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by routerl 6y ago
In my (extremely not senior) view, maintaining other people's monstrosities doesn't teach the right lesson, because there are many ways to get things wrong, but fewer ways to get things right. Previously, maintaining someone else
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by routerl 6y ago
What you've described is especially pernicious over multiple iterations. Windows 95 can do 90% of what Linux can. Windows 3.1 can do 90% of what Windows 95 can. DOS can do 90% of what Window 3.1 can. In this (contrived and counter-chr
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by routerl 6y ago
> demanding ethical behavior from our employers This is a huge one. For every Tim Bray, there are thousands who can't afford to give up a paycheck for the sake of standing up for moral principles. As a workforce, we do not have the
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by routerl 6y ago
The value provided by _the labour_ of an engineer in SFO is almost definitely not 2x what an engineer in SLC provides. There's value in a company having 200 engineers in SFO compared to 200 engineers in SLC, largely marketing related.
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by routerl 6y ago
I'm always glad to see C. S. Peirce get more public recognition. The article nicely outlines the wide range of his expertise, but doesn't mention one little bit of trivia I've always loved. Peirce independently discovered tha
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by routerl 6y ago
> Kobo through its partner Overdrive -- which it owned up until not long ago but I am not sure they still do Kobo and Overdrive were both owned by Rakuten. Overdrive was sold to an American investment firm, finalized in June of this year
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by routerl 6y ago
Business transactions aren't solely financial. I don't think the comment you replied to is suggesting "focus only on career" but rather "maximize dollars earned per hours worked". The "brainwashing" i
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by routerl 6y ago
I agree but I think it's more subtle. Most of us look at billionaires and think "why would anybody want so much more money than they need?", identify this as the vice of "greed", and implicitly stear ourselves away
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by routerl 6y ago
Ages ago, "Gödel, Escher, and Bach" turned me from a kid who liked computers into someone very into music, math, philosophy, and literature. It does a great job of showing the reader the joy of playing with abstract concepts acros
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by routerl 6y ago
I'm only a couple of years down the road from where you are, currently looking for my third dev job, having started with a 5 month stint in testing, now doing full-stack web stuff. If you're having trouble getting your foot in the
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by routerl 6y ago
I recently found myself in the position you described, to a T. And we did end up switching to scrum... I've left that company after having been unable to fix the situation, which was ultimately a political problem; as you said, we had
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by routerl 6y ago
> someone will re-implement it and it'll become more popular (like vi vs vim). https://neovim.io/
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by routerl 6y ago
This is good advice, but in my case the "product owner" was too invested in seeming competent (by, e.g., over-confidently and over-emphatically making decisions that turned out to be coin-flips). Finally, there was no accountabili
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by routerl 6y ago
an organization where devs are apparently autonomous, so they're responsible for failures, but still need to go in the direction set by someone else. I've just left a place like this, largely for this reason. Someone with
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by routerl 6y ago
Portugal absolutely collapsed, due to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Voltaire wrote about this[1]. The Portuguese Empire couldn't cope with the near total destruction of their capital, and never recovered. During the Napoleonic wars, the
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by routerl 7y ago
I haven't used it but https://n8n.io/ It reminds me of zapier, which reminds me of Yahoo pipes.
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by routerl 9y ago
As with most things, there is more than one way to do it. Push to the application server and hook it to your flask application using [uWSGI]( http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.12/deploying/uwsgi/ ), for exampl
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by routerl 9y ago
Most of these problems have been fixed as of the January Creators Update for Windows 10. SSH server is still iffy, because Windows 10 comes with an SSH server (not OpenSSH), which you'll have to disable. It was very weird to try to SSH
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by routerl 9y ago
WSL running fish in mintty ( https://mintty.github.io/ ) Shell - http://imgur.com/CeotBpF Neovim - http://imgur.com/HI3u2mA
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by routerl 11y ago
Apocalypto by Mel Gibson? Huh.
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by routerl 11y ago
Nice work so far, tatterdemalion! I'll just mention that, given the HN bump, this might be a good time to write a more thorough contributor guide.
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by routerl 11y ago
> the questions themselves are misstated This proposition accounts for about half of the history of western philosophy. The other half unsurprisingly concerns itself with the relationship between humans and '[g|G]od[s]?'. Vide
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by routerl 11y ago
Hear, hear. I'm learning exactly those (hard) lessons right now, as a (very) junior developer. I'd written a couple of CRUD-with-embellishments apps, using Django and Meteor. Now I'm staring down the length of my first non-fr
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by routerl 11y ago
I was shocked and uncharmed. Most of their reactions betrayed some really fundamental misconceptions about computing, which I haven't really seen since the nineties (exhibited by grandparents). Would they know the difference between a
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by routerl 11y ago
Sorry, I guess that example was too terse. I was referring to a hypothetical American creative writer, writing a scene in which a British character writes a letter. In this hypothetical work, written in US English, there would then be a sec
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by routerl 11y ago
A linter doesn't prevent breaking its rules, it just notifies the writer of which rules are being broken. I was writing some C earlier and my linter warned me about "incrementing a void pointer". However, I understood the
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by routerl 11y ago
> There's been centuries of philosophizing and what's that contributed to humanity Socrates and Plato introduced the idea that morality isn't just about doing what your society expects of you. Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and o