lytefm

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by lytefm 5y ago
Great about Doom Emacs: - has sensible VIM keybindings, no need to learn the Emacs ones - has batteries included, no need to tweak the config more than "yes, I'd like to activate Magit" makes it possible to actually be produc
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by lytefm 5y ago
I'm using the same technique. Taking MRs from Junior Devs together with the Ticket description, reducing the scope a bit and sprinkling different errors or incomplete implementations here and there. In the interview, I'm checking
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by lytefm 5y ago
I guess that's what might be the difficulty for newcomers: having an idea of what exactly I could use Emacs for that justifies the high upfront investment compared to other tools with a more familiar UI. Doom Emacs and other distros ar
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by lytefm 5y ago
> What I've noticed in my 40 year computing career is that folks get lazier and lazier. Few read manuals / documentation anymore but most are quick to jump to superficial conclusions without any substantial time investment in t
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by lytefm 5y ago
> managing a Nextcloud instance sounds like more work than I want to do. there are multiple hosted options where you don't have to manage the server - instead, you'll get admin access to your nextcloud, you can add accounts for
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by lytefm 5y ago
I agree and think that web apps and the SaaS model in general help Desktop Linux adoption a lot. Office 365 provides good enough Web Apps to get by without having a native Office installation. I don't have any commercial Desktop Softwa
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by lytefm 5y ago
I guess you could make the same argument pointing to Jupyter Notebook or D3.js - if you already know how to use a programming language like R, Python or JS and how to visualise data with it, you're probably not the target audience as e
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by lytefm 5y ago
> "if you don't get physically sick at the quality of the code in your MVP, then you are spending too much time on code quality." While exaggerated, I'd definitely agree. If you don't quite know yet where exactly
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by lytefm 5y ago
I have a similar impression from dealing with deliverability issues. Relevant providers usually just require a few days of sending legit mail and occasionally asking to be unblocked, but there seems to be no chance getting into the inbox on
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by lytefm 5y ago
Agreed. And I very much disagree with this paragraph: > When a developer can go back to the individual check-ins leading up to the current code, they can work out the answers to such questions using only the level of personal brilliance
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by lytefm 5y ago
> WFH won’t ever happen. These managers have to maintain appearances, name drop names and pretend to be “in the know”. There are many smaller companies who can't afford having these kind of managers and work culture - else they&#x27
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by lytefm 5y ago
I doubt that a large amount of programming jobs will be outsourced to cheaper countries. Having a good understanding of the problem domain in the same language and time zone as the employer is extremely valuable. I guess that local extremes
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by lytefm 5y ago
I'd say that learning vanilla Emacs and all the internals is probably not worth it. But if you'd like to try out Emacs, have a look at Doom Emacs or Spacemacs - then you can still use vim keybindings for most stuff. And just activ
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by lytefm 5y ago
Fair point. There was a discussion about an article asking why companies don't pay their Developers more to stay recently [1]. If I was maintaining some decades-old legacy code and knew that my employer will most likely still be around
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by lytefm 5y ago
Same price for 2GB + Custom Domain + 3 sending Aliases + Catchall + Contacts and Calender Sync + Web Client + hosting in Germany for the old Mailbox.org plan is still the better offfering for me privately as I regularily clean up my Mail +
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by lytefm 5y ago
> Depends on the work! I have certainly had paid employment where I frequently just sat down at 8am, programmed and programmed, realised about 3pm that I hadn't eaten yet, and stopped for a break Yup this happens to me as well, thou
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by lytefm 5y ago
> 2. You still need safety nets for when someone is doing dangerous operations without dry-run. Another important property is idempotency. Especially if the script involves network requests or moving files around, you'll want to rea
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by lytefm 5y ago
> I think in order for Linux to succeed there has to be a compile pipeline (and runtime?) that allows to deploy those apps easily. If that's not possible (due to whatever reasons) the platform will never really take off. I agree. An
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by lytefm 5y ago
Maybe not outright hostile, but they don't care about developer experience. It's more like: "You want you App on our OS? Go figure it out." Currently I'm annoyed by a long known bug that requires to manually confirm
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by lytefm 5y ago
https://sonic-pi.net/ might be interesting
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by lytefm 6y ago
Yeah this sounds like way too much maintenance overhead. I've opted in for a middle ground: I don't use FAANG/MS for anything critical and choose other hosted solutions instead. Posteo was already mentioned, Mailbox.org is al
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by lytefm 6y ago
Sounds like a good advice. Even better if you're good at working with someone else's legacy code who had already left the company. At my first job, it often took me several days to find bugs that were often fixed by changing very
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by lytefm 6y ago
I'd say that this is a good direction. Even better would be to take a job that isn't exactly an IT role at an org that doesn't really have an internal IT department, but does its data processing by sharing Excel files. Then,
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by lytefm 6y ago
I agree. The author makes it clear that using "business" tools like MSOffice and writing a lot of nicely formatted emails is important to him. Wouldn't have switched to Linux if that was the case for me. I'm writing <
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by lytefm 6y ago
Yeah Deezer isn't too bad. Dealbreaker for Spotify:Linux Client and Years of Play lists.
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by lytefm 6y ago
>There's no competition because there's no open listening data I wonder why last.fm hasn't managed to leverage their data more, if that was really the biggest value of Spotify. Or perhaps they do and sell it to streaming s
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by lytefm 6y ago
> and the code cells functionality is handy for the "edit and run this part until it does what I want" style of coding, which makes the bulk of my time in small projects. Yes, I love this „quick and dirty” interactive style wit
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by lytefm 6y ago
Things can get very messy when installing Spyder via pip and then trying to upgrade stuff. Distutils tends to screw these updates up. I've nuked my local Python packages recently due to that mess and made a clean reinstall, but I guess
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by lytefm 6y ago
> Personally, I can't stand Jupyter for research because the introspection capabilities are so poor and limited compared definetely agree. I prefer to work with code cells and prefer Spyder for being less bloated and more responsive
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by lytefm 6y ago
Good to know, I'll always prefer working with cell delimiters like in Spyder over working with Jupyter Notebooks. I've also tried out PyCharm Professional, but the experience with cells and iPython was just worse for me than in Sp

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