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by nickm12 4y ago
There are plenty of decent schools and also plenty of decent jobs. However, my anecdotal experience from applying a kid to college last year is that the most selective schools are taking diversity initiatives too far. I know a kid who was a
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by nickm12 4y ago
These stores are not curated. They can catch the most egregious things, but they also are not really "safe" either. It would totally be worth 30% of my payment for a truly curated app store. However the Apple app store takes a lot
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by nickm12 4y ago
No. The US does not generally require "engineers" to be accredited and certified, but there are some exceptions, like particularly civil engineers.
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by nickm12 4y ago
For a description of the other type of Staff Engineer, see this post that was on HN a few months ago: https://earthly.dev/blog/line-staff/
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He is implying that his collaborators are kindergarteners who believe in Santa Claus. It's insulting.
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by nickm12 4y ago
The choice between condescension to your collaborators and putting people's feeling "above all else" is a false dichotomy. You can disagree on technical merits without making it personal and calling your collaborators kinderg
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by nickm12 4y ago
Did ActionScript transpile to Javascript? Regardless of whether it did or not, the ES4 trainwreck is probably a big part of the reason.
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Hmm....JSON felt so good in the mid-2000s because the alternative was XML, but I would not be on the list of things I am _thankful_ for now. It would not take much to make it considerably better at the job it purports to do—see JSON5 as an
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by nickm12 4y ago
I was confounded by Brazil for my first 3-4 years of working with it. The lightbulb clicked on just as I was ready to move on and at my next job, I missed Brazil terribly (maybe it was just Stockholm syndrome). I eventually boomeranged back
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by nickm12 4y ago
Environmental, Social, and Governance
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by nickm12 4y ago
I really don't like the term "diversity hire". A candidate cannot be diverse. Diversity is a property of a population.
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by nickm12 4y ago
> Or at the very least, Apple could change the wording of "Add to Home Screen" to "Install the app" This makes me think the article is parody. Apple will never call PWAs "apps". Apps come from the App Store
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by nickm12 4y ago
This has been exactly my experience. I have use custom email addresses online for at least 13 year and I have (almost) never gotten spam to these addresses. I have no spam filter on my account, so if I received spam email I would know. Ther
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by nickm12 4y ago
"I Love Lucy" was a huge cultural touchstone for my grandparents, who immigrated to the United States after World War II. Their English was weak at the time, but they fell in love with Lucy's physical comedy. (they couldn&#x2
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by nickm12 4y ago
Yup, had exactly the same thought. Valuing an employee by how many hours they were "visibly present" was shockingly unaware.
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by nickm12 4y ago
Yeah, I found this weirdly useless in the same way. I think it's simply trying to say "we should do our jobs, not stress about being rock stars, and not be assholes or gatekeepers". It's a mix of some solid traits, some
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by nickm12 4y ago
This is crazy talk from Elon. Demanding your employees spend 40 hours a week "visibly present" in an office, rather than judging them by the value they have delivered to your business is absurd. I very much enjoy working from an o
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by nickm12 4y ago
Something about this rubs me the wrong way. I think the argument that code quality matters less in the tail doesn't account for the fact that you are working on the code right now . By construction, the code you are writing at any poi
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by nickm12 4y ago
There are non-subjective arguments. See EWD831: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...
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by nickm12 4y ago
Absolutely yes, but you have to use a typechecker like mypy (and generally make it part of your release builds). I've found typechecking my Python code makes my development iterations much faster than writing tests. My biggest issue
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by nickm12 4y ago
Yes to all of that. Plus the url of the post itself ( https://sive.rs/su ) takes this to a perverse extreme. I agree that URLs should be humane, but typeable from memory is not the primary objective. Having people beable to r
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by nickm12 4y ago
It can happen for a while with large year-over-year headcount growth + manager attrition. But eventually, the music stops.
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A real jewel.
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by nickm12 4y ago
Ah metaserver! I wonder how much of my code is still there (and if it is still Py2). I read the Atlas blog post, which implied that metaserver was rearchitected, but still 3M SLOC of Python. https://dropbox.tech/infrastruct
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by nickm12 4y ago
I've seen this on services that do CI/CD, but institute a freeze for peak traffic events. In theory, the freeze serves the purpose of increasing capacity, since all services are serving traffic rather than updating software, and
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Same experience over a little bit more than a decade. Essentially none of the custom email addresses I use have started getting spam. The two cases where I did get a lot of unwanted email was when I was buying a car and looking for a mortga
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by nickm12 5y ago
Yeah, I think OP might be more interested in "what is the most elaborate program you wrote only for your personal use?" Most of my personal programs have been command-line script. I have written a couple of single-page web apps a
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by nickm12 5y ago
+1 to Caldigit Thunderbolt. I bought a TS3 Plus almost two years ago and have been living the single-cable lifestyle since. Works great.
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by nickm12 5y ago
HiDPI. If you want HiDPI in a 32" display, Apple has the Pro Display XDR for $5000, but that is quite an expensive display.
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by nickm12 5y ago
It's an improvement over a world of micro and mini USB, DisplayPort + HDMI, and proprietary chargers. The eleven different types of cables with no consistent labeling is a drag. I think with better software on the devices and some sane

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