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by khendron 5y ago
This makes me recall the time I was riding on the bus, and there was a little boy (maybe 4 years old) with his mum. The little boy was proudly reading the numbers off the other buses he saw drive by. "7, 23, 5, 86," the boy proudl
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by khendron 5y ago
When non-tech folks ask me how to learn programming because they want "jump on the money train", I ask them if they ever take the initiative to solve a problem with programming. You don't have to work in tech to do this. For
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by khendron 5y ago
In my experience, brutalist buildings are interesting to look at from the outside, but not so great from the inside. Once you've gone inside, you might as well be underground.
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by khendron 5y ago
I've always thought 'git blame' was a badly named command. The word 'blame' has such negativity attached to it. The command should have been called 'git who'.
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by khendron 5y ago
> Modern design is so beautiful to look at - but an absolute nightmare to use. You either need to use trial an error on every element, or hope that someone else can tell you what you need to do. This. Aesthetics has overtaken usability.
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by khendron 5y ago
Because the article is about him and the company he (co)founded.
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by khendron 5y ago
Interesting write up. The whole article, with its stressed out overtime, inter-team fighting, and testing the computer using a game reminded me of "The Soul of a New Machine", which is a great read for anybody who hasn't read
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by khendron 6y ago
Great article, and congratulations! One thing stood out for me though > On January 1, 2021, I received an email from Repl.it letting me know that I had been selected. To me this is a huge red flag. To receive a work related email on what
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by khendron 6y ago
I would reword "Vote with you feet" to be "It's OK to change jobs", so as to give it a broader meaning. There is no obligation for you to stay in a job you don't like, or to pursue a different opportunity. You
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by khendron 6y ago
I am not sure that letting people exist in their own self-validating echo chamber is a good thing.
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by khendron 6y ago
I have a similar theory as to why rapidly growing companies become toxic environments (of which politics and turf wars are a symptom). When a company is small and has a low profile, its employees are in it for the company. They believe in t
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by khendron 6y ago
I do sometimes wonder about the environmental impact of the entertainment industry. Destroying something for the sake of entertainment seems ... I don't know ... wasteful? In this case, yes the plane was probably mothballed anyway, and
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by khendron 6y ago
He might be referring to Shopify GMV (Gross Merchandise Volume —the value of commerce facilitated by the platform), which is probably approaching $100B per year.
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by khendron 6y ago
Nice list. There is lots of new stuff here for me. The obvious miss is John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There?" (1938), which is the inspiration for the movie The Thing.
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by khendron 6y ago
I recall an Arthur C Clarke story (can't remember if it was a short or a novel) that touched on the same idea. In the story, the squid's imaging abilities were very advanced, almost TV like.
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by khendron 7y ago
I don't think it is the existence of the email but rather the wording of it that is at fault. The email was cold, soulless, and underscored the fact that "the system" viewed the residents as inventory, not people. I am remind
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by khendron 7y ago
I think an overlooked aspect of a legacy system that makes "strangling" difficult is that nobody fully understands the behaviours of the system anymore. It is really hard to replace the functionality of a piece of code when you do
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by khendron 7y ago
Here's my go-to example about the challenges of driving in a Canadian winter. I was waiting for my bus to work one morning after a large snowfall. The snow clearing crews were hard at work, but the street was effectively blocked by pil
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by khendron 7y ago
If I answer "That's a really dumb question!" am I being heretical or conventional?
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by khendron 7y ago
There actually are no triggering images. I guess they want trypophobics to be able to read it.
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by khendron 7y ago
It may reduce the environmental impact by preventing spoiling, but at the same time it increases the environmental impact because now the vegetable can (and are) shipped across vast distances. Maybe we should be rethinking our entire food i
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by khendron 7y ago
The great thing about Excel is that it is easy and intuitive to use just the basics, and it is difficult to accidentally stumble onto its advanced and complicated features by accident. With Word, on the other hand, it is easy to have create
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by khendron 7y ago
What you say sound more or less the same as what the Twitter thread says. Enterprises with complex and unique workflows come to a software vendor with a checklist of features, and complex highly configurable software checks all the checkbox
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by khendron 7y ago
So I need to keep writing and if I stop for too long I get stopped and lose everything. I wonder what that black bar going across the top of the screen is for. Is that an overall time limit? I guess I will tell a story. How about the time I
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by khendron 7y ago
> there's hiring managers or recruiters that won't look at me, and coworkers whose behavior changes when they find out. I am very surprised to hear you say this. My background appears to be similar to yours (no CS degree, progr
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by khendron 7y ago
The only reason I put a sticker on my laptop is to identify it out of all the other identical laptops at work. I generally don't get a tech related sticker either. Instead I buy a sticker of an animal or something. Of my current laptop
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by khendron 7y ago
Reminds me of the time I was playing a computer game, and right at the beginning you are presented with a door 5-digit combination lock. The objective of the game was to explore the game world and eventually discover all 5 digits of the cod
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by khendron 7y ago
I've worked with people who had been working in programming jobs for some years, and didn't have any instinct for coding. Give them a detailed spec, or some detailed business logic, and they could write code to match it. But when
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by khendron 8y ago
Although I am a big fan of RSS, I find this article very disingenuous. The author complains about the chaos, vulgarity, and hostility of Twitter, but those complaints would apply to almost any social media platform. Then he suggests replaci
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by khendron 8y ago
Many coders will argue that these comments are the type of information that should be captured by the version control system, not in the code itself. The biggest problem with comments is they are not part of the tested integrity of the syst

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