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by scombridae 4y ago
It's a rare and crappy company whose software needs are so discretizable that it can fire-and-forget a work assignment without confidential access to its existing infra/data, and without longer term handholding. If your bread and
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by scombridae 4y ago
Avoid confusing sales with managers. Most "genius engineers" still need money, and they still need that fabled creature known as the salesman who can convince someone to pay for a software system he doesn't need.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Most companies are 10% difference makers, and 90% paid interns. To the extent those interns need to feel like they're contributing, yes, managers are important.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Finally, an exception to Betteridge's law. But also, a 2,785-word word salad that obscures an obvious one-word answer.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Most people write comments at work. You'll do it too when you graduate and get a job.
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by scombridae 4y ago
All you have to say is "rolling release," or "why releasing according to lunar phase is dumb." That you need to explain it the way you did is another example of the bs job creation mindset, aka, agile.
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by scombridae 4y ago
If we, the discerning consumer, could just take and toss the flyer being thrust into our faces by the picketer outside the Amazon warehouse (or the free software movement's equivalent), the world and HN would be a less acrimonious plac
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by scombridae 4y ago
OP wasn't looking to discuss the prices of toys.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Would be better if the other foot were shod. Marketers know cold the one crucial point engineers dismiss, that forward progress is giving people what they want, not what makes sense.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Another Chinese-American came to the same conclusion seven years earlier: So what is the purpose of writing? It turns out that there is one, and that it has nothing to do with communication. It’s that writing clarifies thinking. [1] [1]
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by scombridae 4y ago
Eight hours of contiguous work at a physical office is an antiquated concept from the twentieth century. We have the internet now.
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by scombridae 4y ago
I stand by my disappointment going from Snow Crash to Cryptonomicon. If by "disappointment" you mean Cryptonomicon stretched the turgidity of Snow Crash to its theoretical page limit, you may have a point.
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by scombridae 4y ago
much like saying that linux has a steep learning curve Most people do say that. What programmers cannot grasp is progress is about giving people what they want, not what is rationally best. Most scientists want to knock out a paper or p
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by scombridae 4y ago
Which itself is a huge problem More "nature of the beast" in my opinion. Science measures itself by how many alluring women it can date; engineering, by how long it can keep the wife happy.
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by scombridae 4y ago
not using Jupyter for anything more than the most transient tasks While most programmers have reached this conclusion, they're generally not day-in day-out jupyter users. They need to understand *everything* is transient for scienti
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by scombridae 4y ago
About 1000 times per day, someone says emacs is too big an ask for org-mode, and someone replies, it's configurable to feel like whatever you're used to. The latter needs to accept that most users, particularly scientists, reject
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by scombridae 4y ago
Subversion used to say, 'CVS done right.' With that slogan there is nowhere you can go. There is no way to do CVS right. -- Linus T. Jupyter's ipynb format is only slightly more amenable to git than say an MSWord doc. Nbdi
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by scombridae 4y ago
tl;dr a 2020 rehash of same ineffective saws (pro version, donations, support). Every ten year old realizes the easiest way to sustain the lemonade stand is not giving away the lemonade.
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by scombridae 4y ago
The problem is that we want work that is accessible, and interesting In the words of Chris Farley, "sounds like a personal problem."
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by scombridae 4y ago
Our species should always prefer more to less interesting work Look around, your eminence. Most of our species prefer not working at all, and if we must, prefer expending the least mental effort.
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by scombridae 4y ago
You're an admin. No one's going to take a second look at your toe-stepping pet project.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Having to convince other programmers.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Like asking your wife if any of her in-laws are good looking.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Yes, and I am proof
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by scombridae 4y ago
there are in fact heavily extensible and lightweight text editors Actually emacs is the only one, and it's definitely out of the question for a C#, mouse-heavy talker who found setting up Sublime confusing.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Those who cannot form a complete sentence resort to grunting and body language. When you learn to code, you'll have many fine text editors to choose from.
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by scombridae 4y ago
there is nothing fundamental preventing such a world to exist Nothing except human nature. Ethics, business ethics particularly, is empirical. Usury was a bad word for most of human history. Now we just call it financing. If only for f
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by scombridae 4y ago
Knee-jerk response to "closed source is unethical": But I can't modify Coca-Cola or KFC's eleven herbs and spices either. It's called intellectual property, and it's undergirded economies both West and East sin
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by scombridae 4y ago
Atom has already disappeared If existence is tantamount to corporate sponsorship, then GNU Emacs never existed. It'd take one or two graybeards with too much free time to sustain Atom. Just look at the current Emacs maintainers.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Knee-jerk (and correct) response to the "but OSS can be commercialized!" insistence: Why play the business game in nightmare mode? Leverage is real, folks, i.e., I can withhold my software if you don't pay up.

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