larzang

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by larzang 7y ago
Infrastructure is absolutely the deciding factor for those of us who are not suburban home owners. I live in a building which has 1 EV space for 200-something units. I work in an office building which has 2 EV spaces installed, but they&#
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by larzang 7y ago
We tried using a worker for a bit, and while it's mostly very convenient, the request/response cache API does NOT support Vary headers, which was a major dealbreaker for us.
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by larzang 7y ago
"In the real world...", "Nobody cares about how it works as long it works...", etc. This is a company where the top level management 1) thinks it knows best about everything, 2) micromanages everything, and 3) trusts ab
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by larzang 7y ago
> No one made a conscious decision not to write tests, not to do PR reviews, or not to refactor. Then you've never worked at a company like my current one. The developers all very much want to do those things, but are forced not to
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by larzang 7y ago
Locking is no longer 100% reliable as soon as you have horizontal distribution of the same data over multiple nodes (for redundancy, so you can guarantee delivery) instead of sourcing from e.g. a monolithic rdbms. Eventual consistency is t
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by larzang 7y ago
The absolute best coding I get done every day is during my morning shower. Letting your brain indirectly work on something is often the best approach to our kind of work.
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by larzang 7y ago
As a primary PHP developer, PHP has improved by leaps and bounds in the ten years I've been working with it, however there's still a major fundamental issue that has seen improvement but remains unresolved: function overhead. Cont
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by larzang 7y ago
This post seems written assuming that engineers are calling all the shots. If you work at a company like that, great, I envy you. However in a company where engineering's desire for a stable deploy pipeline with excellent visibility i
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by larzang 7y ago
I paint. I don't take commissions and the stuff I've sold doesn't even come close to the total I've spent, but who cares, that isn't the point. I love coding, but doing something totally expressive rather than log
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by larzang 8y ago
I actually find strong typing speeds up green-field development rather than hampering it, because it cuts down on the little avoidable things that inevitably creep in when you're trying to architect and evaluate and code all at the sam
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by larzang 8y ago
Or even more basic things like "a date/time implementation that isn't a horror show" or "\w that behaves like \w in every single other regex implementation out there when the unicode flag is on".
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by larzang 8y ago
Yeah, PHPStorm is a mediocre to terrible text editor but an amazing IDE. I used Sublime Text for many years prior and PHPStorm can't even come close in terms of ease of keyboard navigation, responsiveness, multi-file organization, etc
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by larzang 8y ago
The main east-west street corridors through the outer west burbs (Lake St, North Ave, Roosevelt Rd, etc) are choked with them. Addison for example has one every 5 feet.
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by larzang 8y ago
Weekly, sometimes daily, I run into a situation where flow is straight up wrong in baffling ways, or needlessly developer-hostile, and I end up having to help my junior team members write worse (or at least more verbose) code to compensate.
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by larzang 8y ago
The controversial benchmarks are always at the 1080p level, and I have to wonder: who are these magical consumers who are willing to consider shelling out for an i9 and yet are still playing at 1080p. Of course such marketing benchmarking H
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by larzang 8y ago
> Which is one reason why I don't quite understand why there are class based components at all. Classes in js are just syntax sugar, so even if you're writing classes you're still actually writing function prototypes. As
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by larzang 8y ago
Sure, just look at buying parts on Newegg vs Amazon. Newegg has amazing search capabilities tailored to what they're selling, while on Amazon it's a crapshoot whether electronics stuff will even be in the right broadest-level cat
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by larzang 8y ago
SWE refers to software engineer, not being a Swede.
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by larzang 8y ago
10 years ago, a moderator on the Something Awful forums posted a home-improvement thread in which he chronicled building an addition to his house, a noble goal. It was a disaster. He insulted his stairs. He had load-bearing drywall. None
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by larzang 9y ago
Generic data types aren't necessarily a better approach. My primary language for many years has been PHP, where the default approach used to be just to pass generic maps around for all data, and it was hell. You cannot tell if a map
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by larzang 9y ago
That's basically the role of frameworks. Any web application I build is going to need at least some subset of functionality common to all web applications, and implementing everything from first principles is absurd, so I use a framew
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by larzang 9y ago
Heads are going to explode when they discover the arcane rarely-utilized tool known, nay, merely whispered of, only as "transactions".
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by larzang 9y ago
I have a commonish firstlast@gmail account and frequently receive what is the obvious result of people in various parts of the country incorrectly providing my email to apply for jobs, order pizzas, and use other services. It is absolutely
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by larzang 9y ago
Gen X gets rightfully ignored in these discussions because they're less affected by it, having come of age before the big downturn, and less responsible for it, having come of age after the damage was done. I'm 34, I graduated hig
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by larzang 9y ago
The problem is that IE11 is not eol until the end of 2020, and management can be loathe to drop support for it while it still makes a blip in the traffic, even a tiny one. It's one thing to wait for the actually supported browsers to a
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by larzang 9y ago
The modern ecosystem (Symfony 3/4 especially) and practices enabled by 7.0+ are good, but all the old horror is still lurking behind the curtain, and there's not much to prevent naive coders from writing garbage like it's 199
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by larzang 9y ago
Having to refresh coffee lake again before we see cannon lake doesn't exactly bode well for those of us waiting for any reason at all to upgrade from haswell (or even sandy bridge). Core count went up with coffee lake, but ipc has bee
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by larzang 9y ago
I've had a UM95 for several years and just bought a cheap 4K 40" tv (Samsung MU7000) to replace it as my primary. They have equivalent pixel density and the tv has nicer colors and contrast with less backlight bleed (VA panel ins
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by larzang 9y ago
Clients don't care about quality, they care about features, so management doesn't care about delivering quality, they care about delivering features, so engineers aren't allocated enough time to care about quality, only featu
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by larzang 9y ago
It's honestly pretty irrelevant. Even if management doesn't require you to still support IE11, you're still almost certainly going to have babel in your pipeline, which means you can use brand new features before browsers su

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