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by tharne 5y ago
I think this is one of those studies where you didn't really need to do a study.
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by tharne 5y ago
At this point in my life whether it be at work or a social event, the minute someone describes themselves as an "idea guy", I run like hell. There is no red flag like the "idea guy".
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by tharne 5y ago
On average I've found projects with explicit CoC's to be more toxic than those projects without Coc's.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Why does a programming language need a 'Mod Team'? This is what happens when redditors leave the house. Exactly. CoC's have become back doors to insert a specific brand of politics into the development world.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I actively avoid projects that spend a lot of time talking about "inclusivity" because to me it's a symptom of a (ironically) toxic environment full of people looking for drama 100%. I do the exact same thing, for the e
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by tharne 5y ago
> I'd give the mod team the benefit of the doubt that the offense they've all resigned over is not so mild that it could be committed unintentionally. I don't think that's necessarily a safe assumption, particularly i
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by tharne 5y ago
> The first thing you need to accept if you want to have kids, is that they will NOT live the life you want them to live, nor will they accept your values at all, unless you can convince them that your values have merit People will do wh
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by tharne 5y ago
When people cite money as a reason for not having children, they just usually just don't want children, but don't want to admit it. The fact is there has never been a better time in human history to raise children. People talk abo
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by tharne 5y ago
It's a sad day when the NY Post has better content than the NY Times, but here we are.
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by tharne 5y ago
These types of movements never really go anywhere, in large part because their proponents remove themselves from the genepool. It's the same reason that people having been saying for generations that religion is going to disappear, but
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by tharne 5y ago
> Excel is the original low code solution I'm surprised how infrequently this comes up, given the massive usage of Excel in the business world; low-code/no-code is always discussed as if it's something new. Non-programmers
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by tharne 5y ago
It wasn't a "defense", so much as a statement of fact. I enjoy using emacs, but I don't go around trying to get the whole world to use it. I know that emacs occupies a very specific niche and is not for everyone. I don&#
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by tharne 5y ago
Fair enough, but why the leetcode-style interview then?
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by tharne 5y ago
> Potentially unpopular opinion on HN, but I don’t see this as unreasonable. It's unreasonable because they, 1) have the OP's open source project to assess his technical abilities, and 2) they approached the OP, not the other w
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by tharne 5y ago
> emacs users just live in another world entirely, this whole interaction I find typical of users who evangelize for emacs It's not that emacs users "live in another world entirely", it's that some things a very diffi
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by tharne 5y ago
I like that the author hit on the curious and fun aspect of emacs. Whenever people talk about IDEs and editors, there's so much focus on things like efficiency, practicality, and return on investment. I don't use emacs because I d
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by tharne 5y ago
What's going on with "anxiety" lately? This went from something you heard about here and there 20-30 years ago, to something that everyone and their brother is feeling all the time. What changed?
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by tharne 5y ago
> Emacs is dead, except for a relatively small group of persons who were exposed to it very early in their careers This is false. There are plenty of new users. https://emacssurvey.org/2020/ Emacs is not now or in t
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by tharne 5y ago
Doom Emacs is very good in this regard too. Without Doom and its sane defaults, I certainly would have given up on emacs.
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by tharne 5y ago
This is the wrong question. You're never negotiating "salary", you're negotiating all-in compensation. Getting overly-focused on salary is a great way to shoot yourself in foot. A 5 or 10% salary bump is worthless if tak
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by tharne 5y ago
30k is not the median income in the U.S. and there are plenty of ways to make a decent living without working for FaceBook. You can make a very nice living as a developer working for non-tech companies. Or, if you prefer not working in fron
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by tharne 5y ago
Start looking for other jobs ASAP. There's no shame in telling an interviewer, "I accepted my current and it is not the role or company they described during the hiring process". This has happened to practically everyone at l
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by tharne 5y ago
> Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet And yet people enjoy their services enough to voluntarily pay for them :)
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by tharne 5y ago
I've been seeing a lot of pro-perl comments here on HN. Never used it myself, may have to check it out.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Bash is not perfect and that's ok. It can't handle floating point math? bc can, so use it. That's the beauty of the Unix philosophy. Nailed it. It's perfectly okay that bash doesn't have every feature under the
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by tharne 5y ago
No. Learn Bash. The biggest benefit of bash is that you're virtually guaranteed to find it on any linux server. It's ubiquity is its strength. Write a bash script once and take comfort in the fact that it will be able to run on vi
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by tharne 5y ago
Perhaps it's just personal preference, but in what world is JS "infinitely nicer" than python?
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by tharne 5y ago
> Hmm, in this false analogy game, what editor is aligned with korn shell? vi (not vim), preferably running on OpenBSD :)
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by tharne 5y ago
There is a general decline at the New York Times. It's certainly not limited to Science, that just may be the easiest place to spot shoddy reporting.
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by tharne 5y ago
Or we could just have an education system that results in a highly-skilled U.S. labor force. Imagine that.

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