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by massung 3y ago
> In F# ... 350k lines of C# were rewritten in 30K of F# code. Not discounting the rest of your statements (I love FP for all the reasons), but I really despise - and discount - statements like the one above. I feel they are disingenuous
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by massung 3y ago
> how do you agree with something you don't agree with? This is your real question, I think. And there are different answers here based on who you are and the role you have at within the company. First off, I strongly recommend a po
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by massung 3y ago
As others have mentioned, the real question is what your goal is and whether or not this is a step that gets you closer to realizing it. If your goal is more leadership and less of an IC role, then what you're proposing is probably a s
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by massung 3y ago
This probably isn't the kind of answer you're looking for, but - for me - the answer would be volunteering services and mentoring. It's not done with the motivation of earning money (otherwise it wouldn't be volunteering
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by massung 3y ago
Aside from being a fan of Forth (the programming language) and being quite confused initially, let me say that the site is clean, I like it, and I'm very pleased to see a "Good News" section. :-)
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by massung 4y ago
Ignoring the discussion about bundled stuff, this comment actually touches on the most annoying part to me and wondered if anyone here actually has legal experience with this question: A whole lot of HARDWARE now comes with a license agreem
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Ask HN: How do you share technical things with your non-technical spouse?
1 points by massung 4y ago|2 comments
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by massung 4y ago
For those looking for the ability to (locally) open and query very large JSON files, Dadroit is great: https://dadroit.com . It's been a while since I used it last, but it was a life saver for me when working with JSON lines
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by massung 4y ago
Looks like the creator only put in enough for a couple days worth: day = Math.floor((new Date() - new Date("Nov 1 2022")) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)); games = ["NIEDSSLNINARAHIEAETKECGIPEILTZ", "TBERAOT
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by massung 4y ago
Neat. The first play through was confusing as it was unclear that I was using letters that would be replaced with new ones. Making that clear would be good. I'd also suggest that what makes wordle so popular is that it's shareable
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by massung 4y ago
This has little to do w/ being a developer vs. being human. People joke about the programmer in a dark corner plugging away and never talking to others, but that's actually pretty rare. In 20 years I've only worked with a han
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by massung 4y ago
IANAL, but I think not. I think this because there have been a plethora of tools and libraries over the decades (think Tk, WxWidgets, and similar) that emulate the native look-and-feel of the OS and I believe a company has to defend it&#x27
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by massung 4y ago
Absolutely +1 on the exercise. For me it's road biking. I just hop on farm roads and ride for hours listening to Audible, podcasts, or nothing at all and just enjoy the scenery. Also - and I can't stress this enough - absolutely u
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by massung 5y ago
This comment may come out wrong, but it is intended as an honest question (at the end) on this topic (whether it be autism or ADHD)... Speaking only for my self, my own perceptions, and very little knowledge or understanding of what such a
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by massung 5y ago
LOL. Fair enough. :-) I just find that when I read most people discussing "why monads" it usually degrades into code examples and the OP still left asking "yeah? so? I could already do X? what did that do for me?" Simila
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by massung 5y ago
I believe that most descriptions and blogs about monads completely miss the point. Monads are a tool. And yes, they can be used for things like having side effects in pure code or allowing for the chaining of functions, but those are just t
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by massung 5y ago
Just noting that ~60% of all US hospitals are non-profit hospitals (although you wouldn't know it from the bills). What this means is that people who have no insurance pay significantly reduced prices via payment plans, or pay nothing
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by massung 5y ago
First, it's not front-and-center; it's small at and the end. But, for those of you who may wish to do more other than comment: > My wife and I are creating a charity to help bring awareness to the issue, to help sick children a
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by massung 5y ago
Just remember what most of giving notice is about... Presumably you've made positive connections with your fellow teammates and feel some sympathy for how they may suffer a bit with your departure. You're giving notice so they (an
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by massung 5y ago
I's mostly agree with this. But I'd note for the OP that "complete rewrites" are not necessarily guaranteed failures. It depends how it's done and what the goals of the rewrite happen to be. The two types of rewrite
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by massung 5y ago
After many years (coming up on 20 now) of interviewing candidates and being interviewed, I've found that programming tests are not indicative at all of candidate success in the job. The only reason to use them is a quick weed-out of re
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by massung 5y ago
Just to be clear for @bitwize, nil is an object like everything else in smalltalk. It's an instance of UndefinedObject. It isn't special in any way and executes any method it understands just like all other objects. Object>>
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by massung 5y ago
Scott, nice service! Two notes: 1. I don't know if it's the social media kiss of death at work, but I'm getting lots of SSL errors trying to load your site. It's a crap-shoot whether it works or not right now. 2. Seeing
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Ask HN: What does it take to change your email address?
9 points by massung 5y ago|7 comments
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by massung 5y ago
My best advice would be on two fronts that mutually benefit each other: 1. Start taking pride in what you do. This isn't just work, but everything. You'll slowly start becoming someone (at work) who doesn't want to demo somet
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by massung 5y ago
I'm just spitballing random thoughts... Making the "check website" free (forever) should be pretty simple, but that's really only a part of what's valuable. Things that could be add-ons to encourage a subscription o
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by massung 5y ago
For those who are old enough to have used the original Visual Source Safe, they'll remember that "Get" and "Delete" were right next to each other in the context menu (edit: or at least very close by) of the code tre
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by massung 5y ago
To be frank, it's an almost impossible question to answer without specifics. It's a lot like asking "how do I know if my code solution that doesn't work is the completely wrong idea?" It's quite possible that i
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by massung 5y ago
I like to go through my work history and basically cover: 1. What did I actually work on there. I usually pick one thing I'm especially proud of that I can talk in great detail about and answer any and all questions about. 2. What did
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by massung 5y ago
Back in the day, I think my friends would spend half the night just rolling characters before I even got to start. Still lots of fun, but that in particular was so frustrating.

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