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and a revamped console is in the works. soon we can have emojis in our "bash for windows"
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or it finds it but as you hit enter NEW RESULTS and the wrong thing opens
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The bits about code vs doodleware hit hard for me. With a certain proprietary database that I did customer support for, the encouraged development path was doodleware. It was genuinely very nice if you were doing some toy project, but it qu
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This is "IoT" and "the cloud", circa 44 years ago > Chaosnet was originally developed in 1975 > The Lisp Machine system is a multi-processor in which each active user is assigned a "personal" computer con
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Can anyone speak to the UX difference as well? Not just feature comparisons but what it's like to be using GIMP vs Photoshop. I used Photoshop regularly for a few months in 2009 but that was a public school computer so I'm sure th
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Meanwhile in the land of PHP I'm convinced that forcing paranoid error levels and converting all errors to exceptions is the only safe way to develop. Too many times in PHP the return type of a function is not what was expected from do
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There are some functions for which we know things will break eventually, e.g. a db call. We want to catch those situations, no pun intended. Our options are: return codes, or exceptions. In the return code case, we're using if/the
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Yeah in my case I've got my manager and architect on board and they love it. My more senior teammates might be threatened though. I found an impending any-day-now production down scenario last week and got it fixed while learning treme
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Changing the status quo is kinda fun in these environments. Low hanging fruit, easy work. As long as your head isn't on the chopping block. And everyone benefits. You, the employer, your colleagues, the fresh grads with starry eyes
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Anecdata but I definitely developed better abstract thinking at the end of and even after college. I've always thought I got more patient or maybe the research phase of debugging and programming required me to get better. Maybe I just
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Kind of OT but the belligerent SSH message example they used is good comedy