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by foxtacles 4y ago
+1, similar situation here and I agree completely. I've been working for the same remote-only company for almost 10 years now. In my opinion, it's very important/essential that the company culture has "remote" in it
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Show HN: Codeprints – Get a print of your GitHub contributions (or repository)(codeprints.dev)
14 points by foxtacles 5y ago|2 comments
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by foxtacles 5y ago
Hi HN! Today I'd like to share a side project I've been working on together with a few friends over the past few months: https://Codeprints.dev is a tool that takes your personal GitHub contributions and allows you to
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by foxtacles 5y ago
I agree, this is my experience as well. At the extreme ends, some people absolutely require synchronous communication / social interaction to be productive, while others' performance (and sometimes happiness) depends on the absenc
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by foxtacles 5y ago
Sorry, I guess I wasn't quite clear. I didn't mean to imply that a bare setup leads to better productivity. The point I was trying to make was that constantly playing around with your tooling (configs, plugins, etc.) leads to very
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by foxtacles 5y ago
This is my experience as well. I've witnessed colleagues and other developers boast about their vim configurations and plugin ecosystems (and supposed gains in productivity) non-stop ever since I started working as a software engineer
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by foxtacles 5y ago
I can recommend oathtool (in combination with GPG) on the CLI: https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/oathtool.1.html
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by foxtacles 6y ago
WhatsApp (even the Web/"Windows" versions) don't work without a smartphone though, do they? I know I'm in a minority here, but I don't own a smartphone but still have to use WA to stay in contact with some peop
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by foxtacles 6y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate! I love C++ personally, I've recently commented something positive in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24041406
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by foxtacles 6y ago
> "That great freedom in expression is probably what leads to many bugs from expressing things "too freely". I agree. I'm not sure why C++ needs to attain perfection of this specific kind - or any kind, for that matte
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by foxtacles 6y ago
It's certainly possible to see it this way. However, I'd like to argue that there is a certain kind of value to what you consider a problem as well. Quoting Bjarne from the article: > “But besides adding object orientation to C
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by foxtacles 7y ago
Similar situation in Germany with regards to the news, I believe. I wish we'd talk more about the effects of the media's reporting style on psychological health. Do we really need headlines and reports about individual deaths ever
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by foxtacles 7y ago
We are also validating responses against JSON schemas in our Ruby production apps. I can confirm it's a very helpful practice and I'm a big fan of it. Currently we are checking 100% of the responses. I even wrote this gem which us