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by nogabebop23 7y ago
People also "Hate" Basic, but it was the gateway drug for almost everyone who discovered computers in the 80's It seems really weird to Hate something you can easily make irrelevant to your life - maybe people mean they hate
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
The sillyness continues: Headline: "1/2 of programmers prefer to work at a company that does pair programming" Actual Question: "If pair programming was a common practice at a company, would it affect your interest in wo
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
Because you can go online and place holds on many books and the library will ship them to your prefered branch once available and then shelve them for pick-up. There's a significant amount of effort and cost, plus most holds are for th
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
yes - Calgary used to fine you $2 if you did not pick up a hold within 7 days, now it just expires. I wonder if it was the same specific motivation or the PITA of collecting fines in general.
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
>> I guess the difference is that it improves road safety Exactly - just like when I want to change the way my kids are acting: I pick a random occurrence of a specific behaviour, punish them well after the fact and they inevitably dr
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
I only half-joke about cultivating crab grass; it's green, grows flat so never needs mowing and is drought-resistent. I never walk on the lawn in our front yard and could really care less about what the neighbours think. Resists incons
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
IF someone employees you full-time, the 40-ish hours they pay for is always interpreted as whenever they need you (if they're working you are too, right?). If you're part-time the mental model is you are only available for a very
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
Slightly off-topic; The Seattle free walking tour (pay what you want after) is also great, epsecially for a first time visitor. My wife and I happily shelled out after the 2-hour version.
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
Most of the emperical studies I've seen suggest people who travel little by car generally do less trips vs. many shorter trips; i.e. they're not driving 6 miles a day, they're driving 20 miles twice a week.
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
I shared a variation of this with our development managers (consciously changing "rules" to "tips & suggestions" so as not to ignite a tabs v. spaces holy war) and got very strong responses about how "as long as
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
>> I can see what the code is doing. I don't think the reader should have to look at the code to get the summary of what the code does and how it does it. I agree that the "why" should be the focus.
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
>> how much time would you have wasted writing good commit messages? or time wasted writing unit tests, or pull requests, or code reviews? (1) It's about effective communication. Why do developers appear to care so much about the
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
or the various "gold" and "diamond" or similar editions.
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
>> Bombardier leads a Canadian aerospace resurgence. Do we have enough tax dollars to finance such an event </s>
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
I'd like some of these raxor thin margins! They are up in every category with the exception of a small drop in utilization for both the 3rd quarter and YoY, with essentially no more employees and better fuel efficiency: "Our 2019
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
sure these are stereotypes but so many Canadian stereotypes are good ones - let's lean in!
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
We should compare the time between officially discountinued and no longer usable. For Google products it's the same date but I did and do use MS products long after they are killed off* * Image Composer, MS Money, Media Center, Movie M
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
What? FP let you do WYSIWYG html and then generated horrendous markup. VS Code is first and foremost a text editor. More accurately Web Matrix => VS Code
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
they apprentice after become a [trade]-apprentice. If you're brand new you go to school & do a mix of lab work and on-the-job placements. The key (which I think you're making) is that once you're an apprentice you learn b
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
HR loves to trot out this saying, attributing it to the enlightened CEO or such. In my experience it's about 50-50 if someone stays because we offer advanced training or leverages their new skills to get a new job.
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
I think the classic ideal of a liberal arts degree is awesome... as a second or mid-life degree. The option to read and think in-depth and breadth seems to have more potential once you've lived a little more than the average 18-yr-old,
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
People going to university in order to get a good job are playing the wrong game. Anyone looking primarily at the "cost vs. future earnings" for any particular program or course in a university setting is 1. not going to find a go
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
even if this is true (and it definitely can be) this would fall into the accidental category of complexity and be a magnitude less impactful than the essential fact that "building software is hard because it is".
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
Alternative Headline: "One of World's Largest Banks Looks to Upend Financial Model That Generates Them Obscene Profits" I'm somewhat skeptical they're going all-in or adhering to the vision of the zealots...
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
I don't intentional break things just to create crisis, but I have pushed for change that I know highlights problems and forces us to address them. For example, after many acquisitions by our company you could still identify the old co
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
My experience as a Development Manager for the past ~year (YMMV): 1. I'm playing chess; senior management is playing checkers. No, not because I'm some sort of genius and they are simpletons, but rather they talk about interchange
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
It's because they have a database on the back end and you need to be able to write "SELECT * FROM [foo]" to get data. I'd actually be really pissed if a company asked me to write a query like "count these orders by
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
Is it really your experience that node was ever a contender? In what context or application? Also enterprise is almost all windows on the client and on the server still has lots of traction; I don't see why .net needs platform neutrali
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by nogabebop23 7y ago
I think what they mean is scale = repeatability; you can't really say "clone rockstars" but you can do something n-times with a pool of good developers, and leverage = the scaling action; ex: a senior dev could increase their