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by lucidone 4y ago
Some of us need the utility of a truck (hauling a trailer for camping, hauling gear bi-weekly to a racetrack, driving through poorly maintained roads during the winter).
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by lucidone 4y ago
I live in a town where the primary industry is resource extraction. There are some software development jobs but they pay a pittance relative to remote work. I see many of my peers in my area working remotely (alongside myself) for this rea
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by lucidone 4y ago
Middle of nowhere, Canada, far away from any metro area. I've been working remotely for years as a result. Seems tough to find any .NET work in digital space (plenty of javascript and rails from my experience). I ascribe this to the pe
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by lucidone 4y ago
Had to fix a bug in a hobby app that uses .NET Core for its backend last evening. I miss working in this ecosystem daily (back to node and rails for work), it's such a pleasure. The best developer experience I've ever had. If anyo
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by lucidone 4y ago
FluentValidation and Swashbuckle are two great libraries for the tasks you referenced. This is a good enough reference repository should your curiosity be piqued again in the future: https://github.com/jasontaylordev/Cl
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by lucidone 4y ago
I have family members who work in health care here in Canada. The fact that their wages are subject to regulation (e.g., they are effectively getting a paycut this year with inflation), they realistically cannot strike to improve their work
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by lucidone 4y ago
I went through an interview cycle recently for remote roles. Most were (surprisingly) using Rails on the backend. Either this is because I have RoR experience in my LinkedIn (albeit little) or because it remains a popular framework. Take th
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by lucidone 4y ago
That's similar to asking where infinity starts and ends. I like Spinoza's bit about a self-causing cause for this.
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by lucidone 5y ago
I used .NET Core for a backend API relatively recently (3.1) with no background in .NET prior (mostly javascript/typescript, php, and ruby). I found it incredibly productive and to be an enjoyable developer experience. Entity framework
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by lucidone 5y ago
And Tolstoy inspired Gandhi - shall we posthumously cancel him too?
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by lucidone 5y ago
How do folks evaluate upgrading their phone? I'm using an iPhone 6s still that was a hand-me-down and wanting to upgrade the camera - not sure what I ought to be looking for. Dropping 1k CAD seems exorbitant for this purpose.
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by lucidone 5y ago
It's like Gradle versus Maven in Javaland.
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by lucidone 6y ago
Would be great to see a paragraph or two about how to write tests for this functionality. Testing has been my pain point regarding front end development with Rails. Compelling tech all the same and a great article.
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by lucidone 6y ago
Sure, and then I'll get a new job. Cuts both ways.
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by lucidone 6y ago
I was once a subscriber to the NYT and am within their ideological range to enjoy most of their reporting. I feel as if since 2016 they've lost a lot of credibility. Their reporting feels like editorials, and their internal issues ofte
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by lucidone 6y ago
I don't think Facebook has the public good in mind when they develop their product, but their bottom line first and foremost. They're a private company, they're beholden to their shareholders. I also don't think that shi
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by lucidone 6y ago
I pay a newspaper to discern the "truth" of real world events. They sell credibility. They have an interest (both ethical via their staff - most journalists want to tell the truth, and financial - why pay for a garbage paper) in b
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by lucidone 6y ago
I agree in principle (e.g., Pizzagate and similar conspiracy theories), but delegating the arbitration of facts to a private company seems dangerous territory to me. The inconvenient answer as it appears to me is that folks have to discern
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by lucidone 6y ago
Only allowing "true" information on any platform (or in any form of discourse, really) is effectively impossible given the subjective nature of truth. Philosophers have spent their lives arguing this topic, a tech giant isn't
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by lucidone 6y ago
Piggybacking to say that if you're just starting out, I'd recommend choosing _anything_, as in, your choice of programming language ecosystem is ancillary to learning the broader technologies and patterns common to web application
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by lucidone 6y ago
I agree with this take. I'm primarily JavaScript/TypeScript developer, doing both front end and back end web app development. Microsoft being a good steward of TypeScript (and now the js ecosystem) inclines me to give C# and .NET
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by lucidone 7y ago
You're absolutely right. Thankfully, in reality, I don't think the measures taken will be as strong as dismantling our civil liberties. However, if the dichotomy was either our civil rights at large (expand this to the economy, wh
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by lucidone 7y ago
I'm uncertain what motivates you, but my family is my utmost priority (i.e., above anything else, including politics).
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by lucidone 7y ago
The other side of that argument being that people in the future can always fight for their rights, whereas we can never get back lost time with our loved ones.
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by lucidone 7y ago
I am Canadian, and I considered myself an advocate of privacy up until COVID-19 made me realize I'd pretty much give up all my civil liberties if it meant my immunocompromised parents were less likely to fall ill and potentially die as
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by lucidone 7y ago
I learned a bit of Miranda and Oberon for a programming languages course back in school, prior to knowing what Haskell was (or even functional programming proper). Can anyone speak to its capability for a fun hobby project (web dev, or a CL
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by lucidone 7y ago
The cheap labour pool as a consequence of the weak Canadian dollar certainly helps, alongside having identical time zones and nearly identical culture to the United States. Lots of Canadian consultancies butter their bread with USD.
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by lucidone 7y ago
> enforce separation of concerns and data ownership You can enforce separation of concerns and data ownership in a monolith just as much as you can not enforce these two characteristics in a micro service architecture. Microservices and
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by lucidone 7y ago
I used vscode as my daily driver for a long time, I find webstorm is a much better experience, particularly because vscode is so centred around javascript and non-js plugins are lacking. I work in consulting, so my tech stack changes every
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by lucidone 7y ago
It took me a few years and having to grapple with a few other authors in the postmodern canon, but once I pushed through, the novel "clicked" and it's now one of my favourites. Brilliant book.

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