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by skrtskrt 6y ago
I will take sometimes-tedious boilerplate over many-many-layered abstractions. You can write any language any which way, but some languages just have a culture of boilerplate vs abstractions. The most popular Python and Java libraries seem
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
How did you transition to freelance? Do you have a specialty? I would love to work as a freelance/ contractor/consultant engineer one day but only when I have enough experience that I can get hired for roughy, interesting projects
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
By far the best part of Mac OS to me is that Cmd-, opens Settings/Preferences on every single app . On Linux you have to dig to find these things and then have to remember a different keybinding for every app, if there is one
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
You frame it as a preference that the average person has agency over - we Americans have chosen the ability maybe one day own property over medical and financial security because that's what we value! We have massive physical land spac
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
if JetBrains people are reading this, I love your products, but waaaay more code navigation and pane splitting/management features need to have keyboard shortcuts. VS Code gets this very right. It's generally not as powerful or fr
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
It's not that everyone who's not far left is fascist, it's that being a mealy-mouthed "both sides have a point" "well how were they supposed to know they were journalists" centrist when one side is getting
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
They arrest everyone then later can say oh oopsie journalist we let him go. It's still an obvious authoritatian intimidation tactic and information suppression tactic to be throwing these people in jail and letting them wait sometimes
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Wow how did you get it that cheap? At that price I wouldn’t worry about it becoming obsolete I would just wait 2-3 years for either another round of Mac updates or a Thinkpad with more modern chip
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
What's the project? or what problem does it solve? So curious
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Hashicorp
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
It's not a purity test. To be more clear, the New York Times is left for the media, but (like our entire government-corporate-media complex) center-right of public opinion. They beat the drums of war for Afghanistan and Iraq, as well a
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
> very left-wing sources like NY Times and Politico These are center-right sources by any reasonable standard
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Dedicating 5 hours a week to keeping your body healthy and functioning seems pretty bare minimum expectation. Otherwise your lifestyle is just fully sedentary and you should expect the corresponding health outcomes. Exercise isn't just
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Just from moving to places where I generally walk everywhere (college, major city) to places where I can only really drive (various smaller towns and suburbs) I have fluctuated in weight up to 15 pounds without any change in diet. In both
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Chicago is pretty segregated, but the transit situation is easily the best of any major US city. A car helps you get places quicker, but an adventurous person can get all over the city easily on the buses and trains and any given neighborho
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
For both Python and Go I use descriptive (often long) names and ~90-char line limit, and use linebreaks liberally to reconcile the two
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Modern particle-board (cheap material houses) provide significantly less time to get out in case of a fire than much older, sturdier wood construction however. "Research shows that 30 years ago, you had about 17 minutes to escape a hou
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
A proper conservative position would be weaker central government. In the US both parties want a stronger central government, just with different priorities.
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Mac always works great for me, the hardware (post keyboard fix or pre keyboard problems) is good, so I stick with it. For 95% of users, Mac just works with the exception of how MS Office programs can be pretty meh on Mac. I have tried Linux
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
I see - so you're saying that for someone: * in their 30s - so, say 10 years of engineer-but-not-FAANG salary * with a spouse who also has a white collar job & about 10 years of savings they would not have $200k to put down 20% tow
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
I know plenty of people doing just fine in SF on much less than that 170k. Yes, they rent. But "buying homes after saving for a down payment after a few years" is not a reality in any major metro area at the moment, unless you&#x2
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
I guess everyone's different but I feel like a good devs in America can make a damn good living without working for something evil. You won't be a millionaire in 5 years, but you will be just fine. How much do you really need?
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Thank you for the answer! I had not thought to vet a program I am interested in for "heavy on theory" vs "heavy on application" - I will make sure to do so.
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Thanks, I will check it out! I recently started working through Network Programming in Rust, but it wasn't as low-level as I wanted. I am also planning to take a hack at the open source Illinois CS 241 book & course
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Ask HN: Should I get a Master's in CS?
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
As someone without formal CS background, I definitely feel like understanding computer systems is the missing level in my knowledge: Computer architecture, how it's interacted with by the kernel & OS, compilers, and computer networ
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Poetry is by no means the only option for this. Lots of people like pip-tools, it would feel a lot more lightweight and closer to pip than Poetry does. Pipenv exists but... steer clear for a multitude of reasons. Personally I like that Poet
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
To clarify further - lockfile == reproducible builds without having to pip freeze every single dependency in the tree. Fuzzy specs == effortless upgrades according to your risk tolerance for a given library (major version for boto3, minor v
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Pasting this from another comment: Poetry is still rough around the edges but I think the core experience is great and it's well on its way to be a very popular tool. Before using it at work, we are waiting on waiting on https:/&
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by skrtskrt 6y ago
Agreed - I tried to migrate from Jekyll to Hugo just to try to get Ruby off my computer, and I could not believe that I had to use a theme or else everything broke. My Jekyll site just uses bootstrap and a 50-line CSS file. But if you don

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