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by enneff 4y ago
There’s a great episode of the Australian TV series You Can’t Ask That which interviews a group of OCD sufferers about their lived experience. It really opened my eyes to just how appallingly cavalier it is to refer to one’s minor neuroses
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by enneff 4y ago
The broader history of almost any profession/industry is similarly checkered. Engineering, farming, medicine, charity/aid… humans will do bad things whatever field they’re in.
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by enneff 4y ago
A lot of the terms on this list describe things that simply don’t exist, so the implicit suggestion is to not make shit up. To, y’know, research what you’re writing about rather than just repeat mistruths.
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by enneff 4y ago
If you look at cities where bikes are well integrated then they are way safer than cars.
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by enneff 4y ago
Celeste lets you play the classic PICO-8 version in a secret room.
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by enneff 4y ago
This is a great approach. Planning out the worst case scenario is a great way to deal with rational anxiety.
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by enneff 4y ago
Modern computers can easily mutate text thousands of times a second. Think about what a browser does instantly when you load a page. Also what would you need a database for? Why not write to a text file?
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by enneff 4y ago
I think the absence of semicolons is a pretty big call-out.
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by enneff 4y ago
Seriously. I think Rust has a lot going for it, but I will say this: the type inference in Rust combined with its expressive type system can make sophisticated programs very hard to follow. My experience was with extensively reading the car
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by enneff 4y ago
> bad because of stop-the-world pauses Have you actually experienced this to be a problem in the last half decade with Go? GC pauses in modern Go programs are short enough to be negligible in almost any practical program.
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by enneff 4y ago
If you looked at the spec which provides simple, valid examples that work, then why would you spend hours writing different code wondering why it doesn’t work? The section you linked does explain it, btw. IfStmt = "if" [ Sim
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by enneff 4y ago
Have a look on twitter. A few people “me too”ing wrt their relations with the guy.
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by enneff 4y ago
The ownership of those works is certainly a complex issue. Contractually ownership would have been assigned to id, but what happens for unpaid work? What about works in progress? Depends on the contract terms and the interpretation of those
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by enneff 4y ago
Based on how passionate Mick is about his work, and how incredibly polished his Doom 2016 work was, I always found it unbelievable that he would have been responsible for the Doom Eternal mess. I had no idea the details would be this messy.
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by enneff 4y ago
And he’s an artist and writing the music for a doom game is a huge creative opportunity for him. id clearly took advantage of that. Too many companies exploit artists who believe in their art. It sucks.
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by enneff 4y ago
This would never happen with an indie studio because they wouldn’t have the deep pockets to legally strong arm the contractor. If both parties were small businesses then the threat of legal action from either side would keep them both form
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by enneff 4y ago
Web 2.0 was just XMLHTTPRequest.
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by enneff 4y ago
Yeah absolutely and some of the most senior engineers I have worked with often made a point of asking seemingly obvious questions, to great effect. I think it’s a wonderful thing to demonstrate and I do the same.
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by enneff 4y ago
Also a lot of emotional problems don’t need to be solved, you just need to process the feelings and move forward.
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by enneff 4y ago
There’s a fantastic book and tv series by a research psychologist Brene Brown where she talks a lot about how to be on the listening end of these kinds of conversations. Often in these situations the other party just wants to have their emo
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by enneff 4y ago
I try not to frame things as “dumb questions” because I find that junior devs can feel a lot of their questions are “dumb” but really they’re often very good questions and (even if you lead by example) they can be hesitant to ask them. I th
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by enneff 4y ago
Having a series of great mentors over the years.
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by enneff 4y ago
Well by that logic nothing is necessary.
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by enneff 4y ago
Mosquitos are food for many other organisms.
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by enneff 4y ago
Except Tesla and SpaceX operate in industries where there aren’t a lot of options for people who are passionate about those kinds of technologies. There are tons of tech companies they support strong engineers. Why would you want to work fo
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by enneff 4y ago
We all do it a lot. We are primary emotional beings and we go around pretending we are rational. Life gets a lot easier and more comprehensible when you start paying attention to it.
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by enneff 4y ago
Most of the countermeasures that are sold (such as AntiVirus software) are pretty much snake oil. The single easiest and most important thing you can do to keep your systems safe is to keep them updated.
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by enneff 4y ago
No, it’s like driving a car whose airbag is known to have a fault that will send shards of material into the driver’s face in the event of an accident. (A real issue that many manufacturers had to issue a recall for.) This is actually a gre
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by enneff 4y ago
Not easily. A lot of the processes don’t have man pages or any other documentation. And they’re closed source so you never really know what they do.
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by enneff 4y ago
TBH the only thing pushing me away from macOS is that there’s a bunch of stuff running on there by default that I don’t understand, and I don’t really trust Apple’s direction wrt respecting user privacy. When I’ve been using Linux in other

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