dudeinsf

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by dudeinsf 4y ago
nixpkgs has many owners that span across the 80,000+ software packages. When you open a PR against a specific package, the owner is notified via CI that Nix Foundation runs. To test with your own config, it's easy to instead of importi
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by dudeinsf 4y ago
So I had to write a few functions in both. With Guile, very straight forward using Lisp's powerful "data-as-code, code-as-data" paradigms (the ` operator). A joy really, and writing code just felt like writing Lisp, where one
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by dudeinsf 4y ago
Spent a year with Guix and writing my own configuration. Definitely much easier to reason about using Lisp syntax over Googling what random function of the DSL you need in Nix, but I ultimately switched to Nix because of it's community
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by dudeinsf 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. On one level I understand how big tech bureaucracy, politics, and layered management structures cause this to happen. Another part of me is floored, that so many brilliant people absorbed into these companies have let this
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by dudeinsf 5y ago
Have a sense of who you want to become, your values, what you aspire to be. Make decisions that bring you closer to that identity, instead of closer to more money or status. Also, pick jobs that have some mission focus. Jobs where people ar
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by dudeinsf 5y ago
Yeah, this is very strange. I've never even read this thread, and I (think) I remember seeing this on the correct page at one point. Maybe a bug somewhere? My comment was in response to a thread linking this article: https:/&#x2F
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by dudeinsf 5y ago
"If the wildest fantasies of cryptocurrency enthusiasts were to come true, if all the environmental and technical objections were to fall away, the result would be financial capitalism with all the brakes taken off." This is sensa
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Advice transitioning from high paying salary job(indiehackers.com)
2 points by dudeinsf 8y ago|0 comments
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by dudeinsf 8y ago
I generally do a google search now and tag 'reddit' at the end, to find useful conversations around the topic I'm interested in. It's been working great so far.
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by dudeinsf 8y ago
Leaving my small(ish) town and taking a chance in the Bay Area. I wanted to validate my skills after being passionate about building software as a kid; it worked, I convinced a unicorn startup to hire me and moved into management where I&#x