slavapestov

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by slavapestov 5y ago
BBEdit?
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by slavapestov 5y ago
I started working on jEdit when I was 14 and developed it for 6 years or so. While I haven’t used it in a very long time I’m humbled to see that it is still being maintained and has users.
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by slavapestov 5y ago
Work less.
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The Model M is nice, but I still maintain that the Model F that preceded it is the best keyboard ever made.
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by slavapestov 5y ago
Here's how you maximize innovation: people who want to work from an office should work from an office and people who want to work from home should work from home.
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by slavapestov 5y ago
Swift 5.4 and 5.5 made some major improvements to incremental builds (rebuilding fewer files after a change) and pretty much every release since 5.1 or so improved full module rebuild performance (doing less work for a file that actually ha
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by slavapestov 5y ago
“Hypothetical” being the key word here, though. These proposals are all thin on details, and if it was so easy someone would’ve made such a language by now.
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by slavapestov 5y ago
> Honestly you would have gotten %80-%90 of the benefits of swift by making Obj-C use a new syntax that looked like swift and continued to improve Obj-C as a language than what you would have gotten with swift. A lot of the ugly of obj-c
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Demand for homes in dense cities outstrips supply though, and I suspect this will continue to hold even if all office jobs offered remote work as an option to those that want it. Nevermind the fact that only a fraction of all jobs can be
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And it’s sitting on top of a VAX. Perfect pairing
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We bought because we wanted a rural property where we could keep horses. Can't really get that with renting or put a monetary value on that.
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> therefore having to pay for things like childcare, cars, clothing, parking, etc. Where do you idiots get the idea that remote workers don't need to pay for childcare, clothes or cars?
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I'm happy to report that my productivity has steadily decreased over the last four years. I credit this to becoming a parent, picking up more hobbies, and working from home. And yet, my compensation has doubled during that time. I real
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by slavapestov 5y ago
The original poster you replied to expressed a desire to "never go back to the office". That's a personal preference and a totally reasonable position. By bringing up Atwood's post out of nowhere, you're building a
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Not sure what you mean by “special treatment”. I’m well compensated for the work that I do, and remote positions are not exactly hard to find these days.
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> For me, the biggest downside of working from home is how easy it is to get distracted by non-work. I go grab a coffee and end up putting dishes away, cleaning up, etc. Sometimes taking a short break like that is the best way to make pr
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by slavapestov 5y ago
> There are a whole lot of people in cities like Pittsburgh who will be happy to get 10% less than Silly Valley to get a remote job. Do you think people in Pittsburgh shouldn't have jobs?
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by slavapestov 5y ago
Nonsense. When I'm coding I want to be left alone to code. Often I need to talk to people as well, and I can do this very effectively over Slack, video meetings and screen sharing. I work on a team that was mostly in-office before COVI
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> Honestly, I really enjoyed being a leader for a technology organization, but right now, I absolutely hate it. There seem to be others who cope better, but it's certainly not for me. Managing people in-person requires you to develo
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Giving employees the choice to work remotely or come into an office is the best approach. There are tradeoffs to each, and it should really be up to the individual to decide what is best for them.
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> Mixed onsite/remote doesn't work because the remote folks become second class citizens. Having been on both sides of the equation at two different tech companies, this hasn’t been my experience.
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by slavapestov 5y ago
> Colleagues with small kids are unable to get any work done when there is no babysitter. Yeah, but if they’re small enough to need a babysitter you can’t leave them home alone and go to the office either.
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by slavapestov 5y ago
My comment was more about the demographics of the group (young, white, male) than where they chose to live.
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Merit and diversity are not in opposition to each other. In fact I'd say there is very little merit in hiring in tech today. It's statistically impossible that the best programmers in the world all happen to be 20 year old white d
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I collaborate with people remotely. But even if we take it as a given that in-office is better for everyone, it comes with the tradeoff of having to live in the Bay.
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I work my job for the paycheck, which includes those RSUs of great value. It’s a fine job, but if I didn’t need the money, I would quit. What kind of commitments should I be making and why?
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by slavapestov 5y ago
How much do homes cost within a 30 minute commute radius of FAANG HQ?
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What are you doing your job for if not to collect a paycheck?
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by slavapestov 5y ago
> You're probably not getting sent down from 600k TC to 60k, even if that's the going rate for developers in Nowhere, Montana (if there even are any developer jobs there). Yeah. Anecdotally, the adjustment in pay within the USA
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by slavapestov 5y ago
> We still don't have any hard evidence that the vaccine stops transmission. It's possible that it keeps you from getting sick while being an asymptomatic spreader. We absolutely do and such studies exist, and furthermore you c

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