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by ionforce 11y ago
Such a fascinating article. 1) It makes the brain sound like a Kafka queue that kept growing but never had any consumers, until his tumor was removed. 2) It's interesting how there was a disconnect between his active consciousness and
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by ionforce 11y ago
Because they're about principle and can't stand losing that few megabytes of space on an app they'll never run anyway.
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by ionforce 11y ago
So do software engineers typically live alone in London or no?
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by ionforce 11y ago
Why isn't this already done?
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by ionforce 11y ago
If working with remotes was so easy, don't you think people would have done it more by now? Clearly there are benefits (worth to many people) of being collocated.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Being able to write "good Perl" doesn't speak to the likelihood of such being created; writing good Perl is an uphill battle at the cost of self-discipline, which is finite.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Is "Adjective Fallacy" actually a thing or just something invented by this article? Such a poor headline.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Gold star for honesty.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Don't scripting languages typically not exhibit the problems that Rust attempts to address?
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by ionforce 11y ago
If you're experiencing some sort of mismatch with your model, it means that your model is incorrect.
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by ionforce 11y ago
It's articles like this that give Perl a bad reputation.
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by ionforce 11y ago
All of this stuff takes effort. That people aren't willing to expend.
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by ionforce 11y ago
What is absurd about it?
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by ionforce 11y ago
> How exactly do you think more "heads-up time" would improve the situation? The delta would be marginal. People just love to complain about change.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Would such a thing even be sustainable? Forks are free. Good, maintained, used forks are another.
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by ionforce 11y ago
It's like the coefficient of friction. The amount of force required to move an object at rest is greater than the amount of force required to maintain it already moving (or something like that).
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by ionforce 11y ago
As a recent convert to functional programming, I'd like to point out that more functional styles of error handling helps one address them more properly and not sweep them under the rug. This ties into the article's first point abo
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by ionforce 11y ago
If they're easy to solve, why hasn't that been done already?
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by ionforce 11y ago
But when you HAVE found a framework bug, it's both delicious and infuriating.
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by ionforce 11y ago
I very rarely use git bisect, but the times I have were pretty fun. And yes, it requires the type of commit history that I find not many people have the discipline to produce.
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by ionforce 11y ago
> there's nothing wrong with not having it clean. Untrue.
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by ionforce 11y ago
What's wrong with having a clean commit history? I think it's something people take too lightly.
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by ionforce 11y ago
The one thing I remember about Goldman Sachs is that they have their own collections library for Java.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Some companies, like Twitter and Facebook, are doing this development pattern of mono repo... So even if there are architectural lines to be found, they are eschewing that in favor of keeping versions and APIs closer together. I can't
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by ionforce 11y ago
Try it, see what happens. And then write a Hacker News article about it.
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by ionforce 11y ago
In my experience, more specifically with talks about functional programming techniques. I find them completely impenetrable.
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by ionforce 11y ago
It's that whole 80/20 thing. Most features of products go unused. So Chrome has finally reached a level of maturity where it can concentrate on rarely used features.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Have a really crappy, coarse-grained visual format. Dark squares to communicate bits.
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by ionforce 11y ago
Well at least we know she was someone principle. Also, terrible management? "You disagree with me? You're fired."
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by ionforce 11y ago
A lot of people are looking to be offended these days.

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