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541.
by whstl 11mo ago
HN never ceases to surprise me with the rationalizations for any kind of behavior.
542.
by whstl 11mo ago
Nope. Actions that harm social bonds, judging that shames, excludes, or hurts is antisocial even if many people do it. Also this post has the classic logical error of assuming that because something is a certain way, it should be that way.
543.
by whstl 11mo ago
I 100% disagree. It is a minority making the noise and turning everything into life as a game. Most people don't care, and I'm willing to bet that the ones rationalizing the behavior here don't go out of their way to care or
544.
by whstl 11mo ago
We only care about it when it's time to complain about the work of individual people. Companies can always do as they please and people will rationalize anything.
545.
by whstl 11mo ago
I would be fine if it was my "fault", but I'm sure people in business would find a way to make me suffer. But on a personal level, this is like ordering something at a restaurant and the cook burning the kitchen because they
546.
by whstl 11mo ago
I wish people would realize that moving back to code is possible, though. It rarely happens because at this point the codebase is so littered with problems that things start requiring long QA, code freezes and once-a-month deployments, and
547.
by whstl 11mo ago
But the problem is not admiring good looks if they're natural, or expecting someone to be truthful, or anything of the sort that might or might not theoretically happen. The problem is clearly with the bullying. And the assumptions aro
548.
by whstl 1y ago
If it was about signal-to-noise, there would be no bullying of bald people, or short people.
549.
by whstl 1y ago
Yes, people who judge others like this are anti-social assholes. Of course that's not as bad as people who try to rationalize bad behavior behind a veil of pseudo-intellectuality. Once again: rationalizations don't make something
550.
by whstl 1y ago
That's precisely my point. If you're not gonna reproduce with someone, their "reproductive fitness" is none of your business. Once again this is just a rationalization for horrible behavior.
551.
by whstl 1y ago
> Many 'normal' people who grow up (emotionally) make a conscious effort not to instrumentalize their social interactions That's definitely not true if we include "work" as a "social interaction".
552.
by whstl 1y ago
Of course, but just because you can throw a metaphor around doesn't make it true. There is no "rule" in life that says that people have to be judgmental assholes to each other. Using a card game to justify the behavior is jus
553.
by whstl 1y ago
I'm talking about real life, not a card game.
554.
by whstl 1y ago
This is a bullshit rationalization for horrible behavior. The people doing the judging certainly aren't gonna reproduce with 99.99999% of the people being judged, and I'm being extremely generous here.
555.
by whstl 1y ago
It's nice to see someone else preaching this: > Production Lesson: Never let exceptions dictate the norm. Handle them explicitly, in isolated paths or tiers, instead of polluting the mainline logic. What looks like "flexibilit
556.
by whstl 1y ago
This is very strange to me. As a neurotypical person (I don't think the term "normal" is appropriate) I'm probably doing or did the same things the article is talking about. And I never thought about negative consequence
557.
by whstl 1y ago
It's very strange that people are ok with people charming others "naturally" (while it's probably because they learned by imitation, often from parents) while "practicing it" is seen as bad and manipulative. It
558.
by whstl 1y ago
Oh wow, I also played with this one in what might have been a COMDEX, in the 90s. I remember the game was a commercially available shooter though, but the machine was exactly the same, with the blue highlights.
559.
by whstl 1y ago
Yep. VSCode gets you 90% there. But IMO Rider gets you over 100%.
560.
by whstl 1y ago
I was pulled back into it after a work colleague showed me a Netflix-like website that seems to have all the films ever made. Apparently there's several of those, they're just invisible to Google. In Germany we can't really t
561.
by whstl 1y ago
It is amazing how companies want this "marketing" but don't want to put the actual effort to make it possible. A tech company I worked at once had a "sponsorship fund" to "sponsor causes" that employees wa
562.
by whstl 1y ago
Or executables that check silently for a server and pretend to be transparent but really aren't. Very common with music production apps.
563.
by whstl 1y ago
Just earlier this month I was at a recording studio and no ILok plugin worked because of a connectivity issue god knows where. Plugins that did cost a lot of cash for them and were in the advertisement material of the studio. Now even hardw
564.
by whstl 1y ago
There you go! It’s possible.
565.
by whstl 1y ago
Apart from people who just weren’t good, what I found in a few decades is that most people will pay attention to details if given the incentive and time. What companies seem to want is developers who do everything perfectly despite having
566.
by whstl 1y ago
The point is that avoiding Android is also easy. I never had an Android device and have no interest. Once again: The only problem is avoiding both platforms.
567.
by whstl 1y ago
De-Googling is also extremely easy, I haven't had a Google account in 10 years, I use uBlock to block the ads, DuckDuckGo for search and a Youtube app that downloads from it instead of using the website. Perhaps the only thing I use di
568.
by whstl 1y ago
Yep. The thing about "it's IO bound anyway so who cares" is that it forces you to scale the app much earlier. At a company I worked, a single Golang instance (there was backup) was able to handle every single request by itsel
569.
by whstl 1y ago
I'm not talking about method dispatch, I'm talking about the "usual response to this complaint in the Ruby/Rails community" .
570.
by whstl 1y ago
Not GP but I can answer: Rails apps can get very expensive server wise because the “IO is slow anyways” attitude means more servers will be needed to serve the same amount of requests. For a specific bad case I worked at, the cloud bill was

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