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by juped 6y ago
What's amazing about the Github web GUI?
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by juped 6y ago
Leaving the ad aside, does anyone besides me think it's time for "software engineer" to become less of an aspirational BS title and more of a real standard we can live up to? I am painfully aware that you can't get a job
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by juped 6y ago
You're always going to have trouble if you try to "enforce" semantic versioning, because it's a social commitment by project maintainers, not a theorem that can't ever possibly exist about "breaking changes&quo
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by juped 6y ago
Google is very unimpressive; the only way I can think of in which they are even tangentially associated with good engineering practices is, well, employing Junio Hamano to, basically, curate the meaningful history of Git.
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by juped 6y ago
As a committed monorepo opponent, that's not why. "Why" is that it's not possible for a monorepo to have meaningful history. If you don't want to have meaningful history, you're crippling yourself, but you also
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by juped 6y ago
How do I get interviewed by any of the people posting about their great candidate-friendly interview processes in this thread? There's always a ton of posts, but I have never had a pleasant or unbiased interview experience in my life.
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by juped 6y ago
You can if you make them fixed-size arrays inside a struct. I agree with the thesis of the article.
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by juped 6y ago
Interviewers react badly if you try to describe the high-level thought processes you go through, because that's not "technical" or "coding". So you end up reaching for dumb bullshit like gluing some library or whate
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by juped 6y ago
Much of it is a backlash against the conflation of anointment by organs of prestige with "merit"; at best, these prestige organs are very noisy proxies for some form of merit, and they get worse by the day. (The article says as mu
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by juped 6y ago
The cleverness isn't the service, but charging people money for it. Wish I'd thought of that!
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by juped 6y ago
git commits have two dates, an author date and a committer date; the github profile page thingy is based on the author date of commits. just set it to whatever
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by juped 6y ago
lol, clever. I just put up a pre- and post- dated repository with commits dated from 1970 to 2038, which should keep me set until Github dies.
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by juped 6y ago
The Git UI will probably never be "improved" because it makes sense to people who understand how Git works rather than pasting command lines they found online, and the few real warts like status output telling you to use "git
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by juped 6y ago
Git's primary advantage over other VCS is how it makes it trivially easy to change history, though.
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by juped 6y ago
Good thing I never claimed that, I just said it was uninteresting to mathematicians unless it has artistic merit!
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by juped 6y ago
In a vacuum, it should be 5040, which has a uniquely abundant collection of factors. Still, natural evolution of units via surveyor's units did pretty well to turn the Roman mile of 5000 feet into 5280, which has a pretty solid collect
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by juped 6y ago
Math is and has always been a form of expressive art, but there's been a vocal constituency since at least the early 20c that claims it's bloodless symbol manipulation. Since computers excel at bloodless symbol manipulation, one w
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by juped 6y ago
It already existed at the time this article was written, as well, I think. There is probably a niche for purely ergonomic tooling that works with, not against, the built-in features, but a lot of this is a matter of positioning - I know som
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by juped 6y ago
What was the draw of Keybase? I wasn't interested when it was a "post all your website usernames here, but with crypto somehow" site, and by the time I looked in on it later, it was an unreadable startup homepage and had some
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by juped 6y ago
Don't worry, Gmail made top-posting cool.
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by juped 6y ago
Institutional bureaucracy only cares about official journals. People in real fields use arXiv anyway - the more the researchers use arXiv or similar, the realer the field.
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by juped 6y ago
"trollaxor" is a joke site (with various takes on the "theo bad man" schtick posted therein)
533.
by juped 6y ago
>interviewed [...] for a year Yikes.
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by juped 6y ago
It's not for that, it's for giving people with prestige more prestige. The more irrelevant the work is, the better it is for its real purpose.
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by juped 6y ago
I have more of a chance of making money doing this than passing a leetcode interview, so I understand the appeal. It's hard to get mad at them for doing what makes money.
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by juped 6y ago
Not having a remote is the killer feature of DVCS.
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by juped 6y ago
I find the idea that "engineering" is really about BIG SCALING really tiresome. Sure, careless throwing together of random libraries, packages, and stack overflow snippets goes against sound engineering principles, but so does nea
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by juped 6y ago
Some people need payloads put into space.
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by juped 6y ago
OK, that sounds a bit better, but what is both simplest to implement, most generic, and most useful is supporting _Git_, not some half-baked forge site APIs.
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by juped 6y ago
I'm more interested in your response to the paragraph you conspicuously skipped: > Anyway, version control is there now, and you can edit existing Git repos! Except it's actually GitHub, not Git, so I can't use it for any

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