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by vlunkr 4y ago
> the ideas of separate tools deployed and updated independently are not bogus No, but the idea that you should do that because you have a big team is bogus. There are good reasons to break some applications up into services, and this is
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by vlunkr 4y ago
So is every piece of large software a 'special case'? Besides the Linux Kernel, there's every other OS ever written, office tools, browsers, video games, all sorts of SaaS apps. The idea that microservices solve some problem
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Sure, but you're not writing SQL queries on the front end.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
Are you sure you're not one of those people?
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I listed some ways that it helps. You get a strict, well-defined, easily-documented API. Yeah, you can do all that with REST, but I like having a defined structure for it.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I've used GraphQL on several projects now, with small teams (2-5 devs) where we control the front and back end, and for that case, it's actually been really good. It provides a solid contract that is easy to get wrong with a REST
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by vlunkr 4y ago
People always think the next language, framework, paradigm, etc is going to solve all their problems. It's a pipe dream. You can write garbage in any language.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I think conflating violent or frightening scenes with tragic scenes is a mistake here. As a young kid I watched Lion King and Land Before Time, which both feature dramatic depictions of the death of a parental figures, which both lead to ki
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by vlunkr 4y ago
It feels like they're just being stubborn with the window management. Like they chose how it should all work ages ago, and they don't want to admit that some of the choices are bad. They drug their feet on right-click forever as w
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I just discovered recently that you can do this in i3, it's a game changer. It's much better than trying to click on tiny borders.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I think you're probably just projecting your own anxieties onto teens. It's been a while since I've been in touch with my teenage side, but what I remember people being stressed about was school work, family issues, bad datin
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I'm inclined to agree. When a company watches you without your knowledge it's a clever hack, but when the government does it it's a creepy social credit system? If the hiring company secretly owned the taxi company, wouldn&#x
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by vlunkr 4y ago
You call the argument a red herring, then name all the reasons people use a framework over vanilla js: conventions, learning curve, flexibility, tooling. Sure, the browser apis are great and always getting better, but I don't see how t
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I didn't do actual scripting there, but through the gui you could set up events to happen on various triggers. That really sparked something in me.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
A huge problem I had to overcome was learning to leave work mentally every day. The online and WFH nature of software work makes it easy to feel like you're always on-call and feeling some low-level stress. This is a quick path to burn
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by vlunkr 4y ago
And Disney could have said "no" to any of his ideas at any point. He's become a scapegoat for bitter fans who can't see that Disney didn't know what to do after the first movie.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I'm implicitly threatened by a multi-billion dollar corporation making my personal information available publicly and refusing to remove it unless I have evidence of explicit or implicit threats.
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by vlunkr 4y ago
I thought it was pretty clear that I was joking about that part. My point is everyone has struggles with their job and may think about leaving sometimes. For me, the question "have you considered leaving your career in the past year?&q
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by vlunkr 5y ago
You can invest more time up front and automate it with an IAC tool and and CI tool to build/deploy. Probably nothing will be as hands off as Heroku, but there are lots of measures that can get you closer.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Well they knew that going in, so I'm not convinced that's a factor.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I'd like to know what "considering leaving" means in this study. I consider leaving my profession every time a React hook misbehaves and locks up my browser, but I'm not actually going to leave. 90% seems way too high to
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by vlunkr 5y ago
jq is great for shell scripts. Say your script hits an API that returns JSON, and you want to retrieve a single field. This can be difficult to do correctly with grep or other text matching tools, but is trivial with jq. You just pipe it in
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Is there a reason you can't turn all of the bans (of legal stuff) into filters? Among other reasons, because Twitter is a brand with an image to maintain. They don't want to be known as a safe hangout for Nazis and other unsa
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by vlunkr 5y ago
IMO the point is to question the limits of what can be considered music. There's precedent (way too much in fact) in visual arts. Is a signed toilet art? Mona Lisa with a mustache? Banana taped to a wall? None of these things are meant
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Yeah, people complain about censorship and bans on social media now, but honestly I don't see it. Seems like you can pretty much spit out nothing but hatred and personal attacks on Twitter or Reddit for years and nothing will happen.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Net neutrality isn't really related to end-user Internet speed. It's just about ensuring that all traffic is treated and billed equally.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
The slow drip of games is a feature, not a bug?
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by vlunkr 5y ago
As another commented said, the bible says God has no beginning, so there you go. More importantly though, religion is meant to explain the meaning of life, not that the chain of events that lead to it. It has fundamentally different, though
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I've been developing professionally for about 10 years in the US, and I feel like just in that time frame, the culture is shifting more in this relaxed direction. The really intense work ethic was pushed by the startup culture. People
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Basically the general rule is if you desire above average money, you have to put in above average effort at some point in your career. My (probably cynical) take is that most SV devs are also 1x. You make the big bucks not just by bein

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