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by suzzer99 5mo ago
I question any dev who doesn't get aroused by deleting code. I just removed an entire graphql endpoint - 500 lines of front and back-end code. I may need to be hosed down.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Er, I think I meant Instagram. Facebook now has AI nonsense that look like reels, or whatever they call reels. So I nope out of those too.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Scrolling Facebook: Oh that looks interesting. Oh. It's on threads. Nope.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Yes, eventually. Largely because he would have written all the code that got to that point and had a mental model of the entire flow instead of it being a gray box.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Yesterday, I had my first experience of a mid-level dev stuck on a problem, coming to me with Codex and Copilot summaries of what those tools thought the problem was, which turned out to be completely off-base. Codex was pretty sure somethi
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Yeah I should caveat I'm talking about development where the ultimate outcome is the web or web-apps (iOS, Android, smart TVs). Everything is still changing so fast in that field, an architect who doesn't code gets out of touch ve
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
I'm a 57-year-old engineer still going strong, and I know plenty of others. This job isn't conceptually that hard if you have the experience to break problems into manageable chunks. I probably can't juggle as many things in
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
The problem with this idea of feature backlog, at least everywhere I've worked, is what you really have is an idea backlog. You have some things people want to build, and maybe a business analyst or product owner has done a first pas
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
I have no idea how you could even measure that w/o influencing the outcome.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
A software architect who doesn't actually code is worse than useless imo, because they drag actual developers down, forcing them to implement their Powerpoint apps. I say that having worked in the architecture group at one of largest c
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Yes, if you're using them to write large chunks of code or entire features. If you just use them to clear up some trivial problem in an unfamiliar technology that you used to spend 30 minutes googling with 50 tabs open, or stuff like w
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
100%. Googling when you don't even know enough to ask the right questions, with 50 tabs open and trying to read down to the 3rd or 4th Stack Overflow answer (which is usually the best for some inexplicable reason), was my least favorit
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Lol I would love to see a scammer try to get my mom or dad to do anything other than press the power button. He's in for a world of hurt. The other day my mom got a text saying she had a $399 charge on Apple, and to call the number if
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
I got in a series of debates over the Covid vaccine on Facebook with a guy I like and respect, who hosts sound baths, promotes psychedelic therapy, and does a bunch of other wellness-related stuff along with his wife. The idea was maybe we
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
> Infants are supposed to get vitamin K and other nutrients from breastfeeding, but we push formula. This is literally nonsense. From the article: > All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
(Responding to the reply below) Yeah okay she spoke out of turn very early after the vaccine was out for a short time. The CDC sucked a lot through this, especially when they refused to recommend masks. But you notice pretty much all of her
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
I don't think humans will ever have a defense for "trigger my amygdala and tell me what I want to hear."
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
The masks thing is 100% accurate. The CDC and WHO kept insisting Covid was being spread by fomites on surfaces long after it was obvious the virus was airborne. They did this because there was already a mask shortage and whatever other poli
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
No one's going to watch your dubiously-sourced video. Send some links of people in authority claiming the vaccine offers 100% immunity to covid.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
Exactly what lies from public health authorities are you talking about?
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
> The problem is that the leaders told us that if you got the vaccine you would be immune and not get COVID. That's a straw man. Nobody in authority said this once the vaccine was out and it was obvious that immunity wasn't 100
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
The covid shot was a medical miracle. It saved hundreds of thousands of lives. There is a very small risk of myocarditis, which was always known and out in the open. Other than that every attack on the covid vaccines is just a bunch of nons
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
> All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta, and breast milk contains only small amounts. That puts babies who are exclusively breastfed at a higher ris
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
> So you are going to waste everyone's time getting another developer to write code the way you want? No one is suggesting that.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
100%. I don't think any senior programmer ever looks at another developer's code and says, "Oh yeah, that's just the way I'd do it."
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
You just invented CMS.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
> Del Monte went out of business because there wasn't enough demand for the peaches. Maybe if grocery store peaches weren't a fibrous, tasteless representation of a real fresh peach, they'd still be in business.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
At my first Burning Man in 1998, I met a guy in his 3rd year who told me, "It's changed, man." Burning Man may have peaked by now. But looking back, most would agree it still had a lot of good years left in it in 1998.
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
I always try to compliment people if I see they're taking a lot of pride in their work or something they're doing. I was at a conference where the staff each had a coffee/tea/sweets station to maintain. I noticed one wom
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by suzzer99 5mo ago
I'm currently working on a large project that was started by a 3rd-party vendor, then dumped onto the in-house team's lap due to an unforeseen financial pinch. The vendor was basically right at the end of the "fun" part

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