throwawaylala1

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by throwawaylala1 4y ago
> Whenever I talk to video game programmers, they scoff at the idea that UI is a difficult problem to solve. And they're right. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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by throwawaylala1 4y ago
You're not wrong, but there is a large spectrum of success out there. It's not like you get only "one shot, one opportunity" (Eminem) or nothing. Yes there's also a spectrum of the work/reward ratio and sometim
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by throwawaylala1 4y ago
The realization that... Okay seriously this blew my mind. The realization that the majority of the rules/regulations/laws/policies that we have in place are directly connected to the suffering of a human being. Our society is
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by throwawaylala1 4y ago
Do your thing I guess. The results will speak for themselves. Just know that even in the mid-2000s (when the market was red hot) there were all sorts of hurdles you'd have to go through to get a good gig. A lot of that involved doing w
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by throwawaylala1 4y ago
lol yes
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by throwawaylala1 4y ago
What did you write CRUD APIs in before Go?
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by throwawaylala1 4y ago
What are you using it for?
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by throwawaylala1 5y ago
> The real world is messy, as much as programmers want to think it's not. You hit the nail on the head with the whole comment and that line in particular. I'll add that one of the most effective ways to deal with some of the me
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by throwawaylala1 5y ago
Computer systems are imperfect. No one is claiming otherwise. What matters more is the probability of failure, rates of failure in the real world, P95 latencies, how complex it is to mitigate common real world failures, etc, etc, etc. &quot
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by throwawaylala1 5y ago
If you're needing to fight the GC to prevent crashes or whatever then you have a system design issue not a tooling/language/ecosystem issue. There are exceptions to this but they're rare and not worth mentioning in a bro
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by throwawaylala1 5y ago
That first example is deceptive. In this line: for i := 0; i <= n; i++ { The "<=" character just looks like a "<" character due to the typeface that the author chose. I'm going to assume that wasn&
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by throwawaylala1 5y ago
Love the idea, but I can't search for exact matches using quotes :(
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by throwawaylala1 5y ago
> or a pompous person trying to make other devs feel inferior This is how I felt reading it as well. IMO Steven should exercise a little humility. It was bad design on his team's part. How is anyone supposed to know that there was o
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by throwawaylala1 5y ago
I usually lurk but I created an account just to respond to you. Please find a therapist. Trust me. I don't know what your financial situation is, but it's really not that expensive... especially because you don't need to do i