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by jghn 2y ago
As a player in the 80s and as someone who was just a kid, we all assumed it meant attractiveness despite the explanation in either PHB or DMG that someone like Hitler would have had a high charisma. And then they went and added the comeline
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by jghn 2y ago
GP did say that they wish to redefine the TDD term. So yes, they would agree that what they're proposing isn't currently what TDD implies. Although I'd like to think telling people that they should have tests requires an ac
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by jghn 2y ago
Besides the obvious that there needs to be some sort of cutoff, it's more of a socioeconomic angle, not economic. By doing it this way it also encourages a larger geographic distribution and thus a wider range of background demographic
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by jghn 2y ago
I was not part of the survey but count me as someone who felt concern whenever I had to say it in a public or professional setting.
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by jghn 2y ago
based on what amw-zero stated, they're using it in the formal QC sense like ISO9001. In that context the two words have distinct meanings. I do agree that colloquially they can be used in different ways, but as we're talking about
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by jghn 2y ago
Yes. And the post you're replying to is pointing out that that would be part of `Validation` to decide. Verification is confirming the software meets the spec. Validation is confirming that the software meets the actual desired behavio
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by jghn 2y ago
> Most software in the world is boring, stagnant, legacy code Honestly as I get older I find myself starting to look to that world in a more appealing light. Call it the tech version of Barrista FIRE but there's a certain appeal to
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by jghn 2y ago
Most companies have a similar profile. There's an up-or-out phase and then there's some level where it no longer matters. Because titles are all over the place it's hard to predict what that level is. But it roughly translate
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by jghn 2y ago
You're not wrong but this is overly reductive. In other words this is more of a sliding scale and not a step function centered on 10-15 years ago. For instance I was a CS undergrad in the mid/late-90s. There was an enormous differ
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by jghn 2y ago
For sure. I think we're channeling similar sentiments. Obviously there is *some* amount of objectivity here. No one is going to look at a million lines of Brainfuck code and say "this is easy to grok". it's just that the
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by jghn 2y ago
In Russia people "fall out the window" all the time. It is intentional. We need to adjust.
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by jghn 2y ago
The claim is that remote work is bad because it's hard to tell if someone is really doing work. If I'm on site and fucking around, unless you're actively watching my screen how would you know? The point is that I reject this
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by jghn 2y ago
> Maybe the lesson is that familiarity can be highly subjective. Over the years I've come to firmly believe that readability is highly subjective. And familiarity is a key contributor to that, but not the only one. There are oth
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by jghn 2y ago
How do you know the person in the office hasn’t outsourced their work and they’re just sitting there looking busy?
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by jghn 2y ago
For longer functions vs bouncing between smaller functions my experience has been that this is one of those things where people are one way or the other. And they almost never change their preference. If your coworkers are all the same as y
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by jghn 2y ago
Yes. I eyeballed it at roughly 9% earlier and rounded up. My point stands. We're already pretty much in the ballpark of what GP cited.
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by jghn 2y ago
SP500 is already down 10% in the last month
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by jghn 2y ago
You're not wrong. And yet he's polling well. And as long as people poll surface level questions like "do you like that he's cutting things?" he gets general support. Drill into specific topics item by item and it&#x
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by jghn 2y ago
> the recent proposal to change the word "mother" to "inseminated person" in Wisconsin state law Life gets easier once one realizes that talking points like this are at best missing all important context, if not outr
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by jghn 2y ago
There's still an enormous number of edits they need to make. I don't remember the exact number they said but I believe it was in the several hundred to low thousands range. Meanwhile the rest of the world is mostly focusing on &qu
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by jghn 2y ago
As an older developer who lately has been pairing with early career developers, I've been noticing lately how often wisdom comes into play. It feels like close to a daily occurrence where I suggest something is the cause, then later I&
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by jghn 2y ago
As someone in the US who generally likes VWs and is interested in an EV as their next car, but who also finds the ID4 way too big this car has my attention.
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by jghn 2y ago
I have (at least) 2 laptops at any given time. They fit into 2 categories: 1) Is 99% of the time actually on my lap when I'm using it. It's (usually) the one I take with me when I leave the house. I care very, very much about its
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by jghn 2y ago
Yep. Unless I'm using search functionality, if I don't have a mechanism to view only accounts I already predesignated *and* the ability to sort chronologically: I almost never use that site. As much as people whine about algorithm
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by jghn 2y ago
Yeah I'm holding out that they've decided to just refresh the small form factor on a slower cadence. I also have a 13 mini, we'll see how long I can hold out.
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by jghn 2y ago
* People who have been left behind by Apple's push towards phablets
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by jghn 2y ago
This is an interesting point. I was a heavy USENET user for several years before finding Slashdot. With /. I found myself rarely going to the source link and almost never reading the editorial commentary. I'd go straight to the co
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by jghn 2y ago
I always assumed that the new reddit UI was more for app based usage than browser. And there is/was a hope to steer more people towards using the app. I also assume they are smart enough to realize that some people will simply never us
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by jghn 2y ago
> It’s because the small dozens of us that care about the freedom that the small internet afforded vs algorithmic content discovery is now the minority and no big platform cares about us. This. I see people whine all the time about being
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by jghn 2y ago
> But it seems like nobody really cares. Speaking for myself it's because old.reddit is still available. I loathe the new reddit after all this time. If they nuke old reddit my usage would go down quite a bit.

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