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by slotrans 4y ago
"Most web apps dont have pretenses of being simple. They want to use tools that have room for growth, that have deep capabilities." No, that's completely false. Most web "apps" are just text and images, and would be
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by slotrans 4y ago
I tried to sign up for it and they wanted to do a Zoom call before they'd give me an account. Absurd.
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by slotrans 4y ago
Isn't it telling that few/none of us have heard of this? Maybe these efforts didn't get traction because Google made no effort to let the world know they existed.
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by slotrans 4y ago
UBlock Origin, as awesome as it is, does not remove ads from Google search results.
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by slotrans 4y ago
100% of those features are terrible. Topics, in particular, are actively and significantly harmful to the quality of my experience on Twitter. If there was a way to hide them permanently, now THAT would be a feature!
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by slotrans 4y ago
> shitty companies that are incapable of making tough decisions > the enterprise
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by slotrans 4y ago
I still use my 2006 iPod. It's a 5.5th generation model that came with an 80GB HDD and IIRC I paid $400 for it. The battery eventually died. Replacements are about $8 and the surgery is easy. What makes a huge difference though is repl
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by slotrans 4y ago
DBAs do that second thing too, and always have.
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by slotrans 4y ago
It is more or less a dead job. It's important to understand why it existed in the first place. A long time ago, if you were building business software on a database at all, it was a very costly commercial database. Imagine 6 figures a
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by slotrans 4y ago
No way this guy earns his money back. There is no salary premium for a CS master's. Employers that want to see one are places you don't want to work. I mean, if you want to do it just for fun, knock yourself out. Just don't d
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by slotrans 4y ago
I built a tiny desktop app around it, purely for myself. It was fine. What I learned from that though is that I would never use it for actual business software, no matter the scale. The fact that it doesn't have proper timestamp suppor
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by slotrans 5y ago
Rituals are mandatory by definition, so everything we're talking about is forced
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by slotrans 5y ago
The "Rails Way" doesn't work at all, and in fact hinders understanding, when a new developer doesn't know the Rails conventions. If you're happy to exist and hire within one ecosystem that can be fine. Otherwise it&
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by slotrans 5y ago
> If your code is sufficiently clear there will be nothing left to say in the comments Incorrect. The code can never tell you WHY. That's what comments are for.
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by slotrans 5y ago
Don't use cron, use Jenkins.
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by slotrans 5y ago
If this isn't a business application, ignore this entire comment. If it is a business application, you probably shouldn't build a CRUD app, at least not the way that's commonly understood. Stick with me for a minute. Firs
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by slotrans 5y ago
Linux isn't a business.
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by slotrans 5y ago
WFH is horrible and I can't wait for it to be over. Once mask mandates relax I may blow $200 a month on a coworking space just to get back into a rhythm where I leave the house daily, and see other humans.
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by slotrans 5y ago
(voted "other") I left my job in September due to burnout. In turn, that was due to being too invested in wanting to do good work, at a company that just didn't function at a basic level and thwarted my efforts at every turn.
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by slotrans 5y ago
> Web-developers don't deserve quality of life improvements Don't you think the customer experience is strictly more important than the developer experience?
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by slotrans 5y ago
Are you familiar with https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks ? It's not tutorial-style, but it does contain hundreds of sample web apps (that all do the same thing, but still)
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by slotrans 5y ago
I am looking to collect databases from real businesses and business-like entities, including those that have failed or otherwise become "past-tense". Read on if you or someone you know might have access to such things. Background:
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by slotrans 5y ago
This is not actually compatible with SQL semantics. An important constraint on SQL is that a query must run, and produce correct results, relying only on the structure and content of tables . Indexes (can) make queries faster but must not
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by slotrans 5y ago
When I get 10 LinkedIn messages a day , no, I cannot be bothered to interact with each of them for 20 minutes. And since they all refuse to send along any relevant details whatsoever, I can't even cull that to the subset that's p
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by slotrans 5y ago
I am vastly less productive working from home. Many of my friends will (privately, as you say) confess to the same. I keep seeing this narrative that the pandemic forced everyone to try remote work and surprise! productivity went up. I real
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by slotrans 5y ago
Very, very flawed reasoning here. It's basically arguing that YAGNI as a principle is exactly backwards: you're definitely going to need all this stuff eventually so embrace maximum complexity from day 1. Terrible, terrible strate
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by slotrans 5y ago
Second this. Jenkins is far and away the best generalized tool for running scheduled jobs, including ETL jobs.
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by slotrans 5y ago
SublimeMerge
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by slotrans 5y ago
"Software design is a well researched and understood problem..." I got a good laugh out of that one. Honestly that final paragraph should just be deleted. It's just a giant, indefensible claim.
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by slotrans 5y ago
I have a ~1930s Griswold, it's very nice, but my Field Skillet https://fieldcompany.com/ is better in every way. I use it every single day.

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