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by rvense 4y ago
The hard part of my job is rarely the programming itself. The hardest part is figuring out what to build, in enough detail for the blinking computer to understand it.
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by rvense 4y ago
> And so much of it is rehashed ancient philosophy How could it be otherwise? There is nothing new under the sun...
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by rvense 4y ago
I don't know, a boolean is usually a byte (or a words?), so should true really be 0b00000001? Why not 0b11111111? I think it is in some Forth implementations.
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by rvense 4y ago
I strongly disagree that it has no value. If I interviewed a developer and they showed me an impressive website/application that was built without a framework, I would probably be more impressed than if they showed me one that was buil
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by rvense 4y ago
Correct. And as and user who does not understand, nor have the resources to meaningfully inspect, all the king's software and all the king's bugs, the end result is exactly the same: Good, old-fashioned analogue trust (GOFAT? to c
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by rvense 4y ago
This has been common in the scrum ceremonies I've participated in in most of my career. The standup is primarily for keeping your manager up to date on how things are going with your estimates and maybe for asking for help from a cowor
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by rvense 4y ago
Samsung's chip department is likely very far from their phone department. They make everything, basically, some say they even run a country.
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by rvense 4y ago
OS X was an upgraded NeXTStep (including an all-new GUI and printing subsystem) with the addition of two ways of running old Mac applications: Classic mode, which was a full OS9 environment running under hardware virtualization, and the Car
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by rvense 4y ago
And just as I was on the train to work. Worst. Website. Ever.
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by rvense 4y ago
Now you made me look at Wikipedia and I'm more interested in the possibility of Mac OS booting on a Wii U.
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by rvense 4y ago
Nothing you say suggests that there's anything wrong with you. A lot of this job is knowing stupid details, and once you get to tools like Docker, what's happening under the hood is actually quite complicated and there's a lo
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by rvense 4y ago
Well, in my country my taxes are deducted from my salary before I receive it, so the psychology of that is a bit different. But I think we agree, what I'm saying is fiat money is valuable because of the stability of the institutions th
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by rvense 4y ago
What's unfortunate about it?
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by rvense 4y ago
As far as I can tell, money is so entirely based on trust that it might as well consist of it, trust in in some fuzzy combination of other people's continued rationality and things staying roughly the same. I accept 100 euro bills for
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by rvense 4y ago
The Reform is a fantastic design, uncompromising. Every single aspect of it was engineered to maximize openness, user choice and longevity.
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by rvense 4y ago
This is a strange comparison. A government is not a household. Government spending, when domestic, doesn't mean that money goes away. It means that the money flows into other parts of the economy. Say, the government gives money to a d
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by rvense 4y ago
They are just trying to protect their employees from being forced to join a union, which is ineffective and a waste of money and bad for workers. Company has your best interests at heart, don't listen to those rabble-rousing pinkos. Un
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by rvense 4y ago
In Denmark, 30 years fixed rate is the standard mortgage. I think it was basically the only way to own a home until "liberalizations" in 2002, and some of the more.. creative financial products that showed up are what ended up cau
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by rvense 4y ago
There was a rift between the founders that led to a new company being formed, but it has been resolved and the companies have merged.
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by rvense 4y ago
"Tech world in shock after self-absorbed middle aged man speaks before thinking"
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by rvense 4y ago
The startup I work for in Scandinavia sells to education customers. As far as I understand, all schools here are either "Microsoft schools" or "Google schools".
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by rvense 4y ago
I just mean that so long as someone's at a certain technical level, I'm more interested in their other skills, where communication would be one of the most important. For context, I'm in fairly mundane web app development, an
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by rvense 4y ago
I can't disagree with the conclusion that coding skills are more predictive of interview success (although it surprises me), but I will say from my work experience that, after a certain point, I value communication skills much more tha
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by rvense 4y ago
It's not really "send-money-to-anyone-with-a-phone-number", it's "send-money-to-anyone-with-the-mobilepay-app-installed" - and it only works on iPhones and unrooted Android phones with Google services enabled.
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by rvense 4y ago
The REPL and editor are connected. You have a key command in your editor that sends the form you want to evaluate to the REPL, which is in a separate window or pane.
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by rvense 5y ago
> Also, by Apple eventually abandoning backwards compatibility, it was able to migrate Macs to different better processors four times. 68k -> PPC actually did not break backwards compatibility at all. They realized it they had to make
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by rvense 5y ago
These people certainly don't always get paid for reviews. Loopop is very transparent about whether he was given something for free or bought it himself (though I don't know if he does the latter as much anymore, his reviews are ba
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by rvense 5y ago
Which is exactly what they're doing. The set of people they have making videos for this is like the Who's Who of synth youtube, and arguably the most important avenue for advertising this kind of product nowadays.
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by rvense 5y ago
Sounds cheap. This one has 40k views less than 12 hours after being posted.
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by rvense 5y ago
I've heard that the term Pennsylvania Dutch actually comes from English-speakers mishearing/misunderstanding when the speakers refer to their own language "Deutsch".

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