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by vlunkr 5y ago
> One of the things Go taught me is that I was not being as careful about my errors as I should be. I identify with this so much. Especially when dealing with external things (file system, database, network) things can go wrong at nearly
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> First, I want my program to immediately crash if I have a bug. An error being returned doesn't always mean there's a bug. > Go is like shell in that it keeps going even if there's an error. With both Go and shell scri
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by vlunkr 5y ago
People are weirdly outraged here. Likes/Dislikes on really public platforms like reddit and youtube are just a game, they tell you nothing about the quality of something, only whether it matches the agreed upon view of the core audienc
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I guess I should add "high stakes" to my list of requirements.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Pretty much any job that you're not doing asynchronous work in front of a computer would apply here. It's lame to ask for examples, but do you have any? Because honestly I don't think it applies to many jobs, unless it&#
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Off-topic, but I once used a Shopify framework called Batman.js. https://batmanjs.org/ . Somewhat Ember-ish, but more coffeescript oriented. I'm a bit sad that the github repo doesn't even exist anymore :( It never
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I think I have a really good boss, but at the end of the day, it's an imbalanced relationship. He holds my salary in his hands, I think some fear is natural.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
It's pretty amazing that vim has remained relevant for that long, outliving so many other editors. On top of that, it continues to evolve. Even in the ~5 years that I've used it, huge progress has been made. The fact that coc.nvim
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I'm not going to tell you that you should have kids, but my experience is that I can still have time for "geeking out" if I do it with my kids. This is going to vary depending on their age, but currently they like to watch me
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Are they sometimes useless? sure. Are they hurting anything? no. As long as you keep them brief, as intended, they are a good way to quickly spread lots of info. And you have to live with the fact that they mostly aren't for the develo
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I'm pretty sure this will hold true in my field where teamwork is required. If you're not nice, people won't want to talk to you, if you're not part of the communication chain, your value as a team member drops. No part
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by vlunkr 5y ago
This is the kind of absolutely unreasonable opinion that could only gain traction on the internet.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> how the medium can elevate a story I agree that it can, but many (especially AAA) video games try to imitate film, rather than using the strengths of the medium. This is why I hate cutscenes. I'm sitting here with a controller in
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by vlunkr 5y ago
An interesting idea, but children from poor families already statistically do worse in school. They are less likely to have a stable home environment, access to good learning resources, parents with higher education, among other things. S
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> If you’ve ever profiled a React app – even in production mode – you know there is a non-negligible performance impact to every component that renders. Maybe it's just me, but I've used React for ~5 years and I've never n
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I'm certainly looking forward to it. There's good content for kids on youtube, but it's drowning in a sea of low quality or downright creepy imitations, and I don't think the algorithm can tell the difference. And the ad
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I hear this argument from zsh purists all the time, I'm pretty sure it's made up. I've used oh-my-zsh for years with several plugins and the startup time is basically imperceptible. Maybe it's slow if you're running
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I think it's good for people to not think in such absolute terms. People are happy this product exists, but it's also annoying that it took so long. I'd rather have that type of response than the standard "fanboys"
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by vlunkr 5y ago
IMO this isn't a big enough issue to worry about. Most progress bars break when you resize the terminal, I just expect it at this point.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Unless it is and will forever be a very small dev team, choosing a language based on popularity is a great idea. But maybe it depends on what you consider popular. I think Python would qualify.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I think it's a different story when you're a professional comedian.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
The fact that instead of upgrading, you had to wipe and restart doesn't seem like a very compelling argument for NixOS.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I've used flux and similar apps for a long time but I've always been annoyed by the lofty claims. It changes the color of your screen, that's good enough, they don't have to act like they're going to turn our lives
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Playing videogames is another drug with which to escape reality. "Escaping reality" is as old as humanity, I don't see why we need to think of it as a drug, or even a negative thing. Are books drugs? movies? plays? stori
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by vlunkr 5y ago
Well that's a chicken/egg problem right? Coke and Pepsi wouldn't have so much to spend on advertising if they weren't already very popular.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I agree, but really only for somewhere with a big library with multiple copies of most books. My library typically has 0-1 copies of a book I want to read, and if it's even moderately popular, I have to place a hold on it. This would b
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by vlunkr 5y ago
> Any suggestions that Facebook did this on purpose don't even make sense. Unless another disgruntled employee knew it would amplify the story.
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by vlunkr 5y ago
It sounds real condescending to say "it's weird to have to say this to such a smart crowd."
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I definitely enjoyed the game as a kid, but I really don't see how it would be considered "ahead of it's time". IMO it marked the end of the collectathon subgenre. Banjo-Kazooie did essentially everything better than DK6
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by vlunkr 5y ago
I think about this blog post from the creator of redis whenever some thing like this comes up: http://antirez.com/news/122 . > I believe that political correctness has a puritan root. As such it focuses on formalitie

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