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by rlonn 6y ago
> I (a networking geek that just took this cool stuff and built with it) cannot claim to have done anything special on this journey to arrive where we are today > I struggle to see that level of idealism in today's tech crowd. I
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by rlonn 6y ago
This is the usual response from engineers who love their work :) In my experience there is always a point to NOT doing things "well" the first time round. Read the old article on "programming is terrible": write code tha
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by rlonn 6y ago
If you know how to do something, it is usually a lot faster to do it that way, than go looking for alternative solutions. The mantra of highly productive people: Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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by rlonn 6y ago
and was that entry available on Wikipedia in 1994?
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by rlonn 6y ago
To me, that "moral of the story" is a bit backward. He most likely achieved his goal in the most efficient way, i.e. shortest possible time, by throwing hardware at the problem. Going looking for a better algorithm and implementin
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by rlonn 7y ago
In swedish they're called "bålgeting". They look and sound scary because of their size but are actually non-aggressive and mostly helpful to humans as they prey on regular wasps and aren't interested in our food and drin
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by rlonn 7y ago
Perhaps 30 years and then make it a yearly auction?
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by rlonn 7y ago
The problem is that the front-end is 100x harder to test than the back-end. Webpagetest, and others, have a really hard time measuring single-page app front-end performance. The front-end is just such a huge patchwork of...stuff...that it i
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by rlonn 7y ago
Golang chooses to avoid feature creep. This seems to annoy some people to no end and so these discussions always devolve into whining about feature X, Y or Z that would have made Golang soooo much better and OH how nasty are [Google or whom
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by rlonn 7y ago
And as we all know, IQ is a perfect measure of mental capability and the only thing that really matters in the end. Self-confidence, ambition, passion, knowledge - that's just balderdash!
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by rlonn 7y ago
Or, written another way: In theory, practise is like theory. In practise, it isn't :)
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by rlonn 7y ago
I think you underestimate the effects of observed weirdness on the psyche. I believe most people react to weirdness with caution and suspicion, and sometimes they get intimidated. I believe that being weird makes it harder to connect with p
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by rlonn 7y ago
This is one of the main reasons I've been doing the entrepreneurial race almost all my adult life. I need to prove myself enough, by accumulating professional success and wealth, to get enough weirdness points to spend so that I can ju
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by rlonn 7y ago
Eating a live octopus is a horrible practise. But seeing people reacting to it with distaste just because it is "yucky" makes me really sad. These animals are highly intelligent, many of them on par with dogs, and most surely capa
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by rlonn 7y ago
External factors always have a huge influence on outcomes, but they are also often not under your control. Focusing on the things you do have control over is vastly better than using uncontrollable things as an excuse not to bother at all.
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by rlonn 7y ago
I founded an online load testing company called Load Impact, and we have also used libcurl since way back. I agree the API is very simple, and libcurl is a very reliable and performant piece of software. Daniel is also extremely helpful whi
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by rlonn 7y ago
Have to push this fantastic article again - if you read it and follow what it says you won't make these mistakes: https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-co...
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by rlonn 7y ago
Very, very good comment! The past two years I've worked on three different pet projects: first one that was fun and interesting but where I was dependent on another developer, who ran out of time, so that project stalled.Then a project
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by rlonn 7y ago
unless they're both male birds. Perhaps also bad-tempered, shrieking a lot and prone to peck you on the head or take a dump on your shoes. It's amazing how analogies never fail to clarify and raise discussions to new heights!
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by rlonn 7y ago
Wow, a hundred million times minimum wage in the US should be something like, I don't know, a trillion dollars per year? That's amazing! I can surely understand why people are so upset about income equality now.
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by rlonn 7y ago
"most popular"?
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by rlonn 7y ago
Also, an email or other means for the service to contact you, the user, is necessary for account recovery. Building a SaaS product without any efficient way to recover a lost password is silly. It leads to a ton of customer service headache
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by rlonn 7y ago
Very good observation. While the programming tools and infrastructure have improved tremendously, so have user demands increased. To make money today, you can't release yesterday's functionality. SW development keeps moving to hig
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by rlonn 7y ago
Haha, same here (but I started -81-82). Love programming but get my kicks out of running code in production, not written code in a repo, so I'm always in a hurry to ship and usually don't have time to learn the new, shiny tech and
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by rlonn 7y ago
You should have written that article, I think. As another pretty ancient developer, I agree with more or less all your comments. I think pair programming has its occasional uses, but that's about the only thing I'd add to the stuf
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by rlonn 7y ago
I use fixed-size buffers as much as possible in C. It's only when I feel a need to conserve memory that I'll use dynamic allocation. For me, I think this pattern helps me avoid bugs by maintaining a healthy (i.e. very high) level
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by rlonn 7y ago
We don't know what the future carrying capacity of earth will be, and wild speculation there helps noone. We do know current carrying capacity appears to be too low but what is the best way to fix that? Is it telling the people who hav
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by rlonn 7y ago
My girlfriend, who is from Britain, also tend to go on about how "british english" is the only correct english because "we invented the language". Not 100% serious of course, but subconsciously I think she believes it. S
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by rlonn 7y ago
Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what others might think. There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please. I make it a matter of principle to do childish things when I feel like
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by rlonn 7y ago
What is yours?

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