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by neilk 12y ago
How are any of these activities improved by an abrasive culture? The only thing it creates, ultimately, is the endgame of the Geek Social Fallacies: a place where the only people left all have nasty personalities and no social connections t
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by neilk 12y ago
I'm willing to stack my geek credentials against anyone, and I'm not in your consensus. Lots of people aren't. You might be inside a filter bubble. I don't agree with what Adria did, in that she shamed these guys on Twit
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by neilk 12y ago
What you're describing isn't an ORM, it's a SQL query abstraction. Knex is a very convenient, Promise-oriented query abstraction, and it has "raw" methods when only SQL snippets will do. http://knexjs.org
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by neilk 12y ago
Think about how everything in the computer is represented as binary ones and zeroes. That's kind of weird. When a non-programmer counts 5 items in the real world, they don't think of it as being equivalent to saying "101&quot
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by neilk 12y ago
There have been programming languages that counted from 1. It's more convenient IMO to count from zero but we could have had different conventions.
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by neilk 12y ago
The fact that most software sucks is not exactly a secret. I'm not sure a "look how the sausage is made!! ZOMG!!" thing would surprise a lot of people. In my experience, one of the most counterintuitive truths that (good) pro
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by neilk 12y ago
A complex system with millions of nodes and trillions of potential interactions with external and internal factors, working perfectly with no oversight and no unexpected outages. Do you live in this century? P.S. I'm not saying that th
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by neilk 12y ago
The idea of "atomic" units of fact turns out to be really slippery. In the end you're just shifting consensus to questions about what things really are verifiable facts. And then, what is a valid statement you can build on th
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by neilk 12y ago
> I usually try to help, but never know how far to go. As far as you would go to help any male colleagues who were being systematically excluded or bullied. Or farther. There are a number of resources at the Geek Feminism wiki. http:&#x
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by neilk 12y ago
I've been thinking about Moneyball as a metaphor for how we should hire, for quite a while. In my opinion there's just a vast amount of talent out there that the tech industry is discarding. It's not like you have to take the
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by neilk 12y ago
There's a difference between being structurally racist, and viciously, personally racist. The tech industry isn't filled with KKK members or open chauvinists (and anyone expressing such sentiments in public would be ejected immedi
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Why Rust has a code of conduct(reddit.com)
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by neilk 12y ago
Yes, I did just that. Actually I would guess it was more like 2%. This was the 90s, and the client was a big corporate programming consulting company. They wrote software for big corporations or the government. They couldn't get a webs
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by neilk 12y ago
Side note: as you might expect, Wikipedia's internationalization is the only system that attempts to do quantities and other formatting correctly for every goddamn language on the planet , but is considerably easier for translators to
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by neilk 12y ago
pg has talked about how his main exercise is running.
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by neilk 12y ago
I think Gabriel was referring to a historical moment -- Wikimedia does use Varnish now. "We currently use Varnish for serving bits.wikimedia.org, upload.wikimedia.org, text of pages retrieved from WMF projects, and various miscellaneou
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by neilk 12y ago
This site pairs geotagged photos with Google Street View. It's heartwarmingly creepy. By default, right now it's following #christmas, but here's the view of #tree: http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/?q=tree
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by neilk 12y ago
Yeah but isn't that study already telling? They're saying that if you are already familiar with the idea that a computer system has to be perfectly consistent, then programming makes sense to you. (Also, I think they had issues re
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by neilk 12y ago
Ember is the Rails of JavaScript. People who like Rails tend to also like Ember -- same approach to problems, and they integrate well together. Personally I am into React/Flux lately but that's because I like doing things at a bit
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by neilk 12y ago
Yeah, there's this narrative about programmers being born, not made. I have come to believe it is mostly false. First of all, when I was in my early 20s, I loved a lot of things. Writing, music, graphic design. For a time, I defined my
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by neilk 12y ago
I think it should have been clear I was referring to simple self-crafted statements like "I dedicate this work to the public domain." or people who think it's legal to republish on Tumblr if you don't claim authorship. C
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by neilk 12y ago
Despite what everyone on Tumblr thinks, "public domain" is, for various reasons, not a viable strategy for sharing images. If you want unlimited sharing with no attribution requirements, use Creative Commons Zero. http:/&#x2
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by neilk 12y ago
This is clickbait, slightly more subtle than usual. Some of what they say is true, but an article in a real business magazine would attempt to quantify what's changed since the 90s and what the limits of the new paradigms are. Wired is
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by neilk 12y ago
Did we read the same article? She's not condemning all left-wing activism. From the article: > My current political worldview falls under the umbrella of leftism [...] What I feel compelled to criticize is only one very specific pol
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by neilk 12y ago
1) Having a large staff is the opposite of radical change. 2) As a former WMF staffer - let me tell you they are well aware of the issues mentioned by Halfaker. They've been commissioning and releasing studies like this since 2009. The
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by neilk 12y ago
Location: Vancouver, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: San Francisco Bay Area or NYC Technologies: Node.js, Python, Postgres, PostGIS (...see resume) Résumé/CV: http://neilk.net/resume/ Email: n
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by neilk 12y ago
Zenhub uses the API, they just patch a few new things into Github's web pages. It doesn't seem that fragile to me.
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by neilk 12y ago
Well, you know this pattern... 1) people have discussions on a mailing list, and someone has an idea to do something 2) Then you recreate all that information on some project management tool, and tell the participants to subscribe to update
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by neilk 12y ago
I've seen some Startup School talks and the simulations of office hours or a YC interview are by far the most useful content. (At least if you're sitting in your bedroom, watching videos. In person, it's probably about meetin
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by neilk 12y ago
> The code was a tangled mess of mindless duplication, half-implemented features and misleading comments. In my experience, a lot of code is like this, and the majority of startup code is like this. I have found there's almost zero

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