joquarky

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by joquarky 1y ago
> I'm definitely ok with 'virtue signalling' though. It's a lot better than vice signalling. Both inflate the ego.
872.
by joquarky 1y ago
This kind of advice was gospel in the 90s.
873.
by joquarky 1y ago
[should, shouldn't, supposed to, never, always] These are key words to mentally breakpoint on and more carefully consider what is being said.
874.
by joquarky 1y ago
What educational path is safe to invest in right now? What kind of job will be in high demand in a few years and will remain in demand for at least 20 years?
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by joquarky 1y ago
> developers who are highly motivated, self directed, and thoroughly understand customer needs Why would someone with these qualities work for someone else?
876.
by joquarky 1y ago
It feels like over the past decade or two, every company that builds software has gradually adopted the same terrible practices as is commonly found in game development studios.
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by joquarky 1y ago
It's the same with every *-ism.
878.
by joquarky 1y ago
They said the exact same about television.
879.
by joquarky 1y ago
It so strongly implies a counterpart.
880.
by joquarky 1y ago
Mine is to indicate time of day by what longitude the sun is at meridian.
881.
by joquarky 1y ago
...deploy it again straight to prod because there aren't any other environments. Prepare to swap back quickly if something goes wrong. Yep, I've been there.
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by joquarky 1y ago
> Of course OOP can be taken to extreme complexity and then lose its usefulness. The type bike shedding that seems to inevitably occur in typescript discussions has completely turned me off of it. Now that I'm self-employed, I just
883.
by joquarky 1y ago
People get passionate about how to move around a bunch of 1s and 0s.
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by joquarky 1y ago
I just realized that I spent at least ten years as a professional software archaeologist. That company develops most of the court software used in the US. And it's very unlikely that they have improved their practices in the three ye
885.
by joquarky 1y ago
Also, pure functions fit very comfortably in context windows.
886.
by joquarky 1y ago
Sometimes logs are the only way. It's old but reliable.
887.
by joquarky 1y ago
Science used to be referred to as philisophy of nature.
888.
by joquarky 1y ago
It's probably not too difficult either if you're getting paid on top of the salary.
889.
by joquarky 1y ago
Maybe. The father could have been an abuser.
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by joquarky 1y ago
I just assume they're Ferengi.
891.
by joquarky 1y ago
Then just use innerHTML, it's not going away.
892.
by joquarky 1y ago
Publically traded companies are inherently aligned with the traits of psychopathy.
893.
by joquarky 1y ago
CCGMS was the best.
894.
by joquarky 1y ago
Does anyone else still keep everything super simple by just including .md files in project for guardrails and do all edits manually by file upload and clipboard? Sure, it's tedious, but I get to directly observe every change. I guess I
895.
by joquarky 1y ago
If XML had been like this from the start, it might have won. Just look at HTML vs XHTML.
896.
by joquarky 1y ago
Honestly, we needed something to cap extreme programming and swing the pendulum back to a balance between XP and waterfall again.
897.
by joquarky 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
898.
by joquarky 1y ago
ATP synthase is pretty much a micro-mechanical turbine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP_synthase
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by joquarky 1y ago
The fact that you couldn't pick a different person as an example makes for a very weak assertion.
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by joquarky 1y ago
That sounds like an accessibility issue. Especially if viewport scaling is disabled. People with vision impairments need to be able to zoom.

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