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by jalapenos 4y ago
In practice it really does mean self documenting code. Like variables called "daysSinceDocumentLastUpdated" instead of "days". The why comes from reading a sequence of such well described symbols, laid out in a easy to f
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by jalapenos 4y ago
I'd say Trump is never wrong because he's a fairly overt narcissist, and never being wrong goes with that territory. That may also be why the above figures are like that too.
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by jalapenos 4y ago
Use the channel mute feature liberally. You'll still get notified if a message tags you or your team. Out of about 50 channels I only have 5 unmuted, and it works fine. It's like being in a crowd. You don't need to know what
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by jalapenos 4y ago
Once you zoom out to the bigger picture of dozens of devs writing the code rather than yourself, its more a matter of "statistically, if I recommend functional over OOP, how simple will the code be a year from now". But granted it
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Its greatest strength I see is its simplicity. OOP gives a lot of latitude to overcomplicate solutions, and I've found it tends to obscure more obvious solutions to certain problems, e.g. reaching for inheritance to modify behaviours i
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by jalapenos 4y ago
I think posts like this illustrate why MBAs retain their power over organisations, despite the constant complaints about them by engineers. There couldn't be a greater perspective gap. The "how" is the absolute last question,
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Wouldn't this be fixed by grouping & filtering though? IRL we don't listen to such people, because we associate with people we like. Perhaps the problems would be resolved by improved ability to filter out undesirables? E.g. i
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It's probably not news that politicians aren't good upstanding people. It is nevertheless surprising that every 4 years everyone gets riled up in favor of one of them. The message "the only winning move is not to play" g
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Just thinking outside the box, if they are as you say, and the rest of the workers have been carrying them, maybe a 3rd option is distribute their stock to the remaining employees (maybe according to contribution but everyone gets some)? Wh
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It doesn't suck for it's founders, who became amazingly rich and live fantastic lives. Just the other people. It's such a fantastic lesson: it's a glorified to-do list. They got rich off a to-do list app. Focusing on the
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by jalapenos 4y ago
It's interesting and positive that the top rated comment in this thread is one in the "money isn't everything vein". Programming has made many people so well-to-do that it resonates with them above all the pricing replie
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by jalapenos 4y ago
The mere site of DOS games makes me feel so nostalgic. Takes me back to when I was a kid, sat in my room playing games from the CDs that were stuck to PCWorld magazines, on the 486 (that I nagged to get upgraded from the 386, and a CD drive
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by jalapenos 4y ago
I've had this theory for a long time that maybe the missing mass that dark matter is supposed to account for is actually antimatter (which also should theoretically exist in equal quantities to matter), due to antimatter actually havin
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Got my first job just before it hit and so got to see wholesale layoffs right at start of career. Many people I knew lost a lot of money from the market crash too. There was a much higher level of general anxiety then, which I'm not se