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by twitchard 3y ago
This is "the worst part of Jenkins is that it works". You shouldn't judge a developer tool by just what is possible to do with the tool. After all, with a little turing-completeness it is possible to do anything with anyt
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by twitchard 3y ago
Yup. I think this is the sort of perspective you get with experience.
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by twitchard 3y ago
Submitter's is a way better title imo
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by twitchard 3y ago
To illustrate "build build steps" with an example: I used to work on a project that had 1000s of Javascript files, that we compiled into a dozen or so webpack bundles to deploy. Not every webpack bundle depended on every file howe
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by twitchard 4y ago
Any stories to tell about compiler analogies being taken too far in web apps?
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by twitchard 4y ago
Wrong. I've been a hiring manager at a place with >100 engineers and a recruiting team and - I still read every resume - I ignored the keywords - I pretty much valued exactly what the author does.
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by twitchard 4y ago
same for me
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by twitchard 4y ago
Shameless plug for my conference talk on why I prefer a "compiler" approach vs a "template" approach to API library generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgRreyw-Nlg Based on experiences with the sa
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by twitchard 4y ago
My big question is "what's for lunch?"
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by twitchard 4y ago
Also, appeals to authority is "person X says Y, person X has a PhD, therefore Y". There is no "Person X" here. The authority, if there is one, is a mysterious authority possessed by the form of the argument itself. Or, y
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by twitchard 4y ago
Ignorance of what? Bias against who? Religious mystics? That's like saying it's wrong to use "charismatic" to mean "attractive" because that word needs to be reserved for religious charismatics, or that it&#x27
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by twitchard 4y ago
Hmm, medical scientists experiment on rats and then make medical predictions about humans based on analogy from rats to humans. At least, I classify this as an analogy, and wouldn't forbid analogies from having predictive power. Re: &q
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by twitchard 4y ago
This is a fair criticism. I think, if I had stopped at "hey look, Will Larson's model in this post wasn't realistic, this proves there's a bunch of people out there being mystical about system dynamics", this would
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by twitchard 4y ago
That's not what resource contention means. Resource contention means two people (or processes) want the same thing and only one can have it at a time.
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by twitchard 4y ago
Words can have multiple meanings, my friend. The word's root just means "full of mystery", which is completely appropriate in this context -- describing people who accept the authority of fancy equations as a mystery, instead
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by twitchard 4y ago
That's pretty silly. What "shared resources" am I contending with previous developers for? It's not like "oops, I can't deploy to the QA environment now, it's in use by somebody who left in 2015" Also
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by twitchard 4y ago
Merriam-Webster gives a definition "vague speculation : a belief without sound basis"
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Monads and Mom(twitchard.github.io)
2 points by twitchard 6y ago|0 comments
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If Software Teams Were Proof Engines(twitchard.github.io)
3 points by twitchard 6y ago|0 comments
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by twitchard 6y ago
My latest side project I've been doing on glitch.com using node.js, React Hooks, and theme-ui. I miss my Vim bindings, and I wasted a little bit of time trying to get HMR to work with parcel, but other than that it really feels like th
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by twitchard 6y ago
Still competitive with "sending husband out to get groceries"
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Against Process(twitchard.github.io)
4 points by twitchard 7y ago|0 comments
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Software Development and the False Promise of Science(twitchard.github.io)
3 points by twitchard 7y ago|0 comments
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by twitchard 7y ago
A general-purpose library able to hide the necessarily specific logic of how network events and a poker game should interact seems... unlikely?
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by twitchard 9y ago
My team at the Node Knockout hackathon implemented an editor-agnostic version of this feature last weekend. I guess it is an idea whose time is come. https://www.nodeknockout.com/entries/35-nodeist-colony For me, the e
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by twitchard 9y ago
My hack-a-thon team did it in 48 hours this weekend, lol. https://www.nodeknockout.com/entries/35-nodeist-colony
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by twitchard 9y ago
My team at the Node Knockout hackathon implemented an editor-agnostic version of this feature literally last weekend. https://www.nodeknockout.com/entries/35-nodeist-colony
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by twitchard 9y ago
This becomes more fun if autonomous vehicles broadcast their ethical setting. Then you could overcome the prisoner's dilemma with something like tit-for-tat. "Prioritize anybody else over myself only if they would prioritize me ov
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Caveman BDD(medium.com)
2 points by twitchard 9y ago|0 comments
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Random Strings: The Terrible Cost of Friendliness(medium.com)
1 points by twitchard 9y ago|0 comments

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