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by ken 7y ago
Or that people who aren't programmers don't actually consider the working conditions to be all that great.
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by ken 7y ago
> Who got it right? Facebook. Twitter. Reddit. And all the other websites that do timelines. Curiously: a webpage I only use because I'm part of a group that uses it for scheduling, a webpage I only use for occasionally ranting abo
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by ken 7y ago
Also from the article: "when was the last time you googled for SQL and then went to page #18375 to find that particular blog post that you were looking for?" The key difference in use cases here is that one is searching my stuff
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by ken 7y ago
The bad companies, though, don't tend to offer more money than average. IME, they offer less. When a company is deaf to what developers care about in one department, they're usually deaf to what developers want in other departme
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by ken 7y ago
Science education is hard. I was constantly frustrated in science classes, especially physics, because every 2 minutes I wanted to say "but then why ___?" Every new thing you learn seems to contradict either common sense (this r
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by ken 7y ago
I didn't mean to imply that he thinks that. Sorry for the apparent ambiguity. "Wealth" is still problematic, as per the cigarette example.
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by ken 7y ago
Possibly. But for a little while, I did hear about "lifestyle businesses", i.e., the idea that you could be financially sustainable in tech without needing massive growth. And these days, I think most of the open source software
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by ken 7y ago
I'm glad he made the leap from school tests to funding tests, as it seemed to be a thinly veiled analogy from the start. I'm disappointed, though, that he didn't take the final step and admit that money itself is also a poor
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by ken 7y ago
This sounds like an admission that the only way a programming language survives is when a corporation decides we should use it. Given what I’ve seen in the past 25 years, I’m not sure you’re wrong.
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by ken 7y ago
Programming is full of these. Every day I see some new technique or style appear. Is it any good? We've got easier access to the biggest collection of free source code, the biggest and most diverse set of programmers, and the fastes
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by ken 7y ago
You're not the first. Peter Norvig wrote: > Python does have access to the abstract syntax tree of programs, but this is not for the faint of heart. On the plus side, the modules are easy to understand, and with five minutes and fi
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by ken 7y ago
Why? We did just fine without it up until a couple years ago.
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by ken 7y ago
You avoid the close-to-work living costs, and also the close-to-work living benefits. I’d save time, but then I’d spend it driving into the city, anyway, to do most of the things I want to do.
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by ken 7y ago
Sure, and that’s exactly the same failure mode as “sed”. What’s the benefit of the big IDE?
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by ken 7y ago
I’ve never touched a “real life” code base in a static language (including C#) where this wouldn’t be an issue. C# is not a sufficiently high level language that I can avoid duplication without the use of reflection.
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by ken 7y ago
I don't buy it. I heard the same complaints when we went from Apple II to Macintosh, from 68K to PPC, from Finder to MultiFinder, from OS 9 to OS X, and so on. At each stage, the CPU and RAM became less of a free-for-all and more of a
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by ken 7y ago
It comes down to incentives. I maintain that the problems for a system occur in proportion to how far the user is from the customer . In the sandwich case, the user is the customer. You wouldn't eat the sandwich, because it might
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by ken 7y ago
The banality of saying "all software has bugs" to begin an argument can only serve to distract. It's software whataboutism.
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by ken 7y ago
Does sharing track ever work? Amtrak already has to share track with freight, and that's why Seattle to Portland is officially "3.5 hours" but the margin of error on that is +hours.
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by ken 7y ago
It's true for every major project, of any type. I can't think of any multi-year, >$10B software projects that ended up being completed on-time and on-budget, either.
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by ken 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weingarten_Rights These days it doesn't seem to apply to non-union workers, unfortunately -- which is like reason #93 to want a union.
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by ken 7y ago
It's a symptom of the centralized nature of the web. To serve everybody, you need a boatload of servers. I recall hearing about this cool free editable encyclopedia in the early 2000's, but I could never get a single page to comp
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by ken 7y ago
I don't care if AWS is big and bundled as long as they use standard interfaces . Linux is big and it doesn't really matter that there's not much competition. I don't care what system (or even virtual machines or conta
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by ken 7y ago
No, the Kong Duck is completely different than the SafeTec Duck. Its manual even has a warning that it’s not to be used for fall protection.
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by ken 7y ago
"Much, much better" in what sense? Just performance?
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by ken 7y ago
The Consortium chose the domain of the problem space, though. "Text" could be either much simpler or much more complex than Unicode chose to model it. They picked what features they wanted to support, and now we all have to li
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by ken 7y ago
I was using a "Duck" device today for the first time, and I wanted to look up some information about it online. I typed the first words that came to mind ("duck rope pro") on Google.com, and the #1 hit is an Amazon.com
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by ken 7y ago
> data to be transmitted in a byte, word or double word oriented format (i.e. in 8, 16 or 32-bits per code unit) I don't think I've heard "word" mean "16 bits" since the 1980's ... and apparently neithe
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by ken 7y ago
Fair point. But I still don't think it's worthwhile to equate "one cable channel (like OXY)" to "one streaming service (like Netflix)".
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by ken 7y ago
> Does the fact that there were four broadcast networks mean that one of them eventually prevailed, and the others disappeared? No. Was there a cable channel war resulting in one dominant cable network? No. I get all 4 broadcast networks

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