brennen

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by brennen 2y ago
The "perceived benefits" of being able to see more things at once might really be an illusion if they're just a firehose of distractions. Less so when the things in question are "an error log next to the bug I'm fil
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by brennen 4y ago
VisiData: https://www.visidata.org/ WeeChat: https://weechat.org/ fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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by brennen 5y ago
The reMarkable is a very impressive piece of hardware with unfortunately bad software and a business model that looks to be deteriorating (see recent moves to subscription services, etc.). In physical/tactile terms, it's a really
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by brennen 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes
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by brennen 5y ago
The single most reliable way to come to a loathing of the software development process is to engage in it for a living.
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by brennen 5y ago
The thing is, I don't want these experiences. Am I allowed to stop having them now? Turns out: Not if I want to keep doing my job. Burn Slack to the ground is my considered stance at this point.
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by brennen 6y ago
> I also noticed that while they do appear to use pylint to enforce good standards, almost all source files have at least one check disabled... I haven't touched any of the CircuitPython hardware libraries in... Well, something clo
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by brennen 6y ago
> In one of this paper's experiments, for instance, a computer split a pot of money between itself and a human participant; this person was led to believe the computer was also a human participant. Sometimes the pot was split uneven
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by brennen 6y ago
Version control for a genuinely long-lived project is a problem that often outlasts: - Dominant version control and code review system(s) / paradigms. - The current configuration of institutional owners. - Users' trust in an owner
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by brennen 6y ago
> You think we could develop a unified data model that covers source code, static files, documentation, project management and community management as a single unified thing? Realistically, not exactly, given how much space some of those
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by brennen 6y ago
Yeah, from that angle and from the perspective of 2005 it's a reasonable design, and I think what I describe above as a massive deficiency only really becomes visible in the light of everything that's happened since.
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by brennen 6y ago
We are not going to use reCAPTCHA.[0] [0]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation/Discussio...
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by brennen 6y ago
> To clarify, is your GitLab-based job system done with configuration-as-code and does it share definitions of jobs across repos? We announced our decision to migrate to GitLab on Monday, so we don't so much have a GitLab-based job
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by brennen 6y ago
We recently conducted an extensive evaluation of CI options[0], concluding at the time that GitLab could meet our needs but didn't make a whole lot of practical sense unless we also migrated to it for code review. Other considerations
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by brennen 6y ago
> I think git in general should copy the approach of Fossil and include issue management and wikis along with the repo, to keep things consistent and avoid vendor lock-in. A few paragraphs I recently wrote elsewhere: The entire state of
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by brennen 6y ago
Given that very nearly the entire software industry has either acquiesced to or actively abets practices like these, the real answer is generally "desperate enough to be seeking a job in your field".
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by brennen 10y ago
I sort of want to engage with this. I understand that people have good-faith qualms about the fairness of hiring practices intended (implicitly or explicitly) to increase diversity and access. There are problems to wrestle with here, and
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by brennen 10y ago
Yeah. As I've asserted a few comments over, there's an ample body of detailed, firsthand observation available to men who are sincerely interested in the problem. It's also possible for us to talk to women who work in the fi
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by brennen 10y ago
No.
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by brennen 10y ago
I don't mean this to sound overly harsh, but I think treating this situation as some sort of mystery is part of the problem. All that one really needs to do to understand why the field is unwelcoming to women is to start listening to
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by brennen 10y ago
It's unfortunate that the actual content of PCI is an incoherent and actively counterproductive mess.
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by brennen 10y ago
FWIW, I tend to use mod-z to switch to last-used workspace with toggleWS, which seems to cover a lot of those cases pretty well.
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by brennen 10y ago
> And I have no comments. This is probably a feature.
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by brennen 10y ago
Eh, I'm not really the target audience, being neither a (this decade) user of Apple's platforms nor a developer for same. Still, I thought it was interesting enough to justify the read. I'm interested in how problems like t
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by brennen 10y ago
While echoing the "pick a static site generator" advice in the rest of the thread, my actual personal favorite is still: Write your own! That's what I did somewhere around 2000 or 2001, some years before I could program my wa
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by brennen 10y ago
"meth-binge"? I feel like it's possible you have not known very many people on actual meth.
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by brennen 10y ago
Yeah. I think that, while there are people who value some classes of conservation without believing in climate change, climate change is in general a subset of what people don't believe in. Which is to say: Almost anything espouse
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by brennen 10y ago
On the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.
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by brennen 10y ago
It very well might be. My feeling was just more or less: I don't love JSON syntax or the tendency towards big, hierarchical JSON documents overmuch (though it's certainly been a massive real-world improvement on XML for most of
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by brennen 10y ago
Realizing just how excruciating that sounds, I think am a notch or two closer to appreciating the merits of s-expressions.

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