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by twodave 5y ago
I don't work on personal projects on my own time, but I do work a part time hourly job alongside my software engineering job. I've found for me this is an essential part of my mental health. My arrangement offers up a little more
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by twodave 5y ago
I didn't read that as, "Our focus is changing from A to B," so much as, "We originally hoped to ship A + B, but A ended up being more work than we expected. B is achievable and impacts more developers, so we're focu
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by twodave 5y ago
You don't avoid it all via the S-Corp. You just avoid the half the employer (in this case, also you) normally pays. I'm not a tax accountant or a lawyer, just happen to run my own consulting through an S-Corp. I still pay myself a
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by twodave 5y ago
I think it's funny that someone added 1 CoffeeScript file to the codebase and didn't write a single comment about it.
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by twodave 5y ago
One is much easier than the other. To be fair, OP didn’t use the “too busy dedicating my life to local government activism” excuse. IMO one way you vote for change is by controlling what you can directly control. If the difference between h
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by twodave 5y ago
Personally, I love ads. I barely notice them. I'll notice that guitars are popping up all over the place if I was just browsing Guitar Center or Sweetwater, but other than that most ads are irrelevant to me anyway. That said, they pay
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by twodave 5y ago
Instagram doesn't need to bother with this. Parents do. None of my kids will have access to this stuff unattended until they're mature enough to do other adult things on their own (like drive, get married, etc.). The Internet has
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by twodave 5y ago
Also this same guy managed to acquire the rights for Subspace from VIE. It was rebranded as Continuum. I started playing Subspace as a teenager on v1.34 and continued to enjoy it through college thanks in large part to Priit’s efforts. I st
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by twodave 5y ago
I hear you, and I agree. There are a lot of subtle factors that go into designing good software. And even if you could write code that never needed to be rewritten or thrown away, the desired outcomes change over time anyway, so eventually
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by twodave 5y ago
I'd go even further and say code is pretty strictly a liability. If you don't hate your code enough to throw it away and replace it on a whim, then you've made it more important than it should be. Why else would we encourage
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by twodave 5y ago
We used something like this in the early 2000s called Blade Runner. Scary times on the Internet.
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by twodave 5y ago
Man, they really stepped in it didn’t they? Who would have thought “safe for kids” and “respectful of my privacy” could be enemies? But this is the position Apple has put itself in. There isn’t really a graceful way out of this.
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by twodave 5y ago
I would contend shipping native code on any mobile platform for a calendar app is overkill, personally.
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by twodave 5y ago
I’m not sure I deserve the personal attack. I’m also not sure how else to describe folks who get the majority of their “news” from Facebook.
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by twodave 5y ago
I appreciate you sugar-coating it since I live there, but it's a bit worse than that. I live in Jacksonville. Of my friends, family and other connections there are just a few buckets people fall into: the informed, the purposefully-ign
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by twodave 5y ago
An actual connection is not necessary for wifi to contribute to location accuracy. It just uses signal strength to available access points to triangulate. How folks like Google/Apple/etc. are able to get accurate location data for
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by twodave 5y ago
They had to install the app and also consent to have their location tracked by the club. They could still use the app without that stuff, obviously, and the platform actually didn’t allow club admins to see where members were at all times—j
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by twodave 5y ago
Actually it depends on the signal, whether WiFi is turned on, etc. I used to build mobile apps for luxury clubs who wanted to know which members were arriving at the club (e.g. to go ahead and start getting their golf clubs ready. First wor
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by twodave 5y ago
Am I the only one bothered that many of these implementations of idioms are often not idiomatic according to the language? e.g. in C# the idiomatic way to instantiate something is typically to use the var keyword (unless the type of its val
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by twodave 5y ago
Not OP but I think the gist was more about solving the same/similar class of problem in a different context. You’re not going to build a library to abstract away certain things, for lots of good reasons. E.g. in OOP you may intentional
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by twodave 5y ago
No, but by treating a SQL server as a way of storing and retrieving data efficiently FIRST then the times when a complex query is actually necessary tend to stand out better. In reality most tables and queries start out simple enough, and p
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by twodave 5y ago
We have a general rule on our team that complex SQL is a code smell. In our project complex queries are usually an indication of a poor design. Anything SQL that can be made simpler via dynamic generation (which is safe as long as you use p
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by twodave 5y ago
I thought I was an extrovert! Turns out anxiety can masquerade as extroversion.
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by twodave 5y ago
Thanks, I was definitely missing some of this context. Forking is probably the appropriate response if the contributing community no longer trusts the acquiring company. In an active open-source project, the value of the software lies with
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by twodave 5y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is kind of petty? It's not like Audacity is trying to read your email (or even rip off your tracks). The telemetry I'm reading about is literally: 1. error reporting - the user has to click a butt
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by twodave 5y ago
I don't think it's dishonest to apply for a job you don't meet the listed qualifications for. As long as you don't represent yourself via your résumé or in your other communication as having experience or qualifications
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by twodave 5y ago
At Greenshades, working remote has been an option now for several years. It started with a few folks who just had good reasons to stay home (I was one of them). Then we started recruiting nation-wide, which is nice for the company but you c
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by twodave 5y ago
Bad idea, but only because of the market timing. My wife had been out of school 4 years already otherwise we probably would have rented for a bit first. The fertility treatments, surgery and adoptions were all more financially back-breaking
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by twodave 5y ago
There's a special place in my heart for people who choose to adopt older kids. It's not so much mental baggage as it is damage resulting from years of abuse and/or neglect along different axes of the child's life. There&
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by twodave 5y ago
Your description isn't all that different than how it actually played out, unfortunately. I usually tell new parents that the first one is by far the hardest if you value your own freedom in any way. And then of course, if you fail to

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