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by john_the_writer 2y ago
It was a niche for a time, but now it's way more a general purpose lang. Where it shines now is in it's width and depth. There are thousands of well documented libraries built by millions of dev's. If you want to do something
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
If you can give your kid the best food, and best education, you'd give it. Give them the best life you can. Give them the best chance.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Who could have seen this coming.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
But for Hockey it's not a case of handedness.. Sticks come in both hands. So it's as if you had a pile of left and right handed guitars.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Fountain pen. They make some of the best in the world, and if you treat it right it will last your whole life. I've got one that's almost 15 years old. I fill it when it's empty and it's the only pen I use. From an env
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What mana based magic skills do people have IRL?
2 points by john_the_writer 2y ago|0 comments
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
This only works if your commit in a green state. Sometimes we have to change when things are still "Yellow".. I tend to add all my tests in one go and commit the RED. "tests are written" Then as I pass each test, I com
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
the comments about "why is this necessary" can be handled with a decent PR template, and a comment. What I tend to do is make the changes locally with different commits and then cherry pick the refactor into a PR branch and wait f
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Agreed.. this " I could not ignore the fact that any "really!!!" bad actor could use the same infrastructure to avoid investigation/prosecution," could be dependant on what you personally see as bad actor. Would bei
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
2 apples + 2 apples = 4 apples. No human intervention needed, and not slightly wrong.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Passing tests is not useless. It shows knowledge at the level of the test. I write tests for my code and when they fail I know I have to change something. If you're finishing a math test and not passing, then you don't have the s
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Agreed.. All the co-pilot devs where I work are the juniors. Most of us just type the code we want.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
How has Musk owning twitter changed it in a bad way? And cutting 80% of your ounces in backpacking makes a difference. If cutting 80% of your ounces changes so little about your backpacking trip that you don't notice a decline in enj
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
His book is a great read. Had me laughing out of the box.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Waist of time.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I'll be honest. I hated it. Any book that contains the text "obviously ..." loses my trust. I can't respect an author who's too lazy to make his point. He used it quite a few times in the beginning of the book. &
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Joel on software hasn't been mentioned. It's a great book. Might be a bit dated, but it's a super fun read, and smart.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Tailwinds screams this to me.. It's inline style with but different. No no.. it's composable classes.. So it's scss. A tech that's nearly 20 years old. I find it funny that most of the hype is around fixing a problem th
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I have a note on my desk "If there is a bad tech option." It's a reminder not to get mad when my boss or their boss decides something stupid. Like using GraphQL to upload large amounts of data. Or deciding a 5 person team
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The law of bad tech decisions
2 points by john_the_writer 2y ago|1 comments
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Something to keep in mind.. If you're traveling to Canada or Aus, then your 4th don't count. Same with all the other amendments. And with the data sharing, there's nothing stopping Canada from sharing with the US.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
I travel with a dumb phone. I do this because if I get mugged, I'm out something I don't care about. I wear a tin wedding ring when travelling too. I've been asked for my phone at customs, and I just hand over the "noki
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
My friend wrote in Cobol until the day he retired. Every couple years management would spin up a project to replace the Cobol part. He and his team would consult. In the end he would just use the project to set his watch.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
This was what I was thinking.. Moving something from rails to elixir as a copy-pasta wouldn't give you the things elixir is great at. You'd just get MVC.. No use of OTP or Services. When I was at Uni I wrote an app for a Java cou
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Sadly ISP's won't support this without an arm and leg. Small businesses can jump onto Cloud, but no way they can self host. Even getting a email provider that gets past spam is really hard.
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
It's a scale difference. If you're making bread product for a million people you have a massive factory.. And nuts be there
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
What I wonder all the time is why jamming isn't a think in schools. Have it on a fire-alarm system. Fire alarm on.. jammer off
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
Police force? FireFighter? Do they have to lift the same? If you're hiring to fill out a 4 person tech team and you've got 3 men, and a quota 50% male/female split, would you say men have an equal chance at the job. Or less
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
What? If you look at a football team, there are different skills, but diverse opinion and culture? The experience bit is more Noob vs Pro. If you're hiring a team of dev's you hire front-end, back-end, designers. But you hire th
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by john_the_writer 2y ago
But those biased aspects are part of merit. I was once part of a team interviewing a manager. A person slated to be my boss. I was also up for the role, so I had an incentive to not "love" the people I was interviewing. When we me

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