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by matttproud 3y ago
Bureaucracy in Germany felt to be equal in magnitude to what I was used to from the United States (which is to say: bad), but the character of the bureaucracy's toil in Germany felt incredibly archaic. I hate to give the author of this
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by matttproud 3y ago
TBH, we'd be better if without any of the contracted forms.
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by matttproud 3y ago
You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its toilets. Both about the maintainer/owner of the toilet as well as the users. In the U.S., a toilet might as well be an insect that is about to be smashed underneath a shoe.
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by matttproud 3y ago
About the same kind of statement as: „Gosh golly. I wish the Surgeon General warned against smoking 30 years ago; I’d maybe have stopped before the cancer.“ I felt the same as you for a long time: deeply cynical. Feeling and seeing the im
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by matttproud 3y ago
I <3 Eli‘s articles.
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by matttproud 3y ago
Corpspeak has gotten really pernicious in recent years. Its proponents and purveyors would do well to read George Orwell‘s writings on language: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Lan... . These n
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by matttproud 3y ago
Thurgau says, „GTFO.“
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by matttproud 3y ago
Maintaining Go Code at scale, I can tell you decisively that using the context as opaque bag for all-the-values is a bad idea in terms of maintainability and code comprehensibility. And I write this agnostic to Go as well; I’d feel exactly
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by matttproud 3y ago
Maybe the executives can have catheters installed on themselves first since the opportunity cost of their going to the bathroom is so damn high. You first, buddy.
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by matttproud 4y ago
Bob was a nice guy. We had an overlapping tenure at Google in the 2000s. He was one of the original authors of the Guice dependency injection framework: https://github.com/google/guice . When I was earning Java reada
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by matttproud 4y ago
FWIW, I have yet to see an application written with Cobra that is comprehensible. The Cobra API — while feature-rich — seems to nudge code in a bad way. Cleaning that up wouldn’t necessitate a rewrite, let alone to another language.
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by matttproud 4y ago
Meat Beat Manifesto sampled that robot a lot for the Original Control releases. Seeing the name again, immediately puts the sample, “if you use me well, I can be your slave,” back in my mind.
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by matttproud 4y ago
As a former QuakeC hacker and id engine spelunker, I think this is great. A parsimonious codebase here is to be welcomed. The original engine was littered with globals and cruft. Reasoning with the original implementation took considerab
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by matttproud 4y ago
Skepticism is about as cheap as cynicism.
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by matttproud 4y ago
Please forgive me for a potentially dumb question: Is there a reason something like the scheduler, which should be mostly algorithmic, should lack unit tests? I can see an argument against some aspects of device driver testing, but the sch
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by matttproud 4y ago
If you want context on why some testing guidance is the way it is, this external discussion may be helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/yy8edb/googles_inte... .
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by matttproud 4y ago
My favorite Easter egg when helping to write the style guide was including a reference to Full Metal Jacket within it. See if you can find it. In all seriousness, I am very proud of the team’s work in both writing and publishing this exter
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by matttproud 4y ago
> In Go there is less noise, but also there no way to interrupt Go's time.Sleep. You can do so in one of two ways using the context API ( https://go.dev/blog/context ) while keeping the code synchronous and idiom
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by matttproud 4y ago
If you weren’t aware of how bad the regulatory capture is, you should check out this article and its map: https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc... . It’s staggering to me the public hasn’t pillori
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by matttproud 5y ago
I gave up caffeine in September, 2021. I was drinking typically two cups a day of filter coffee — sometimes more. Withdrawal lasted two weeks. Some of the worst headaches of my life that later transitioned into overall body pains, but th
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by matttproud 5y ago
QBasic Gorillas (gorilla.bas).
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by matttproud 5y ago
American who‘s been abroad for a decade: I 100% agree. It introduces a lot of friction, complexity, and annoyance. Beyond taxation, the limitations with American institutions when being domiciled abroad put you into a terrible edge-case wi
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by matttproud 5y ago
I could often make an argument for smug “Considered Harmful” documents. They should be considered harmful.
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by matttproud 5y ago
The same. I left the country about a decade ago. I don’t observe much positive dynamism when I return: grinding morass and retrograde motion. Reactionary politics, regulatory capture, graft, and naive faith in the market hold such a dispr
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by matttproud 5y ago
You just noticed? Snark aside, this trajectory has been clear as day since the 1990s (for anyone willing to broach this question) and brazenly undeniable since the early 2000s.
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by matttproud 5y ago
Tangent: Each time I visit New York City, how incomprehensibly many cars there are flowing through this alleged pedestrian mecca at any time is striking.
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by matttproud 5y ago
See also Lignum Ost in Switzerland’s Kanton Thurgau: https://www.lignum.ch/auf_einen_klick/news/lignum_journal_ho...
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by matttproud 5y ago
I only intermittently used melatonin, mostly to help me normalize when on the you’re-in-your-20s-and-working-hard-and-playing-hard Bay Area lifestyle (that so was deleterious)! The last couple of times I used it (now years ago), was to hel
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by matttproud 5y ago
Reduction ad horseshoe theory absurdum.
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How Zürich is planning for public transit in 2050(stadt-zuerich.ch)
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