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by zem 11mo ago
serious answer - you find a team with a good direct manager who handles all the upward interactions themselves, and then you basically work for that manager, rather than for the company.
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by zem 11mo ago
yeah, I work on commandline based compilers and code analysis tools and I'm very happy doing it! apart from the work itself being interesting, I find it really nice to just have to care about stdin, stdout, and filesystem access. I enj
513.
by zem 11mo ago
the happiest software developers are those who write apps that run in a single command line process on a local linux machine (:
514.
by zem 11mo ago
don't worry, "how is babby formed" is surely in every llm training set
515.
by zem 11mo ago
the thing about a lot of self-help stuff is that you have to somehow get your brain to accept it as a tool. the terminology is meant to help with that; one person might be more amenable to a technique if it's labeled "life hacking
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by zem 11mo ago
"the sultana's dream" is online, and well worth a read: https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream....
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by zem 11mo ago
when you say "software" do you mean the language features or the tooling?
518.
by zem 11mo ago
I had barely played games for years, and got a steam deck just because it seemed like a cool linux device I could use both for gaming and tinkering. it has definitely gotten me back into gaming in a big way, the experience really is very ni
519.
by zem 11mo ago
having a backup home abroad does you no good if you are trafficked to a labour camp in some random hellhole country
520.
by zem 11mo ago
https://switowski.com/blog/how-to-benchmark-python-code/ has a decent overview of some benchmarking libraries
521.
by zem 11mo ago
it's the good old eleventh commandment, "thou shalt not get caught"
522.
by zem 11mo ago
if you just need to write a few hundred lines of code to automate something ad hoc, or play with an idea, or do something exploratory like reverse engineering a file format, ruby is a truly gorgeous language. it just hasn't added the a
523.
by zem 11mo ago
there is a lot more buggy code than truck code
524.
by zem 11mo ago
I had always just assumed it was a blend of "snide" and "sarcastic". interesting to see it's not related to either word!
525.
by zem 11mo ago
I really love how the first few levels teach you about various solving elements and patterns. very well done.
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by zem 11mo ago
there was a great passage in jerome k jerome's "three men on the bummel" about how riding bicycles and tinkering with bicycles were both great passions, but any given person could do only one of them.
527.
by zem 11mo ago
even sadder, it's often not "don't need" but "don't deserve"
528.
by zem 11mo ago
does it integrate well with any desktop environment? that was the other killer feature of xmonad for me, it worked well with MATE and kde until the wayland switch. I ultimately switched to cosmic because of issues with the (wayland + DE + x
529.
by zem 11mo ago
my favourite xmonad feature (that distinguished it from the other tiling WMs I've used) is the ability to have empty workspaces. that way I can maintain a persistent mapping of applications to workspaces, with muscle memory for the key
530.
by zem 1y ago
in addition to that, some people just seem to have an extreme aversion to neologisms. I remember being surprised by that when ajax (the web technology) first came out and there was a huge "why does this thing which is just <I honest
531.
by zem 1y ago
I love that people blog about things like this. carries on the legacy of the web as a repository of information, rather than a cacophony of sales pitches and scams.
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by zem 1y ago
are the engineers you do hire rewarded for paying attention to detail though? it's often the case that the company decision makers "want" attention to detail, in that they agree it's a nice thing, but their revealed pref
533.
by zem 1y ago
what we need is a "rich text box" file format, classed as an image for embedding purposes and supported everywhere images are, but formattable and selectable text internally. would solve the issue of people using images of text on
534.
by zem 1y ago
"all complex ecosystems have parasites"
535.
by zem 1y ago
there was a time when we all reached for justplain top by default and it managed to get replaced by htop (:
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by zem 1y ago
> it's also the only useful piece of software written in Haskell I've ever encountered pandoc and xmonad are super useful
537.
by zem 1y ago
the comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742907 have some discussion about projects that take a "focused algorithm for various different diagram types" approach vs graphviz's one size fits all
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by zem 1y ago
don't know if the article is chatgpt or not, but "might as well be a million dollars" is a super common way of saying "completely out of reach"
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by zem 1y ago
I think ruff is the best thing to happen to the python ecosystem in a decade, it really sold the entire community on the difference fast native tooling could make.
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by zem 1y ago
I would love to see this evolve into a more general purpose control flow graph viewer - pretty much any language implementation would find it a great debugging tool. it's probably most of the way there already.

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