anecd0te

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by anecd0te 4y ago
> Having to mark everything as evaluatable at compile time is a stupid, stupid, decision that only C++ could think was a good idea. What is stupid about it? It makes a lot of sense given how programming languages work.
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by anecd0te 4y ago
Again, problems that people don't have
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by anecd0te 4y ago
"Reduce your quality of life and distance yourself from your friends and family, it's cheaper."
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by anecd0te 4y ago
Cramer used it to refer to high growth tech stocks that dominate their markets and have large market caps, Twitter was none of those.
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by anecd0te 4y ago
I can't link for hopefully obvious reasons In user studies it was found that beginner/novice coders (or really, users that aren't SWEs) autocompletion was the most requested feature for improvement in IDE support. It's f
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by anecd0te 4y ago
My org requires screenshots and/or gifs in the PR. Tooling is great, but not everything needs automation all the time when a little bit of manual work needs to be done anyway.
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by anecd0te 4y ago
There's more stuff worth breaking today in JS than there was twenty years ago in PHP, and more people that know how to do it.
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by anecd0te 4y ago
What are the axes? Is that number of posts per date or total number of posts?
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by anecd0te 4y ago
Netflix (like many businesses) use stock buybacks instead of dividends.
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by anecd0te 4y ago
> What is so hard about that? Media companies have been using the value of "content you want to watch" to subsidize "content you don't know you want to watch" for about a century now, the back catalogs are what w
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by anecd0te 4y ago
What I've found working with geometric data like SVG is that your software will use some kind of internal representation that looks quite different than SVG, so you will do some kind of parsing into your data structure and then seriali
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by anecd0te 4y ago
> There was a super specific timeline in terms of what month features would land out as far as 2-3 years (e.g. "support for $os in $current_year + 2, open source in $current_year + 3), and but then as the months went by, the items o
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by anecd0te 4y ago
I assumed that there was a English language barrier from the original author that made the mistake of present versus future tense for the feature list. When combined with a lack of feature tracking that looked to people like big claims were
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by anecd0te 4y ago
No noncompetes/anti moonlighting laws and billions in VC keep the answer at "yes." If you want to get something built that has never been done before, SV is still the best place to find the people that can do it the quickest
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by anecd0te 4y ago
ime people pick Jira because they've used Jira and have been promoted via the peter principle to the level at which they make purchasing decisions.
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by anecd0te 4y ago
Inflation is typically reported year over year
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by anecd0te 4y ago
I don't think this comment makes much sense, arbitrary unicode text is very different than JSON. What application domain are you talking about?
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by anecd0te 4y ago
The author is directly quoting the original description, from "What color is your function?" They even link it, here it is again : https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
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by anecd0te 4y ago
> I'm not sure what the compensation model for recruiters is There are three models of recruiting, first-party, retained and commission. You do not want to speak to recruiters working on commission, because they take the shotgun app
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by anecd0te 4y ago
I left because a mortgage for a single family home in a nice neighborhood was 40% less than the rent I paid to live in northern california, and my neighborhood now is quieter, cleaner, safer, and I don't have to step over human feces i
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by anecd0te 4y ago
Programming is hard, and there's a market for making it easier. Visual programming has a quick on-ramp (albeit a low ceiling).