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by sseagull 4y ago
There was a bit of discussion yesterday about 'immaturity' in the programming community. To me, this is an example of a broader immaturity. Mature people/organizations are willing to give up their local minimum for greater go
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I think I 100% agree with this. There have been threads here about burnout and disillusionment, and I think it kind of feeds into this. There's so much churn and confusion about what is the best way to do things, and there's no re
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At some point you are going to have another service that uses this HTML->JPEG service though. That would be a dependency, at least in my view (ie, if the HTML->JPEG service goes down, something else will break). Or are all microservic
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Imagine if everyone could only do what 98% of users do for everything. Only the most popular websites, apps, books, restaurants, etc. The world would be a boring place. (And you wouldn’t be allowed to visit HN)
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I worked at a large non-tech (well, kinda tech) company as a chemist. They used an Access DB as a Lab Information Management System. Basically, a way to log samples in, assign work, report results, bill hours, etc. It worked pretty well! I
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by sseagull 4y ago
No downvotes from me, but people take vacations for other reasons. I know people who are basically close to burnout all the time, and a week here and there of no-responsibility vacation would do wonders for their mental health. It’s not nec
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by sseagull 4y ago
I see your point. Although I do call for some balance - don’t waste it all, but don’t be a packrat either. > Like when you are in your 20s, living with roommates (even if you can afford not to) is fine and could be fun, and you can just
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by sseagull 4y ago
This is basically it. There’s a balance of course, but I know a few people who go too far into the “save everything” category. They are slaving away in their 20s and 30s, prime time for exploration and fun, for a retirement when they are ol
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by sseagull 4y ago
Similar story for me. Used to basically use vim, but after taking over a large-ish python project I switched to PyCharm. Its support for detecting type errors (I use type hints pretty consistently) and its refactoring support have probably
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How Linux package managers handle these newer languages with their own package managers (including rust) is an ongoing pain point. Here’s an article from 2017 about it, and I don’t know if things have improved: https://lwn.net&#x
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> It isn't a panacea, and the last two years have drawn into sharp relief one of the major problems of the system: confirmation bias. I believe I was explicit in saying it wasn’t perfect. What alternative is there that doesn’t have
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A paper that is not peer reviewed is basically like a blog article. There are great blog articles, but also a lot with basically nonsense written by people who think they know something but don't. There's a lot of noise. How is so
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by sseagull 4y ago
Standards are necessary and help of course. But the real power always lies with the implementations. There is no compliance without enforcement. For example, C++ has a standard, but compliance is all over the place. Even Fortran has the sam
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I’ve come to the conclusion that fragmentation is inevitable as a language gets popular. People think differently, have different ideas for how to do things, need it to work for their particular use case, etc. Fragmentation and bloat are a
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by sseagull 4y ago
Don't know about the second question, but I think you are thinking of Dolly the sheep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
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The is needlessly condescending and an over generalization. The answer is that, like pretty much everything in society, collective action is hard for a variety of reasons. It’s a simple problem, but with no simple solutions. But I suppose a
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> he was TECHNICALLY a private citizen The 1st amendment prohibits the government from interfering with speech. You just admitted he was not part of the government. Therefore it’s not a 1st amendment violation. It may be morally wrong, o
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It's got one glaring omission IMO - references to sci-fi literature. They crop up in a lot of threads :)
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I’m more familiar with chemistry, but a lot of times the scientist is the one who needs to make the first iteration to prove their idea. It’s often the case you really don’t understand the problem until you actually program/run the ide
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by sseagull 4y ago
> The Russia-gate was always a laughable hoax Don't know why I'm going to bother, but from the intro to Volume 1 of the Mueller Report: "The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and s
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Neither could twitter at the beginning: https://theoutline.com/post/4147/in-twitters-early-days-only...
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And yet, lots of people are on there at this moment just having fun. Even if it doesn’t last, oh well. These complaints remind me of the famous dropbox comment, as well as this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/359/
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This is very philosophical and not answerable here or anywhere. It’s also very personal. You could have ambition to change the world, help your fellow humans, cure diseases, whatever. Those are noble. You could also view life as a journey o
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Ugh yeah. I’m naturally on the less energetic side, and generally need a decent amount of sleep (at least 7 hours) to really function optimally. I am envious of those who can get by with less. I don’t have kids, partly for this reason. (I
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It's probably been a lot, lot longer than that. This is an evolution of "think again!" articles from long ago. I wouldn't be surprised if in some cave somewhere there's a message on the wall like "Think Oogie i
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> I can pay for one service per month and then cancel and pay for another next month I would not be surprised to see this go away. Some services have shows released regularly one episode at a time, which mimics broadcast TV (although tha
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This is one thing I feel conflicted about. On one hand, it is a lot easier to do those things (VMs, docker, DBs, etc). On the other hand, now a regular run-of-the-mill developer is also supposed to be knowledgeable about sooo much stuff tha
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For me, it's not necessarily derision, but lack of sympathy is natural. If someone in my community (say a teacher) is making 45k a year, and they get laid off through no fault of their own, I will feel sympathy. They were contributing
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For lots of APIs this is somewhat true. However, I recently took a deep dive into "REST" and realized that for many APIs, you really have to contort how you think in order to make it fit into that model. It generally works for ret
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Speaking from experience, one reason is that people grew up cooking meat, and therefore know intuitively how to cook it. When I cook vegetarian, it can be a lot more work. How long do I do so-and-so, how much whatever goes in the what not,

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