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by gorpomon 9y ago
This post (and the one by Jessica Kerr) has inspired a new witticism for my LinkedIn profile: "A 10X engineer after my destructive behavior has caused most of your team to quit."
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by gorpomon 9y ago
"Quotes are not arguments. Quotes don't begin to convey the real cost and toll of working for a wage that can't support basic needs and services, let alone an indulgence, which all lives occasionally need. Quotes in no way ca
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by gorpomon 9y ago
Here's my two cents as someone who's taught coding and also taught literacy for adults. My gut feeling is that it will be hard to make work. Learning to code takes a long time (a bootcamp is 11 - 17 weeks at 60hrs a week, so 660 -
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by gorpomon 9y ago
I surfed without JS on for a long time. I found that it made the web very very pleasant! What totally breaks is when you do a complicated bank transfer or work on some older site. They often transfer you across multiple domains, so whitelis
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by gorpomon 9y ago
Just shared this with a friend who could use some help in this dept. I think with products like this, the first instinct is to play up the potential "ick" factor, or to view it as Silicon Valley enabling the idea of privileged peo
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by gorpomon 9y ago
Like a few others here, I just had to onboard to a project as well. I made a lot of mistakes, but learned a lot. Mistake 1 - Was too focused on committing code and getting my first PR merged. I wanted to prove I could commit code quickly, a
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by gorpomon 9y ago
I love the idea, I think this is great for small projects and for getting your feet wet with build tools. Is adding React and ES6 part of the roadmap at all. Those are quickly becoming project defaults that would be nice to have.
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by gorpomon 10y ago
I was listening to Dan Savage today, and he mentioned that the racism of Trump is nothing new, we did it with Catholics, Irish, Chinese, Italians, it seems most every nationality got it's brief turn as the "other". His point
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by gorpomon 10y ago
The last line of this piece is: > And become a goddam profession. Hurray? What do we gain by becoming a profession? I guess we get 9 to 5 work, conferences, meetings and boredom. Sounds like we're a profession already, but I guess n
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by gorpomon 10y ago
I've been in your exact situation- very nice, laid back people, but who are boring and have no desire to really improve or change things. It sucks, I feel for you. Remember to respect the balance. What if you were on the opposite team?
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by gorpomon 10y ago
The 15 laws succinctly: Do what is simplest, and remember, everyone is attacking you with stupidity. Most of your simple work will be done quickly, a small amount will be done in the time remaining. You will think you are better at doing al
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by gorpomon 10y ago
The author makes two decent points: 1. Javascript popularity is tied to web popularity 2. Web popularity is shrinking But he makes it in such a histrionic way that it's hard to focus on that over his bombast. You can sound the alarms o
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by gorpomon 10y ago
Honestly, 1 hour a week is not enough. I do 1 hour every morning and have benefitted tremendously from it. Before you scoff that I must not have enough work, note that I've developed and built several large web applications for my fort
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by gorpomon 10y ago
This argument seems decent enough, but a couple of things come to mind. 1. Wouldn't multiple HTTP requests be just as slow? (especially if you're on a slow cellular connection, which I am at a coffee shop). Are there any benchmark
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by gorpomon 11y ago
A minimum wage is moral. It ensure that you and I do not enter into an employment agreement where one side excessively benefits. The government as third party is ensuring we have minimum amount of fairness in our interaction. The right-wing
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by gorpomon 11y ago
On paper (or blog), having a candidate write code for an interview is better than a BS whiteboard session. In practice, it means I spent 20 hours on my last piece of sample code I submitted to a job I was excited about. Only to be told no t
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by gorpomon 11y ago
It's heart breaking watching the UK walk further and further away from liberalism.
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Ask HN: What's the current state of XSS attacks?
8 points by gorpomon 11y ago|2 comments