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by ritchiea 6y ago
Safe from what exactly? I don’t want my life to be exclusively a maximizing game for length of life & wealth. I’m going to die to matter what, I certainly don’t want to become reliant on alcohol or have an abusive relationship but I wou
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by ritchiea 6y ago
My team works on feature branches that get merged to master. Only master ever needs a git pull and you never work directly on master. Every team I've worked with over the last ten years has done some version of this work flow with smal
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I think of log, cherry-pick, stash & blame "quarterly use" commands rather than "daily use" commands. log maybe monthly, the rest quarterly unless you're doing something wrong.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Why did you immediately assume the software engineer the original comment was theorizing about would not have intermediate knowledge of the codebase?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Yea I don't think the response above you actually understood my comment. I do play chess somewhat seriously and it's similar mental labor as programming. And I can only do so much more serious mental work after a day at work codin
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Studying chess isn't leisure in the same way that watching TV or reading a book or playing a sport are leisure. If you are studying chess with the intention of actually improving your game it requires a lot of mental energy. For a lot
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Yes exactly! GraphQL would be great for a huge company with multiple front end and backend teams that are a challenge to communicate between. It standardizes and simplifies things for that massive organization and alleviates the pain of com
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This is a refreshing read, every time I ask someone what they like about GraphQL or read an article about the benefits of GraphQL I get the same boilerplate, non-answers that made me avoid GraphQL on my latest app after working with it on 2
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by ritchiea 6y ago
There's also good and bad ways to give feedback. It's important to find ways to give honest feedback that isn't crushing your reports's confidence. It's more of a question of when to step in with an important critiq
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Agreed. I find with JS I have to write a lot of code for features that could be handled with a gem in the Rails world. I miss gems like devise that had large amounts of common functionality that there is zero value in me re-implementing mys
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by ritchiea 6y ago
What's more pragmatic than not being precious about what technology decision is most perfect and instead going with what's popular and has a lot of community support?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Ok! Your opinion is noted
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The zeitgeist is that hooks are easier to reason about than life cycle methods, functional components are more lightweight and result in less bundled code.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The latest consensus is to avoid class components, use only functional components and use hooks to handle state & side effects. Ninety percent of React is building DOM, hitting APIs with an HTTP client and using useState + useEffect. An
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I'm not here to litigate this, Gellman has one take on it, Greenwald has his own. It's up to you who to listen to.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
He/she said there isn’t evidence for what I was claiming, I told them where I got the info & where they can find it themselves. Couldn’t be a more straightforward interaction.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Listen to Barton Gellman on the Longform podcast or read his book.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This is good advice, I had similar issues with acid reflux. Though I didn't have the patience to cut so much out of my diet. I ended up starting a diet journal and tracking closer attention to what food & drink triggered my acid re
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Greenwald didn't have to do any work for the Snowden stories, Snowden approached Greenwald. And from my understanding, Snowden didn't approach Greenwald because he was the "best" journalist to break the story. Snowden ha
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It’s really surprisingly difficult to jump between Python and Ruby. And Rails and Django. They are just similar enough that you think the switch shouldn’t be so tough but all the differences really bite you. Whereas jumping into a completel
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The job of an editor is literally to make decisions about what to publish, not to publish everything or kowtow to celebrity journalists or potentially big stories.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The editors have made public statements about this conflict as well. Pretty much none of this is hidden from public view by now.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This 10,000 times. And it’s not just Rails, the quality of the Rails documentation made an impact on the Ruby community that was generally replicated. Compare that to the JavaScript world where cornerstone, insanely popular libraries will h
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It’s not about who Greenwald is, it’s about the quality of reporting & the evidence they have to support their claims. You can’t run big stories based on the reputation of the journalist rather than the quality of the reporting. You’re
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Lots of users vote based on the headline before actually reading the article. Lots of users even comment without reading the article. HN is an extremely large community these days.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Is srcset commonly used? I am not familiar with it but I'm more full stack than frontend and often feel like front end moves faster than I can keep up with.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
They could buy Vercel & Next with the intention of rolling their own React replacement to swap in later.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
You didn't respond to the substance of my comment. It's possible for someone to misunderstand you and for you to lose your job over it. It's also possible to die in a traffic accident. The former is probably more rare than th
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Your belief sounds rooted in fear. Can you actually cite cases where doxxing & abuse happened over a conversation with a stranger in a cafe? And even if such cases exist I would confidently guess you’re more likely to die in a car crash
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Certainly not impossible but I don’t often have to deal with large amounts of files in circumstances where the performance hit matters to anyone. And while I know sed, awk, etc are powerful, I don’t know them & I’d have to learn how to

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