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by g051051 3y ago
Someone at work played this prank on a business analyst and almost got fired. It was the early 90's, and we were a shop running HP/UX on Apollo workstations. She was a SME for the application we were developing, but was otherwis
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by g051051 3y ago
Who classifies C++ as a low-level programming language? Even C is only being called low-level relatively recently, and it's not universally accepted as such.
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by g051051 3y ago
TL;DR: Thanks, I hate it. It looks like the web version of Outlook. This is not a compliment. Can I disable the search bar wasting that space? I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I've used email search over the past
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by g051051 3y ago
> class InboundRequestContextFinderProviderFactory > What does this even mean? Why does the context need to be found, provided, and factory-ed? The implementation of the class itself is 1 line of actual logic surrounded by 22 lines of
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by g051051 3y ago
Engineer to manager isn't "growth", it's a complete career shift. Fine if you want it, torture if you don't. "Dear Engineer, you are so good at your job we've decided to have you stop doing it and do a di
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by g051051 3y ago
Pure clickbait. Not at all what the page at MSFT is saying. If you actually go to the problem page, it says: > Next steps: We are working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release. So, they just haven't fix
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by g051051 4y ago
If it encourages people to leave voluntarily, it could save the job of someone else, and save the company the costs of a layoff.
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by g051051 4y ago
I never liked the old Paul Harvey "Now you know...the rest of the story" thing either. And I don't see how it's a good fit for Hacker News, either.
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by g051051 4y ago
I asked it for "hard space sci-fi", and it gave me a book about space (not sci-fi), a book about mental illness set in the ocean (I think? It was hard to tell), Congo by Michael Crichton (not space), and one book that might hav
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by g051051 4y ago
It's not.
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by g051051 4y ago
It's just a bug: https://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/Galaga/
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by g051051 4y ago
> this is shockingly close to replacing an entire role at companies with only a couple hours of effort. and > It seems like there’s almost no limit to how good GPT could get at this. I don't see how that's a valid conclusion
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by g051051 4y ago
> Your site is full of sexism and racism that you can't report to the main moderator because he approves of it. No idea what they mean. I read HN all the time, and haven't seen anything remotely like sexism, racism, or white s
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by g051051 4y ago
Thanks, I hate it. Everything I loathe about "modern" web design made manifest here, and switched on without warning! At least I can turn it off in settings.
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by g051051 4y ago
> I am not too keen on learning new paradigms or languages unless I have to. Not the attitude I'd expect from someone that claims to "love programming".
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by g051051 4y ago
To me, those last 3 points contradict the first point. The best, smartest developers I have ever worked with have consistent style (or are able to conform to the team-defined style), don't overload themselves, and prefer simplicity an
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by g051051 4y ago
As I age (going to be 59 soon) my programming abilities just increase (along with my waistline, unfortunately). I even went back to school and finally got my master's degree in 2016. So, maybe see a doctor? There might be a legitima
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by g051051 4y ago
> how do you deal with the ongoing requirements it appears that jobs place, such as social network involvement. To me - this means LinkedIn posting rubbish, Twitter bollocks, public GitHub repos for sharing - even the asks from employers
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by g051051 4y ago
> it's all a part of career progression regardless of where you work at Very much not true. It might be where _you_ work, but it's not universal, and decreasing as time goes by.
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by g051051 4y ago
> It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. Good lord, why on earth would you pay any attention to thes
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by g051051 4y ago
> Company has lots of guidance Does this mean its an actual standard ? You can fail the PR for not following standards. > Adding unit tests for some piece of logic Are unit tests required ? Fail the PR if it doesn't have the
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by g051051 4y ago
> don't see myself leaving of my own accord Well, that's the trick, isn't it? You could do everything right, and the environment changes, or financial issues hit, or you get bad managers. I worked at a company for 22 year
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by g051051 4y ago
I guess no one noticed the horrible custom scrolling behavior? Of all the thing to waste time customizing...
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by g051051 4y ago
I call it "LOC is a terrible metric".
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by g051051 4y ago
Adding new features is writing new software in my book.
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by g051051 4y ago
> Our job as software engineers is not to write new software: it’s to apply changes to existing software. Well, I could stop reading right there.
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by g051051 4y ago
> It feels like every time someone gets into a new field now, there's always the expectation they'll 'go pro' or turn it into a day job. Where are you seeing this? > So is there a reason for that? Selection bias?
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by g051051 4y ago
Rereading it a few times, I think you're right.
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by g051051 4y ago
100% agreement. Agile and devops have done more to wreck software development than anything I've seen in more than 30 years in the industry.
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by g051051 4y ago
> You have people who build stuff without caring where and how it runs. Why would someone who wants to build stuff not care about where and how it runs? Operational requirements are the same as any other requirements.

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