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by rufius 4y ago
This comment makes me feel seen.
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by rufius 4y ago
I have two criteria: - languages that are foundational or continually in demand: C, C#, Java, Golang, Python, Ruby, JavaScript - languages clearly gaining traction: Rust, Elixir, Typescript, etc The languages listed and the categories I lis
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by rufius 4y ago
When asked (usually by students and junior engineers) which class helped me most with my career, I always cite Senior Year High school English (American 12th grade). Mrs. Scott taught me more about organizing my thoughts and structuring a p
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by rufius 4y ago
Both of those books by Henderson are great. I did my senior year thesis on a LispKit implementation.
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by rufius 4y ago
What’s your preferred dependency management strategy?
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by rufius 4y ago
A most blessed result. The more these scams fail, the better for the market.
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by rufius 4y ago
Lol - get real. $255k? It's not particularly "cool" looking so unless they fix the styling, I can't see people dropping $255k for a solar car.
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by rufius 4y ago
This is a most blessed development.
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by rufius 4y ago
> Its good to remember that what might be considered "rot" in some ecosystems, is just a sign of maturity and of a library being finished. Many older libraries with no commits in years function as is, as documented. I’ve notice
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by rufius 4y ago
Honestly, I think you were on to something re: contentment. I’ve never really optimized for happiness. I tend to frame it all in terms of being content. I think that is more sustainable - or at least it is for me. I don’t have any fancy stu
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by rufius 4y ago
I think your point is a good one. Though I'd say, that's why it's good to describe these as frameworks. They set the rough bounds of expectations, but much like API frameworks, the business logic is specific to your company a
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by rufius 4y ago
Paper notebook on the go. Usually field notes sized that fits in my pocket or shoulder bag. Sometimes a big sketch book size is I “need” more space. Fleshed our notes go in Tinderbox. 4-5 times a week I’ll journal or condense my thoughts. N
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by rufius 4y ago
FWIW the way you describe a “Finder” is how I use DEVONthink. I app-link articles I’m thinking about from Tinderbox to DEVONthink which is really handy. I store the database in a webdav share and often read/annotate on my iPad. Then I
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by rufius 4y ago
I’ve gone through most of the notable note taking apps. About a decade ago, I tried to use Tinderbox[0] but it didn’t stick. I attribute that mostly to assuming it would provide some structure. Recently, after giving up on Obsidian, I went
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by rufius 4y ago
Smartphones - while providing great utility in some areas, they are generally too distracting without a lot of tweaking. They also result in me having to repeat myself at people fiddling with their phones instead of listening. Chatbots - as
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by rufius 4y ago
You're not missing anything :). I've got two TinyPilots - one I built using the linked instructions and I bought a TinyPilot Pro because, while pricey, I wanted to support a project that has made my life a lot easier.
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by rufius 4y ago
No. Float all boats. This is stupid.
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by rufius 4y ago
I have worked on it and debugged it in the past. It’s probably some of the cleanest code at Microsoft if I were to guess. It’s very readable, if a bit idiosyncratic. I would work on it again, given the right opportunity.
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by rufius 4y ago
I find the best way to build trust is to start by trusting people. That can be burned over time but it’s been a pretty good policy in my 15+ years of professional work. Life is too short, for me, to assume people are out to get me. If I fig
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by rufius 4y ago
I feel the opposite. My work email is gmail and I’m continually disappointed with it compared to my personal on Fastmail. Before moving to Fastmail, I was a gmail user for about 10 years. To each their own :).
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by rufius 4y ago
> Giga Chad acts like a Giga Chad with his company. - news at 5
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by rufius 4y ago
I’m not a therapist, but OP sounds depressed (as in clinically). Might be worth talking to a therapist or psych. I feel for them. I don’t fully understand, but I do feel for them.
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by rufius 4y ago
Full admission - I don’t own or have responsibility for how the build system I work with is setup. I’m on parental leave so details are fuzzy but roughly: - run Bazel build - expect dependencies to be built - they weren’t built - run Bazel
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by rufius 4y ago
I’ve not got specifically what you’re describing but I’ve encountered Bazel twice in my career - both in very large Java/Scala/Go code bases (distinct repo for Go but a lot of code). Bazel is extremely underwhelming. I’ve worked w
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by rufius 4y ago
Frankly, this sounds like a feature rather than a bug. Speculation of this type is high risk/reward. If this guts the lenders, that’s a good thing - they’re not treating this with the appropriate amount of respect for speculating and p
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by rufius 4y ago
Not well and mostly disappointingly. It’s a nice enough UI but I don’t find it substantially better than OneNote - at least not enough to replace that use case. I finally am getting my head wrapped around Tinderbox and it clicked. It’s a be
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by rufius 4y ago
Self-hosted OpenBSD VM on vultr.com. I wrote my own static site generator[0] to suit my needs. It’s not especially fancy - just a series of JSON config files and then a notion of “posts” and “pages” that are in Markdown format. The code get
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by rufius 4y ago
“CEO acting like a scumbag continues acting like a scumbag.” - News at 5
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by rufius 4y ago
Mastodon is definitely not web3. It offers a world without Facebook/Twitter. How would web3 improve that? You don’t need a blockchain to do federation (I.e. Mastodon).
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by rufius 4y ago
The problems weren’t simplified. The problems were collected together into a single large platform. However, as with most large platforms, they require ceremonies and priests (devops engineers). Someone has to make the offerings. Much as pe

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