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by CodeMage 5y ago
While the question isn't phrased as a false dichotomy, it imposes one within the context. The idea that we either hold the chemistry set manufacturer accountable or we're letting children die is a false dichotomy.
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Yeah, they didn't repeal it because it was racist. They repealed it because the enforcement of it was biased. That's an important difference and omitting it can lead to misinterpretation. As it turns out, their data showed that
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> We have decided the question is something like "how many kids should we let die so that the rest can play with chemistry sets?" and concluded the answer is few to none. A perfect example of how choosing the right question m
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Honest question: did he say how often the answer was "I need more money"? Most of the times I changed jobs, it was for reasons not related to money, but there was this one time that I actually needed more and ended up leaving beca
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by CodeMage 5y ago
People can't protest what they don't know about, and this kind of thing isn't talked about at all.
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by CodeMage 5y ago
I don't know. I really don't, and that's scary. I've been programming since I was 7 years old, on a ZX Spectrum 48k, and now that I'm 40+, it's been a long, long time. And in all that time, I've never real
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> They wanted to remain at a Sr Engineer level perpetually, but also not have their salary stagnate. Pretty much that, except that I wouldn't use the word "stagnate". What I said was "lag behind the cost of living&q
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by CodeMage 5y ago
I'm waiting to find a place that won't push me to keep advancing up the career ladder, without leaving my salary lagging behind the rising cost of living. Does having limited ambition make you a bad dev/engineer, if you keep
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Thanks for making DTA! I used it a lot back in the day.
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by CodeMage 5y ago
I honestly don't understand this. One commenter asserts that it shouldn't be called "insurrection", because the charges are not serious enough. When presented with evidence that there are more serious charges, you claim
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by CodeMage 5y ago
This is my pet peeve with how they teach kids programming. Granted, I only have anecdata on that topic, gleaned from how they teach my own kid at school, but I still can't shake the feeling that we're doing them a disservice by ma
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> In the 19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis claimed that hand washing was a way to improve hygiene and communicable disease. If Google had existed in 1847, his claims would have been censored since they went strongly against the scientific
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> By that standard, this entire website and most of the software industry is misinformation. Sure, if we ignore the context of my statement and this whole discussion, which happens to be about COVID vaccines. Also, please note that wha
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That's honestly news to me. I thought that "scientific consensus" is supported by peer-reviewed research, by definition. Can you elaborate?
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> Months ago he was insisting that the people who had contracted COVID-19 and who had antibodies in their system may not need the vaccine. Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that. But months ago that was "anti-v
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Mine was a second-hand smuggled ZX Spectrum 48k. The first computer I ever saw was Galaksija, at the school where my mom and dad worked. The school later got a Lola 8, but by then my mom and dad bought me a used Spectrum and I was happily p
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Google Home does it too. Every once in a while, it gives me the action confirmation and then proceeds to give me advice along the lines of "and by the way, if you ever want me to [do this or that]". If I try to interrupt that char
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by CodeMage 5y ago
FWIW, I really like knowing that X was written in Y. If I'm learning Y, it gives me another thing I could look at and see if I can pick up something useful. If I already know Y, it might still be interesting to see if there's anyt
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Just because I have my responsibilities and you have yours, it doesn't mean we're not on the same side. I've come to dread cute management phrases like "everyone should pull on the rope". I agree with the sentiment,
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Maybe I'm just too old fashioned, but I don't think you can call any API "open" if you can't host your own server.
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by CodeMage 5y ago
Okay, now I understand what you meant. Concepts automatically "apply" to anything that satisfies them, whereas Rust traits have to be implemented deliberately. Thank you for clarifying.
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> Most often it is not necessary, and not wanted, to enforce a and b having the same type. That really depends on what you're trying to do. Presenting these two different declarations as somehow equivalent is very misleading and I
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> I feel like one of the things a "Definitive Guide" to this feature needs to make clear, and maybe even emphasise, is a key way these are different than say Rust type Traits. > Concepts, just like the SFINAE and constrex
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by CodeMage 5y ago
This was the first time I've encountered the mention of "referential transparency", so I looked it up and went down a deep rabbit hole. It seems that it's normally used to describe the property of not having side effects
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> General SE hiring comment: One thing I realized, for most IT/SE jobs, the more accurately you describe your current stack in the requirements (or maybe the person you are replacing), the smaller your candidate pool is. Perhaps the
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by CodeMage 5y ago
The point on API methods is incredibly important. True, "Why" is the most important kind of comment, but I disagree with the author's critique of the documentation-generating comments and agree with you. Yes, "what"
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by CodeMage 5y ago
> I see a lot of arguments about these companies that are tantamount to "I didn't know how the world worked till I saw them do it and now I'm unhappy". Just out of curiosity: which aspect of those arguments do you obj
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by CodeMage 5y ago
This kind of reply makes discussions about agile very frustrating for me. Not only does it conflate agile software development, as a set of practices, with the myriad of processes and practices like scrum, but it also deflects perfectly val
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by CodeMage 5y ago
The article is not about scrum. This particular thread of discussion is about scrum, because that's what the comment that started it was about, and also your comment that I replied to. I was merely framing the discussion in terms o
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by CodeMage 5y ago
I enjoyed his rants thoroughly. It doesn't matter if I agree or not, they're always fun reads. I should go check if his new stuff is as fun.

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