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by shados 7y ago
Good point, absolutely! The line is really thin between industry changing stuff (CI, cloud, distributed version control, type systems that don't suck, etc) and reinventing the wheel through arrogance or just not knowing any better (yet
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by shados 7y ago
> I vow myself when I reach that level to pass it along the best I can, but something I desperately searched for when I was starting. Mentoring is one of my favorite thing. Finding people who want to be mentored is...challenging though.
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by shados 7y ago
Good points. I feel software engineering as a field is growing a lot slower than it could, for a couple of reason. The first is what you mention: everyone ignores lessons from the past and try to relearn everything from scratch, reinventing
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by shados 7y ago
For sure. They didnt say anything about humidity and specifically didnt want to run the fan all night, so... /shrugs. Options!
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by shados 7y ago
An evaporative cooler (a "swamp cooler") can help get you a few more degrees cooler if that's all you need. Im also pretty fond of Purple products (their original pillow and any of their mattresses) as they don't get muc
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by shados 7y ago
I'd LOVE for that to happen. Just so we can finally see if it makes even the smallest change in piracy.
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by shados 7y ago
Not a direct correlation, but its pretty easy to see how it can happen, or at least partially. Eg: Less active = more weight gain = higher likelyhood of GERD and sleep apnea = less sleep = lower attention span and memory. Boom, lower IQ be
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by shados 7y ago
It definitely is not equal. Having a kid likely means much less time for side projects and continuous learning and has a huge impact on sleep quality. It will most definitely have a negative impact on skill and productivity unless one makes
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by shados 7y ago
Raises, vacations (when I was at companies that gave them based on tenure), promotion considerations, you name it. I recovered a bit since I was working on side projects during sabbatical and could talk for them in interviews, so switching
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by shados 7y ago
> that time shouldn't count as missed work experience Assuming (big assumption) that they started at exactly equal skill, and learn at the same pace...well, practice makes perfect. One will be better than the other. Ive taken sabba
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by shados 7y ago
yup, thats what happened...but even more is that before that, they got promoted...at the company in shambles. Multiple times.
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by shados 7y ago
Confirmation bias here, but I find this fascinating. I'm Canadian living in the US, and see these overconfident people who are incompetent in the industry and it drives me banana, but across several previous jobs (again, in the US), ev
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by shados 7y ago
Isn't it partly expected though? I never looked at the stats for single income vs dual income families over time, but my instinct tells me that single income was much more common in the 80s, and dual income is much more common today th
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by shados 7y ago
It definitely can have the problem of making one group get less attention. However, the solution to one isn't the same as the other. Helping someone who's in the street because of a mental illness means providing them with treatme
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by shados 7y ago
For sure, I'm in that camp too. I was in the anti-Steam camp back in the days too, and well...that didnt work out for me.
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by shados 7y ago
When playing online against other opponents, having the gaming machines be very close to each other might make up part of the latency introduced by the distance between the player and the gaming machine. Maybe. Your first point is key thoug
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by shados 7y ago
Pretty much, yes.
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by shados 7y ago
I know it will never happen because of cultural reasons, but really, we need to separate the time (as in how I describe a point on the time scale, for, let say, a meeting, especially one that involves people in globally distributed location
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by shados 7y ago
Something still changed. League of Legends at its peak wasn't quite as popular as Fortnite, but it was still roughly in the same order of magnitude (at least last I checked), and while people went "oooooh!" at some of the fan
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by shados 7y ago
I read somewhere once that showed that doctors generally can't tell one from the other, either. Im not a medical professional and I have no idea how easy or hard it is to tell, but they can't.
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by shados 7y ago
> it's just a benefit for employees, And thats what doesn't really work. When your health is a "benefit for employees", you're in a bad spot.
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by shados 7y ago
I did a ton of research when I got my place, about the area and all its quirk. It was fine. I bought it, then 2 years later a nearby airport changed their software which modified some flight routes, and more importantly lowered the altitude
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by shados 7y ago
Fair enough, my wording was bad. Let's just go with something simpler: Google having the control it has on the implementation (and thus, most everyone else because to make a useful browser you have to make it mostly compatible with Goo
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by shados 7y ago
> That's just not true Its true enough: it keeps happening. Patch it out or resist all you want, it doesn't matter if you have to acknowledge and deal with its existence, if only because of the amount of energy it takes to push
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by shados 7y ago
We need enough as to be reasonable competing point of views when it comes to setting standards. Things like web components, service workers, built-in javascript modules and more were pretty meh features pushed really hard by a specific brow
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by shados 7y ago
Definitely. It's also a lot more about the second part (discontinued support, and the fact it sucks to develop against) than the first (very low usage). At my company we're in this weird spot where Chrome has overwhelming adoption
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by shados 7y ago
Think of it as going to a fancy restaurant. When you eat a fancy steak, it lasts a few minutes, maybe a few hours if you consider the whole experience, but at the end it goes in the toilet. But you had some enjoyment (well, unless you'
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by shados 7y ago
Have you ever dropped a quarter in one of those machines that drop a random toy as a kid? It's exactly the same. You push the button and hope to see rainbows appear, and when they do, it's fun. No, doing it for hours would not be
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by shados 7y ago
I have gone too far once or twice (out of hundreds....) where I felt bad about it. I've felt the same way about a major renovation once too though. It happens. The key is in your last sentence: "wouldn't in retrospect have pr
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by shados 7y ago
> I'm saddened and disgusted by much of what has happened with the monetization strategies pioneered by mobile and free to play games. There's a lot to be said that its easier to attract 1000 people and extract $500 from 10 of

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