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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Siddhartha is there, not sure about the others. https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/hermann-hesse/siddhartha/g... Edit: I thought you meant "recommend to add" vs. "these are available and I recom
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
It definitely could be the case that my last point and GP's last point overlap to some extent. I read it (with the sentence before it) more as a claim that certain characteristics aren't factors when it comes to "greatness&qu
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I appreciated the first 90% of your comment, and consider the picture of greatness you painted therein something to aspire to. Deep thoughtfulness, personal responsibility, craftsmanship, and virtuosity are all traits I hope to one day embo
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
An old coworker (Vim user) of mine had a good response to another coworker who asked him "why don't you use an IDE?": "I do, it's called Linux."
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Vim and Emacs minimize magic, modern monolithic IDEs maximize magic. I think there is fundamentally no good reason why an IDE should be provided as one gigantic tool, because that's not how software works . You could say Vim and Emacs
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I guess I agree the word "must" is maybe too far, but I'd hardly go so far as to say it satisfies the requirements for "dogmatic BS".
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
The pdf version is 67 pages, hardly something only a giant company could afford to read, and the rest of this comment falls apart once you notice this detail.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
> I call BS on dogmatic rules like that. Good architecture is analysing the requirements at hand and explicitly articulating and weighting the trade-offs. This is quite the straw-man argument. For example, the section [1] whose title you
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
For the same reason as if it had said “I recently got a React dev job which mostly consists of writing Kubernetes deployments.” It sounds like the beginning of an article which uses buzzwords without a lot of depth.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
> I recently got a DevOps job that mostly involves writing a new backend system in Go completely from scratch. If this wasn't on the front page of HN I'd have stopped reading here, but it is, so I didn't, then I regretted
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I in general agree with most of your points in this thread and disagree with the claim that you've been disrespectful (to GP and to the Aztecs :)), but I do think there's an interesting and important space between your idea re. Az
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Related: I'm looking for essentially the same product as OP but with the additional requirement that it's hackable. I'm trying to build a device that can play and record audio with a single hardware button that toggles betwee
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I don't have specific references on hand, but I'm pretty sure that your wager would be ill-begotten. Studies have shown that simply abstaining from distraction takes mental energy (for lack of a better term) and reduces performanc
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
> It is extremely unlikely you can convince anybody outside a country of (3) without some intervening international body, so the "crypto economy" replacing currency to fight an authoritarian regime is practically never going to
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I can’t help but take this chance to recommend Guy Gavriel Kay’s Sailing to Sarantium . It’s an absolute masterpiece of a novel set in Byzantium just after the Nika Riots; the chariot races and Blue/Green dynamic play a big role in th
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
> I have a bug, I'm frigging anxious, I gotta GO GO GO as fast as I can to find out what it is already, and you think now is the time to type parens, commas and quotation marks?! Fuck you! By which I mean to say, short code is impor
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I completely agree that his attitude for parts of this video is cringey, but Feynman is famous for (among other things) his ability to simplify and communicate complex ideas. Feynman diagrams are the perfect example of this. Edit: I guess m
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I don't know about selling clicks in general but, for me, that headline is even more compelling. Corporate executives' salaries are canonically justified by the fact that they're tied to the success of the corporation. If exe
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Is the rest marketing bullshit because of insurmountable technical challenges or is it because you have to __trust__ the VPN service? I.e. if I were to somehow think up a business model that included some novel level of transparency, could
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
Oh no. They say you shouldn't meet your heroes, but now I think it might be just as important to never learn which editor they use.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I agree that maintaining comments is difficult and that they tend to drift. A good way to mitigate this problem is to explicitly include checking comments as part of the code review process. I'm not saying you did this, but I think tha
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I think they can in fact all be "so, so, important". Maintaining a large, long-living, complicated codebase is a genuinely difficult problem involving a plethora of actually critical components and processes.
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
In my experience the engineers who write good commit messages are also the engineers who read them and also the engineers who understand their value and also the best engineers on a team. Your argument that "most engineers don't c
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I don’t know many details, but he’s been using Java for 10 years or so, and he’s not particularly interested in the new hotness. 10ish years ago I asked him how to learn to code and I know he in turn asked his brother, who’s a tad younger a
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
My grandpa is ~75, started programming professionally in his early 20s, and currently works as an engineer for the University of Utah, so my hunch is that there’s more people with 50+ years of software engineering experience than you might
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
This is correct. Every headset I’ve purchased has had this feature, but I’ve only purchased gaming headsets. Edit: this is the headset https://www.astrogaming.com/en-us/products/headsets/a10-gen-... Also, thi
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
I can mute my headset using a switch on the headset itself. So this project turns a key on your keyboard into such a switch?
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by idolaspecus 6y ago
If I’m not mistaken, the hollowed out book in which Neo keeps his illegal floppy disk is Simulacra and Simulation .