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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
Exactly. I stopped reading part way through. The first thought was ... this seems like quite a lot of words to say not an awful lot of contents. And then the sentences started jumping out. > A verification regime does not need your appro
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
I'm not the commenter, but for me ghostty was good for being a Very Good terminal experience with almost no config required. Just checked and the config file for my daily use terminal setup is 3 lines long. 3! That means I know I can c
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
Not the commenter, but yeah, I think I do. Setting out to do something commercial (and succeeding), is different from setting out to do something firmly non-commercial and then commercialising it. The second one will almost always involve c
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
Except it's nothing like that, because the numbers are so different.
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
> Not a workaholic, I don't think, but a 24/7 stress monkey when I think that I could be helping I er... think you might be a workaholic. But I'm glad for you that your current setup is helping :)
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
You'll note I didn't actually say it was people who are prolific that were the problem. I've worked with great prolific devs. They're often very humble, happy to explain their work, and recognise that simply adding to a
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
> Code review doesn't scale to prolific humans I've worked with people who consider themselves 'prolific humans'. Someone always has to tidy upp later, and its never them
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
This feels like a bad take, IMO. Starting with something that gets you up and running quickly, then transferring to something else when things are more settled is a pretty standard practice.
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
https://www.theregister.com/software/2019/04/01/nice-people-... Year before the MSFT takeover. No idea about their actual financials but they were definitely shedding headcount pre 2020, including kickin
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
I said so above. I think originally they were "online spaces that augmented a real world community". Even twitter, you mostly started by following people you knew or had heard of. I get that this isn't at all where we are any
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
if you think social media just means any space online with multiple people in it, then I guess we just disagree on what social media is. Is the linux kernel mailing list social media? was usenet?
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
see IMO it isn't. HN is an online community. Same as forums, and BBSs were. I don't think they were social media really - they're online spaces that form around a shared interest, where Facebook etc were originally online s
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
> Interviews are useful, but the ability to ship, maintain and improve real projects should probably carry more weight. But how do you assess this? Maybe we should get them to write a document that details what they've done, and the
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
My advice is: don't write complicated SQL. The best thing I learned about SQL is that it can do an awful lot of clever stuff but that the vast majority of the time you really don't need it. Learn the basics. Shrug the rest off.
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
yeah but I can't post there because I don't know anyone with an account and frankly CBA traipsing around looking for someone who has an account. does seem like more things will have to go this way though
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
It's a good point, but I think the counter is that if the only people writing anything available via Gemini would have written nice simple HTML anyway, then not an awful lot is gained.
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by dust-jacket 4mo ago
But as a good manager, you should throw it back: "what do you think?" "what have you tried so far?" etc. Just giving them AI back is pointless. It means _your_ role is pointless.
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
You could defintiely argue abductions and crime have reduced because there are fewer opportunities (because we keep the kids safe). But that still doesn't mean you can conclude the world is MORE dangerous.
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
Software development is expensive. Like eye-wateringly expensive. A team of developers, product, designers, testers on a new app costs a big amount of money so its a gamble each time. Without a large audience, spending money on porting to A
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
> Part of the reason, may be that I am a much better Swift programmer, than PHP programmer Hard not to think that's a major part of it. IME you make loads more corrections in languages you're more opinionated about (and opinion
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
Well yeah. And there's little more frustrating than someone telling you not be frustrated because "that's just how it works". We get how it works. It's just irritating.
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
Yes and no. The friction they should have probably had here is: did this employee need access to 3,800 internal repos? I'm with the poster above in believing restricting what you can install makes a lot of things more difficult, but if
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
By scraping them, same as always. The difference is where once they scraped, wrote a summary and invited users to go to the site, now they just provide the summary.
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
Yeah at my last job we A/B tested hiring ads for the same role with developer/engineer alternatives. It's just not the distinction some people believe it to be.
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
Ah damn. I've only recently moved in to Bitwarden - paid - largely on the basis of a multiple-user shared vault and emergency grants to personal vaults. I'd really, really like them to not to ruin it or make it massively more ex
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
That and the fact that they rip it up and shake it all about every few years just to seem like they're doing something different.
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
> Discovering a bug that could put people's lives and/or freedom at risk if they don't do something about it makes it okay to go public immediately The flipside of course is ... does your disclosure increase the risk? >
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
I don't feel like its hard to come up with examples where (I would say) its ethically wrong to disclose immediately. If you spotted a company's mistake that might endanger their user's lives or safety, would you put those use
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
Yeah having worked _with_ NHSDigital quite a lot over the years, I would not love to work there! That said, I don't think there's that much wrong with that job description - I've been a software dev/eng for 15yrs and eve
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by dust-jacket 5mo ago
I don't doubt that valid Python can include hard to read code. You xcan write gnarly Python, for sure. But I'd still argue the average Python codebase tends to be pretty legible and simple to read.

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