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by gonyea 10y ago
Yes, I did. There's a lot of people who will ignore his caveat and try to use these optimizations where they don't belong. I see it a lot and it's painful. Hence the "throw it out the window" advocacy.
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by gonyea 10y ago
Yes, yes, yes, yes. I am SO TIRED of seeing pre-optimizations from people who should know better. These optimizations are a neat FYI. But they do not belong anywhere near the business logic of a production app. If you have a massive app (do
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by gonyea 10y ago
Exactly right. The "big picture" argument is nonsense. The whole reason abstractions exist is so you can focus on solving problems with a minimal understanding of the minutia. That's how a "real programmer" does it,
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by gonyea 10y ago
Shocking! Google's started supporting more languages than just the ones they care about. I really hope this signals the death of their disdain culture. Being a worthwhile Cloud provider means hiring experts in all sorts of languages an
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by gonyea 10y ago
Truffle is very exciting! Ive used JRuby in production as far back as 2011 and I've been extremely happy with it.
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by gonyea 10y ago
This reminds me of my main concern with GraphQL, namely that I could never find a good example showing how you weave security within a request. The examples I saw made me feel uncomfortable. Like, the client requests progressed further than
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by gonyea 10y ago
Google's largely moved away from those BS questions. They just bias towards people who memorize answers on Leetcode, but aren't actually capable of producing anything.
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by gonyea 10y ago
Weak straw man. You're terrible at making arguments. Shoo.
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by gonyea 10y ago
Expert? No. But I did work with many industry experts while at Honda. I've heard plenty on the topic of engines/mpg. Thanks for playing!
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by gonyea 10y ago
I forgot that this was Hacker News, where "Serial Entrepreneurs" moonlight as leading experts in automotive engineering.
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by gonyea 10y ago
Uh, wat. Honda engines are insanely efficient. I doubt this guy knows anything that Honda/Toyota doesn't. Honda could easily give you a 100mpg car, if it weren't for those meddling kids at the NHTSA. Damn them and their stupi
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by gonyea 10y ago
In other news, Boston Dynamics announces their latest pivot.
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by gonyea 10y ago
Do not work a second job. You'll do neither job well and will never move up or be seen as reliable. You'll also burn yourself out. To make over $250k, the more common path is to make (roughly) what you're making now and get t
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by gonyea 10y ago
A lot of people never received that memo, sadly.
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by gonyea 10y ago
Your complaint is more about implicit vs. explicit. Implicit behavior is bad when it's surprising. When it's what you would have done anyway, then making it explicit creates an unthinking, tedious ceremony that you repeat daily. S
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by gonyea 10y ago
It's not hiding anything, other than the conventions. Django's spammy boilerplate is just default behavior.
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by gonyea 10y ago
This isn't a Rails gripe. He only seems to know Ruby/Rails and lashes out at it. Frameworks = Lots of abstraction. At least the abstractions in Rails aren't leaky.
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by gonyea 10y ago
You don't need to sabotage competing tech companies. They sabotage themselves just fine. - Byzantine hiring practices. Create engineering teams that are 95% new college grads. They're the only ones who'll suffer your BS, whil
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by gonyea 10y ago
The Bubble talk is getting old. There's far, far more real money in the Bay Area than "dumb money." Amazon will double WalMart's valuation this year. WalMart is desperately pumping money into their new Sunnyvale tech off
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by gonyea 11y ago
CSV.open also uses a file handle (and takes a block). So File.open would be redundant. A fun hack is to use the threach library (threaded each) on the CSV object. Used with JRuby you can run on all cores to quickly process a large file, whi
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by gonyea 11y ago
I hate squashing branches. There's a lot of value in commit messages; they're educational and are a form of documentation. It's on the developer to squash the "oops" commits, during a rebase, rewriting the commit me
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by gonyea 11y ago
Stop thinking about "overkill". It's such a foolish pre-optimization. If sometching helps you solve a problem quickly, just run with it.
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by gonyea 11y ago
Commit your node_modules to source control. I've saved myself repeatedly by not putting node_modules in the project's gitignore. - All developers on a project are in sync. - You can get the repo back into a good state if npm choke
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by gonyea 11y ago
Senior Devs can copy and paste from StackOverflow and have it work on the first try. It's a art.
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by gonyea 11y ago
Modularity and test coverage. Also: garbage data makes every aspect of your business a living hell. Clean data throughly before storing it and migrate data as business rules change. You should be able to make A LOT of assumptions about your
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by gonyea 11y ago
This is the result of the federal government (congress) abdicating its responsibility during the recession. They allowed state budget cuts to affect education, and to this day schools are doing everything they can to bridge the gap from ove
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by gonyea 11y ago
I utterly loathe using em units. Rem is better, but px are nice and locked down. Em's are neat in theory, but reasoning about them after the CSS has solidified is so tedious. Em units begin to feel like a weather app telling you today&
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by gonyea 11y ago
Oh man, that's great. I miss KCRW so bad after moving to the Bay Area from LA.
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by gonyea 11y ago
That'd be quite the pivot.
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by gonyea 11y ago
Should go for "yjobinator.io" instead :)

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