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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Enlightenment isn't a thing that can be accomplished. That's an oxymoron.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Your ego drives every action of your existence, so no, you really can't. What you can do is be self aware of that reality.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
> You’ll of course be spending years and years practicing programming You can't just 'of course' this! I mean, you can, but that's the whole point. If you, or anyone reading this enough cares enough about being a grea
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
>it is that ego sabotages your efforts to put in the time Sure, but what I'm saying that that statement is almost meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Is not letting your ego get in the way a necessary part of getting to maste
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
I didn't. I said that being a "good programmer" isn't part of my identity...
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
"This is ego distraction. It’s about putting off uncertainty till later to buy temporary relief. To protect our ego from a perceived threat. Things like hard problems, the possibility of failing publicly, or negative feedback all beco
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Totally agree with you. I think the industry is going through an "emperor has no clothes" thing with unit tests and dependency inversion at the moment. The creator of BDD gave this talk a few years ago, which resonated with me: h
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Yes. An example was moving to the version of GHC where the semigroup change happened. The codebase was using this library: https://github.com/brendanhay/gogol . The library dropped support for one version of Google&#x27
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
It would be unprofessional to name the company.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
> Compare that to monthly whole-cluster outages from the full-best-practices all-cattle people. I'm trying to phrase this as nicely as I can: this statement does not reflect the reality of modern day operations. edit: For people dow
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Huh? My whole comment is about the fact that they DID cause a lot of problems for production software. The company wrote their flagship product in Haskell, and there is a pretty large chance that that decision will doom them because of the
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
I've been writing Haskell for 12 years so I'm aware of the abstractions it offers. At the end of the day though, either we're building a bridge or we're not. If we're building a bridge (i.e. a distributed database,
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
If there was unlimited time, sure.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
>The sad thing is nobody ever makes that complaint when talking about everything you'd need to know to build a bridge If we're talking about the software engineering equivalent of bridges, I think it would be much more valuable
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Anyone using Haskell to drive their business is making a huge mistake in my experience. Haskell2010 is a fine language. Unfortunately, the ecosystem has centered around whatever the latest version of GHC is, with its millions of language ex
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
I mean, Node and Go were released within 6 months of each other. When jquery was the dominant tool in the ecosystem, there wasn't nearly the level of breakage that there is now.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Not really. I've played with Rust but haven't used it in anger. One thing I've noticed about my programming style is that I LOVE to learn about new languages and language features. Using a language like Go or Java forces to m
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Java is pretty good. Go. C because of the nature of how libraries are shipped. Just as an example: "0 - libcurl 7.1, August 2000 1 - libcurl 7.5 December 2000 2 - libcurl 7.7 March 2001 3 - libcurl 7.12.0 June 2004 4 - libcurl 7.16.0 O
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
You're entitled to your opinion, but most of it is 100% bullshit in my eyes. I'll use Haskell as example. The ecosystem is a mess. `stack` is admirable effort to make development palatable, but it's ultimately a technical sol
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
> way to check if everybody perceives color in the same way Forget color, how do you know that anyone even exists? ;) Psychs can certainly increase feelings of solipsism, but they can also make you more accepting of a relative view reali
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
That's not a "quick win" use case though.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Great trick with using the python standard lib! Thanks for posting that. edit: You probably already know this, but for anyone reading along, piping `ls` is unsafe if you plan to use the paths for anything except for printing them out. A pat
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
That's a matter of opinion. I don't find using "$@" to be a big deal in practice. Let me put it like this: I'm a programmer. I don't mind making programming a bit harder for myself if it means that I get to avo
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
> There are plenty of cases where `jq` will or will not be available. Sure. The argument is that it's a lot easier for the user of the program to read an error message that says "jq is required. Run apt-get install jq or homebr
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
That's why I said "Posix shell" and not bash.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
This is why I've switched to writing "quick wins" in shell [or Go]. It's just so much nonsense that has nothing to do with actually programming. Posix shell can be a bit baroque, but you know that it's not ever goin
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
I'd be interested in hearing about the actual experience.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Nah, it's an extremely popular drug and right now it's probably more available than any time since the sixties.
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
> For Bob the marketing guy, it's just another tool to create a website. To me this is the "emperor has no clothes" about the whole ecosystem. The actual users don't care if it's a static file, a database CMS, or
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by moreaccountspls 6y ago
Is your goal to learn go (or other language), or to accomplish a specific task (both valid and wonderful goals!)? The reason I ask because if it's the second, I've become dramatically more productive by really learning shell. Just

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