mkozlows

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by mkozlows 11y ago
Others have already given the reasons about the downsides of comments. One other reason is: Most developers are terrible, terrible writers. It's one thing to imagine a profession of literate programming as practiced by Donald Knuth; it
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I have a $20 hunk of plastic on my ceiling too. It beeps whenever I cook a bunch of things, won't stop until I get out the stepladder and literally press a button on it, and when it needs a new battery it helpfully lets me know by beep
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Back when I worked at Best Buy in high school, I heard this basic story -- "A single unit of a particular product went bad, and therefore this product/brand is untrustworthy and bad, and I will never buy it again." -- from pr
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On the one hand, I zero percent want to work in that environment. On the other hand, I can see why it would appeal to some people. If you've ever worked at a place with stifling bureaucracy, where building consensus laboriously over mo
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I think any observation that imagines that old-school dropdown-menu-based applications are easier to use than iOS/Android applications is empirically off-base. More people use, more fluently, phone apps than ever used those desktop one
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Saving for longer than 20 years already has a name, and it's called "saving for retirement."
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Your advice is not his advice.
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"The S&P 500 index in its present form began on March 4, 1957" says Wikipedia. And its return since the 50s is 7% in real terms. And there were decades at a time (including the 2000-2010 period, where real return was -3.4%) th
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It's cool that this guy is doing things that make him happy. But I'm extremely confident that he didn't do this by following the financial plan he blithely gives. Because a) good luck finding an investment that'll give y
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Tldr: "I don't understand the appeal of Chromebooks or ChromeOS, everyone loves Windows!"
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The book is a fairly evenhanded account of where the controversies are, what positions are held, and what the major points of evidence are.
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It's a starting point, but a starting point that directs users to fake italic, fake small-caps, mismatched mono text, inconsistent apostrophes, and ugly underlines. (Oh, and sidenotes and other margin content just disappears on a phone
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Honestly, this is really rough. The impulse is admirable, but the implementation has a lot of rough edges and ugliness. A web author looking for good typography is going to be better served reading Butterick's Practical Typography ( ht
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34MB for Hello World, according to this SO post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13692206/high-java-memory... I'm not going to install the JDK just to verify, but feel free to report back if you get differ
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by mkozlows 11y ago
The relevance is that even a 175 LOC project in Java takes up enormous memory and disk footprint -- that the JVM is this super-heavyweight thing that's really just inherently inappropriate for a lot of applications.
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"Keep your old Windows laptop around in a drawer; when you want to print something, just boot it up to print."
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It's certainly the case that OSX, at least, has gotten flaky as heck, but at the same time: What's the competition? While Apple was releasing Yosemite, Microsoft was going down the Windows 8 rabbit-hole, releasing the worst versio
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by mkozlows 11y ago
Bet on the winners of sporting events. (Note: This works best if you have previously picked up a sports almanac from the future.)
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Google doesn't need to do anything about it; buyers need to factor it in when they buy phones. Some people don't care, other people care a lot, and it's possible some people even like TouchWiz(tm) and its ilk. But yeah, that&
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There are different types of recruiters. Some are those worthless spamlords, who pester candidates with irrelevant jobs and submit worthless candidates to hiring managers. But the good ones look for good matches and good candidates, and don
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by mkozlows 11y ago
async/await is one of those very C++-ish features, though, due to how it's implemented. Understanding ES5 async callbacks requires very little conceptual understanding -- you need to understand run-to-completion and the event loop
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Let me put it like this: If you're an unemployed developer writing sob-story posts about how it's impossible to find a job, I'm going to assume that you're not wedded to a particular tech stack and are willing to work on
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by mkozlows 11y ago
HN may be an echo chamber, but look what you're saying: Employers are desperate for developers, including entry level ones, mostly using older tech stacks, and they'll pay solid money for them. It doesn't sound like you'
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I have friends who are devs and hiring managers (several of whom have no degrees, even) in many cities -- Detroit, Columbus, Portland, Chicago, SF -- and the same thing is true in all those places. If you live in a small town, I can believe
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Most hiring managers are hiring people because they have a definite need for a developer. Every day that they don't find one, they have work that's going undone, projects that are proceeding too slowly, bugs going unfixed. And if
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Three points to that: 1. This differs more from workplace to workplace than industry to industry. Many dev workplaces will give developers a week or two of official "training time." Many other industries have workplaces that don&#
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This is an absolutely baffling article. The job market for developers is not glutted by over-supply, it's one where marginally-qualified people get hired for salaries well above the national average because companies need SOMEONE to do
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by mkozlows 11y ago
The biggest problem with this article is that the data in their core graph[1] doesn't actually match up with their claims. What that graph shows is what families were worth over a 14 year periods for a bunch of cohorts. And the data ma
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Except there hasn't really been. If you look at their graph of wealth by age for all cohorts, the younger ones are actually ahead of the older ones up until the 2008 recession hits; and yeah, they drop after that, but then resume climb
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It seems to me that a lot of the "Docker isn't good for production" stuff boils down to "Docker is a base layer that's not sufficient for production, and you need other tooling around it." Like, if you're

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