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by henning 4y ago
This is like every article about not being able to find people to do the work: the salaries ARE SHIT. This is exactly the same as articles about shortages of infosec and COBOL people.
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by henning 4y ago
Small mechanical and 3D-printed parts. Lockpicking kits, custom engraved objects.
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by henning 4y ago
Won't someone PLEASE think of shareholder value
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by henning 4y ago
Doing mobile ad IRR modeling spreadsheets, tweaking ad copy to rank higher in search engines, and other business-y MBA crap is easier than actually building a good game, especially if you don't actually like games and are just getting
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by henning 4y ago
If you have a culture around a language that supports code generation (like Go) or has reflection/bytecode generation mechanisms (like Python and Java) you can still achieve the ultimate goal of reducing tedious boilerplate code that L
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by henning 4y ago
Why? It's just going to be the same shit everywhere else, except now the timer on your RSUs is reset.
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by henning 4y ago
Yes. Ownership of questions like "Are you building the right thing?" is explicitly delegated to product managers/owners/whatever the fuck they're called at your company. Software engineers have almost no say over th
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by henning 4y ago
It looks like the Time Cube guy got a job in advertising.
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by henning 4y ago
Is it helpful to point out the same issues that have already been pointed out and discussed many times before yet again? No. Is it helpful to have this come from someone who is a reactionary fascist like Lunduke? No.
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by henning 4y ago
> Unlike gold which can be mined in the trillions from asteroids. Congratulations, this is the stupidest thing I've read on Hacker News. Asteroid mining is not feasible and may never be. If an argument was valid in 2014 and the logi
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by henning 4y ago
I'm sure the creditors will happily accept payment in Bitcoin in lieu of cash. it's dIgItAL gOlD except the digital gold can be copied and pasted to make a new kind of digital gold that is identical to the other gold, completely u
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by henning 4y ago
DevOps is sysadmins making unreliable continuous integration/delivery/deployment tools out of bash scripts, YAML files, and webhooks, which are in some ways inferior to things Heroku did 10 years ago.
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by henning 4y ago
SQLite bucks the trend of modern software by becoming faster and better over time rather than slower and worse like pretty much everything else.
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by henning 4y ago
Wouldn't be the first time Goldman made money off assets they knew were worthless dog shit that will eventually go to zero.
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by henning 4y ago
AFAIK this is not how you actually sell tech products. You have to learn about what a customer does and what problems they're having. You cater your pitch to what you learn about their needs. If you just launch into a scripted speech r
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Number Jokes(youtube.com)
1 points by henning 4y ago|0 comments
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There are many books that focus specifically on this. Have a look at titles like https://www.amazon.com/Book-Proof-Richard-Hammack/dp/0989472... .
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by henning 4y ago
The original Rails demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY Everyone went nuts when this dropped in 2004.
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by henning 4y ago
> Vale requires to have a .vale.ini config file Having to provide a configuration file for every little fucking thing and completely refusing to have any set of reasonable defaults when you install a package is the worst part of Neovim.
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by henning 4y ago
That kind of reasoning only makes sense if any of the exchanges are driven by actual exchanges of goods or services rather than just speculation. It's unconnected to physical commodities just like fiat currency, controlled by an unacco
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Where the Real Chip Shortage Is(youtube.com)
2 points by henning 4y ago|0 comments
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> If you’re writing Ruby code to turn your blog drafts into HTML, it doesn’t much matter if republishing takes a few extra seconds Unless your software is intended to reload blog posts live like Hugo/Jekyll/other static site ge
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by henning 4y ago
The city planners made housing unaffordable by design. They chose office space over housing. They made it so that getting lunch downtown costs at least $20. Now they'll choke on used needles and urine. Good riddance.
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by henning 4y ago
Did you use compose.ai to write this post?
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by henning 4y ago
> engineers like complexity. Admit it: as much as we complain about other people’s complexity, we love our own No. Speak for yourself. I am happiest when my solution to a problem is simplest. I am least happy when a solution requires int
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by henning 4y ago
Web developers who assume everyone has a MacBook Pro or a phone made in the last 2 years and broadband like them don't give a fuck about folks like OP. They think computers are still "doubling in speed every two years."
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by henning 4y ago
Mario Odyssey on the Nintendo Switch. Basically any of the major Mario games like Mario 64, Sunshine, Galaxy.
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by henning 4y ago
These lists are a great way to produce a big list of strawmen that most programmers don't actually believe. They should have picked statements that are often true or true in certain situations so that they are "false" in the
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Thank you for demonstrating that solving a problem you don't have creates a problem you definitely do have.
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> I’ll go for the more performant solution, even if it’s awkward or unintuitive. He said the quiet part loud. D'oh! If the APIs being called are slow as shit, your SPA won't be any faster than just refreshing the entire page. A

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