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by hnzix 7y ago
I've worked on a 15 person team using Perl that was actually pleasant because everyone was A grade, actively did code reviews and the two seniors were A+ and would kick your ass for bad code. But most teams aren't like that so wou
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> We replaced our monolith with microservices so that every outage could be more like a murder mystery.
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Business clobber is a lot more hassle than throwing on jeans and a t-shirt. In a formal office environment it's best to look sharp and that takes some prep time.
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Strict typing has an overhead, but the payoff is apparent when working with a large dev team of variable skill levels. People can make a mess in any language but it's easier to decode with strict typing. For lone wolf coding or rapid p
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A framework at least encourages a coherent pattern.
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There's a particular type of overly literal, pedantic geek who just cannot stand analogies or parables. It's a complete failure of abstract thinking and it drives me nuts, because analogies are a fantastic tool for communicating t
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by hnzix 7y ago
> is that a mission for the new decade? It would be nice to see a focused mission from El Goog. From the outside it feels like they incubate a bunch of random semi-competing products which are arbitrarily terminated or boosted. There&#
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> make a lot of assumptions about other peoples' domains and we're wrong a lot What do you mean this person has no surname? That's unpossible, surname is never null, error error.
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by hnzix 7y ago
With the tidal wave of hateful vitriol permeating the tubes, silly roleplay subs where people have creative harmless fun helps to restore my faith in humanity. See also: /r/thefridgelight
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/r/backrooms is an excellent subreddit devoted to real-life examples of this trope. It's surprisingly creepy.
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Honestly my 2012 MBA with 8GB RAM is still perfectly fine as my daily dev machine. Macs are expensive but if you shell out for the top specced model they can last a loooong time.
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by hnzix 7y ago
Dividing the discourse into Correct people and The Others Who Shall Be Shunned is exactly the kind of binary thinking that is killing rational discourse. You are never going to change someone's mind by shouting at them.
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Can you please link to the list of Empirically Correct Viewpoints™ so that I can identify and purge myself of thoughtcrimes?
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British Petroleum is already throwing it in the harbor for you.
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ISP logging This also happens in Oz, the government scrapes all ISP browsing metadata. I can't wait to see what happens if/when that data leaks. I'll keep using a VPN thanks.
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> Radical vulnerability is the only way forward. With the new "always recorded" culture any unscripted behavior can be edited out of context by malicious actors. I used to work with journalists who media trained corporate spo
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by hnzix 7y ago
Late 70s early 80s is a cusp microgeneration called Xennials or Orgeon Trail, sharing traits of both GenX and Millenials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
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We are entering a time of prim moral panic that echoes the temperance movement and the prohibition era. I don't even bother discussing controversial ideas anymore because apparently there is now a list of approved viewpoints and one is
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I use Dreamweaver all the time. It's actually a full-blooded static site generator, two decades before that was trendy. And marketing can use the visual editor to make it a content management system.
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The corporate Standard Operating Environment grinds slowly and not particularly fine.
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> on-prem And then the Question2Answer app is never updated by infra, it falls 402 releases behind mainline, and gradually becomes unusable due to constant crashes. The company then spends ten times the install cost for an external con
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> There's also the fact that outright bans on semi-automatic rifles are an untenable proposal, because they're too legitimately useful to some subsets of civilians I mean, they banned semi-auto rifles in Oz after a mass shoot
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Calvin peeing on the MSIE logo and a 3D dancing baby.
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In between the SV hivemind posts is distributed just enough nuggets of mindblowing technical, business and even medical wisdom (from insanely switched-on people) that it keeps me checking. It's the ultimate infovore loot box.
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Telling addicts they "just need more willpower" is condescending and worthless advice.
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Have you tried vaping using those e-cigs that look realistic, have a light up tip, and deliver a reasonable throat hit? For me the addiction was partly psychological around the form factor. Using "light sabre" style vapes didn&#x2
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An isolated homesteader's lifestyle would be vastly different to a medieval village community.
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I miss being able to see up vs downvotes per post. With only the total displayed, it feels like only the hivemind opinion wins out.
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> because you’re doing something the whole time." Exactly, while the elapsed time might not be much different there is less context switching so it's easier to stay in flow state.
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It's possible to both accept climate change and to legitimately be concerned about the hazards of nuclear power.

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