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by tarsinge 6y ago
I depends from what you derive your satisfaction. I've been at a company that had perfect engineering practice and was completely failing because engineers were almighty and oblivious of business. That was demoralizing. A useful produc
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by tarsinge 6y ago
My take is that the highest tech debt is never duplication but always abstraction. Duplication make the job tedious and error-prone, but a wrong abstraction in the start and suddenly you have an insurmontable rewrite of everything for the u
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by tarsinge 6y ago
> The left usually cites weak antitrust enforcement. Personally for a left view I would add cash/capital accumulation. It's kind of the same thing happening for individuals with wealth and real estate. Regulation is failing to
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by tarsinge 6y ago
I think the issue is the false premise that programming is just one occupation akin to chain factory working the same everywhere for everyone. You cannot compare a coder in an outsourced shop doing "plumbing" implementing some ent
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by tarsinge 6y ago
I agree that mixing cash flow and profits is confusing. But that doesn't change the point: not turning a profit means you lose money on every sale (which was not the case of Amazon, the profits were just small compared to the sales vol
906.
by tarsinge 6y ago
I don't really see how cash flow can stay positive without profits, that's akin to raking up debt no?
907.
by tarsinge 6y ago
Yeah if someone scam you $10 but give $0.001 to charity I guess it's a brighter side than if they kept everything.
908.
by tarsinge 6y ago
That really is use case dependent for me. In the context where I have made a thoughtful choice to use a dynamically typed language, I find strong typing seems to make things unnecessary clunky with not much gain, especially in webdev dealin
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by tarsinge 6y ago
The point is that a language can evolve so much they are not even the same language. I prefer ES2016 to Python for example.
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by tarsinge 6y ago
Maybe someone drunk then?
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by tarsinge 6y ago
This has some parallels to generic random corporate PR or marketing speak. Some communications are already so automated and dehumanized that we are used to random content signed by a pseudo real person that we gloss over, and are more easil
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by tarsinge 6y ago
I find MS seems quite immune to terrible publicity in the recent years. "But it's not the same company as before! They are doing open-source now!" yada yada
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by tarsinge 6y ago
What’s the % of users who use that? Until you can buy a de-googled Android phone straight from the store it’s kind of irrelevant to the comparison for the majority of non technical users.
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by tarsinge 6y ago
I'm a bit younger and it may not be the only solution but the one that worked for me was to stop positioning myself and competing for a pure SW dev role altogether. In my opinion one of the key strength you get with experience is persp
915.
by tarsinge 6y ago
Yeah the underlying causality between intelligence and wealth/success is always strange for me. Researchers, artists, philosophers... There are a lot of smart people actively choosing to pursue interests that are not valued by the mark
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by tarsinge 6y ago
The first part of your comment is my sentiment watching this from Europe. I disagree with the second part though.
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by tarsinge 6y ago
I’m amazed this is downvoted. Two wrong don’t make a right, China was incompetent, and yes the US (Trump) were incompetent too. As an European I agree with you, the article is Trump parroting/propaganda.
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by tarsinge 6y ago
Regarding 2), I write cards on the structure, for example to rot learn the table of content, key sections or enumerations. It’s usually enough to create a path in my mind so that I can access the memory of the content in situations where I
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by tarsinge 6y ago
The essay makes a very good point about the availability of documents/data, but from what I have seen working on ERP projects and business processes I don't think attacking this problem top-down from how businesses works is a good
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by tarsinge 6y ago
I agree that Slack fails as a structured discussion tool, but I find that having one giant notification repository with channels that anyone can subscribe to and filter is great. A server is down, someone is ordering food for lunch, a new c
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by tarsinge 6y ago
> If you're an up-and-coming Golang developer, how happy are you going to be when your company takes you off of a Golang project and makes you the new Erlang person? In my mind good developers are not <language> developer, the
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by tarsinge 6y ago
Regarding strength training and injury you have a point: if you are a beginner avoid anything with a powerlifting bias (i.e. adding weight is the main objective). Stronglifts, r/fitness, ... Also bench press will not do much for postur
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by tarsinge 6y ago
> So yeah, I could buy a big house Georgia but... why would I want to? Because living in a big city with lot of options for food (and maybe other enjoyable and interesting things) give you decision fatigue?
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by tarsinge 6y ago
My guess is that in the majority of areas of programming the work is to express rules, and here text is simply more powerful. Are laws written using graphics? Visual programming can be useful for workflow (3D, movies or music DAWs). But oth
925.
by tarsinge 6y ago
Not the first time I see something like this, would have I not been using hckrnews.com I would have missed it.
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by tarsinge 6y ago
iPhones are in minority outside the US, WhatsApp is simply the Universal Apple Messages replacement, because it’s a lightweight app.
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by tarsinge 6y ago
This is the theorical argument, but in practice when is the last time you encountered 20 identical pieces? DRY is so prevalent that pushing just 2 identical pieces is now rare in my experience. Professionally 99% of my code is used exactly
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by tarsinge 6y ago
The problem with that reasoning is that the stock market is NOT the economy. It’s a secondary market that is more or less necessary depending on your views. Buybacks instead of dividends definitely have set the market in the speculation ter
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by tarsinge 6y ago
What about CoinJoin? https://github.com/nopara73/ZeroLink/
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by tarsinge 6y ago
I understand the intellectual appeal of that theory, but in reality given the behavior of the stock market in March (why a sudden drop if 20 years forward looking?), or ZOOM stock going up instead of ZM, Tesla stock moving from an opinion t

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