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by richo 14y ago
In theory yes. In practice, this was a specific job that I wanted for reasons I probably won't go into here. It was devastating to be turned down for such arbitrary reasons, especially considering that everyone on the team was behind hiring
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by richo 14y ago
As a developer (These days, DevOps engineer) without a uni degree I can tell you absolutely that for better or for worse you're probably still better off with a degree. Note that I'm saying this is how it should be, but just that to say "yo
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by richo 14y ago
I hadn't thought of it that way.
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by richo 14y ago
Your password rant falls on it's ass immediately considering that we don't have any way to link your thumbprint to your identity for the remote peer. Using a service like twitter as online identity helps to some degree with having fewer pas
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by richo 14y ago
> I think Yehuda is a very nice and smart person I always get confused by this. I don't understand how being nice factors into technical decisions? (For the record, I also think wycats is nice, but I don't really care when I'm trying to
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by richo 14y ago
Likewise for chrome on android
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by richo 14y ago
My point is that "functional" is meaningless in this context. "Compatible with purely functional programming" maybe, but "functional" tells you nothing, especially when you can't embed computation (functions) in a git database without some
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by richo 14y ago
being immutable and being functional aren't even close to the same thing. It just so happens that git's object db is immutable, although even then it depends what you're talking about. It's most interesting property is that it's content-add
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by richo 14y ago
gcc just switched to C++, clang always has been. While this isn't "linux" per se, it's also kinda hard to do anything useful on a GNU/Linux system at this point without a working C++ compiler.
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by richo 14y ago
Read this: http://miek.nl/downloads/2010/c++-talk.pdf?we-require-more-d... Then read the article again. C++ terrifies me.
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by richo 14y ago
It's so far from finished, but I'd be interested to see people think about where it's going: https://github.com/richo/groundstation You should be able to get something working by installing the dependencies, pulling in some github issues
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by richo 14y ago
We're in the process of implementing just that. I'll blog about as much as I can and hopefully publish most of not all of the code.
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by richo 14y ago
To be blunt, the simple problems are hard. Concurrency. Locking. Cache invalidation. CAP Theorem for determining truth in distributed datasets. Feel free to solve any of them. For the record, "I could do it if I had the time". Do it. It'll
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by richo 14y ago
Alcohol is bad for you. So is going outside and waking up every morning. I enjoy doing these things in moderation though, do we need more nanny stating to tell me what I can enjoy doing?
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by richo 14y ago
You're forgetting the guy who didn't speak up to say "Hey, maybe we shouldn't do this in prod?". I feel for him, but at the same time there's a point at which you have to if testing guns by shooting them near (but not specifically at) your
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by richo 14y ago
Aaaand they're down.
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by richo 14y ago
Unrelated, but I'm using protobuf in a project I'd like to port to python3. I'll have a poke at the problem, where's the best place to ping you if I've got an rc for python3 protobuf?
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by richo 14y ago
I'm guessing RethinkDB but it's hard to say..
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by richo 14y ago
Shame it's been pulled, I really want to see the content of this epic linkbait
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by richo 14y ago
I'm not sure if you were meant to be agreeing with me or not, or if I'm just misinterpreting your tone. I agree with you. While I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have some perspective and context for the way you experience the w
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by richo 14y ago
I'm perpetually amused by all the people acutely aware of their privilege, and how they rarely mention any of the things they're doing to try to right the injustice. It strikes me as the same making racist remarks and then insisting you hav
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by richo 14y ago
Why wouldn't they? If you've paid for something isn't that _more_ incentive to make it badass?
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by richo 14y ago
That's what's awesome about free software, last time I checked noone is hitting you with a stick until you do. It comes off pretty arrogant suggesting that sniping a few bugs or features is comparable to the initial investment to write the
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by richo 14y ago
Kudos on not understanding what open source means.
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by richo 14y ago
Vim version referenced is horrifically out of date. Their dev trunk is pretty stable, it'd be good if he'd update the post.
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by richo 14y ago
Can we ditch the "longwinded version of the man page" posts?
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by richo 14y ago
I especially liked the part where he backed this up with evidence, or even examples to back up his opinions.
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My next sleep experiment(blog.psych0tik.net)
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by richo 14y ago
Oh, my bad. I saw him commenting on everything and made the (faulty) assumption.
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by richo 14y ago
Gvim always used to work fine for me when I was developing a C# system, the awkward thing was the naming conventions being broken for everything so I had to go on a renaming binge.

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