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by flukus 6y ago
Bash and related tools. From monitoring and spelunking logs, generating code, generating input, switching states, quickly looking up client data, background compiling, etc. It gets an enormous amount of work done quickly and easily.
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by flukus 6y ago
> This change only affects newly created repos, how does it create tech debt? Every book and piece of documentation on git is now obsolete. People learning git will now hit a wall trying to do very basic things.
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by flukus 6y ago
That will work for some, most notably the big ones on the side of highways, but I assumed most people would be charging at home, at least for city driving. The earliest adopters will also be the most wealthy that are more likely to have roo
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by flukus 6y ago
I believe this is right, but gas is still the main reason people stop there. If people aren't stopping to buy gas then they will not be making their impulse/convenience purchases and the gas station still loses their profits. It&#
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by flukus 6y ago
I've been wondering if the cutoff is actually much earlier. Say 50% of cars on the road are EV, how many gas stations can continue to run profitably with 50% less customers? Even getting and refining the gas requires massive global sup
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by flukus 6y ago
For me napster was a game changer that got me into music period. Before that discovering and learning what music I liked was tedious and low signal/noise along with high cost that I never developed any interest in music until napster e
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by flukus 6y ago
A few million really isn't much when you're trying to create an attractive platform and break the chicken and egg problem of no software -> no users -> no software. The WiiU for instance is widely considered to be a flop and
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by flukus 6y ago
The frameworks are typically very analogous between the two as well, it takes a while to learn them but in the meantime it's googling "how to do concept x in framework y". Apart from the initial project setup you're also
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by flukus 6y ago
I agree they shine at dynamic query composition, but I find the sort of UI that necessitates this dynamism are universally terrible. They end up being data dumps that allow the user to filter and sort themselves instead of having a UI that
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by flukus 6y ago
As someone who is probably much closer to the bank employees (assuming you mean developers from banks) but has considered transitioning to something like c at various times, the problem is there are no intermediate roles, everyone either wa
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by flukus 6y ago
It feels like at the same time they keep hiding functionality the add some very in your face ways of telling you about the functionality or soliciting feedback. "Hey we added a new feature", "Did you find this screen helpful?
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by flukus 6y ago
Google is a large well known and well paying company that can get candidates to make that sort of time investment, smaller companies can't because they're just generic companies that no one particular wants to work for, I'll
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by flukus 6y ago
> It hasn't quite happened yet This is certainly not for lack of trying. Outsourcing was much more common 10-20 years ago than it is today but a combination of wage growth in outsourced countries and terrible quality has just about
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by flukus 6y ago
At least that was an accidental conversion and an understandable mistake, I've seen the same with dates stored as strings from devs unaware that dates are just integers with a lot of maths to make them meaningful. At once place our end
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by flukus 6y ago
It comes up quite often if you sort by new or comments. The mods here are very on top of it.
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by flukus 6y ago
I don't find it that surprising because there's a huge lack of awareness in the industry when it comes to profiling tools. Quite often I've seen people trying to speed up programs without once profiling to see where the probl
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by flukus 6y ago
It might be satire, but it hits way to close to the mark. I've worked on so many simple applications with layers and layers of cruft that really could be simplified to postgres, cron and a couple of cgi scripts.
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by flukus 6y ago
The problem is employers require computer science degrees, especially for entry level jobs. Then there's things like coding tests about inverting binary tries and such that tends to be less thoroughly covered in trade schools. When emp
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by flukus 6y ago
The borrow checker is 150% sound, it complains about errors but also complains about a lot of things that could have been perfectly fine in reality. There are plenty of times when multiple mutable references would be perfectly safe for inst
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by flukus 6y ago
Tumblr still has plenty of porn, they've just crippled the UI and made it even less usable if you want the 18+ content. Given the starting point of how bad the interface already was this was quite an achievement.
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by flukus 6y ago
Some dials would be good everywhere, I've considered buying some expensive keyboards ( https://www.daskeyboard.com/ ) purely for a volume control knob. A common complaint around here is about how touch screens have taken
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by flukus 6y ago
Maybe just do native UI's completely, especially now dropping XUL has broken everything.
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by flukus 6y ago
Emission trading schemes get called communist plots quite regularly.
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by flukus 6y ago
Anywhere in the south china sea is not a great strategic choice. Apart from mainland China itself this will be the first area of the world where China will reach military parity with the US. The US has a lot more firepower but that's d
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by flukus 6y ago
> The exceptions to the first two on this list were already delivery pre-'gig jobs' IME just about everything that wasn't awful when delivered was already being delivered decades before gig jobs existed. Indian and pizza w
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by flukus 6y ago
> Of course, it was embarrassing to have a cart full of that stuff as everyone would know you were poor. I don't mean this to pick on you personally, but this sentence sums up so many problems with consumerism, advertising and it&#x
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by flukus 6y ago
> Well, you could argue that if governments want you to be healthy, why not subsidize healthcare, make meds cheaper, etc. Vaccine in this case is another form of med that is given out for free, why not insulin? Most of the developed worl
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by flukus 6y ago
If amazon ruined the name it was surely when Alexa was first used as a spyware IE plugin and it's accompanying website popularity ranking. I'm kind of surprised they ever used the brand for anything after that.
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by flukus 6y ago
In defense of the hamburger menu, it's singular, nearly universal and well understood, I can deal with that just fine. This is very different from rows of icons in something like word where there's a huge array of functionality hi
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by flukus 6y ago
On the other, other hand. I find text far superior for creating and editing technical diagrams and images. Give my graphviz over any GUI editor to do the same. In this case the diagrams are good for communication but terrible for expression

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