gspencley

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by gspencley 1y ago
> Never refactor. This is literally why everyone loves objected orientated and paint themselves in a corner that blows up in their face. I try to get people to think about "write once" code as much as possible. Keep things smal
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by gspencley 1y ago
> My experience using MacOS Well there's your problem lol. I still have paid software from the 90s that I can run. And if things get really sticky due to OS incompatibilities, you can spin up an old version of an OS in a VM. The re
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by gspencley 1y ago
> "generate unit tests" is interesting? I have literally never written a unit test before and the code it produces is lengthy. Unit tests are a waste of time; but others disagree and so AI can produce it. This statement worries
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by gspencley 1y ago
The reason that I personally don't use LLMs was not addressed by the article: I haven't found a way to use it that makes me develop faster. The articles talks about "tedious code." If you need to generate a large static
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by gspencley 1y ago
> I'll stick to the best definition of art that I've heard : "if it gives you an emotion, it is art". Stubbing my little toe gives me an emotion, is that "art"? lol I would suggest that art is a method is co
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by gspencley 1y ago
There are definitely advantages to companies. As an end-user, the only advantages I can think of are data centralization and device portability. While we're talking about "webapps", generally, and not SaaS specifically... the
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by gspencley 1y ago
Feels like more curation than we had before. My wife and I recently bought a commercial space and have been trying to find contractors for renovation projects. It has kind of blown us away at how unresponsive most have been. Like, we'l
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by gspencley 1y ago
> Perhaps because Canada has english, a east coast, a west, and the great plains. There are geographical similarities but I think it is more cultural. Culturally, Canada and the USA are extremely similar. What a lot of people who don&#x2
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by gspencley 1y ago
> I'm not exactly sure why I should find a corporate entity any less centralized or unelected or not respectful of rights than a government Because corporate entities and government entities operate under radically different framewo
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by gspencley 1y ago
Not only that, but people have discovered that comments shown to you on YouTube videos are also subject to "algorithmic scoring", based on your preferences, just like video recommendations. About a year ago a video went viral wher
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by gspencley 1y ago
> I want you to think about how you would feel in a hypothetical about Chinese people. I'm not the person you are asking this question of but, after reading your comment carefully in full, I would like to answer on behalf of myself:
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by gspencley 2y ago
> Side note, as far as a job requirements goes the bigger issue is asking for impossibly diverse experience and asking for things that can be easily learnt. Really? That's the bigger issue? Company wants to pay money to someone in e
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by gspencley 2y ago
I don't dismiss any of these stories. I know that some of this is happening. But I want to share an experience that I recently had as a Canadian ACCIDENTALLY crossing into the USA. I live in a border down. There are two border crossing
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by gspencley 2y ago
> Unfortunately though it may not be such an exaggeration after all. It's probably too early to say, but there is definitely mounting evidence that some of these useful tools are literally, genuinely rotting our brains. > https:
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by gspencley 2y ago
> I think you could turn the responsibility the other way around quite as easily, and I think you're mistaken grown complexity, one that is inherent in a company's system (accidental or not), when you outline what you mean as &
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by gspencley 2y ago
> "We've decided to prioritize other candidates, as you are strong in the fundamentals but lack the kind of experience in Vue that we're looking for." I have a nuanced view of your particular example. I've been i
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by gspencley 2y ago
It's too bad that that's kind of changed. Don't get me wrong, I use LibreOffice a lot, but I kind of despise it. The biggest headache I have, with Writer - which is what I use most often - is that if I select text in order to
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by gspencley 2y ago
I also don't like this ruling from a moral point of view. I know others may disagree with me, because we obviously all value scientific research here and a lot of us don't really like social media in general, but the fact that you
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by gspencley 2y ago
> We often reach a point during refactoring where it seems like there is an easy improvement that applies to almost all cases. It’s usually better not to impose additional abstraction if it only matches “almost” all cases. Need to nit-pi
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by gspencley 2y ago
> Elegance is not a real metric While I agree with this in spirit, I once made the observation that: "Code quality can be measured by the number of occurrences of 'WTF' uttered by other developers per minute when reading a
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by gspencley 2y ago
It gets even wilder than that. There is a psychological concept called "anchoring" which associates two different things perceptually. For example, it's what happens when you listen to a song during a particular time in your
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by gspencley 2y ago
I'm another Mint user. IIRC it was when an Ubuntu update pushed the Unity DE on me that I abandoned it. And that would have been back in like 2012 or 2013 ish. The reason I use Linux in the first place is because I know what I'm g
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by gspencley 2y ago
This is preference for sure, but I am of the opinion that ALL code comments are code smells. And that's not even to say that I don't write code comments. When working on large legacy codebases, where you often need to do 'wei
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by gspencley 2y ago
> What would it even mean in practice for them to think about concrete "walking" instead of the abstract concept? Verbs are inherently abstract. Your example of the leash and the concept of "walking" is an excellent p
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by gspencley 2y ago
This speaks to an interesting question that is extremely difficult to answer: "Can pets think conceptually?" A word like "table", to a human, does not represent a concrete. It represents an abstraction, ALL tables, all t
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by gspencley 2y ago
> and so in the first you get complaints the sentencing is too harsh, and in this one you get complaints that he shouldn't have been pardoned. You can also hold both positions simultaneously without contradiction. That is to say th
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by gspencley 2y ago
While I agree with you about domestic policy, I'm not sure why it's inconsistent or hypocritical to deal with an external threat posed from those who want to destroy or harm you. The details specific to China and TikTok are kind o
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by gspencley 2y ago
> But sure, just assume it's because everyone is stupid. He didn't say everyone was stupid. He said that no body cares. There is a very big difference between the two. I tend to agree with him. Yes we can find examples, most co
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by gspencley 2y ago
> I had theory long time ago that booking hotel or airlines tickets from mac used to be more expensive than windows. I currently work remotely for a company based in California and they issue MacBooks by default to employees. We can requ
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by gspencley 2y ago
It worked for me (Brave). Shows Switzerland as the highest paying (if I had to guess it's due to the financial sector there) with the UK following close behind. Was happy to see Iceland relatively up there, I've heard there's

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