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by valand 7y ago
I get your sentiment of the overused "hidden"/"private" stuff that seems like people following some sort of decades-old ritual and then adding getter/setter, where it should have been all transparent, knowingly
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by valand 7y ago
> Defense Driven Development This triggers me :D Seriously though, Defense Driven Development can be great if "defenses" are written on every I/O calls, then the rest of the app can only rely on static-type. Tried it, expe
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by valand 7y ago
Not coming from a big company. However, to mitigate these kind of problem, pick a junior having a more or less same vision as you, plant the person into the team you wish to spy, and have them report to you.
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by valand 7y ago
I have a fortunate circumstance where supplying informations to direct reportee is acceptable. We value effective problem identifications, especially those that come with solutions.
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by valand 7y ago
Upvoted because 1. you're funny and 2. it's true
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by valand 7y ago
C is coming back. Seeing rust is rising and its interoperability with C is pretty nice. JS is almost general purpose these day. Just a bit more push to optimizations on JS engines.
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by valand 7y ago
The more accurate statement would be: The only people who think PHP is dying is those who is not using it I had a similar experience as you. I used it for a couple of projects for a 1-2 years. When I realized PHP was an overpowered template
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by valand 7y ago
> I am very good at team building and maintaining developers in my organizations for a long period of time. This helps in our preference for using dynamic and flexible languages like LISP and Javascript. That is very nice. Hope I can lea
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by valand 7y ago
> First you have to convince those of us that see no little in static typing when weighed against it constraints that it is a valid development philosophy that created a clear advantage over dynamic typed languages. I cannot convince wit
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by valand 7y ago
This might help https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21194003
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by valand 7y ago
"Choice is of the free. When no choice presents before me, I'll make one myself." Just throwing some inspirational BS
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by valand 7y ago
One overlooked criteria of a good developers is that they can focus on the business side. Good devs should be able to talk business flow with ease to stakeholders and teammates alike as good as them talking technics. Not to brag, I'm o
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by valand 7y ago
In case you misread the "master-of-one" as "master-of-none", it's master-of-ONE :D No I don't recommend to do that or otherwise. What I was saying is that Knowing more about infrastructure will improve you in d
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by valand 7y ago
Be jack-of-all-trades and master-of-one. Knowing the fundamentals in other stacks will improve how you design what you master. Be careful not to mistake fundamentals as the "getting started" part of something.
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by valand 7y ago
LOL, I don't even know who Wim Hoff is. But seriously, looking at the big picture always helps with anxiety and the likes. Sometimes we simply don't have visibility over where we are, when we are, and how we are, and not knowing i
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by valand 7y ago
Being OOT and throwing in unpopular opinion: Redux fails in recreating the success of elm architecture. Without the static typing of elm, it ends up being painful to use. Redux drives inexperienced developers to put everything into the stor
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by valand 7y ago
BREATHE!! Take a deep breath. Get a sense of your surroundings. Make an alarm/calendar schedule to remind you to take a breath.
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by valand 7y ago
https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte
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by valand 7y ago
If money is not a concern, being an artist is exciting. Being a good hacker really helps with creative processes.
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by valand 7y ago
This is actually a good suggestion. If we don't care, why anxious? If we do care, having clear mind helps with thinking how we should act to deter the incoming disaster. What makes us anxious more than we should is the lack of number.
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by valand 7y ago
> If I make a mistake at work and people are aware of it I am afraid that it reflects negatively on me more than the good things I do reflect positively. This happens all the time. Though making mistakes are parts of getting experience.
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by valand 7y ago
Keep living mate. Cheers
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by valand 7y ago
:D that's a start. I used to have the same problem, but not when writing codes. I love writing codes, and someday I was put in a lead/management position and the context switching between having to solve technical and managerial w
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by valand 7y ago
Here are what might help you through the pain: Treat mistakes as learning process Treat errors as a tool Treat difficult workmates and bosses as children Treat scripts as writing stories for computers in different language. If it affects yo
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by valand 7y ago
Agreed. Other things about people coding, though, in tech talks and conference, I actually enjoy seeing the psychological and social impact of the talk as much as the concept being talked about. They're fun.
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by valand 7y ago
Reading, unless the video enhance the knowledge transfer. Videos can help us understand about complex concept like quantum computing, 3D graphics, the social impacts of a tech talk. Most of the time videos are only people typing on their sc
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by valand 7y ago
- readability > optimization - investing for engineering excellency > paying technical debts - preventing premature abstraction > code reuse - interaction design is as important as UI design - removed codes > added codes - curre
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by valand 7y ago
atom chrome git docker slack
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by valand 7y ago
Slightly OOT https://www.theserverside.com/opinion/Microsoft-vs-IBM-A-maj... IBM is pushing java away while Microsoft is welcoming its community with open arm. Not sure what is Microsoft planning for it though.
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by valand 7y ago
What's wrong with those?

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