justbaker

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by justbaker 7y ago
>I would love to, but my coworkers expect me to be synchronous. They do async, but I'm always supposed to be sync with five nines availability. Looks like it's time to go job-hunting again, but I hate job interviews. Dammit. I
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by justbaker 7y ago
This is awesome! I feel inspired! :D
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by justbaker 7y ago
I'm not sure its "should I do this" but more "can I do this". PL/SQL is really a powerful language and entirely capable of this. It is not a language who's power is best utilized for this -- it is a maze t
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by justbaker 7y ago
Microservices and their infrastructure are shit to maintain on a small team. There is more overhead in that than monolithically designed software. The best use of microservices on a small team is for appropriate reusable services with low m
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by justbaker 7y ago
Does the employee deliver? That should be a yes/no answer. Micromanging employees minutes is an ineffective distraction to reaching that goal of delivery. The more autonomous each is while still moving in the direction of the common go
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by justbaker 7y ago
>I always thought MySpace ruined itself by allowing so much customization. I've always viewed this as MySpace's top feature and the direction away from this is why MySpace failed. The name even implied it was a users space of p
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by justbaker 7y ago
Delivery over elegance of delivery any day.
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by justbaker 7y ago
It means the underlying problem is not the tooling, but the use of the tooling. In other words, "I can choose the correct tool but still fail from poor approach of problem."
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by justbaker 7y ago
>You probably have one open in another tab right now. Damn you, google.
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by justbaker 7y ago
In general if you don't keep up with the pace/trends, you will become out of touch. I would suggest this is for programmers that stop learning while they age.
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by justbaker 7y ago
>Remember Digg v 1.0 to 2.0 and how it made it sink? I do -- Digg absolutely disappeared overnight. I almost forgot about it entirely but the phrase "digg it" reminded me of it.
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by justbaker 7y ago
This mass-ballooning has occurred in Australia from the spiders fear of drowning from heavy rains. In theory, your idea sounds plausible :)
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by justbaker 7y ago
>People want to be successful. No one likes to lose. Even a freeloader is expressing that behavior because they believe that is the best way to win. Perhaps a win for themselves personally. A freeloader is a selfish individual in team dy
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by justbaker 7y ago
Nostalgia?
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by justbaker 7y ago
>Understood as senior: Communication skills matter most. I can't speak enough on this one. In our craft, The better one is at communication skills, the more effective their technical skills will be.
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by justbaker 7y ago
> ...but socio-ethical problems are way outside of my wheelhouse. Ever more reason to go outside ones comfort zone.
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by justbaker 7y ago
>I type at 120wpm and having to slow all the way down to 30wpm on a phone stabs me to my very soul. I feel your pain. I hate typing on phones; feels so inefficient. It is definitely good to not have the 50 tabs problem mobile too.
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by justbaker 7y ago
>I currently have 52 open tabs on my laptop and another 37 open on my desktop. What about the second desktop?
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by justbaker 7y ago
>It might be nice to pass this information along to the agency to see if they'd be willing to convert all their forms. If you see a way to, make them pay for it; there is money to be made.
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by justbaker 7y ago
>Refactoring (Martin Fowler) I've heard very good things about this book, is it worth a read for a more seasoned dev?
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by justbaker 7y ago
huh-hah! I've already scalded off all my fingerprints!
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by justbaker 7y ago
Didn't know this was going on, but am now angry.
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by justbaker 7y ago
His book on Erlang was one of my first programming books I ever read. I didn't know of his passing until I saw this. :(
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by justbaker 7y ago
If you like Akka/Scala, definitely give Erlang a try.
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by justbaker 7y ago
I don't think using eval is the main problem he's trying to solve. Eval isn't really a good example of "dynamic programming done right". You don't even need eval to metaprogram in JS.
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by justbaker 8y ago
Seeing Metallica on HN makes me feel much more welcome :)
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by justbaker 8y ago
Yes, most Java IDEs tend to show the argument name in functions to get past this.
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by justbaker 8y ago
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
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by justbaker 8y ago
It is, not the best title for releasing something imo.
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by justbaker 8y ago
I wonder how much they reused GOAL or this Racket impl. on the Crash Trilogy remake. It has always been my favorite "Lisp" game..

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