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by erikb 9y ago
btw why does this downvoted? I was in the same situation when I was 20. Now with 32 I got used to working for someone else, as much as one can get used to it. I make more money, have a better office, better living area, more valuable connec
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by erikb 9y ago
Yeah it's not such a mind-blower if you are experienced in using Linux, where this is just common, but it's still really nice to not miss this when working on Windows. However in the current version of MSYS2 (after an update a few
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by erikb 9y ago
Since there is even another branch now, I paste it: I feel like I already said "I understand but I disagree". A round wheel is more useful for a car than a triangular wheel. That doesn't mean it's a "car wheel"
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by erikb 9y ago
Usually people who work for Corp or Government can't choose the OS their organisation supports. You can be actually happy if your windows is as modern and free that you can install something like git-bash on there (and then of course y
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by erikb 9y ago
or just install msys2. Works just as well imo, and can more easily integrate other packages as well.
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by erikb 9y ago
Learn to work for someone else. Seriously there is no way out of it. Even a CEO works for someone else (investors/customers/shareholders). The blog posts that tell you otherwise are trying to bullshit the naive. Everybody is worki
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by erikb 9y ago
There is a dashboard called github? Or what are you looking for? I think if you want to make sure that all your changes are in, you need to do what most programmers do and learn to finish a programming session with a commit and push, just l
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by erikb 9y ago
that's why often you have architects and managers together leading teams. The architect is an engineer working at the blueprints/source code. The manager coordinates communication channels, team defined goals, integration with sal
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by erikb 9y ago
Slashdot is still used? I thought HN is the replacement of what Slashdot once was.
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by erikb 9y ago
It seems like you say that with the goal of proofing me wrong with an example. But what you say is (a) an argument helping my thesis by showing that you can program functional languages quite well by using mutable recourses (b) the biggest
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by erikb 9y ago
Yes, I didn't accept that part of the logic. Neither do I believe that immutability is something good, nor do I believe that git is very immutable, nor that git gains from immutability. I believe mutability is a trade off. You can make
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by erikb 9y ago
See the other leaf of this purely functional comment tree for my answer.
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by erikb 9y ago
I feel like I already said "I understand but I disagree". A round wheel is more useful for a car than a triangular wheel. That doesn't mean it's a "car wheel". It's just as good on a horse wagon or a bike.
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by erikb 9y ago
A data structure cannot be functional. I understand what he's trying to say, and agree with most of it, but the word "functional" is purely wrong. What he wants to say is "good". But not all "functional program
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by erikb 9y ago
I don't think there is much reason analysing lucky successes. Real success happens by getting a little lucky here and a little lucky there, learning over time how to keep the good fortune once acquired, and then stacking one success ov
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by erikb 9y ago
It sounds to me like a German name, is he from there? Then how is it possible that the US judges this single person directly in the US? He should be sent back to Germany, trialed there, and the US can only sue the company. Everything else i
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by erikb 9y ago
with HOI you play in hours though, not in days. The number of rounds might not be so different I believe.
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by erikb 9y ago
Another bloomberg article. Jees. Replace China with any country or corp you can think about. This title always applies. Btw westerners would also use Wechat if they could. But my doctor doesn't have his computer system integrated with
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by erikb 9y ago
I'm not a fan of Apple, but I think Cook's strategy here is very reasonable. iPhone is a walled garden since day one. People who really want freedom of speech have a huge reason not to use an iPhone since there are smartphones. It
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by erikb 9y ago
The basic idea is so awesome. But to see that someone does this close before his regime ends, oh well.
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by erikb 9y ago
I once worked in a project where I had the time to really make it perfect. Then I realised, when you reach that point, you find it's really not perfect. The world has changed, you've learned more etc. An incomplete solution that i
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by erikb 9y ago
I also was such kind of engineer for years, who had the desire to be a cathedral architect instead of a dusty, worn-out bazaar trader. But the truth is, the bazaar is more successful. It needs less system, less skill to join (more skill to
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by erikb 9y ago
Many people discuss how much one could buy from the bitcoins today that where used for the first pizza purchase. Few people consider though, that today's value of a bitcoin might not exist without that order.
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by erikb 9y ago
Have you ever heard of Kubernetes, a tool that is so much in the upswing that it dominated the last Amazon announcements, that Docker decided to integrate with it despite being its competitor in some regards, that hundreds of thousands of e
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by erikb 9y ago
Answer: Don't do that.
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by erikb 9y ago
Answer: Open suitcase. Insert 5 t-shirts, 2 trousers, 7 units of underwear of preference, 7 pairs of socks. Close suitcase. Repeat the same with laptop into backpack. Open door. Move out. Done.
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by erikb 9y ago
Ah okay, here it is. First I thought this other release of a container engine would be it. Yeah that's "gg" for many cluster management providers.
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by erikb 9y ago
No idea why people downvoted. This is exactly how people think, and in fact exactly how I was taught in university. We had an exercise in economics where we would be doing exactly that: Buying a machine to build car seats to sell which woul
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by erikb 9y ago
Because the system is full of people who talk about their passion, emotions and slogans instead of working hard and getting to the point, which he learned back at home. Why should an article criticise just one side, right?
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by erikb 9y ago
TL;DR: What everybody expects: You basically don't make money if you really calculate the whole cost package. I honestly believe that it must be lower than $5/hour so I'd say even MMM might've forgotten something.

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