lucidone

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by lucidone 6mo ago
Your insurance system is a scam, but socialized health care is preferable to the alternatives.
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by lucidone 1y ago
Eh, I wouldn't want to have a beer with him or leave my dog with him. He's doing well financially but that's about it.
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by lucidone 1y ago
It helped consumers a lot.
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by lucidone 1y ago
I find AI useful, I use it most days to write snippets of code or to rubber duck with. It hasn't changed my workflows that much, just replaced Stackoverflow with ChatGPT. Feels like the sweet spot for me, everything else is noise.
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by lucidone 2y ago
I wouldn't mind RTO so much if the cities where most tech jobs are were affordable. I'd rather be a millwright in my middle-of-nowhere mining town with a 10 minute commute in a 250k house versus a software developer with an hour l
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by lucidone 2y ago
They should have leaned into becoming a developer community ( the developer community) instead of focusing on Q&A. StackOverflow jobs were a great resource. Add an ad-hoc discussion forum and chat and it would have be great, like the m
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by lucidone 2y ago
I am nobody important living in rural middle of nowhere, but visited SF twice for work, and it was the most horrific city I have ever been to. I am a big man and didn't feel very safe.
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by lucidone 3y ago
Grass is greener and so forth but as a Canadian I find our current government paternalistic, pandering, reactive, and stifling. Not every problem should be solved by the sledgehammer of our public service, regulation, and bureaucracy, all o
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by lucidone 3y ago
Every day I get new followers on twitter that are sex bots and onlyfans catfishes. Nothing else. Seems like the platform is a wasteland.
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Open Turing, an open source fork of the Turing programming language(tristan.hume.ca)
2 points by lucidone 3y ago|0 comments
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by lucidone 3y ago
I encountered a niche but common bug and figured out a workaround. Mentioned my blog post about it in the relevant GitHub issue discussion for the bug. Gets a low but steady amount of traffic to-date.
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by lucidone 3y ago
Laravel or Rails spitting out Blade or ERB templates respectively. As a solo dev you have everything you need in both ecosystems and you aren't doing 2x the work with a separate front end and back end.
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by lucidone 3y ago
.erb templates are just as good as they were a decade ago.
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by lucidone 3y ago
This is because of Wordpress. Wordpress work pays less than application development typically. Writing an application with Symfony or Laravel pays market rate for an equivalent dev in your ecosystem of choice (Rails, Django, whatever).
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by lucidone 3y ago
Most applications that would leverage this (e.g. server-side rendered Rails or Laravel or Django) already have those templates as partials for their views, so leveraging the functionality is trivial.
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by lucidone 3y ago
Doesn't surprise me given Salesforce is all about squeezing their (generally) non-technical customers with arbitrary licensing restrictions and "best practices" that lead to paying for more and more.
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by lucidone 3y ago
OP and those who feel a similar sentiment should give C# a shot, it's what they want regardless of whether they know it or not.
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by lucidone 3y ago
Front end development doesn't have to be awful, particularly with how much JavaScript the language has improved alongside browser APIs. React made sense at one point because the abstractions it employed were common in other contexts: l
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by lucidone 3y ago
For some reason rich people assume their riches makes them wise. Humanity hasn't changed much (at all) since culture was recorded. Read philosophers if you want philosophy - Andreessen is a (poor) sophist and he wants to sell you somet
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by lucidone 3y ago
What's the difference between the two?
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by lucidone 3y ago
Haven't ever used Rust and probably won't. Regardless, the melodramatic cliquey "I'm leaving the project" bluster as of late reminds me of my 14 year old self on various vbulletin forums and grants me conviction avo
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by lucidone 3y ago
Had a friend laid off and saw his job posted not a month later (with the stereotypical #hiring LinkedIn corpojargon). Many employees make a big hubbub of the org being employee-centric, people driven, blah blah blah. I almost joined their o
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by lucidone 3y ago
American tech workers were really lucky and still are lucky. I envy their salaries even in the midst of the current "tech winter". North of the border we are paid a hefty discount - probably why we're employed at all - with i
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by lucidone 3y ago
Companies generally exist to make money. Law and medicine are fields I personally do not want optimized for profits. I believe a better approach to be making governments more efficient and more aligned with the interests of their constituen
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by lucidone 3y ago
The comment about healthcare (life-altering health outcomes at play) interviewing being less of a rigorous process than screening the devs for icanhazcheeseburger is spot on. What the fuck is wrong with us?
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by lucidone 4y ago
Wondering if HN can give me a hand. Been trying to segue from dev to devops (or platform eng) and certs seem like a good way to indicate interest and some level of competency in lieu of job experience. Had devops interviews before any nobod
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by lucidone 4y ago
From a developer perspective, trying migrate a behemoth of a salesforce instance to their new tooling (Salesforce DX) in order to introduce version control and pipeline checks has been an absolutely horrible experience.
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by lucidone 4y ago
I don't think it's a problem necessarily. "unless" is more obvious to me since since it visually stands out more than "if !required_thing" while I'm casually scanning the code. So, in practice, it acts as
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by lucidone 4y ago
I'm not a very experienced Ruby developer but RuboCop does a pretty good job at guiding and teaching you to use `unless` as a guard in method definitions, e.g.: def my_method(required_thing) raise 'required_thing is requir
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by lucidone 4y ago
Rails remains a best in class framework for web application development and ruby (in my opinion) a fantastic programming language (amazing object model + standard library).

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