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by djur 3y ago
POTUS: I'm pardoning everybody in your state who has a drug conviction. STATE GOV: No, you aren't. POTUS: You have to let all of those people out of prison. STATE GOV: No, we don't. POTUS: It's an emergency! STATE GOV: N
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I couldn't disagree more. The first year is when you learn how to work at that specific company, on that specific software. The subsequent years are when you refine your understanding and decision-making by building on top of your firs
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What makes people call it snake oil is the salesperson (Musk) repeatedly making false claims about both the capability (summon your car from across the country...) and availability (... by 2018!) of the technology.
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Right, and I think the example here is instructive. He's not talking about rushed, shoddy, buggy code. He's talking about not taking the time to implement the right design. The resulting code might work just fine and doesn't
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In the contemporary tech industry, there's a pretty good chance that the managers who oversaw the decision to incur technical debt are not going to be the managers who make the call whether to "repay" it. It might not even be
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I appreciate the work you do and I think what you're saying is completely fair and understandable.
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I don't see any reason you couldn't hire a blind level designer, but sure, there may be some subset of "internal tools" that you can make that assumption for. But the topic wasn't "internal tools for visual art
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What purpose do the story points serve, then?
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That's making a bet that you'll have absolutely no need to hire someone for that team nor that any of the existing members of the team will develop the need for accessibility features.
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Accessibility is only not a concern for internal custom tools if you're certain you're not going to hire anybody with a disability that requires those accessibility features. (You shouldn't be certain of this, because it mean
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No, there's a tradeoff. If non-accessible software outcompetes and crowds out accessible software, that degrades the ability of people who need accessible software to use their computers. It is entirely reasonable for people who think
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Doesn't that make it impossible to use story points for estimating effort and ensuring people aren't overcommitted?
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Rubocop forbids the use of `and` and `or` in a value expression for this reason, and I believe several style guides used with Rubocop ban them entirely. I like them but have come to accept that they're more trouble than they're wo
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I spent several years working on production Go code and I never found it particularly clear or intuitive to read or debug compared to Ruby. This seems like a "your mileage may vary" situation.
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You can always use parentheses for method calls. I've worked on codebases that mandated it. It feels a little weird in some contexts but it's fine.
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You're replacing Ruby scripts at work but you couldn't understand the syntax of the Ruby excerpt above?
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This is partially true, but a pretty large chunk of idiomatic Ruby is focused on Enumerable method chaining, transforming arrays and hashes, slicing and dicing strings, etc. A language that was totally dedicated to message-passing nirvana w
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by djur 3y ago
In 15+ years of writing Ruby for production I can't think of a single time where the distinction between blocks and procs caused a problem. Blocks are a syntactic element, procs are a data type (that you can construct with a block). I
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by djur 3y ago
> after attracting a critical mass of users large enough to decimate the user base of the competing Mastodon network Threads already has 10-100x as many active users as Mastodon. How many more does it need to "decimate"? How mu
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Along these lines, I have a nit to pick: "private" isn't a keyword in Ruby. It's just a method on Module.
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There's a map editor included if you add "editor" to the command line arguments. With the source and the editor, it seems feasible that a version of this could be created that doesn't get zapped by Nintendo. Curious to s
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> What can Microsoft do for a programmer who self-hosts and doesn't trust proprietary software? Ignore them and market themselves to the remaining 99% of programmers.
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In the '80s the games were mostly being purchased by adults for children, while today PC games are mostly purchased by adults for themselves. (I also remember being encouraged to spend my allowance on clearance-bin games when my parent
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What has the CEO of Reddit done recently? Who even is the CEO of Reddit?
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I think you're talking about a different Q. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source
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The boy in this article was working illegally at a sawmill because his family was desperately poor and his father was unable to work because of health problems associated with a lack of access to medical care (untreated diabetes). If consid
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The ACA employer mandate is still in place (it's the individual mandate that has been zeroed out). Maybe this guy isn't a full-time worker?
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"Sect" isn't a pejorative term, at least not in this context.
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> Michael was found to be among nine teens, ages 14 to 17, who illegally operated machinery at the company. They also employed seven teens, ages 14 and 15, outside legally permitted hours. Michael was one of those who worked outside lega
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In practice I've found this strategy to be pretty frustrating as a player. If treasure is going to be part of the campaign, give me something to spend it on. If it isn't, don't bother -- but in a system like D&D, you need

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