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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Am I the only one that sees this when I go to imgur lately? {"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403}
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
You could say it’s just not being done right, but at some point, if so many people keep trying it and it still doesn’t work, maybe the problem is the approach itself.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Have you ever heard of shape-up? https://basecamp.com/shapeup One of the issues I have with how agile is all things to all people is that nobody's trying new things. They're trying to fit what they're already
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Why? Agile has been the favored approach to software development among the startup crowd for over a decade now. I don't think I've had a job since 2008 that didn't use it in some fashion.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
You almost have to admire it from a rhetorical perspective. Kent Beck created a manifesto so vague and flexible that it can literally be anything to anyone. > Make changes if it isn't working. If measuring performance is so difficul
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. There is zero incentive to excel in any way. Solve something really cool? No one cares. Take the next task in the sprint. Spot a problem? Add it to the backlog (to be ignored) and do what you’re tol... I mean, ta
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It's been 10 years since Zed Shaw suggested a <markdown/> tag. clean speech warning: swearing. https://youtu.be/_CEBG_s92P8?t=398
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> It's even weirder in Canada, where "toot" means "fart" but also "toke" as in inhaling cannabis smoke from a joint / pipe / bong. No, that makes it sound just about right.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> What's more, for a programmer who doesn't get the value of types, the major downsides are already apparent, at least at a basic level. How could the downsides possibly be apparent if the upsides are so mysterious they need an
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Articles like this bug me. You've given me a list of why types are awesome. Great. Now, tell me what the tradeoff is. Nothing is free in engineering. To get something, you have to give up something else. Even grug[0] understands this.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Haha, can you tell I'm trying to quit coffee this week? An entire article and half the comments in and I never noticed we're talking about a refrigerator and not a freezer. My bad!
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> and you have to take everything out to access the bottom most area. And an ice pick, if you live anywhere even slightly humid.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Thanks! I appreciate it.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
From the HN guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> "misinformation" (in contrast to "disinformation") does not say anything about intent, so you're wrong to quote that part. Misinformation. Noun. False or inaccurate information, especially that which is *delib
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | EST Fullstack engineer and web developer with 9 years of experience as a one stop shop for MVP and prototype development. I do rough UI and UX design, small scale frontend, backend, and data infrastructure, API desig
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> This is misinformation. > I don't understand why people lie so blatantly like this. Why assume malicious intent? Couldn't he just be wrong?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
The biggest problem I have with twitter as a platform and as a concept is that individual tweets lack any and all context. "Threading" together tweets doesn't make them linear. If you want to restrict post size, then you have
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> There are lots of good reasons for a company to be really choosy in who they hire, primarily because a bad hire can be hugely damaging to a company. I think this is overstated. The only engineering positions that can really do any reas
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I also use gruvbox dark with hard contrast. I completely forgot I was using it and had to look at my vimrc. That's how good it is: I set it a number of years ago and haven't had to touch it since.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Here's how every contact I have with a recruiter on LinkedIn goes: - 5 minute phone call to explain the position, get my resume and say they'll send it to their client - silence Maybe I'm just getting hit up by resume farmers
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It's a bit worse than that. What we call "technical debt" is roughly the equivalent of building a skyscraper with inferior steel and saying we're going to go back and fix it later. The skyscraper is also a flawed analogy
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
There is such a thing as a bad tool. In most industries, they simply refuse to use the tool anymore. Not so much in software development, for some reason.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Your post reminds me of this scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGTEXqudVJM
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Part of writing it "the right way" is to make it easy to change. This is why I've come to dislike OOP. The rules are too rigid and result in exactly what you describe.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Maintstream journalists write what the owners of their publications tell them to write, especially when it comes to politics. The idea that a change in ownership of a relatively small social media company is going to have a "profound i
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> but it's influence on politics is very real. > Personally I don't think this acquisition is healthy for a democracy Fewer than a quarter of Americans use Twitter. Empty rhetoric is empty.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It's not based on a grudge. It's based on previous conversations with Agrawal and him coming to the conclusion (along with Jack Dorsey) that Agrawal won't work with him to make the changes he wants to see. https://
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I've heard technical people use those terms when they're talking down (or up, depending on your perspective) to management.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I'll try again using shorter words. > You don't care whether you have almost no effective chance to actually get a job? Grug care. Grug can't pass live coding interview. Grug freeze. Grug ask for take home test instead. Gr

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