brwr

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by brwr 6y ago
Yeah. I feel a lot like this too. I left my most recent job in May and don’t have plans to return to tech anytime soon. To fill my time and to try to do something actually useful, I decided to start writing about learning more and thinking
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by brwr 7y ago
Until you are more experienced. Then you should ignore tutorials and read the manuals.
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by brwr 7y ago
An intuitive, intelligent performance debugging tool that works for any programming language. A similar tool that finds common errors like race conditions, missing null checks, etc.
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by brwr 7y ago
Before it became a TLD, .dev was commonly used as an extension in /etc/hosts to point a fake domain to localhost during development. These days I use .localhost for that.
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Square to Acquire Weebly(squareup.com)
5 points by brwr 8y ago|0 comments
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Formula Engine Rewrite (2005)(damienkatz.net)
1 points by brwr 9y ago|0 comments
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by brwr 9y ago
On the surface, this sounds like a great idea. The problem is that, once you look at the details, you realize there are none. How is this going to work? Where does that $68bn get re-allocated? Who will benefit from this? What is the economi
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by brwr 9y ago
Giving away money is not generally an effective solution. Where is that money going to come from?
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by brwr 9y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "transit oriented development"? As a general rule of thumb, 10-20 story tall buildings are an eye sore. I don't think it makes sense to make things denser if it's going to be so ugly that
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by brwr 9y ago
I think it's a stretch to say that the peninsula will remain majority single family home cities. Everywhere I look all I see are new apartment complexes being built.
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by brwr 9y ago
Yes. :( Edit: I'm in San Francisco.
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by brwr 10y ago
Well, it depends. I personally don't feel the need to self-promote to get a raise. I'll probably lose out on a few raises or promotions because of that, but I make a good amount of money and I'm good at what I do. That's
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by brwr 10y ago
You mean you follow good software development practices? Heresy!
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by brwr 10y ago
Absolutely! Unfortunately, this is very hard to sell to teammates on the SPA bandwagon and management who require all developers to be buzzword-compliant.
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by brwr 10y ago
Run `( find -E ./ -regex '.*\.jsx?' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l` inside your `node_modules/` folder. It counts lines of code in JS files. Prepare to be sad.
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by brwr 10y ago
True. There's another thread in here somewhere talking about premature generalization. I think that's what you're getting at with "Do it too soon and you end up choosing the wrong boundaries".
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by brwr 10y ago
If you still use Rails and jQuery, why both with Polymer or Vue? What is the benefit they give you? Promise I'm not giving you a hard time. I'm honestly curious if there's something I'm overlooking.
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by brwr 10y ago
> There's still a lot of work out there that really boils down to basic CRUD and reporting at the end of the day, and developers naturally begin to invent complexities on top of that CRUD to make the work interesting and challenging
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by brwr 10y ago
Building a website doesn't have to be complicated. You build a Rails site 10 years ago. You probably used jQuery, if you used JavaScript at all. Why can't you do the same today? The real problem here is that not enough developers
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by brwr 10y ago
The day I learned about premature generalization is that day my speed as a developer jumped by a factor of three. When you're generalizing, it's easy to overlook how much time that takes. My rule these days is that, in most cases,
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by brwr 10y ago
> Less code is better. I'd change this to "Write as little code as necessary, but no less." The problem with "Less code is better" is that some folks use that as justification to write clever one-liners that are
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by brwr 10y ago
Ego is one of the larger problems I've seen over the years. This usually shows, as you mention, with someone trying to sound smart. The irony here is that I've consistently found -- both inside and outside the software industry --
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by brwr 10y ago
At the last company I was at, our search microservice was fast (average response was well under 100ms) and it didn't crash once while I was there. At a larger company, this may not be an accomplishment. At a startup, this is the bees k
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by brwr 10y ago
I owe every ounce of my love of reading to Richard Adams and Watership Down. Watership Down was the first book of its size that I read and it had a profound effect on me that has significantly directed my life. I enjoyed it so much that I k
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by brwr 10y ago
Uber doesn't stand to make any money by doing that. Drivers are a huge expense for Uber. Assuming they get these self driving cars with a bulk discount, the cost of not having to pay drivers would quickly offset the price of the cars.
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by brwr 10y ago
Anecdotally, one of Google's autonomous cars was pulled over in Mountain View, CA a while back[1]. The car was going 24 MPH in a 35 and the officer didn't realize the car was driving itself. [1]: http://www.cnn.com&#x2F
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by brwr 10y ago
Ah. We might be talking past each other. Looking back, a number of the advantages I mentioned are inherent in having self-driving cars. But the benefits compound when we have shared self-driving cars. Example: Traffic is improved with self-
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by brwr 10y ago
This is the point that I see everyone discounting. Whether autonomous cars turn out to be feasible or not, we know for a fact that humans are bad drivers. Don't we owe it to ourselves to try something different?
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by brwr 10y ago
That would be pretty great. How do you handle the movements of the car though? Bumps in the road and stuff like that?
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by brwr 10y ago
I think you may be experiencing recall bias. How do you get to work every day? How often do you go to the grocery store? What about going out to dinner? For myself, living in the Bay Area, anything related to driving or owning a car is a ni

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