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by ulizzle 3y ago
Funny enough, we just had a post on the front page here in HN from a rails conf organizer saying that rails confs are the epitome of adhd bored devs playing a social game of “im better than you” and “I’m tragically insecure of you finding o
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by ulizzle 3y ago
Just because you can’t square it with your experience doesn’t mean much. What you want to do is compare your experience with others. Rails can work well but it’s going to be expensive. Everything is a trade-off. Because Devs don’t see opera
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by ulizzle 3y ago
You have to measure by time-to-market / team size. How much it costs to maintain the system, how long it takes to ship features, fix bugs, reach milestones, etc; which is something you can't say publicly, and even if the company d
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by ulizzle 3y ago
Those companies are a product of the last wave, when Rails was very popular in tech, especially amongst San Francisco circles. There are also a lot of examples of that size that left Rails or never jumped on that trend. This is also an argu
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by ulizzle 3y ago
Many typed languages are like that, but the big difference is that they admit the trade-off. In Ruby on Rails, dissent is a big taboo, so they blame the problems on the devs (the unwashed nameless masses) rather than tackle the problem itse
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by ulizzle 3y ago
Most communication is non-verbal, with 7% being attributed to words (see the "55/38/7 Formula"), so they may need to listen to how you say what you say (vocal), but don't have to believe the words you say.
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by ulizzle 3y ago
The problems with Rails are the same as with Ruby as it was with Smalltalk: just too easy to make a mess (the nature of dynamic languages), and its community suffers from a nasty case of groupthink. Notice the cliche "Rails is so much
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by ulizzle 3y ago
I think this is just propaganda. Empathy is a "qualia", meaning it's part of the hard problem of consciousness. Qualias are non-computable, so a computer can't display empathy. I'm sure it's good at inserting l
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by ulizzle 3y ago
Every failed business isn't a fraud. Bad take.
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by ulizzle 3y ago
Likely a problem with your memory. Why do you always have to look at the console to find where your volume knob is? If you can touch-type on a keyboard, you should be able to remember where the buttons are.
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by ulizzle 3y ago
A counterfactual is that higher IQ correlates with reading ability and language use. Those people are far more likely to know more than one language (because it's easier) and gain access to the deeper, more expansive pool of opportunit
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by ulizzle 4y ago
I'm for sure getting older cus I remember the times we used to make fun of ppl for being neckbeard performance nerds, and now I find myself firmly in that camp.
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by ulizzle 4y ago
"Incompetent but nice" means there's nothing you can do. It's only a matter of time until you get annoyed enough to let them go.
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Panspermia isn't very good against the Fermi paradox. It makes life (and the signs of it) too abundant.
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Yeah, it's definitely "dying". We need a social network for IRL. I remember Path, but that was more of a journal than a "social networking" app.
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Yeah, of course. We all care about social networking platforms. It's a big part of the internet, and we build the internet. For a nice history lesson, check out the archives for "Diaspora".
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by ulizzle 4y ago
“33% Are committed by an acquaintance” which is more likely to be an internet friend, especially nowadays It is a false narrative to pretend that automagically means “oh it was the creepy” uncle
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by ulizzle 4y ago
“…OR child’s family members.” That includes everyone know and trusted by the child, which obviously includes internet friends known only to the child Quoting meaningless stats to prove nothing
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by ulizzle 4y ago
The most likely person to molest a minor is an internet friend. This has been proven to be true over and over again, so much so, that “to catch a predator” was a mainstream hit show.
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Lol. Non-rational? Obviously not, if only from the first paragraphs of this article.
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by ulizzle 4y ago
We do have an almost complete understanding, and I actually think I was being too generous; but at least for the purpose of this convo, we certainly do know about X & Y chromosomes. I don’t believe that gender is a psychological constru
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Ppl believe in silly stuff like gender ideology today, even tho we have an almost complete understanding of human biology, so let’s not throw stones at history
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Experienced programmers often learn this lesson the very hard way. Especially now that we work mostly remotely. Comms are a force multiplier, for better or for worse
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by ulizzle 4y ago
That line got to me too. So apparently, according to the new world order, calculus was invented just last Thursday :eyeroll:
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by ulizzle 4y ago
How can anyone think that people before modern times did not know anything about science, practically “brain dead” as the article states (CRINGE) when Einstein died almost a century ago? The Dunning-Kruger makes my head hurt.
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Needlessly complicated? there’s a thousand ways to start a blog in 2023; sure, your artisanal handcrafted static site generator can handle traffic, but so can my free Substack blog The hard part is sticking to it; content is truly king
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Incoherent but I’ll try: 1) it doesn’t take very long to understand the motivations of Satan: see “Dante’s Inferno”. 2) No 3) wtf? 4) that’s not very bhuddist of you
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by ulizzle 4y ago
The motivations of Satan in the Bible are very clear, so scapegoating or false demonizing isn't happening. Religions are not by nature inherently sexist, see veneration toward the Mother Mary or toward Mahadevi. But there are countless
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by ulizzle 4y ago
The profit motive is about wanting to make money from a project, not about how it's actually achieved. If delivering value must be done slowly to make a profit, so be it. Notice how alcohol is generally more expensive with age (vintage
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by ulizzle 4y ago
Wishing for code w/out tech debt is naive; not dignified. It's just the lesser of whatever two evils were going on at the time the code was written.

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