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by gemstones 3y ago
True - I expect this to be outweighed by other concerns, like the incentive for HP to shrink labor costs among its more expensive employees.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Sure they do! New grads absolutely have people skills. They make silly workplace norms mistakes too, but they generally aren’t clueless about how to get along with people like you see in a lot of programmers from earlier generations.
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by gemstones 3y ago
A take on why there’s so much over 40 discrimination, and why I expect it to decline somewhat in the next decade: Imagine the crotchety (young) programmer you know. The guy who’s kind of a mild know-it-all, who gets disinvited from busines
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by gemstones 3y ago
I guess I don't typically think of things like Go's context when considering DI, but it serves conceptually the same purpose. My beef is more with the DI frameworks, I suppose.
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by gemstones 3y ago
I'm very curious to hear from someone who likes DI in a non-OOP language - why? What techniques do you use to make the level of indirection feel like a help, rather than a hindrance, in your codebase? Reading this article reminded me
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by gemstones 3y ago
Maybe in high school debate class, it is. But for established societal norms that most people can see the benefits of, someone who comes in with a fringe belief is expected to provide a more interesting answer. If someone said “correlatio
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by gemstones 3y ago
Nope! Clojurescript also has bloat, but I’m referring to the unique problems that arise with combining the two.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Funnily enough, the author is the creator of DataScript, a language which has been the source (directly or indirectly) of some of the biggest bloat/performance problems I've encountered in client side programming.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Because it’s on you to show what about the correlation makes causation unlikely, and most people don’t take that step. We all know correlation isn’t causation, that’s trite and obvious. Why wouldn’t the correlation between married parents
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by gemstones 3y ago
I have found success with having a session with the PM where the goal is not to have complete, perfect cards, but at least one ticket for every thing you can think you will need to do on the project. So you’ll have a bunch of one liner card
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by gemstones 3y ago
In my (admittedly anecdotal) experience, security people are the worst at this. I’m not sure if the problem is that they have so many certs that you can just memorize canned answers and get a job rather than go through an SWE coding test a
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by gemstones 3y ago
Being overweight is a lot less of a disadvantage in a fight than you might think.
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by gemstones 3y ago
The American midwest is relatively safe to settle in. St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Chicago in particular.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Any derivative works of AGPL-licensed software must also use the AGPL. How a court interprets "derivative" here makes a big difference, that Drew doesn't seem to effectively counter. I'm not sure why his take
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by gemstones 3y ago
You would think that companies would take the easy step of not using internal company nicknames in these press releases (Stackers.) Just “employees” would make it sound less tone deaf.
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by gemstones 3y ago
So why did the frontend engineers move on from Ruby on Rails? When I was an ROR developer, RailsCasts would tell you to do basically the same thing as HTMX, return partial HTML and use a tiny bit of JS to update the appropriate part of the
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by gemstones 3y ago
Another wrinkle - lots of web apps have a need to say, I’m going to give you one bundle of JS for this whole hostname, regardless of URL, but then have to handle getting loaded from arbitrary URLs (that may have semantic meaning for your se
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by gemstones 3y ago
Yeah - it’s a wildly different paradigm. It’s not quite the same as Erlang/OTP, but it requires a mindset shift much like learning OTP and thinking of callbacks on an event loop working together. Users can interrupt code when they wa
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by gemstones 3y ago
It’s not a problem for me! It sets a precedent, sure, but I’m okay with the tradeoff there.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Although in this case, this was a good use of government time even if it goes to the courts! I would like to see the government instill a culture of fear in these companies’ legal departments, that leaves them wondering them the law will c
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by gemstones 3y ago
As a voter, I’m OK with them not following the process on this one!
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by gemstones 3y ago
Yes it is, because this one negatively affects enough people that the law should make a special case to disallow it. Contracts are enforceable when laws say they are enforceable, but governments are free to change laws. If the government s
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by gemstones 3y ago
At one point, it wasn’t an Irish company. Now technically the American company sold or transferred its IP to the Irish company. But it did so as a fiction, to avoid taxes, and neither I nor a government I help elect are obligated to honor
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by gemstones 3y ago
Living a 5 minute walk from the office is how most humans have lived throughout history, and what most of Europe’s most pleasant cities to live in were designed to support. I know tech changes things, but if I had to guess, the era we just
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by gemstones 3y ago
There is something salient about the fact that Canonical’s culture is not one to mimic, though. What if there is something about following this advice that unwittingly selects for candidates who will make a super long and off-putting interv
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by gemstones 3y ago
I’m curious, since most people seem to take company-wide statements like this as having no implicit limitations - Why? Why would this supercede fiduciary duty? Maybe this is a real ask for managers which isn’t considered anymore after a c
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by gemstones 3y ago
If you think about the fact that higher level languages are largely a 1950s innovation, it helps. Disciplines that are 70 years old are not likely to be stable.
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by gemstones 3y ago
TBH, by some measures Japan also applies here. They do better on a lot of measures, but their parenting story is one of pushing all responsibilities onto the woman and keeping men at the office late forever. That's a different type o
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by gemstones 3y ago
Good thing they can benefit from those changes, now that we’re decades in! Can you imagine if they had to manage ARP still?
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by gemstones 3y ago
These are some very compelling bingo items - I’m not sure if sharing this card is having the intended effect (unless you wanted me to continue to think that IPv6 isn’t ready for real use?)

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