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by deckard1 10y ago
> headphones and ear plugs are always offered This isn't a solution. Wearing headphones all day will lead to hearing loss. Especially if you have them turned up to any sort of level needed to block out even light conversation.
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by deckard1 10y ago
Web development is the absolute worst at this. None of the technology is new, whatsoever (mostly stealing from Lisp, rebranding it, and doing it wrong or calling MVC by yet-another name). It's impossible to quantitatively state that
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by deckard1 10y ago
> I'll need to find and install one of the x tens of IM clients. Only one? :) It got so bad at my company, that at one time we were having conversations on 3 platforms. And, of course, no one emails anything! Because it's all d
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by deckard1 10y ago
Money. Remote work (freedom). Location. Equally important, IMO, is what I stay away from: Ping pong/pool/foosball offices. Free soda offices. Creepy culture cults. Open floorplans. Basically, all the infantile ways IT companies
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by deckard1 10y ago
The thing is, we already have a lightning port. It's a thing that exists. We could already have lightning headphones and the current headphone jack. Together. Digital doesn't make up for the fact that we're moving from a
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by deckard1 10y ago
Apple permanently lost their "sleek" cred when they introduced the camera bump on iPhone 6. No way in hell Steve Jobs would have released that monstrosity.
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by deckard1 10y ago
I've done quite a lot of C/C++ work. In my experience, getting JS up and running is more exhausting. You might have webpack running, which runs babel, and sass, and a few hundred node processes. It's just bloody insane tod
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by deckard1 10y ago
Callbacks are merely one aspect of it, but yes. I've had way too many days of debugging webpack/browserify/react/jquery-whatever nonsense that leads to stupid dead-end threads on stackoverflow or the issues tab in Github
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by deckard1 10y ago
> Bunches of bugs are eliminated and others are easier to find. Got a link to the research for that? My pet peeve is unsubstantiated bullshit claims. We let sooooo much nonsense fly, especially in JS land.
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by deckard1 10y ago
Apples to oranges. PC gamers are tech savvy. They understand the real danger of running random crack.exe files and pirated software from the internet. You're not going to get a virus from playing an audio or video file. The value of s
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by deckard1 10y ago
> These days, we all understand why GO TO is bad. Having worked in the JavaScript-github-npm-node-environment-complex the last few years, I feel what Dijkstra had against GOTO has largely been lost on the current crop of CADTs ( https:&#
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by deckard1 10y ago
or you realize Perl, Ruby, Python give you everything good from Lisp anyway with an environment and packages that can talk to the real world, and that macros and metaprogramming are massively overrated and a danger in almost any hands that
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by deckard1 10y ago
yeah, that comment really seemed to show how out-of-touch the author really is. I haven't worked in a place that required a collared shirt in more than a decade. The last few interviews I've had, the interviewer wore a t-shirt a
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by deckard1 10y ago
Nothing has changed since Fred Brooks wrote The Mythical Man-Month. Fads will always exist as long as someone benefits from selling the fad. And there is always someone selling shovels in a gold rush.
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by deckard1 10y ago
The bigger problem I have with code review in general is that they are never about finding bugs. They almost always devolve into style concerns. Because style is an easy, bike shed, thing. Finding bugs means knowing the context, and th
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by deckard1 11y ago
it's like the face-hugger, from Alien(s). Once it gets into your distro, it impregnates it with a horror monster. An init should not be micromanaging every aspect of my system. I'm on arch now, but my next Linux will not have s
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by deckard1 11y ago
> The unicorn massacre continues. Lyft is having a rough tyme I feel this is the article all writers wish to write one day.
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by deckard1 11y ago
Ad hominem with a smiley doesn't make you less of an asshole ;) > A hashtag is a way of grouping messages together Like IRC channels. > not a discrete conversational area with its own topic, access rules, and administrators. And?
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by deckard1 11y ago
> Or what about hashtags. This is a brilliant concept invented by Chris Messina, which allowed people to group tweets from many different people into a single collection. Yeah, IRC channels never existed. I think I lost a few IQ points
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by deckard1 11y ago
yep. It's not the same at all. The format is harder to read, and the point of \G is you can do it without toggling. Say you run a query. Turns out, you need vertical format to see the entire contents. Just hit up arrow, replace th
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by deckard1 11y ago
This is more interesting as a list of "what is Zuckerberg reading", than a list of things anyone should care about reading. His reading and takeaway of Orwell's Revenge, for example, is astounding in the context of Facebook.
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by deckard1 11y ago
VoIP uses E911. Usually you pre-register your address with the VoIP service. But services with dedicated apps may pass along your GPS location today, I'm not too sure there.
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by deckard1 11y ago
I've always found MySQL's CLI vastly easier to use than PostgreSQL. The \G command alone is godsend. And the ASCII formatting makes everything much more readable to me.
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by deckard1 11y ago
The example you gave is clear, though. They are variables because they appear in a LET form. It's clear from the context what is going on. What I'm referring to, in Ruby, is something like: def some_method what_is_th
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by deckard1 11y ago
Kent Pitman has always been a good read, for the problems of equality in dynamic languages. The typical Ruby or JS programmer stumbles through the day just "getting by", where it comes to comparing objects. http://www.
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by deckard1 11y ago
Debugging Ruby, in general, is often a pain in the ass. It stems from an awful combination of terseness and metaprogramming. The terseness comes from using an identifier to both represent variable reference and method invocation. Contras
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by deckard1 11y ago
My point wasn't to start a philosophical debate on the term "intelligence". My point was, the intelligence that was recognize in humans (our only real guidepost at all, in terms of "AI") is closer to neural nets th
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by deckard1 11y ago
I think their position is they no longer have someone paid to work on it, as the research phase has ended. But it is still maintained. Albeit, slowly. And them using a rather outdated website and svn to host doesn't really do them f
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by deckard1 11y ago
on reddit, censorship via central authority has always been my last concern. Censorship via groupthink is vastly more powerful and damaging.
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by deckard1 11y ago
Unison. https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ It handles file conflicts, which is massively critical for anyone thinking of rolling their own. It also works over ssh, so it's encrypted.

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