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by galdosdi 4y ago
Just the opposite. What this would normalize is app developers no longer be able to depend on location data being accurate, which would destroy the location data sales market by turning it into a market for lemons. What you propose, simply
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by galdosdi 4y ago
To be fair, as long as cheap grain exports are available (although lately that's been in question), a weird situation has become possible where developing countries have been able to leapfrog past agricultural modernization, abandon th
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Yeah, Elbonia was meant to represent a generic poor (at the time in the early 1990s) eastern European country that corporate America might be interested in outsourcing work to for cost savings. Other than the name sounding like Estonia and
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by galdosdi 4y ago
1 square mile is 640 acres, so this is very close to an average 1 acre per person, or perhaps 4 acres for a 4-person household.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
It was the turn of the century. Internet streaming radio was the new thing. You needed an expensive server to host it ($100+/month). I was a teenager with no money that wanted to run an internet radio station. So I figured out how to h
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Something like ruby is great for WRITING greenfield code. But without static typing, diving into and maintaining an existing codebase that you just got hired on to deal with becomes a lot more stressful. And that's why there's sti
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I think, as OP alludes, ultimately explorability is the heart of the problem that stops people from writing code this way. If you don't care about other people being able to read and explore your code without a lot of preperation, you
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> As someone with no personal experience farming, the switch from say ox drawn to horse drawn plows, or from two field to three field systems might seem to be no big deal, but for an agricultural society they were very much revolutions.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that&#
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Let me strongly disagree, although I get where you're coming from for sure, and I get that my opinion is contrarian so I hope you'll give it a chance by reading my full rationale: What about when the JS is minified and/or obf
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Sigh, this is cynical but I've seen that sort of thing too and it really bums you out. When you're in an environment where this kinda crap isn't well understood it becomes frustrating, you end up feeling like you're rewa
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You still don't! I was speculating :)
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Agreed, TS lasting is really about JS lasting. I'm not so sure, but I'm also kind of biased because I do wish JS would go away, so I'm probably trying to look for ways it could happen. Realistically it will probably be around
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Everything you said would happen, I saw happpen. I literally witnessed this. I started my career at a company that sold a graphical programming product. It's exactly the typical "no code" thing described elsewhere. Nodes and
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by galdosdi 4y ago
If I made a tool that was good for large codebases, I'd demo it by making a video ostensibly demonstrating someone unfamiliar with a large codebase reading a simple JIRA ticket for the first time and then using the IDE/language&#x
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I think this is very right. We have only scratched the surface in terms of creatively experimenting with the IDE UI to give the developer more ways to quickly explore and refactor code. Text in/text out is a serious loss in fidelity fr
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Indeed! It's a really interesting usage. Maybe it developed in a similar way as "badass" to convey a sense of (positive, approved) vaguely dangerous wildness and coolness. It kind of makes sense here -- Hetzner's competi
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by galdosdi 4y ago
FWIW I got this way thanks to a stint in the sysadmin/support/operations world at the start of my career. I wonder if trying to give juniors similar experiences might help jumpstart the process of getting this kind of intuition. W
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Oh! Good catch, sorry. This is still quibbling about details though. EVs are clearly here to stay.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
It appreciates, but you still need a place to live, so you can't ever actually access that value by selling or renting it out. The best you can do is borrow against it, which is a nice option, but doesn't actually give you anythin
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> "It's quite clear that TypeScript is going to be around forever" Haha that really is wild. It was just a blink of an eye ago that Ruby was the big thing and now when do you ever hear about it? I see TypeScript being arou
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The Bolt is about $26k. I looked it up last night while fantasizing about car purchases. I guess the Leaf is more expensive now, oops? Not sure why my point wouldn't still stand? The new car shortages are real but I don't see how
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Allowing? They've encouraged it by creating a system where there is very little relationship between what gets you promoted and what is good for your business unit. That's why you have 13 failed exciting messaging apps, all of whi
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Look, if I can ‘crack the coding interview’, then I can certainly crack ‘how to do as little work as possible and stack paper to the ceiling while my stock vests’. What's worse, many of the jaded people going through the motions p
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The opposite of Chesterton's fence is "traffic cones" in my lexicon. As in, "put some traffic cones around that hack" meaning make sure there is a comment or appropriate error message or something that will make it
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Bingo. Nothing about a "recession" makes it easier or harder for upper management to manage performance. If they were good at it before they're good at it now and if they were bad at it before, they're not going to sudde
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I don't see what the problem is. (1) HOME CHARGING. In sparser areas where people live in houses with garages, duplexes, and even to some degree rowhouses, it's easy to run an extension cord and get a full charge nightly. (2) STOR
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by galdosdi 4y ago
And it doesn't take very many people to do it.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Or entry level Developer in Test (takes no less skill actually, but it's less desirable) or entry level sysadmin or tech support, even helpdesk etc. This is what people were doing in the last recession. If you are good at coding, tech
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by galdosdi 4y ago
My definitions: (1) Can you get things done unattended in the long term? If no, you are junior, if yes, you are not. (2) Can you take charge of figuring out what things even should be done? If so, you are senior, if no, you are not. (If you

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