernation image was actually written out by the kernel? Absolutely nothing, which means a motivated attacker with root access could turn off swap, write a hibern
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by deckard1 6y ago
ah, well yeah I didn't mean all Linux issues are solved. I have hardware accel running in Chromium. It's really glitchy and would not recommend it. I'd probably just use mpv or vnc if you need hardware accel video. Really, my
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It's going to depend on your hardware and probably your distro. I have a ThinkPad running Archlinux. I have suspend-then-hibernate mode enabled, which means when I close my laptop lid it suspends for 2 hours (configurable) and then put

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