roninhacker

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by roninhacker 3y ago
"Mimsy Were the Borogroves," by Lewis Padgett, is short and excellent.
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by roninhacker 3y ago
"The Road Not Taken," by Harry Turtledove https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_st...
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by roninhacker 3y ago
not grandparent, but this topic is oft-discussed (but with no clear resolution!) on r/realtimestrategy imo, the biggest obstacle is the combination of a) RTS not being well-understood b) sweaty streamers broadcasting the idea that the
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by roninhacker 4y ago
It's not overinvesting if you couldn't have married a doctor otherwise.
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by roninhacker 4y ago
This makes me want to stay far, far away from FAANG. What is Facebook's moral responsibility here? Hell if I know. It's just too big . Too much verbal ability, not enough cohesion.
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by roninhacker 5y ago
The reason those don't command respect is because they don't pay well in the main.
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by roninhacker 6y ago
Wow, this is totally cool, thank you!
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by roninhacker 6y ago
Depends what you're into. I basically only use Clojure and can't remember the last time I had to know anything about Java. Admittedly I mostly use Clojure script ... But seriously, I wouldn't worry. You'll have to ins
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by roninhacker 6y ago
>And because "concise" should be measure in the number of tokens needed to achieve certain functionality, not by excessive use of single character tokens. I am totally nitpicking here, but as a longtime Clojure programmer, I d
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by roninhacker 6y ago
Erik Dietrich had a section on this in "Developer Hegemony." He immediately followed it with, "You won't have a soul at the end of this," and then another section on alternatives.
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by roninhacker 6y ago
Yes, apparently not.
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by roninhacker 6y ago
The analogy doesn't apply. If you want to judge software by metrics, judge the code , not developers. The code does the same thing, over and over. Auto workers did/do the same thing, overr and over. Developers don't.
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by roninhacker 6y ago
Four jobs.
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by roninhacker 6y ago
Er...what was there in the law?
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by roninhacker 6y ago
I mean, forgive me for being obtuse, but...why do we even pay taxes at all? Like, I understand the "prole logic" of a balance between income and expenditures, but if the government doesn't seem to care, why should I?
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by roninhacker 6y ago
It's not just saving keystrokes. It eliminates a whole class of errors. I recently did ~4-500 lines of Clojure in CodeMirror and wanted to kill myself by the end of it.