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by pdimitar 2y ago
Well, that's the thing for me: I can't see a subject or a discussion. Just a few random rants. People's memories get triggered and they start discussing. Kind of like discussing what's the message of an art piece.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Indeed. That's a gross understatement even. And I'd argue that former nerds turn into predatory CEOs just fine, given enough time and money, too.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> The comments here unintentionally qualify this assessment. Which comments might those be? Be concrete. You also didn't give any example as I asked, you are happy just generalizing so it's not really interesting to engage wi
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by pdimitar 2y ago
To take a face value such a blatant generalization like "I really believe you did not understand the article or my comment" you might want to give an example? I did not find the article illuminating one bit. I agree with some of t
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Sucks or not, it's pretty logical. Venting is not interesting to me if I am reading something on HN. Or if they are, it's rare. Also what you call "negative energy" I would often call "rightful criticism on non-dist
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by pdimitar 2y ago
How idealistic of you to assume people will even be able to agree on what's a sensical and nonsensical suggestion. OP indeed has mutually exclusive phrases. If we ever get to the "extremely directs facts/proofs" then thi
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by pdimitar 2y ago
No, I disagree that it doesn't make sense. I was mostly saying that the OP's "hats" are generally just various random points along the spectrum of "how much would you invest in the code". They are kinda arbitra
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I am not sure what you find unfair, not like I am polarizing anything. I too introduced nuance via the "chef's hat" amount of effort one is willing to introduce. I was also disagreeing with OP about their idea that polishing
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Not sure what's even the point of this article. One of the conclusions I was able to surmise is "it's OK to suffer all the time" which I vehemently disagree with but oh well.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
This could be formulated much better IMO but it's good that OP gave us this to check out and comment on. I'd simplify this to "commercial hat" and "hobbyist hat", more or less, but there's another axis ent
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Not sure I got you right here but this is exactly the situation where you should calm your breathing and make triple sure you don't make things worse -- because things can always get worse.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Alright now. Let's have a quick go at this: "You gain nothing (other than some smug ivory tower sense of superiority) by making your functions pure and passing around a global state object to every single method invocation."
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Wait... HOW?!
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> Iroincally I'd probably have more github projects if I didn't spend 20 months looking for a full-time job. Same. I could afford not working throughout most of 2023 but I had to deal with ruined health + my leeway didn'
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Commendable, still let's not forget that the part I quoted was the beginning of a mud-slinging contest that you seemed willing to start. ;) So indeed, let's re-focus and re-engage. To that end, I will post you a longer reply Late
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Thank you. <3 And yep I didn't want to make my comment too big. I make double sure to document any step-by-step processes on "how to make X or Y work", especially when I stumble upon a confusing bug in a feature branch. I
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by pdimitar 2y ago
OK, I will. But I also got a notification about a big comment you posted but it is now deleted. Did you want to rewrite it or did you give up on it?
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I did not say you are targeting OP. I meant that you are degrading your parent commenter. This: "You gain nothing (other than some smug ivory tower sense of superiority) by making your functions pure and passing around a global state o
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yeah, thought the same. Not to mention that I tried to have a bunch of old USB sticks put into one of my servers and it added like two minutes to its reboot time. (Though admittedly I didn't fight hard with systemd to make sure their m
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by pdimitar 2y ago
> The problem is data access. Nothing more, nothing less. There's a term for this that has nothing to do with global variables: "action at a distance." I mean yes, using global variables is just one of the ways to cause
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Hard to take your comment seriously when you go out of your way to degrade a discussion opponent, FYI.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Yeah, I have 2 such from AliE and they perform well and haven't lost anything yet even though they have dozens of thousands of files at rest that are updated 1-2 times a month, for almost 3 years now. Quite pleased with them. They are
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by pdimitar 2y ago
These moral questions stand unsolved for decades, and many people are acutely aware of them. IMO it's time we start putting those executives in jail for it. But we all know it ain't ever happening.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I have 23 years of experience and I am almost invisible on GitHub, and for all those years I've been fired from 4 contracts due to various disconnects (one culture mis-fit and two under-performances due to illness I wasn't aware o
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by pdimitar 2y ago
Cool, okay. Nuance matters, I agree. Nuance also demands we point out at the businessmen who can't discern one programmer from another. Different people thrive in very different environments and this is, 99% of the time, ignored.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
The part where I get frustrated in a similar manners as yours is that while yes businesses could prioritize improving their use of Electron, they never do. :(
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by pdimitar 2y ago
It seems that this cycle of civilization will end and businesses will still not grasp the very simple fact that often times programming is both engineering and creativity. Oh well.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
I sympathize with small companies in this regard. But those like Microsoft and Slack have exactly zero excuses.
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by pdimitar 2y ago
If you say so. Telegram for example updates in half a second on my Windows gaming machine, and having a daily update script on my Mac and Linux machines is easy as hell. Sure many people don't update like ever, but Apple's and Mic
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by pdimitar 2y ago
OK, I still want instant switch between separate chats in Slack though, not this 1970s-like 1.5s laggy slow transition on a machine that can scan ~300K files in the same 1.5 seconds.

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