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by msluyter 5y ago
Yeah I've always felt like the missing part of the loop (in the context of pointing stories) is looking at point estimates and then tracking how accurate they were, _by developer_. E.g., I throw 2 points, but it turns out the story tak
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by msluyter 5y ago
Apparently "solarpunk" is now the zietgiest. Here's another interesting one: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/drawing-pictures-of-cities
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by msluyter 5y ago
I've also had the problem of being overly quiet at times, in meetings typically. Unfortunately it gives the impression of being unengaged, when in reality I may just be thinking deeply about something. My solution, analogous to yours,
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by msluyter 5y ago
Really enjoyed "718 - I am not a teapot", a clever nod to "418 - I'm a teapot": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418
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by msluyter 5y ago
Aligns with my current meta-principle, which is that good code is malleable (easily modified, which includes deletion). A lot of design principles simply describe this principle from different angles. Readable code is easy to modify because
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by msluyter 5y ago
Not a full solution, but when I was doing this I really got to love the awslogs utility: https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs It allows you to stream Cloudwatch logs from the command line, so you can grep them, save
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by msluyter 6y ago
To wit: I made it through a master's in CS without a database class. This reminds me of the famous Rob Pike quote: "Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will alm
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by msluyter 6y ago
I learned a ton and didn't even make it through the first 10 speeches[1]. Some off the top of my head: * Organization -- learning how to center a speech around a topic with 2-3 supporting points. * Brevity -- the 3 min time limit is h
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by msluyter 6y ago
My somewhat countervailing anecdote: I've had various forms of RSI off and on for many years. For about the last 5 years it's been under control since I started doing the following: I use a Kenisis Freestyle 2, spread apart, rest
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by msluyter 6y ago
Curious what people's experiences are wrt library development within an enterprise. I've been at organizations where basically everything was done via services and there was very little library usage, and I always thought that was
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by msluyter 6y ago
In theory, order shouldn't matter, right? But I recall seeing this trick for adding comments to json: { "foo": "this is a comment about foo", "foo": "actual value of foo that overwrites t
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by msluyter 6y ago
I've often thought this -- age stratification to our current degree is a relatively new (20th century?) phenomenon, and seems under-studied. I think the awareness came to my mind when I went to a number of mixed polka/swing dances
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by msluyter 6y ago
Example: a team I was on was using SQLAlchemy and we had a couple of services, one that did read only queries, and another that did writes and occasionally DDL (rebuilding the table on the fly, (which is unwise but that's a topic for a
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by msluyter 6y ago
After a number of years with Python, I started a position working in Scala about 6 months ago. I really wanted to learn something new, and become acquainted with functional programming concepts. I agree with most of the above. A couple of a
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by msluyter 6y ago
Was very much into it from like 1999-2008. Taught lindy classes locally for a number of years. Frankie, and notably Dawn Hampton as well, were huge inspirations. Until knee problems forced me to quit, lindyhop/dancing was probably the
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by msluyter 6y ago
Tangential: Noah Smith is one of the more rewarding people to follow on Twitter. He often posts long, thoughtful threads. I've learned a lot from them.
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by msluyter 6y ago
Given the 600k+ installations of the "Disable Gutenberg" plugin[1], this is not an uncommon opinion. It sounds like this would be a good option for you. [1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg&#x2F
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by msluyter 6y ago
"The only reason to have Unit tests is to make sure that code that already works doesn’t break." I used to think this -- now I believe they have another almost as important purpose as a sort of "check your work" step. No
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by msluyter 6y ago
If you have years or decades of experience you should have a large network of colleagues to get leads and jobs from. Clearly I've failed here. I've kept in touch with a few folks from previous jobs via LinkedIn or whatnot, but a
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by msluyter 6y ago
YMMV, but consider that if you think a single solution is the right solution in all cases, you're most likely wrong. This is sort of the meta-principle that I apply to all of software development: no principle or methodology (DRY, YA
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by msluyter 6y ago
Seconded. A while ago we had a bit of a windfall in the form of a Lowe’s gift card and so we splurged on a Dyson. It felt extravagant at the time but now we use it daily and it’s been well worth the investment.
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by msluyter 6y ago
This was the first question that occurred to me. Just a couple of days ago I needed to buy another iphone USB-lightning cable. If you want to get a sense of just how broken Amazon reviews are, try searching for one of these. It's a nig
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by msluyter 6y ago
In college I had some back problems, so I improvised (an incredibly unwise) lay-down desk by putting my monitor face down on two chairs and just lying with my face underneath it. This was a heavy CRT, not a modern LCD monitor. (Did I mentio
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by msluyter 6y ago
I go into arguments with the goal of generating a diff of the logic trees in the participant's brains. In the best case, you find your assumptions are the same but that your reasoning differs -- these are often tractable. In the worst
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by msluyter 6y ago
FWIW, we have an LG smart TV and I've never seen ads on it because our standard use case is a) turning it on and b) immediately pressing the built in Prime/Netflix button. I barely even know what the home screen looks like.
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by msluyter 6y ago
I had the same thought -- I wonder if there's a name for this genre?
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by msluyter 6y ago
IIRC, states are mandated against running deficits, and their budgets are set 1-2 years in advance (eg, Texas, whose legislature sets the budget every 2 years), which limits their maneuverability in this regard. Also, states don't have
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by msluyter 6y ago
One heuristic I've adopted: when faced with a design decision, I ask the question "what's the simplest possible way to do this (that meets the requirements)?" So, do you need a fully event driven Kafka based system, or w
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by msluyter 6y ago
re: 3, for me another killer feature is syntactically aware selection (alt-up/alt-down). Whatever symbol you're on, alt-up will select increasingly large scopes: symbol -> expression(s) -> statement(s) -> method/func
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by msluyter 6y ago
Also, check out FastAPI, which is quite nice. Fully async with a lot of other nice features: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/

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