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by njharman 6y ago
GUIs are a discoverability nightmare. I've always found --help (or help <command> for tools breakin the "standard") and man pages massively more discoverable than any gui. There are two well known entry points &quot
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by njharman 6y ago
Censoring is a losing battle. Because it attacks a symptom. The cure for ignorance is not trying to hide missinformation (that just empowers the spreaders, gives it credence (they wouldn't bother suppressing it if it weren't true)
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by njharman 6y ago
I didn't, skimmed. > PHP is the most widely used language in the world for websites. Being served does not equate to being used to develop new things. Is there really that many new websites, website features being authored in PHP? S
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by njharman 6y ago
I don't understand. Blogosphere seems vibrant to me. I blog semi irregurally on my blogger.com blog. Read dozens of blogs every week. Just added a couple new blogs. Maybe it depends on subject. All of the above are rpg and warfare blog
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by njharman 6y ago
Its experiences like this that make me sad for people who can't code. Not full blown dev, just enough to automate the mundane. I can't imagine being at the mercy of computer tech in areas of being the master of it.
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by njharman 6y ago
Because the ERP solution comes with a gaggle of sales people, sales eng, and bizdev folks to convince your co's decision makers that it is best thing since butter. SQL doesn't.
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by njharman 6y ago
Yes. All the time. Its standard practice to pay more at high cost of living areas. I've not worked at a company with offices in different cost of living areas that did not do this.
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by njharman 6y ago
The future(well now too) is machine learning. Don't have to understand. Just feed pictures of what you want it to look like and out comes materials that look like that. Many techniques like this highlighted on Two-Minute Papers
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by njharman 6y ago
I'd say that is super useful as someone who 1) cuts and pastes into plain text files often 2) often wishes to take data from charts and munge it, although sparklines are probably too informationally sparse to bother.
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by njharman 6y ago
Hmmmm, is this why Austin has had continuous surge in population (from immigration, anecedotly mostly from California) for past several years? btw Austin is horrible, don't move here. ;)
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by njharman 6y ago
If you're only after money then be a Quant for financial company. But you probably had to plan that from college. The other option is start your own companies (plural cause it's unlikely your first several will be "the one&q
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by njharman 6y ago
> If it's all a cover story for top secret stuff, Probably not all, but some. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/03/us/cia-admits-government-... > I doubt any U.S. military project is actually sa
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by njharman 6y ago
First, watching youtube is great for learning things. A possibly different perspective. Do things, don't study. Only study if and up to the minimum that you need to accomplish the thing you are doing right now. I don't study. I d
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by njharman 6y ago
Their "Industry" is selling political agenda and influencing governments for corporate benefit. Seems successful. > geopolitical disaster "disasters" are profitable (for those able to benefit from corruption). And ena
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by njharman 6y ago
I think this depends a lot on the developer. Some Devs I work with want to dabble with many tools and solve problems by picking (or creating) a new tool rather than learning how to solve problem with existing tool. They learn, and are talki
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by njharman 6y ago
> default arg instances getting cached across calls That is not what is happening at all, logically or semantically. Effectively this is. # People not understanding when the # function definition including arguments is evaluat
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by njharman 6y ago
Explicit is better than implicit. >>> (True == False) is False True
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by njharman 6y ago
At least in the USA every data set available to police, every law of any strength has been extended, stretched or fragrantly misapplied/used (sometimes ruled illegally after the fact when defendant is able to determine what they did an
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by njharman 7y ago
less than lay person, but in your example > "no evidence of cancer" and "evidence of no cancer" are very different things. Why is it not as simple "no belongs to the word it precedes" ? like unary operator,
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by njharman 7y ago
Not even close. Also, it takes pretty vivid imagination / stout obstinance to characterize vast majority of pre-existing libs/projects and almost all new project starts using new version as a "failure". Bunch of whining
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by njharman 7y ago
> think that the best possible plan is for everyone to get infected That's like asking why does everyone think the best plan is for the sun to rise tomorrow morning. It's not a "plan", it is fact. Everyone (to some le
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by njharman 7y ago
Really? Work should be disincentivized. Automation and innovation rewarded. The goal of human existence is not and should not be "gainful employment".
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by njharman 7y ago
I countb at least 5, from memory. = - ^ ~
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by njharman 7y ago
Just the opposite. Hate the markdowns. ReST for life!
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by njharman 7y ago
Keeping docs and code as close together as possible. Certainly same repo. But for instance one of pythons greatest feature is docstrings. Which has encouraged documentation in the code. Other than that document in comments. And things like
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by njharman 7y ago
> sacrifices the company’s well-known identity I challenge author, or anyone, to find any person who is unable to correctly attribute new logo to BMW but can do so with the old logo.
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by njharman 7y ago
> sacrifices the company’s well-known identity Challenge author to find any person who is unable to correctly attribute new logo to BMW but can do so with the old logo.
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by njharman 7y ago
> Keeping master ready to deploy is the way to go Are there really teams that don't do this?
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by njharman 7y ago
Could easily be contractual with game publiasher. "You can sell this bundle for X dollars. You can not split the bundle up for individual sale". I'm sure they don't want to argue over in court whether refunding half of
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by njharman 7y ago
Different perspectives; being in the industry for 25+ years, I didn't think being away 3 years wasn't long enough for much other than names and fads to have changed.

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