johntdaly

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by johntdaly 11mo ago
Yes, location is becoming less important but there are differences in locally available talent and money. That’s the main reason incubators are forming in Europe too. If you are in the wrong place you will be starved for money and talent an
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by johntdaly 1y ago
Thank you, this explains it for me. The situation is still stupid tough...
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by johntdaly 2y ago
1) you need a systems programming language (but not for OS development) that is safe and not too hard to learn 2) you need to run “scripts” but don’t like the hassle of lugging around the dependencies so you go for binaries instead 3) you w
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by johntdaly 2y ago
Yea, somewhat disappointing. My mx 3s mouse has problems with the click switches and the mouse isn’t all that old. I’ve also read about others with the problem. I would also like to be able to buy a replacement case for when the rubber star
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by johntdaly 2y ago
As somebody working in software startups in Europe, what I’ve seen is a pretty broken system. The companies have a wild west attitude towards sales that leads to irregular contracts unpredictable money flow. I’ve worked on trying to predict
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by johntdaly 2y ago
I think those numbers are probably based on source code contributions. I can believe those statistics, what is missing is the why. Some people just aren’t good programmers. I knew some of those, one turned out to be great at testing instead
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by johntdaly 2y ago
Now I get your point. That would be a good explanation why the arguments are surface level and regurgitated. This is not really something I want to have to look out for.
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by johntdaly 2y ago
I would guess that Ruby and Python programmers generally know at least some c, c++ and maybe even objective-c. That was the case where I worked. It is also normal enough to install gems with native extensions, if you can’t read gcc or clang
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by johntdaly 2y ago
Indentation was seriously being used as a point against Python when I came to Ruby and we had lots of DSLs that where indentation based back then. I always felt that do be BS and I think it is meant seriously here too, in this article. I d
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by johntdaly 2y ago
The argumentation in the article isn’t very good but the Ruby community was never good at selling itself and used similar arguments to the article for years. The syntax is more elegant. Well yes, but that’s also subjective. Also, the argume
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by johntdaly 2y ago
I am a Ruby programmer that came to Ruby as a Python programmer that had do do work mainly in PHP and JavaScript (no jobs in Python where I lived at the time). I sort of liked JavaScript (I know it so well now that I’m ambivalent about Java
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by johntdaly 3y ago
I would pretty much remove any sex that doesn’t drive the story in some way and keep it short. You are correct that sex doesn’t hit like it used to hit. I would argue the same for violence and special effects. We’ve seen it all and we’ve se
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by johntdaly 3y ago
I don’t think people mind the sex because of moral. What is bothering me is that I feel they use sex as a filler. To me it is one of the indicators that the story is probably lacking. Sort of like with the old Deathstalker movies where sex
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by johntdaly 4y ago
I wouldn’t say it is different, but there is a certain amount of stigmatization associated with cheaper cars in richer nations that sort of forces people to pay more than they feel comfortable with to avoid it. And because this sort of thin
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by johntdaly 4y ago
Honestly most chips in cars won’t have much to do with the infotainment system. One of the first places that chips got added to cars was fuel injection system. Most of the chips in cars are in there to micro optimize the way the engine runs
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by johntdaly 4y ago
Yes QWERTY works well enough for me, mainly because I’ve been using it for 25 years. (I’ve learned touch typing in school 27 years ago) I often find it harder to find the right key when looking at the keyboard now and my “main” problems are
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by johntdaly 4y ago
The alt keyboard layout thing was once appealing but I’m over it for two reasons. 1) I don’t think it is useful to write faster than I can ‘think’. What I like about writing is that I can hone my thoughts to be sharper than they would in ev
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by johntdaly 4y ago
Vim is more of an investment and I tried to really get into vim over the years but I didn’t. I did get good enough with it to use it when sshing into a server. Sublime just clicked. It worked for me from the start. I bought an IntelliJ lice
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by johntdaly 4y ago
I used mainly Sublime Text the last years and I know enough vim that it is the most comfortable editor for me on the linux command line. I currently also use Visual Studio Code because my coworkers use it and next month when I switch Jobs I
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by johntdaly 4y ago
If I remember correctly we got the weekends we where on call payed like normal work days, adding 2 days a month per dev (4 or 5 of us doing the work and rotated through) if something happened or not. After work incidences during the week wh
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by johntdaly 4y ago
I think you overestimate how “well” things work. I’ve had cases where hardware worked great with Linux and was buggy or unusable with Windows and vice versa. I’ve even had some hardware problems on Macs. Hardware can have bugs, revisions, o
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by johntdaly 4y ago
We might need something like Hanlown’s razor for this. Never attribute to a conspiracy that which is adequately explained by pettiness.
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by johntdaly 4y ago
Is the App an old POS? I see a lot of old Java Apps still around that sort of bitrotted to hell. We bitched so much about Java Apps that so many just got abandoned, even if the apps where sort of cool and/or didn’t have a replacement.
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by johntdaly 4y ago
I never “got” electron. My work is building webapps and I don’t see why anyone would want to use HTML and JavaScript to develop a significant desktop app with modern UI. I can only assume web technologies and electron got popular because al
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by johntdaly 4y ago
I highly doubt there was a place in the US red enough for that to happen, at the time. Besides, “this is ridiculous” was the majority position and “freedom fries” the minority position.
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by johntdaly 4y ago
France was ok with Afghanistan. The Freedom Fries indecent happened when Bush tried to get support for the invasion of Iraq. They (the French) thought it was a bad idea and there wasn’t enough evidence for Saddam having weapons of mass dest
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by johntdaly 4y ago
When the freedom fries thing came up it was ridiculous and I am not sure how far it went in other states but they where still french fries in California. As far as I know it was just a republican stunt in the congressional cafeteria and nev
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by johntdaly 4y ago
To be honest, I don’t know any code bases I would call “great” or “easy to read” but I can tell you what I do when I need to work in codebases I don’t know. I’ve got two main strategies: 1) I look at the part of the app I want to modify whe
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Yes that is true. The question is what are the alternatives? Giving in to Russia is not option. Escalation to WW3 by EU or NATO troops in the Ukraine isn’t an option either. Giving the Ukraine as much military support as we can without dire
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by johntdaly 5y ago
Have you considered the ethics of this? Russia invaded the Ukraine, and we stoped doing business with them. They said fuck you, we will now just steal this shit and say its legal. That makes them the bad guy. The west says, what Russia is d

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