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by donatj 4mo ago
My thoughts exactly. The whole thing is essentially just these rules, and a metric ton of boilerplate for specific plugin systems. My own personal ponytail says this could just be this in a code block of a README https://github.c
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by donatj 4mo ago
I never understood what the heck they were thinking. I've been an Xbox diehard since the early 2000s but bringing your exclusives to PlayStation just makes me genuinely consider switching to PlayStation. You are telling me I can now ge
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by donatj 4mo ago
The friendships I'd like mended need more than reaching out I'm afraid.
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by donatj 4mo ago
If I can't be dramatic in my midlife crisis, then when?
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by donatj 4mo ago
I turned 40 the other day. There has been unrelenting reflection on where I am and how I got here. A lot of lament for a small handful of decisions and a life marked by avoiding uncomfortable decisions. I don't know where the last 20 y
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by donatj 4mo ago
I frankly can't agree more. Learn SQL, learn the normal forms at least up to 3NF, profit. I took an Oracle SQL class in High School in the very early 2000s and frankly it set me up for my career, despite never having touched actual Or
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by donatj 4mo ago
If anything I feel like the last decade has been the decade of individual contributors losing all agency in tech.
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by donatj 4mo ago
An online game isn't the dos game you played as a kid. It's temporal. It's the roller coaster you rode as a kid. A law forcing the any roller coaster built to stay open so your children can ride it is just silly and going to
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by donatj 5mo ago
I love Last.fm, I've been scrobbling for over 20 years now. It's amazing to me that they have managed to stick around like they have. They're very much an "old internet" site, and I hope they can stick around for ma
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by donatj 5mo ago
I've been working as a dev for over twenty years now and have had my fair share of interviews. The very worst I ever had was about six months ago. I'd had a fantastic initial interview, it seemed like a perfect fit and interesting
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by donatj 5mo ago
Days after I graduated high school in 2004, my parents moved me and my family out to a 15 acre property in the middle of nowhere. Mowing the lawn on a riding mower was an all-day affair. The time I spent on that mower with just my own thoug
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by donatj 5mo ago
Oh, nice! I have been wondering what was going on with Cringely for years. I was worried it was a health issue and am relieved to hear that that seems to not have been the case.
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by donatj 5mo ago
Which is why I'm so angry they're killing AFP. It works so much better and is super easy to set up a server for on a Linux
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by donatj 5mo ago
Honestly, speaking as a friend, and as someone who's been at this a very long time, maybe stop doing that? It doesn't foster conversion and I personally find it kind of a hostile/disrespectful communication style. It's m
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by donatj 5mo ago
I doubt it's possible. I'd avoid it as long as you can. It's been a continuous stream of audits for my the company I work for and resulted basically total loss of developer agency.
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by donatj 5mo ago
This needs like a "both of these things are good" button.
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by donatj 5mo ago
I work for a reasonably large company. We have an Open Source policy that boils down to ask your manager first , don't do it in the name of the company and don't release anything confidential . It's never been a problem,
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by donatj 5mo ago
Speed… speed… velocity… speed. All I hear about these days. Every meeting. Honest question does high velocity / first mover ever really pay off these days? I don't feel like having the first AI slop to the market has actually pa
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by donatj 5mo ago
Literally thinking the same thing. I have one somewhere... Haven't seen it in twenty years
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by donatj 5mo ago
The text legibility of the gray on black is a serious problem. My eyes aren't that bad but I can barely read this.
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by donatj 5mo ago
Yes. That is the point. I can have my tabs look the way I like them. You can have your tabs look the way you like them.
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by donatj 5mo ago
As someone who prefers tabs (I'm not looking to argue), I once asked Brendan Eich on Twitter why he prefers spaces. His answer was more thoughtful than I'd expected. The tab key itself is hijacked by modern OS/UI behavior. It
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by donatj 5mo ago
I've come to the conclusion in the last couple years that being the guy who understands how the abstraction works under the hood is treated by companies as more of a liability than a virtue. More and more places just want Jira tickets
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by donatj 5mo ago
The calculus courses I took in high school disagree
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by donatj 5mo ago
Our study hall in Junior High would wipe your calculator as you signed in to ensure you weren't playing games, god forbid. I would claim not to have my calculator, and often not do my math homework in study hall just to avoid getting m
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by donatj 5mo ago
My friend is an electrical engineer. He designs circuit boards for a living. We were having dinner the other night, and when the topic of AI came up he told me rather confidently that he didn't think AI was coming for his job anytime s
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by donatj 6mo ago
> At 2 Yes, I absolutely did. I was home with my dad, gated into the living room while he did things around the house. There is only so much to do.
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by donatj 6mo ago
My wife stays home with our kids. My daughter ends up watching a fair bit of television while my wife does chores and the like. We're entirely curating what she's watching and I'm just not that concerned. If anything, she&#x2
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by donatj 6mo ago
I know I'm not supposed to make jokes, this is not reddit, but you might even say it's pretty radical.
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by donatj 6mo ago
I think it's more complicated than that. Anything someone can vibe code that gains any level of mild traction can then easily duplicated by all their competitors and in a fraction of the time because the actual hard part, determining t

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