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   by dwb 3y ago

   The author isn't blaming kids, but is falling into the same trap as previous "back in my day" types of focusing on cultural trappings rather than material conditions. I didn't say the author was being disrespectful to an
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   by dwb 3y ago

   The chance of a 50-year old (and I say that as someone not too far off that) being correct about youth (non-?)subcultures is so low, I really wonder why people bother. I guess there was an article to write. The "aesthetic" prolife
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   by dwb 3y ago

   hell yeah, I’m a programmer because of Better BASIC
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   by dwb 3y ago

   CEOs have to be competent agents of capital. This is fine to them because they see capital as a force for good.
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   by dwb 3y ago

   A proper apology, to me, is the admission of a fault that the apologiser is able to, and will, rectify next time. Therefore most error-message-apologies sound very insincere to me. I prefer computers to stay curt, true to their nature.
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   by dwb 3y ago

   This a very widely accepted one: https://opensource.org/osd/
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   by dwb 3y ago

   Same. I've spent a good part of the last seven years working on and around a large React app, and it's been fine in exactly the ways you describe. I've got my complaints and maybe I would spare half a thought to considering a
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   by dwb 3y ago

   https://archive.is/U1XZb
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   by dwb 3y ago

   Well I certainly hope changes come to pass in that spirit, world-wide. I can see that happening in some wealthier countries, if you're lucky, and the right government is in power. I'd love to be proved absurdly pessimistic, of cou
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    by dwb 3y ago

    I more or less agree (though I don't know about blaming the developing world so much given how little they've contributed to the problem in the first place!), and I'm certainly not trying to support Peterson's argument w
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    by dwb 3y ago

    > “The idea that we can make the planet more habitable on an environmental, on the environmental front by impoverishing poor people, by raising energy prices and food prices, is absolutely, it’s not only absurd logically, but I think it’
12. 342.▲
    by dwb 3y ago

    If their role is not to sit in meetings all week then maybe they should decline the invitations.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    Why on earth were you working evenings and weekends to make up for others' demands on your time? That is totally wild to me.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    There is just no chance you'd hold my attention long enough to work out whether this was all width and no depth, or if it was actually good. If you're going to propose a new do-it-all system, it's got to be a lot more convinc
15. 345.▲
    by dwb 3y ago

    The GNU AGPL is considered a Free Software licence by the OSI, FSF, and the Debian project. That's good enough for me.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    Let me guess: you or a loved one has never been in the same position as the trans people this press release is talking about.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    What is anti-Semitic about his post? He criticised the actions of the IDF and Israeli government, which as we should all agree must not be conflated with Judaism.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    I don't agree with you in the main part, but I do see where you're coming from. I'm from Europe, use trains often, and have also driven a fair few trips in the USA. Rush hour Bay Area was about as hellish as I expected (thoug
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    by dwb 3y ago

    thanks, i’ve wanted someone to build something very similar to this for a while!
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    by dwb 3y ago

    When loopless constructs are a design principle of a language, they become much more than just a convenience wrapper.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    I didn't say if I thought it was done intentionally or not. Either way it's extremely unwise.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    https://github.com/LedgerHQ/connect-kit/pull/30/files Come on. This sensitive an application using a CDN at all, let alone a URL without version pinning?
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    by dwb 3y ago

    ? That's obviously just a name, it's not making a claim.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    I wondered, "whose standard?", and was pleasantly surprised to find a list of real names [1] on the website. Nonetheless, I do bristle at the semantic weight of the name despite the fact it's not attached to a relevant existi
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    by dwb 3y ago

    I use (Doom + some customisation) Emacs for development in Go and TypeScript. It's generally very good and sometimes frustrating – but usually fixable, and very much still worth the bother for me. I'm in a very small minority of d
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    by dwb 3y ago

    I mostly agree, and this maybe gets a bit philosophical, but for me true quality needs a human too.
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    by dwb 3y ago

    To me, there are two main reasons to review code (before merge): quality and trust. Quality should come way before trust, because if you don't at-least-mostly trust contributors then there's something wrong that code review won&#x
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    by dwb 3y ago

    Your first sentence is certainly an eternal truth; I feel like there's quite a gap between those who consistently work more than their worth and those who only do what is strictly necessary. I'm somewhere in the middle – there&#x2
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    by dwb 3y ago

    I've been a developer for 14 years. Maybe I've been incredibly lucky, or the companies I've worked for have had watertight hiring processes, or something, but I can't think of a time where someone didn't care about
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    by dwb 3y ago

    Is it common in other professions for senior colleagues to opine so lengthily, definitively and frequently about not only every little detail about others' work practices, but their non-work life too? There's no end of blog posts