LEDThereBeLight

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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
The site isn’t responsive in general. You really need a designer.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
What a bizarre article. It’s written half like an interview, half like a marketing blog post by the company. Very little is said besides how much they spent before and after their migration off AWS.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
For what it’s worth, I’m a developer who has worked on open source software and I agree with them, libre office is comically bad. It’s totally appropriate to talk about why, as long as you’re not expecting someone to go off and fix it all f
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
I think there’s a core difference between helper libraries and frameworks like React. JQuery is a helper library, but the purpose of React etc are more to manage state, improve efficiency, and pave over security and browser inconsistency is
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
The web was originally created to share documents, so interactivity and extra functionality was an afterthought. As the web became more popular, websites started to add more functionality similar to traditional software programs. Eventually
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
This comes across as terribly misinformed and condescending at the same time. Try living with someone with autism if you think sensory overload (noise or otherwise) cannot or should not cause real problems for people.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
I don’t know if that’s fair. I’ve learned a lot from dissenting arguments despite what any of the posted replies might say - I just don’t respond saying so, so you’d never know. I think there’s value in dissenting if you believe the more po
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
My experience with these online-legal services is very poor. The lawyers don’t care and provide very minimal, sloppy work, and there’s little you can do about it.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
I don’t know of any e-ink tablets. As far as e-ink monitors, I did a fair amount of research and landed on a Dasung 13.3”. It’s small compared to a normal monitor, so you’re not going to be split-paning VSCode and a terminal, it’s $1000, an
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
What? It’s a legitimate question. Companies set up automated phone trees to reduce costs, at the expense of frustrating customers. It would seem relatively simple to send any account info entered on the phone to whichever operator ends up p
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
You’re not understanding his argument. Medieval Europe didn’t have this internalized concept of race or skin color like we do - they categorized people more by religion (catholic, Protestant, Muslim) or origin.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
It’s not so much that it’s explicit strategy. It’s more that tech companies look for high performers, and the H1B situation creates high performers through extortion. The companies are happy to take advantage of it.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
Git is extremely new-user hostile, meant for people serious enough to want to learn a small language just to be able to manage their Vice history. Most people will never need the advanced features, and those who will can learn in a more vis
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
You might look into QLED, RLCD, or E-ink monitors. There’s a lot of posts online about how they reduce eye strain or that you just don’t feel the “glare” that you normally get from looking at a screen. I use a QLED monitor for programming a
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
That’s simply not true because, generally, as cost goes down, demand goes up. It’s like expecting tobacco usage to be the same whether it’s easy or hard to get - if it’s illegal, fewer casually interested people will try it.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
You can lose weight only eating garbage, but our body weights seem to be much more complicated than simply calories in / calories out. Lots of things affect metabolism efficiency, so eating healthy does seem to matter, from what I’ve s
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
The best way to become better at something quickly is to learn from people who are much better than you. That’s what reading books does.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
This is an incredibly immature argument. People only complain about things they care about, and the louder they voice their concerns, the more they care. It’s much easier to be silent and apathetic and just move on.
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by LEDThereBeLight 4y ago
I must be the only one who thinks this is actually pretty interesting.
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
whether it's in the spirit of hackernews or not, this made me burst out laughing
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
I like to understand the construction too, it's why I'm in engineering. I'm just saying it shouldn't be necessary in order to understand an idea. For me, it was a crutch I used for years before I grokked how to decouple
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
I think that's the difference between computer science and programming. Yes, you'll be a better programmer if you focus on the low-level details, but you'll be a worse computer scientist. I guess, if your goal is to write opt
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
Thank you, what you wrote is exactly what I meant.
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
I read SICP when I was learning to code a few years ago, and for me it was a life changing / transformative book. I remember the feeling of what you're describing exactly. It's humbling to work through. But it is worth it. My
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
I understand this thought process, but in my opinion it's the wrong way to think about software concepts. Understanding what a bridge is doesn't mean knowing how to build one, and in fact tying your understanding to a certain impl
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
I second “Probability Theory.” This is simply the best book I’ve ever seen on probability and statistics. It’s the only book that made things actually make sense to me as a software developer.
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
What a dismissive comment. Everyone competitive or with ambitious goals has moments where they feel overwhelmed and their mind screams and looks for a way out, and the question is whether you should trust that feeling and look for something
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
I'm surprised to see Typescript as a favorite language. I use it every day, and I kind of see it as a necessary evil, but not something I particularly enjoy. I guess I'm saying this to ask, am I doing something wrong? I feel like
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words. I agree, it is important info. I'm a bit overwhelmed with things right now and don't have the time to help much, but I do have 2 points you can feel free to take or leave. The first is that when you&#
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by LEDThereBeLight 5y ago
I realize everyone is a critic, and I work in ed tech so I love what you're doing here. I'm not a professional statistician, but I did write surveys professionally for a few years, so I feel comfortable talking about some of the d

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