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by egeozcan 5y ago
As a developer who is in this ecosystem so long that it makes me shrug when I think about it, I loved the humble writing style and loved the fact that she could teach me a thing or two. Being able to say "I don't know how this wor
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I always thought "taste" as the skill to recognize patterns in trends. That's why something that is considered "good taste" in 1950s can be seen as horrible taste nowadays.
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I feel like that phrase has been there forever, and I'm exactly 35. Will this happen more often as I grow older? Ugh. Feels weird. Maybe also a bit depressing.
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by egeozcan 5y ago
There are also many variations in between, something like SCS [0], for example. Nowadays, people started doing such interesting (although sometimes over-engineered) things with architecture, I couldn't even tell what would be the close
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Or report the bug, which should probably have another name in this context.
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by egeozcan 5y ago
"Not good enough, but used everywhere so nothing we can do" is the worst enemy of good, even worse than perfectionism.
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Also Greek, Turkish, German, Romanian... Is there any language other than English that can be written 100% by ASCII characters? If you have special letters in your name, you'll have a different name in another country without that lett
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by egeozcan 5y ago
> Programmers can laugh all they want at Excel, Wordpress, PHP I don't laugh at them. I see many people more clever than me working with tech I don't like, and making more money than I make. It's completely OK. I even wrot
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by egeozcan 5y ago
> how is the deadlock typically broken A war breaks out and human life becomes less important, or someone/some government does it in secret, or there is something potentially catastrophic that allows some rules to loosen up a bit (l
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by egeozcan 5y ago
WordPress is the Excel of Web Development. Especially when people keep building complicated flows with it, for which it was not designed for. OTOH, the UI is known by everyone and is intuitive, so from a users perspective "it just work
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by egeozcan 5y ago
People are really thinking too much into the possibilities. Many people also don't use WSL. Many don't even have the basic nix tools on their path. You may say that they aren't your target audience, but many new technologies
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by egeozcan 5y ago
> Windows is still a PITA to deal with I think even a big chunk of Windows users would agree with that too. However, the point is, it's still massively, unbelievably popular and not supporting Windows is like having a web app that d
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Does anyone remember the surge of popularity node.js got when microsoft helped it to be a thing also on windows? I do. I'm not intelligent (or silly) enough to create my own platform/language but if I were, windows compatibility w
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I used to like D, but then, the GC story got too complex and nowadays for non GC there are many alternatives and for GC there's always C#, which I see covering 99% of the GC enabled use cases for D. I really hate language bashing, and
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by egeozcan 5y ago
IMHO, JS is has more mature parts than any other language. It's fast, stable, portable, practical and for every problem you could imagine, there's an answer on Stack Overflow, immense community, easy to learn (while hard to master
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by egeozcan 5y ago
It was possible to login with the reverse of your password (as in password.split().reverse().join('')).
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Exactly, Typescript or C# would have been very nice. edit: found some for JS, not TS but still something: http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html https://kushagra.dev/blog/build-git-learn-g
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Nephew it is, then! Thanks for the correction!
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by egeozcan 5y ago
> "thank you but not interested in this micro efficiency" smile I've seen a friend press caps lock, type a letter and press caps again to type capital letters. That's the smile I got when I introduced them the shift k
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I think there lies the problem: > fortunately if cattle population stays constant, their portion of the atmospheric resident methane will also remain constant I have the impression (as a person uneducated in this topic) that current leve
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by egeozcan 5y ago
All trains plus many local transit options as well. It's usually valid in most bigger cities. My ex-ex-employer had given me one and I've used it many years. Incredibly liberating when you have the ability to hop onto any train an
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Yes! To the UI developers: Please don't let optimizing for a single platform become a lost art. Not saying cross-platform should not be done or anything like that, but using an application that's 100% tailored to my device is nice
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Please work on this more, this is just such a pleasant interface! On the other hand, the criticism here in HN is also mostly correct. It should be more accessible, but definitely a great start!
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I guess then İstanbul, the city of cats, could have been a great place to farm if there have been any free patches of land left. By the way, the squirrels eating just one bite is annoying for you but perhaps better for the sustainability of
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I do like releasing everything I develop as FOSS, but we all agree that something like this can happen when we do, even though most of us (me included) find it at least distasteful. Unfortunately this is what happens when any space gets sup
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I was wondering if that's a problem isolated to my first language, but apparently it got worse in English as well. Although, it surely can't be as bad in a language that doesn't have agglutination. For example "olamayaca
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by egeozcan 5y ago
I do think JS would be much better than python. It's more to do with familiarity.
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Erdoğan was recently busy throwing free tea to the crowds and random passers-by on the street to moralize them after people lost their houses to the fires. Dead serious. https://twitter.com/marklowen/status/1421579
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by egeozcan 5y ago
That historical ... erm... glitch... in C# is very unfortunate and burned us many times back when I was working in a .NET shop (people getting creative was usually the culprit). I've even seen some codebases where people decided to im
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by egeozcan 5y ago
Are you using FB container in Firefox? This would be a known side-effect.

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