olingern

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by olingern 7y ago
Code review, IMO, is specific to an org and how it wants the culture and codebase to mature overtime. Careless, quick reviews are going to foster an environment where PR authors do not feel adequately supported where as pedantic, nit-pickin
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by olingern 7y ago
I agree. Without these people the site could fall into a mess of bad answers or a self promotion answer driven platform like Quora.
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by olingern 7y ago
It’s exhausting that the author of Svelte has to continually compare his project to React. It’s a huge red flag when someone can’t substantiate why something is worthwhile without criticizing adjacent projects. I understand that React is th
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by olingern 7y ago
I remember digging through .NET forums to find answers for working with ASP record sets. 100% not fun. Nothing is perfect and SO has its warts — but it’s far better than anything we’ve ever had.
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by olingern 7y ago
Your posts have been helpful, thanks for the writing you do!
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by olingern 7y ago
Personally, I've found how they aggregate research and list it a valuable resource for how I continue my own research on a particular supplement. I find it much more valuable than the empty Mayo Clinic and WebMD articles that are so co
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by olingern 7y ago
Just a few that I've found liberating over the past few years: 1. In memory caches for small projects / one-offs. Redis and memcache are sometimes not needed. Wrapping your cache in an class whose storage is dependency injected is
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by olingern 7y ago
Correct pitch accent and intonation is quite hard to acquire. Congratulations, no small feat.
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by olingern 7y ago
I live Japan and this is a great example of how the culture holds on to tradition even if it hurts them over time. Manga is interesting because it’s actually a quite old art form, but the current print method of publication is not [1]. So,
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by olingern 7y ago
Neat project. A couple of articles yield funny, yet true results. A few queries: - “PHP use rising” - “Women in mathematics” But I was able to break it with something nonsensically narcissistic: - “Programmers are an elite race” Great work!
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by olingern 8y ago
But do any of these features progress the language or provide any performance benefits? Most read as syntactic-sugar (I understand Ruby is about developer happiness) and unnecessary.
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by olingern 8y ago
Personally, even though `.then` resembles A+ promise-like syntax -- I find that it feels more idiomatic than `yeild_self`. I remember Matz talking about this at RubyKaigi, and I wondered how it would work in practice; however, I enjoy that
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by olingern 8y ago
Indeed, I think times and CSS has gotten much better. MDN's documentation is great, and browsers are finally starting to standardize.
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by olingern 8y ago
I was like this 5 years ago. It's trite and no one wants to hear it, but the basics go a long, long way. All of that stuff you hear about in front-end interviews ( like the box-model and relative vs absolute positioning ) comes in hand
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by olingern 8y ago
That thread looks rough. Kudos to the MR author for sticking it out. @boleary-gl have you all considered having someone dedicate time each day / week to prioritizing community issues?
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by olingern 8y ago
Going to give the advice I would have gave to my younger developer self: General: - Use a debugger. Stepping through code or existing code is an incredibly quick way to grasp what is going on. - Exercise healthy paranoia. Expect your code p
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by olingern 8y ago
I can't really understand the sentiment that front-end dev is absurd. I started with .NET years ago and find _anything_ that becomes 'standard' in the front-end more approachable than the constant reinventing of the wheel &#x
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by olingern 8y ago
It's not an easy problem to solve. I could see there being a queue of bounty slots available for purchase that maintainers set and could be increased or decreased at anytime. A person who wants to pay for a bounty would need to submit
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by olingern 8y ago
Neat that that Github is looking into making open-source sustainable. I think a lot of maintainers hit a wall at some point. You have to have pretty thick skin to weather the entitlement people have to the thing(s) you put your life's
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by olingern 8y ago
Agreed. When I wrote the parent comment, I was thinking of a time I prematurely abstracted an API wrapper to a private git repo and how painful simple, frequent changes were. Though, as you say and I commented below they’re not mutually exc
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by olingern 8y ago
To me, a monorepo exists of a set of related or semi related services or runtimes that can operate autonomously, but have a dependency on their siblings to operate correctly. In some cases, this could be two separate backend projects where
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by olingern 8y ago
I’ve found monorepos to be extremely valuable in an immature, high-churn codebase. Need to change a function signature or interface? Cool, global find & replace. At some point monorepos outgrow their usefulness. The sheer amount of file
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by olingern 8y ago
I studied Japanese in college for 1 year. After living in Tokyo, I realized I knew basically nothing before moving here. I've found that I can read and write easier than I can speak, mostly because I have more time to build context in
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by olingern 8y ago
I was understanding until I read: "he emailed me and said he wanted to maintain the module, so I gave it to him. I don't get any thing from maintaining this module, and I don't even use it anymore, and havn't for years.&
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by olingern 8y ago
I lived in NYC for five years and the decline in metro service was significant between 2016-2018. From most reports, it was due to faulty switches or expiring subway cars. Fast forward to living in Tokyo, the difference is night and day (ex
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by olingern 8y ago
I had the advantage of working with people who had a background in typed languages, so everyone was onboard with giving Typescript a try a year ago. The thing is, I found you have to be very diligent about how you organize your interfaces a
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by olingern 8y ago
Posted at 15:51 Japan Standard Time "...with the aim of serving fully consistent data within the next 2 hours." That's somewhat significant
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by olingern 8y ago
Local to Tokyo, Github has been down for most of the day. I never realized how much of my day centers around it: pr review, creating / commenting on issues, etc. Looking forward to the write-up. I'm also curious as to how this sig
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by olingern 8y ago
To get into Berea your family has to meet financial requirements[1]. Translated: "you're poor enough." So, the common background of everyone on campus is pretty humble. There will be jerks anywhere-- that's a given. But,
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by olingern 8y ago
Berea Computer Science alumn here. Ask me anything. I grew up in Appalachia (pronounced "app-uh-lai-cha" by us), and have to say Berea was a godsend. I was lucky to start as desktop support and move on to a network engineer later.

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