drngdds

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by drngdds 6y ago
Yeah. I maintain that most complaints about Agile are actually just complaints about crummy managers. It's really not that bad (in my experience) when the people you're reporting to have reasonable expectations and treat estimates
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by drngdds 6y ago
This is the same thing I was thinking. We write imperfect software because the market (and the law) does not incentivize the significant extra work required for perfect software. Blaming individual engineers or organizations for that doesn&
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by drngdds 6y ago
>They both result in degrees, but they serve (mostly) different communities of people. Right - and if you're a recent high school grad with the grades to go to a good state school (not just Berkeley or whatever) and a desire to be a
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by drngdds 6y ago
It will never cease to amaze me that people (outside the media, politics, etc.) use their real name to post controversial things on social media, especially about their own employer.
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by drngdds 6y ago
I'd be 100% fine with difficult technical interviews if they actually reflected the job I was going to do. I wouldn't resent spending time outside work studying things that will help me in my day-to-day anyway. What sucks is havin
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by drngdds 7y ago
Because unfortunately, competition exists. I work in fintech and we have two options: - Convince bajillion dollar investment banks to switch web browsers just to use our service - Accept a mild decrease in developer experience
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by drngdds 7y ago
I've been patiently waiting for them to do the same thing in the high-end/upper-midrange GPU market for a few years now. Unfortunately Nvidia basically has free reign right now to charge whatever prices they want for the RTX 2070
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by drngdds 7y ago
Ok, but your preference isn't everyone else's! You can disable the pop-up asking you for push notifications on all relevant browsers, afaik.
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by drngdds 7y ago
>a well-spoken critic of the supposed existential threat is dangerous This is also true when the threat is actually real and the people concerned about it are acting in good faith, which is the case here.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Most programs can download new code and open whatever files they want as long as their process has the permissions. You can certainly argue that that shouldn't be the case, but calling Discord a RAT because of it is pretty silly. (Not
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by drngdds 7y ago
I'd rather not tie something to an account (and therefore my identity) when I don't have to. I don't know what kind of information about my computer use they're associating with me. Windows always worked without an onlin
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by drngdds 7y ago
You're just making an argument against the NPM model of installing five billion packages
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by drngdds 7y ago
It's a lot easier to read a few lines of code from a Stack Overflow answer than it is to read thousands of lines in libraries...
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by drngdds 7y ago
Excuse me, but that parking lot is a historical landmark and a cornerstone of the community!
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by drngdds 7y ago
I use Windows because: - Chromebooks don't meet my needs and Macs are incredibly expensive. - There's a lot of software I care about which is Windows-only and doesn't have a good Linux alternative, especially games. - I have
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by drngdds 7y ago
Yeah, this is important. I remember reading plenty of screeds about how awful the music industry and record labels are for artists long before streaming took over.
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by drngdds 7y ago
I haven't done a ton of Python, but I can't really think of a situation where relying on a dict to be ordered is an easy mistake to make. Do you have an example?
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by drngdds 7y ago
People care more about this because the animals involved are cute and fluffy, but this is pretty much just regular factory farming. (Which itself is a hellish indictment of humanity, of course.)
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by drngdds 7y ago
I want to be wherever you are! Here, you make up a plausible-sounding excuse, and it's up to the other person to guess whether you're just being polite or not, based on whether you've made so many excuses that it's stati
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by drngdds 7y ago
It's hard to see religion as "tertiary" to intelligent design when the concept was invented by Christians to make their religious beliefs sound more scientific. Hell, the first thing that came up when I googled "dependen
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by drngdds 7y ago
I don't think it matters that much. My only online presence under my real name is a locked-down Facebook account and an inactive LinkedIn profile with no profile pic, and I get recruitment emails from big tech companies pretty often.
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by drngdds 7y ago
The main thing I'm getting from this is that Twitter is terrible. Why do likes have to be public? Why can't you choose to make some tweets followers-only? Those two things would cripple this kind of background check. (Mastodon has
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by drngdds 7y ago
Nah, it means "people being mean and awful, by a reasonable person's standards." Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but abstracting it into "things I don't approve of" misses the point.
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by drngdds 7y ago
Revolutionizing hiring bias with the power of deep learning!
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by drngdds 7y ago
My takeaway from this is "do code reviews".
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by drngdds 7y ago
That seems like a weird situation to optimize for. 24" between your laptop screen and your face is really not a lot of space.
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by drngdds 7y ago
>if you want to eat plants just eat plants. The thing about meat is that it tastes good >Though I always wondered if the animal rights type of vegetarians eat this stuff Some don't like it, but I do. As long as it resembles proce
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by drngdds 7y ago
Tbh I would rather have to take painkillers sometimes than do keto intermittent fasting every day with organic vegan weeks. Besides, you might be confusing correlation with causation a bit? My sister and mother probably eat healthier than I
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by drngdds 7y ago
Deep Work by Cal Newport was great. If only I could actually apply its principles at my job in an open office with an IM chat system.
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by drngdds 7y ago
I'm not sure it's possible to sink Trump's reputation among Trump supporters at this point.

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