dkersten

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by dkersten 5y ago
I think you are deeply misinformed about pair programming and have some ingrained misconceptions. I don't think I can persuade you otherwise though.
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by dkersten 5y ago
Its important to go in with an open mind and not resist it. If you go in grudgingly thinking its not going to work and you're going to try it only to prove yourself right, then it will of course never work. I'd also read up and se
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by dkersten 5y ago
> How could the 4 hours "pairing" negate the fact that one of you can't work for 4 hours? This is a very common misconception. Both of you are "working", only one of you is typing. I don't know what kind of
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by dkersten 5y ago
I often did remote pairing over screenhero some years ago. We just got really good at communicating with each other who gets to type and who has to keep their hands off. The first few weeks were hard, we'd naturally just try to fix a t
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by dkersten 5y ago
When I did pairing (see other comments of mine), we used our own laptops. That way, we could both have our own setups that we were comfortable in. It did mean that switching often consisted of a git commit to our branch that we later squash
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by dkersten 5y ago
I had a very positive experience pairing for 11 months, but yes, it was a team of just two of us on the project, we got on well, and we were the ones who decided to try pair programming. Nobody forced us to or told us to.
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by dkersten 5y ago
I did it for 11 months (see comments elsewhere here) and I found it was both effective and rewarding. Some key points are that helped me: 1. You have to get on well with the person/people you're pairing with. You're working v
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by dkersten 5y ago
I don't agree. I wrote a top-level comment about my (positive) experience pairing, but I'll state it again here because its relevant to your comment: I was on a team with one other guy working on a complex distributed-systems proj
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by dkersten 5y ago
A few years ago, I worked on a project for about 11 months with one other guy and we paired almost all the time. Yes, it was mentally exhausting, yes we had some natural resistance to it at first. But damn was it effective, in producing hig
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by dkersten 5y ago
Its also a different directive from GDPR, but people like to lump them together for maximum outrage.
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by dkersten 5y ago
For me, it comes from a few things, none of which are unique to Clojure or necessarily from the language itself. I use reagent, re-frame and shadow-cljs and use the REPL very infrequently in clojurescript: 1. Reagent provides a much simpler
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by dkersten 5y ago
Sure. But in this particular case, it sounds like there was a fairly longish period of time between seeing the "omen" and the supposed effect. Yes, the shy animals coming out was given as a reasonable explanation.
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by dkersten 5y ago
Huh, so I clicked on make account and when I checked the "english instances" box, the first item in the instance list changed to Chinese. Guess that checkbox doesn't work so well.
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by dkersten 5y ago
I’m a strong proponent for listening to your gut, but that’s very different from a bird landing on your home predicting death, especially when the correlation is weak (sometime later that year). It’s easy to attribute something to something
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by dkersten 5y ago
Humans are also great at seeing patterns in noise and we like to attribute various things to things we see. So its also likely that you remember these coincidences because of your loved ones deaths and don't remember the many other tim
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by dkersten 5y ago
I’m against advertisement, in my opinion it’s the worst thing to happen to the internet. However, I have a problem with Google adverts specifically and that is that they’re absolute hot garbage. Google has advertised to me: outright scams,
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by dkersten 5y ago
Yes, but it’s really not the same as first class static typing support. It also doesn’t help when none of the libraries you use have type annotations and when I last looked it was also quite slow.
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by dkersten 5y ago
Those are the only two options they presented me with...
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by dkersten 5y ago
Same. I refuse to give google my credit card details or ID for this. I've been on Youtube for about 13 years with this account, I'd have to have been 5 or less to not be old enough to view whatever I want now... What garbage.
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by dkersten 5y ago
The JVM is a blessing and a curse. I believe it was a very good decision and that Clojure wouldn't have become as useful or popular as it is without it, because it provided immediate and quick access to a huge ecosystem, allowing it to
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by dkersten 5y ago
Somewhat off topic: My problem with Haskell is that every time I've tried to read the documentation, I've felt like I needed a PhD in type theory to understand all of the terminology. As a practitioner (not a researcher), I just w
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by dkersten 5y ago
I've been using Clojure since the summer of 2009, started a startup with it, using it exclusively on one project right now... and I agree about static types. I love many many things about Clojure, its my favourite language to use and I
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by dkersten 5y ago
> But I don't know about this idea that interns are somehow a gateway to getting value out of people When I was in Uni, I did a 6 month paid internship. A year and a half later I joined the company and stayed for two years. When I l
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by dkersten 5y ago
I think my statement holds for most small non-tech businesses. Many of them have companyname@gmail.com business email addresses and while I hope their social media accounts are at least registered from that email account, I wouldn't be
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by dkersten 5y ago
I guess it depends on who is trying to break in and why. I remember reading a reddit AMA from a former burglar and he said that these windows did stop him, because he would be looking to get in and out as quickly and inconspicuously as poss
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by dkersten 5y ago
Great post. It reminded me of something I experienced in a previous job: One of my coworkers worked a lot of overtime at one point, I think he liked to feel like the hero. In order to make sure a particular project was delivered in time. Gu
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by dkersten 5y ago
The version bits are for the UUID version though, not for your own versioning use. It doesn't sound like your v5 UUID was actually a UUID v5 (with namespace), so are your new UUID's even RFC 4122 compliant anymore? At this point,
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by dkersten 5y ago
> you sure aren't letting your social media people run the company instagram page from an account linked to their personal gmail accounts, are you? If you're running a burrito truck, there's a good chance this is exactly w
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by dkersten 5y ago
If you don’t mind a bit of work, you could look into one of the DIY smart watches on hackaday or whatever. Since you don’t need a watch form factor, that should give you a little extra room in terms of size or components. I found them a lit
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by dkersten 5y ago
Oof yeah this resonates with me too. I did two failed startups back to back a number of years ago and had a lot of health issues after that which I’m sure were due to the stress and burnout. And... I’m actually sitting on a hospital bed th

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