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by ry_ry 8y ago
Kernel fragments into a dizzying array of forks, TrueLinux, RealKernel, Linux Core, LinuxPlus and DogeKernel fight for supremacy on obscure making lists and github issue trackers. The public remains largely unaware. Huge PR battles over wh
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Probably quite high. Google's culture and hiring process is so well documented at this point, I suspect any suitably talented individual could appropriate some cultural fit. Of the (current and former) googlers I know personally, they
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Is a double edged sword - I've not updated my resume since 2005 and continually get approached about junior roles, as per my 13 year old CV. If I had been in industry for >10 years and was still looking for junior roles I sure as he
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by ry_ry 8y ago
At what point are we no longer celebrating a life well lived? Paul Allen loved computing, and funded a living computing museum, along with with another museum dedicated to to pop culture. I wouldn't presume to know how he'd feel a
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Out of curiosity, when was that? Modern frontend has many issues (npm is at least a hundred of them) but browser compatibility is a solved problem for the majority of purposes. HTML had been stable since forever, and browsers will render pr
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by ry_ry 8y ago
A few months ago I received a random confirmation of my order from one of those fast food ordering aggregator sites, based in a different country that I'd never used. I logged in and reset the password to gibberish and emailed them to
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Public collectively shrugs, sites get hacked all the time and nothing bad ever happens to them, so it's just people getting worked up over nothing. I consider that pretty scary, at least.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I spend more time knowingly slacking off than I do reading slack. Then again I fully subscribe to the '4 hours of full productivity per day' theory.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Absolutely, if I were in a position where my job were easily automated I would be terrified. I suspect the majority of HN readers are in a less precarious position, so we have the privilege of a little detachment in our horror at the prospe
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Strictly playing devil's advocate, but is the lifelong employment of their staff uniqlo's problem? If you found a cheaper supplier of milk, would you feel obligated to reimburse your milk man? (may be a misplaced cultural referenc
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Your comment will probably end up buried, but it does raise the question - if they want more female employees, was the issue in the training data, or their recruitment process?
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Ironically, scratch probably has more in common with the modern package-orientated JS ecosystem than more traditional languages! ;) I was recently at a couple of secondary open evenings with my son, and it blew my mind how far CS education
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by ry_ry 8y ago
From people complaining about it on other platforms. Enjoyed the range of topics though, so I stuck around.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
My employers do just that - Fraud prevention is a fundamental part of our business operations. It largely involves multiple teams of full time employees working on different aspects of fraud prevention (some of them are even Competent Devel
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by ry_ry 8y ago
in twitter's case the closest alternative is standing in a crowded street, barking disjointed sentences at passers by in the hope somebody acknowledges you.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Originally loads of people in industry came from print, so I can completely see how pixel perfect layouts were seen as desirable (hell, loads of our idiolect comes directly from print media, show me where a webpage folds over!) and converse
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Some unnecessary downvoting occuring, go easy. In a discreet component architecture there is basically no reason for arbitrary siblings to know anything about each other - if there is common state to be shared it should be inhereted. Grante
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Tenuously. Take time out for yourself, make sure to remember to have fun, try to surround yourself with good people whose company you enjoy.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
A few years ago I added a featuregg to the site I worked on at the time, where it would reject correcthorsebatterystaple as a password with an error message acknowledging their impeccable taste and a link to a relevant xkcd. At some point t
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I've also got a first last address (although with Outlook* ) and a 4-letter alias attached. I only use it for stuff I don't want to clog up my vanity domains with but that email account has become a swamp of notifications of signu
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Separate things - I love the creative process of solving problems by writing code, I absolutely love contributing to something I think is worthwhile. I'm lucky enough that I can say i wouldn't work for a company that I didn't
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I was being flippant, a huge part of my 'thing' is job satisfaction and making something really good is the majority of that. However as far as modern frontend work goes? somebody with a grasp of XML could build a perfectly functi
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I'm a frontender. My speciality is client-side JavaScript. I'm not horrible at it. I freaking love my job and would do it for funsies of there weren't companies prepared to pay me to do it, but my job has been completed bulls
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Exactly. I work for one of the large ecommerce tech companies - we have some great devs and run a pretty efficient cdci pipeline, stuff ships fast. There are multiple layers of unit testing, automated testing, manual testing and peer review
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by ry_ry 8y ago
In fairness, that's pretty much a given for any web app. Whatever user groups they create are only ever going to be an artificial construct - it's all just lists of stuff
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by ry_ry 8y ago
The timing of the announcement is a little serendipitous though. I don't know if i'd go so far as to call it a tacit endorsement of gitlab by Apple, but it does have an air of opportunism.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Alternatively: So freaking old I can't remember something that was still going on last November! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/appeals-court-ke... The good news is it's nearly time for
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by ry_ry 8y ago
I feel the same way about people who unironically write M$ to be honest. It's a counter-brand they've elected to champion, and more power to them. That said, it feels lazy and deeply mired in a Browser Wars-era IRC discussion abou
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by ry_ry 8y ago
For record " personal data harvesting not yet disrupted with blockchain " constitutes a clearly defined problem in this instance.
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by ry_ry 8y ago
Comments created by bots have existed for years. Before AI was the new hotness, hyperbolic tech tabloid The Register used to (it may still? I only ever read the BOFH articles) have a frequent commentor called 'a man from mars' who

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