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by jrs95 8y ago
Perhaps software is perceived as anti-social because software developers are perceived as people you don't want to socialize with.
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by jrs95 8y ago
I think part of the programmer stereotype is that you basically have to be socially handicapped to fit in. Which may draw more people like that in and keep more well adjusted (or socially conscious) people out. In general, it seems that fro
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by jrs95 8y ago
A lot of us probably wouldn't immediately approach a woman in this situation because we don't want to be perceived as being "creepy". In professional settings I generally keep my distance until I've had enough brief
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by jrs95 8y ago
A lot of people are only adopting Kubernetes because they think they will benefit from Dockerized microservices when they don't even have most of the problems that solves. There's a lot of extra development and operations effort g
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by jrs95 8y ago
Part of this is also people jumping to microservices when they really have no need for them. When you have less than 5 developers and very little traffic...it's just absurd. But people are doing it anyways. Because "monoliths&quot
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by jrs95 8y ago
Here’s an idea: make solar mandatory, but require it to be funded in part by a property tax increase
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by jrs95 9y ago
It's exceedingly clear to me that they're talking about hardware that can support future capabilities -- additional features via software upgrades is something they talk about a lot. And they're very explicit about what the
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by jrs95 9y ago
I worked for a startup that raised money 4 times, over 50 million, before they found product market fit. So while it’s very important, it’s clearly not impossible to keep going if you believe you can find product market fit eventually.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Venmo itself has had a long history of the same issues. The main problem here for Zelle is that they should have seen this coming and handled it a bit better.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Even worse than stakeholders not having data is stakeholders having relatively raw data and building “reports” themselves with Excel that don’t actually mean anything. Sometimes this is just done to provide justification for something someo
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by jrs95 9y ago
People who don’t know what AI actually is and buying it anyways. I’ve actually seen this first hand. The developers/data scientists involved simply did what they were asked even though it didn’t make much sense (we had tried and failed
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by jrs95 9y ago
> Drupal is one of those many CMSs that stores tons and tons of code in the database, including executable PHP. This is horrifying. Why was this ever done?
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by jrs95 9y ago
Why not? I see people doing this shit all the time when they’re walking their dogs.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Are we subsidizing Amazon, or are we subsidizing irresponsible reproduction? Maybe both?
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by jrs95 9y ago
I generally agree. "Nationalism" is often just a euphemism for xenophobia which is not only immoral but counter productive if what you were really concerned about was the national interest. At the same time, I wish we could have a
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by jrs95 9y ago
How does respecting national sovereignty rather than letting your government be trampled over by international corporations run counter to a globally connected internet? This sort of attitude might seem like "nationalist populism"
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by jrs95 9y ago
Everyone knows real vimmers map CAPS LOCK to esc. Maybe this whole thing was just a big troll by the Apple engineers to coax more people into doing it "the right way" ;) It's sort of like the nerdier version of the Jobsian &q
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by jrs95 9y ago
To me it seems like the traditional PC model has too many downsides in terms of cost to support applications from a developer perspective as well as inferior security in comparison to a more sandboxed model. For most users, a walled garden
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by jrs95 9y ago
More likely a pickup. Still, that's a small % of the overall market, which is mostly headed in the direction of hatchbacks, crossovers, and SUVs. The reason Ford is staying in the truck market but greatly de-emphasizing it's sedan
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by jrs95 9y ago
You’re right. But it’s not about making textbooks digital. It’s about bringing more interactive software into the mix. IMO a combination of text, video, and interactive applications would be much more effective than just reading a book. And
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by jrs95 9y ago
I had an iPad in high school and loved it, despite not having any apps for any of my school stuff. Just the browser and the form factor was enough to be a pretty good device. Note taking was the main thing I couldn’t do with it, and now it’
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by jrs95 9y ago
Improving your tools != making the same stupid argument people have been making for a decade as if it hadn’t happened before. I actually agree that there are improvements to be made to Go; generics and dependency management being 2 that loo
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by jrs95 9y ago
Yep. I don’t agree with his opinion, but he probably doesn’t agree with mine about Rust: I’d rather gouge my eyes out than use that shit for anything other than a C/C++ replacement.
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by jrs95 9y ago
Unfortunately this meme will never die. The good news is I’ll be getting shit done while people who go on about this crap will just blog about Rust or monads or something.
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by jrs95 9y ago
This was all over with way before the 1.0 release even happened. There's no point in arguing over something that was addressed several years ago before Go even reached stability. Plus, trying to say that Go was a "failure" be
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by jrs95 9y ago
Um...what? Are you thinking of Dart?
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by jrs95 9y ago
Agreed. It's not really being used correctly any time I see it being used (aside from describing actual propaganda, which is what this term comes from) -- "whataboutism" is a very specific tactic. The intent to distract from
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by jrs95 9y ago
Perhaps this is more of a show than the real thing
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by jrs95 9y ago
You would think the approach taken with this would be to just use the standard libs until they're actually contributing to a bottleneck and then worry about optimizations. Doing it prematurely does seem to be a problem. Though I don&
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by jrs95 9y ago
Seems like the best approach here is to not introduce breaking changes to begin with. Go has done a very good job at this. And AFAIK most of the breaking changes in Java have been the introduction of new keywords and have been relatively ea

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