SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
As I said in my grand-child reply, I don't use almost any Windows-only tools on a daily basis. As to strategy: If they want people to buy their app, and they're getting all of this great publicity, then "branching out" l
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Almost every tool in my current weekly use is cross-platform, with the one exception being Visual Studio (and that only when I'm working on a C# app and I don't really have a choice in the matter). And I use a ton of proprietary t
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
In the notes: http://www.paulgraham.com/saynotes.html Note 9.
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At least Dictionary.com validates the concept that "gyp" is from "Gypsy" [1]: > Origin of gyp > An Americanism dating back to 1885–90; back formation from Gypsy. Same with Miriram-Webster: [2] > History and Etym
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Commendable..? Or short-sighted? I exclusively use Linux and Windows; I see something like this and ... it's a disappointment. I think what's "commendable" is cross-platform development, breaking out of walled gardens to
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Some of us learned Lisp and really hated it too. TypeScript, though? TypeScript I love.
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Which seems entirely too familiar for some reason...something that came up a lot for four years but then stopped about two years ago? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Very much the same experience. The whole "They Are Just Go Templates" is a pretty pathetic cop out. Sorry, but it's true. If I'm trying to use Hugo, I don't want to be digging in Go docs at the same time, and as you
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As long as you consider "can just fail if it gets too busy" to be "predictable." Which I don't. I'd rather see reliable operation than "predictable except for when it fails outright" in almost every
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In my experience, NoSQL is almost never the right answer. And DynamoDB is worse than most. My prediction is that the future is in scalable SQL; CockroachDB or Yugabase or similar. NoSQL actually causes more problems than it solves, in my ex
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Click the "Cloud" option. Free to 1M events.
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
But...MySQL? Sigh... I migrated to PostgreSQL later than most, and I've still be using Postgres for six years...
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
It's extra weird when you know Zooko. One of his kids shared a kindergarten class with my oldest and I used to hang out with him. Clicked on this to see if it was something he'd done.
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So are laws like the Right to be Forgotten. [0] Which, as soon as one of them is violated, the entire system will be torn down to stop it. [0] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1562/right-to-be-fo...
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> ...it's pretty tough to argue such languages really shouldn't exist. "Shouldn't exist" is too strong. Dynamic languages that let you create a new variable via assignment shouldn't be used to create non-tr
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It's also propagation. Article is blaming a misconception on the terminology. Terminology is correct. DNS actually uses both push and pull for different parts of propagation, in fact.
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Telling recruiters what I'd expect from a salary, and then never hearing from them again, is something that I consider a feature , not a bug. It means I'm not getting nagged by recruiters weekly. I still get a new one every month
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Node can run multi-process with the Cluster module. Node being written as a monolith but running it in 100 instances is also an option. Roles can be implemented in software. There's much less "orchestrating complexity" when y
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
It's not a problem that they start as CRUD apps. That's exactly the place where ORMs or query generators should be used: CRUD code is always the same and as such should be 100% automated. So then when something different than
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
>You can treat people kindly without having to agree with their opinions, or taking their PRs. I think that having your PR rejected, no matter how "kindly" you phrase the rejection, is not going to feel good. So "treating
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
>The majority of most things is not good "90% of everything is crap." -- Sturgeon's law [0] The problem is that once someone has put in the time to create a PR, declining it is never going to feel good for the contributo
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I passed an Amazon interview by saying almost exactly that, so given Amazon is one of the FAANG companies? I can back up my statement.
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> no one is skating under the radar at MIT Funny you should say that. A past CEO I worked with was a CS grad from MIT. He would laugh about the fact that "he could code, but no one would want to use the code he wrote." I'v
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I actually did end up hiring a W2 employee who didn't work out. He moved cross country for the job too. Let him go after only a couple of months--but that was several months of pay that produced literally no positive results. And I was
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Funny you should describe it like that, but ... what you've just described is almost indistinguishable from pair or mob programming. Where one person needs to describe clearly what code needs to be written so the other can type it. Act
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It sounds like the study points to the idea that "talk through your reasoning" is a bad interview approach. The last interview sequence I needed to do they put me in front of an online IDE and said "go code." They also s
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And for 1)--a good interviewer won't actually mark you down for not knowing some fact, or not being able to think of some trick. I've passed interviews where I've just said, "Hey, I don't know [that particular thing
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What you describe is orthogonal to whether a developer has empathy, though. 1. UX design is a trained skill that most developers don't have. It's not a lack of empathy if you have no idea how to create a better user experience.
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The problem is that the law isn't being enforced with any consistency. You know what's required for a patent to be awarded? It has to be non-obvious. It has to be something that someone "the typical person in the field&qu
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> If it causes you financial pain it's gonna be felt as a punishment. So...when you go to a restaurant and eat, paying feels like a punishment? When you go to an amusement park, paying the entry fee feels like a punishment? When you

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