saila

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by saila 4y ago
The advice to not add "shade" seems to be predicated on some perceived power differential, but everyone's time is equally valuable. Regardless, I don't see any shade. It's just direct and to the point.
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by saila 4y ago
You make a good point about knowledge domains and what can be assumed about the intended audience, but KOM isn't a technical term and pretty much anyone could understand what "king of the mountain" means. Adding a quick aside
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by saila 4y ago
I've seen it happen often enough that someone's concerns are summarily ignored that I don't think you can always blame the person raising issues for not being loud or visible enough. The way this often goes down is that som
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by saila 4y ago
It seems to me that emojis are pretty much required in many professional environments nowadays. E.g., if you don't tack an emoji reaction onto enough Slack messages you won't be seen as an enthusiastic participant, which could h
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by saila 4y ago
There's an experimental option for splitting long strings using the --preview flag, but it still seems to have some potential issues. That seems like it would be extremely hard to solve correctly.
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by saila 4y ago
KOM = king of the mountain. Apparently it's an award you get when you beat the current best time for a given segment in Strava. The article doesn't expand the abbreviation anywhere which is extremely annoying.
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by saila 4y ago
Black doesn't split strings, and I doubt they'd choose to use concatenation if they did.
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by saila 4y ago
There is a 0% chance that all moderation will be removed from Twitter. It would turn into a complete cesspool if that happened and alienate large segments of the user base. So the only question is how the moderation will differ from what th
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by saila 4y ago
I agree that complexity could be an issue with Python's typing, which has some flaws, although it's been improving. Type aliases are okay if they're not overly complex, having used them in Python and other languages to good e
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by saila 4y ago
It sounds like they're talking about deployments where a new process is spawned to handle each request, but for the most part no one deploys Python web apps that way, so I'm not sure. PHP may have some advantages in terms of depl
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by saila 4y ago
Learning any new syntax, feature, etc takes time. IME learning type annotations can pay major dividends. For example, I wrote some type-annotated code the other day and mypy pointed out a couple places where I was passing the wrong type, wh
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by saila 4y ago
As of Python 3.10, you can use `T | U` instead of Union. Starting from 3.8 (I think), you can also directly use dict[T, U] and list[T] rather than having to import Dict and List.
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by saila 4y ago
I'm not sure I'm following your comment correctly, but you seem to be implying that adding type hints in Python results in some lost productivity? If so, I would counter that adding types isn't particularly onerous and adds v
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by saila 4y ago
I'm all for contributing to admin salaries. I'd even go so far as to say state-funded schools shouldn't charge tuition at all. That said, I have to agree that tuition definitely seems bloated and many admins make absurd salar
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by saila 4y ago
It could just be the comment doesn't add anything to the discussion besides attempting to be intentionally offensive.
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by saila 4y ago
I made another comment about this elsewhere in this thread, but many programmers don't seem motivated to learn these productivity multipliers. There's a huge difference between "it's just a job" and "it's
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by saila 4y ago
Another huge factor is that some people actually enjoy programming, which is not to say there's anything wrong with people who don't, but when you're having fun writing code it's going to be much easier to be productive
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by saila 4y ago
Being outwardly pleasant can take precedence over just about anything. I find it ironic as this can lead to a lot of other unpleasantness, perhaps even resentment, people leaving, etc. Being technically competent while also being perceived
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by saila 4y ago
Twitter has this kind of problem with likes (or maybe they fixed this since I haven't been on there in a while). When someone deactivates their account, you can see that you have X additional likes, but you can't access them. If t
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by saila 4y ago
In addition to typing the repo name, maybe they should make you check a box for each type of item that will be deleted: [ ] Delete 54,000 stars? [ ] Delete 8,000 watchers? [ ] etc
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by saila 5y ago
I'm not saying earplugs don't help at all, just that it depends on what the source of the noise is. For me, the noises that are most stress-inducing are extreme low frequencies that vibrate the building, and earplugs don't se
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by saila 5y ago
Earplugs do essentially nothing to stop low frequency sounds. I can block out a lot of noise with white/pink/brown noise, but the only thing that will stop sounds you can feel , whether it’s an idling truck or a sound system cran
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by saila 5y ago
The city I live in has been an ongoing target of this kind of "thunderdome" rhetoric, and while there are well-known problem areas, the reality is nowhere near as bad as it's made out to be. With regard to things getting wors
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by saila 5y ago
I've been wondering why a seemingly stable startup would go on a massive hiring spree leading to all kinds of chaos rather than take a more measured approach and have started to suspect that this is the reason right here.
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by saila 5y ago
I examine commits regularly, sometimes going way back in time. Maybe not daily, but pretty frequently. Usually, I'm trying to figure out why something is the way it is (so I know if it can be changed, removed, or whatever), and a cle
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by saila 5y ago
I think the focus should be on atomic, independently reviewable commits, not time. Sometimes, those commits are obvious and sometimes it takes a while to figure it out. I don't think you should feel compelled to commit on a rigid timel
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by saila 5y ago
I think it's something along the lines of the latter--men are more likely to use violent means that are more effective where women are more likely to use means such as pills, which are less effective (but can still lead to permanent da
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by saila 5y ago
Some commenters in this thread seem to think that boys aren't as valued as girls, and I haven't seen any evidence for that. In fact, in many ways, the opposite seems true. The statistics regarding suicide don't prove that b
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by saila 5y ago
I'm not sure about with children, but with adults men are more likely to use a gun, at least in the U.S. I think partly that's due to access, but it may also point to some other gender difference.
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by saila 5y ago
The abstract you linked to says "female youth more often attempt suicide," which might indicate that girls are more troubled growing up.

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