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by etripe 6y ago
> innovation in Europe can only scale if we achieve a higher degree of unity in Europe Interesting, I hadn't seen the term localisation used beyond language. IMO, the major hindrance to European unification is nationalistic reflexes
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by etripe 6y ago
I feel ambivalent about this kind of question. You might argue that it's required general knowledge, but relying on having read any one particular book seems arbitrary and a "gotcha" question. I could be missing something abo
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by etripe 6y ago
I agree things are presented in emotive ways, but I find most business decisions are made the same way. I believe remote work is a temporary phase, with businesses going back to the "old normal" as soon as COVID no longer presents
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by etripe 6y ago
While I am a software engineer, I don't particularly identify with your self-ascribed and generalised engineers' view. Maybe I'm different because I've previously manned help desks. Maybe I'm more neurotic than yo
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by etripe 6y ago
Would a business offering food replicators (the Trek kind that materialise energy into food) seem fraudulent to you? Would they be selling a fake product or just not have manufactured it yet?
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by etripe 6y ago
> The classic example is that there’s an infinite number of functions with type int -> int But are they really int to begin with, as in actually ratio values? Perhaps you're inputting the units requested and getting units avail
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by etripe 6y ago
I would venture a guess that on the surface, it's about its verbosity and the pyramids of doom you can get when editing. On a deeper level, I think they might be frustrated with the ability to develop custom formats (XSDs) which effect
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by etripe 6y ago
> It would be interesting to see a study on the levels of agreeableness of developers compared to the rest of the population, as it is mentioned in the article that "Most developers are agreeable!" but I haven't seen anyth
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by etripe 6y ago
Look, I don't disagree that it affects mainly the elderly. As to there not being any proof that the lockdown or mask did anything: we'll get a better picture once people have had the time to compare and study the statistics and fi
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by etripe 6y ago
There is one prime difference between computation and economics - and for that matter, material and social sciences. Computation doesn't study humans. Wouldn't a "unified theory" of economics (a deterministic one at that
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by etripe 6y ago
In my experience, no one who's seen what this virus can do to their own age cohort talks like that. I have a (early thirties, no co-morbidity, no pre-existing conditions) brother who was hit particularly hard by covid, from which he&#x
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by etripe 6y ago
Great idea! I'm somewhat confused as to what the different left-hand buttons do, though. They don't seem to make a (immediate?) difference.
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by etripe 6y ago
I started learning F# this year and found Domain Modeling Made Functional a phenomenal resource. It explains both domain modeling, F# language constructs and idiomatic F# in a very accessible way. F# for fun and profit also has some excelle
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by etripe 6y ago
> if someone asks me for help on something because I'm more familiar with it, my spending five minutes to answer their question might save them an hour of troubleshooting. Sure, but allowing them to take that shortcut can also be ta
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by etripe 6y ago
Regardless of how one feels about microphones being installed in one's apartment, what makes this a reasonable request in your book? Because a business entity is just requesting a narrative that is more profitable to it?
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by etripe 6y ago
Please note I wasn't saying _before joining_, either. I agree on your points, though.
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by etripe 6y ago
> The mobile web as a whole has gotten faster due to network speeds+cpu improvements. What's distinctly lacking in that assessment is web applications getting more resource efficient, or more conservative with storage. I'd argu
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by etripe 6y ago
I always interpret the "strong" part to mean "take ideas to their conclusion" or "don't do anything half-assed". I guess that's the beauty of these aphorisms: their validity is in the eye of the behol
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by etripe 6y ago
How exactly do ORMs hide business logic?
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by etripe 6y ago
> You can’t possibly know what a company you join will be like until you actually have been working there 12 months Does it actually take you 12 months, or did you mean that as a measured, sensible statement? Or are you perhaps looking a
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by etripe 6y ago
They probably mean Individual Contributor, which seems to be an American term for "just a dev, nothing else".
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by etripe 6y ago
I haven't done a STEM education, but it seems to me like the quality of research output is dependent on the field, to start with. Second, doesn't it really only become relevant at the PhD level, not bachelor's or master'
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by etripe 6y ago
> Bring transparency for business so it can trust us. The problem is no methodology can make them trust us. Software development is one of the few professions where to the business it's simultaneously "magic" and they th
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by etripe 6y ago
> their output can be measured in other standardised ways nonetheless. What are these standardised ways to measure developer output? I've never seen any, beyond "burndown charts" and "LOC", which I don't bel
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by etripe 7y ago
Backends are still a hassle? In what way do you feel Spring (Boot), ASP.NET Core and the like don't solve the problem adequately?
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by etripe 7y ago
> the ultimate measure of business is money / resources That's not untrue, but perhaps too reductive a view on business, as it ignores "soft" market factors like being primarily risk-oriented vs revenue-oriented, the
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by etripe 7y ago
Except for when you change from JIRA to some other project tracking tool. I think this is worth considering since project and people management trends tend to suffer from more churn than version control systems. In my book, it's easier
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by etripe 7y ago
> Constraints suck. But they are good. Software could use more of them, because they force discipline at dev time, at compile time, which reduces blow-ups at run-time. Can I take that to mean you're in favour of compile-time enforce
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by etripe 7y ago
Regarding the NHS: what do you base that global legendary status on? I don't have any data, myself, but I would say its status probably applies to the anglosphere (as legendary) and probably only as middling (as compared to other Europ
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by etripe 7y ago
If that's really what you think and you think it's down to the language, look up Modern::Perl (0) and, if you're object inclinded, Moo (1), Mouse (2) or Moose (3). Then there's always perlcritic (4), too. In my mind, it&

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