mkozlows

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by mkozlows 9y ago
The "wheel" is 40 years old. It's a great wheel, it's doing a hell of a job. But with 40 years of perspective, maybe it actually can be re-invented better without carrying around a pile of legacy back-compatibility needs
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by mkozlows 9y ago
Although the counter-argument is, I've seen a whole bunch of cases where OSes weren't updated because this one old app wouldn't work on the new thing, so unmaintained legacy apps are always a problem.
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by mkozlows 9y ago
Take home is great, except people cheat. People even cheat on early screening questions knowing that an interview is coming up. (In a previous role, I gave applicants the same -- very trivial -- question that they had already coded the answ
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by mkozlows 9y ago
Certs are worthless. Generally, the most terrible programmers out there are loaded down with certs.
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Memorization? It's a factorial function. You shouldn't need to study or memorize anything to implement a factorial function. If you can't come up with this algorithm off the top of your head, that is legit telling something a
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Which is the problem with "class" in a nutshell. If you don't understand prototypal inheritance in ES5, you don't use it, and you stick with simpler concepts that work in a clean and elegant way that doesn't depend
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by mkozlows 10y ago
No, "works without Javascript" is way outdated advice that has nothing to do with accessibility in the modern world. The whole point of ARIA is to make dynamic, JS-driven web UIs accessible.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
No. Many of the things that automated tools can't find are simply impossible to judge in an automated way. Alt text being appropriate for images, for instance, is something that has to be verified by a human (or an AI that's indis
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by mkozlows 10y ago
So the big change there is to VB, right -- instead of being a language co-equal to C#, they're refocusing it to be beginner-focused, and are explicitly saying it won't have the same capabilities as C#. I think that makes a lot of
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by mkozlows 10y ago
That's precisely what makes Kakoune interesting. There are tons of Emacs-alikes out there, environments that do what Emacs did in a more modern way. There are basically no Vim-alikes out there, things that take Vim's conceptual un
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Hot take: Blockbuster failed because their business was renting physical media, and then physical media went away, and it turned out that being good at renting physical media didn't give you any particular skill or expertise at running
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Actual thing that will happen, if you're lucky: Dev changes the code to fix a bug, tests it, modifies it etc., finally gets it done. Deletes loving paragraphs of now obsolete text and writes in a one-liner description ("handle gra
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by mkozlows 10y ago
That's not revolutionary at all. You can do that already with tons of environments. Here's one for Javascript, based on Markdown: https://github.com/jostylr/litpro
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by mkozlows 10y ago
So your defense of literate program gives, as a defense, what I would think of as an attack on literate programming: Take this strawman for instance, how could you find the bug in the following code without the accompanying comment?
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Bad workplaces definitely exist. Sometimes, they can be changed, and there's a ton of scope for you to be the person who came in and got a dysfunctional department functional; sometimes, they're broken at a higher level than you c
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by mkozlows 10y ago
One of the reasons the article is so bad is that it's setting up a pile of false dichotomies, some of which you're embedding into assumptions here. Doing stuff to serve business needs is not intrinsically bad, or opposed to crafts
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by mkozlows 10y ago
I cannot disagree more strongly with this article and the attitude behind it. I mean, look at each of his points in turn: 1. His first two points, stripped of the irrelevant polemic, are the complaint that software is meant to help the busi
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Wii U was AC-powered and comparatively large. This is a battery-powered handheld. If it matches the Wii U, that will be good.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
And yet, the OnePlus 3 sells a fraction of the amount that the Samsung Galaxy S7 sells. It really seems like inexpensive high-end phones should sell like hotcakes, but in practice, it doesn't happen. It's arguably very possible th
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Management is hard, yes, but the person who posted this is a terrible manager. They probably work at a dysfunctional company where they don't have any models for good management, and think of themselves as just doing normal management
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by mkozlows 10y ago
UI is weird. Left/right goes between main topics, up/down goes through the slides on that topic. So if you just go right, right, right, you're only seeing the headings.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Lisp is a language family. It'd be more like "F#: ML beyond SML" or something.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Some units were buggy at launch, clearly. Most weren't. I bought one day one, and still have it; it's been fine the whole time. And yes, it didn't have split screen at launch -- no Android tablet did until Android 7, so that&
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Don't look at it from the time the phone started being sold, look at it from the time the phone stopped being sold. Android and iOS are very comparable then. The difference is that Apple keeps selling old models (at high prices) for th
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by mkozlows 10y ago
Two years of major-release support, and three years of security support: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/05/google-announces-new...
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by mkozlows 10y ago
That is not an accurate description of the Pixel C. It's an excellent Android tablet. That some reviewers don't want Android tablets is a separate issue.
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The point is to use the blog as an example to learn the tech, typically. Picking a familiar, not-too-big problem to solve is a good way to understand how new tech works.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
So you won't deal with recruiters, are only willing to work remotely, and don't want to look at any place boring... and you think that the unemployment rate has a lick of anything to do with why you can't find a job?
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by mkozlows 10y ago
There are different types of recruiters. Some are junk. Some are good. But for better or worse, many many jobs are going to hire through them, so you'll want to get past this distaste for them.
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by mkozlows 10y ago
The correlation is backward. RSS usage had flatlined as Twitter/Facebook took over the use cases of RSS for most people; with RSS in decline, Reader was killed... and now, years later, so is this Feed API. Yes, you like RSS. So do I. B

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