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by jes5199 6y ago
I think it’s 1. people find makefiles confusing, and if someone’s introduction to the concept is a large project they may never pick up the basics and 2. Make’s fundamental assumptions: that each command creates a single, sensible artifact
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by jes5199 6y ago
GIMP is such a strange tool. I actually have used it, semi-frequently - since the 90s! The overall experience of using it has only changed a little in that time. And it gets the job done. I guess that makes it successful! What else has been
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by jes5199 6y ago
for all those writers who find that the barrier to leaning programming is all that text editing
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by jes5199 6y ago
I've worked at some startups that were _very_ successful, despite the founders only having a couple of these skills. Number (1) Grit seems to be mandatory, the rest can be made up for by having the right team. The thing you don't
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by jes5199 6y ago
2035 is fifteen years from now, and good EVs are competative with ICE vehicles right now . I don’t see how that’s unrealistic
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by jes5199 6y ago
it seems like a lot of my career has been optimizing SQL queries in Rails apps... which is often just adding the correct indexes. Kind of a lot of Rails devs just don’t know to do that
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by jes5199 6y ago
be careful with that. if psychedelics are what is keeping your mood up for a period of months, your connection to consensus reality can get pretty weird
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by jes5199 6y ago
taking care of a small child is exhausting . the way our culture says a person can do that full time and also work full time is completely unrealistic. But the shape of it changes over time - you’re what, nine months in? that’s still the h
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by jes5199 6y ago
I just had the opposite experience - treatment resistant depression turned out to be undiagnosed ADHD!
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by jes5199 6y ago
yeah, the nest of connected lines metaphor doesn't seem to work unless you have a very simple model. I keep thinking there must be some other spacial metaphor that would be as powerful as code but engage more parts of the brain, but I
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by jes5199 6y ago
I do often feel like we’ve hit diminishing returns for our current paradigms. We employ a stunning number of people to solve minor variations on the same problems, over and over. Our applications are still mostly silos, integrations are exp
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by jes5199 6y ago
unclear to me whether we meet even your low standard
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by jes5199 6y ago
the successor to UNIX wouldn’t have to be text. like, imagine a VR world with a lot of different tools that can operate on VR objects. Then ask yourself why desktop and phone UIs are little walled-off boxes that can’t interact with anything
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by jes5199 6y ago
never heard of these also-rans
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by jes5199 6y ago
It's just not useful. The context-aware stuff is too unpredictable, and I'm never looking at the keyboard anyway so I have never learned it. So the touchbar ends up being just a replacement for the volume and brightness keys, but
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by jes5199 6y ago
in the old days MySQL + PHP became a popular combination because they both had great docs. But Oracle has let MySQL's documentation get worse and it's no longer the best
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by jes5199 6y ago
It's true! For me, PHP's docs were an amazing on-ramp to becoming a developer "I just need a function that does something like...". A lot of the language design is annoyingly inconsistent and hard to use, but even in 200
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by jes5199 6y ago
I can always tell when I'm using a Qt app on my mac, because my keyboard navigation shortcuts don't work
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by jes5199 6y ago
huh. "Open your SQL database to the world" is the thing that Rails has carefully avoided... not immediately obvious to me how this tool deals with, like, security. or any kind of data hiding.
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by jes5199 6y ago
GraphQL is so much heavier, code wise, than REST for Rails apps that it feels like a bad fit to me. Notice that these examples have created a completely parallel schema - new classes for every object in the GraphQL graph, which are analogou
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by jes5199 6y ago
I don’t know about Shopify specifically, but in general I think this is a red flag. Are you going to be able to leave honest feedback on your CEO’s PR? can your CEO run a company and also continue to keep up with best practices for your lan
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by jes5199 6y ago
his papers are quite good though, and he did a lot of writing, just not for journals
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by jes5199 6y ago
this is almost a description of a type system
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by jes5199 6y ago
yes, exactly! Anonymous functions weren't as common in other languages when Ruby first got popular, so the older Ruby devs had to learn about blocks without talking about anonymous functions, and I think they mostly haven't realiz
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by jes5199 6y ago
crypto? I thought I was being overt. Amazon’s economy of scale does capture a lot of value. The question becomes: how well does economic value align with our human values? One of my best friends mentors software development interns at Ama
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by jes5199 6y ago
the audience here tends to have more of a Computer Science background rather than a traditional Mathematics background, and HoTT feels more like a CS theory than like traditional math. When I read about the kind of reasoning that lead to ZF
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by jes5199 6y ago
I’ve completely switched to DuckDuckGo for search. I used to fall back to Google fairly frequently if the DDG results weren’t good enough, but that has gotten less and less frequent. The experience is very similar to Google in the old days
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by jes5199 6y ago
I think the point is that Uber, etc, are capitalizing on the _myth_ of SV without sharing the ethos that created it
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by jes5199 6y ago
an innovative way to become a middleman, renting people free software, re-centralizing computing power, and un-democratizing hardware
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by jes5199 6y ago
the doctors I know make less money than the programmers I know

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