mekane8

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by mekane8 1mo ago
This was a beautiful read. I work from home 100% but I do enjoy occasional trips into the office to see people in 3D. I completely relate to the decompression time of the commute - I used to have a 20 minute bus ride (no transfers) which wa
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by mekane8 2y ago
This was a well-written article, I appreciate the simple journalism on display. A reporter dedicating themselves to an area, showing up faithfully and reporting their observations without bias or personal commentary. What else could we ask
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by mekane8 5y ago
Yes, that gels with what I was saying - use e2e tests for "big picture" assurance that the system is correct. Use unit tests for super fain grained assurance of individual business rules, etc. All of the legacy projects I've
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by mekane8 5y ago
I graduated college in 2003 and I remember the excitement at good job prospects among my CS degree peers growing right along with the bubble. I remember being pretty depressed going into our last semester. One of my favorite "historica
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by mekane8 5y ago
I believe pretty strongly in the "testing pyramid" - that you should have a broad base of unit tests, with fewer integration tests and even fewer e2e tests. Source (also from Google): https://testing.googleblog.com&#
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by mekane8 5y ago
I personally like and get value out of stubs and mocks in my unit tests, but I think they suffer some of the same issues as code without tests - it's hard to know the original intent and it's hard to constrain later contributors i
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by mekane8 5y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that the experience of being a Google customer / user has degraded significantly. I'm not sure the omission of the topics you mentioned can be corelated exactly to that degradation, but it's an interest
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by mekane8 6y ago
I love the way you phrased this and I experienced exactly the transformation you described!
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by mekane8 6y ago
They were asking about forced sterilization though
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by mekane8 6y ago
Agreed, especially the stuff about end users. Of course you want to prevent bugs that will impact users, but many of the other things being discussed have nothing to do with whether there is a non-technical person using the software.
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by mekane8 6y ago
Yes, I agree with this. Everyone is welcome to write their own messy code while in the "get it working" phase, but it needs to be cleaned up and made somewhat verifiable before it is shared with others. I currently work with and m
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by mekane8 6y ago
"Really?" was my first reaction too. The difference may be a bit subtle but it's quite clear. I remember when I was learning promises there was lots of talk in the tutorials, etc. about .all() and I eventually had a use case
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by mekane8 6y ago
Reading stories like this really make me hate these customer service walls we've put up everywhere. Only a couple of times in these exchanges did it seem like there was a functioning, thinking human intelligence on the other end. All o
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by mekane8 6y ago
I would absolutely love to hear someone's experience taking this course: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/coding-for-managers... I probably won't have time to sit through it, but I've taken a cou
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by mekane8 7y ago
Wow, you just described my world a few years ago. It drove me insane and I quite. Nice to hear that you don't mind it though!
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by mekane8 7y ago
I'm in a similar state of mind as you. Any time I start a web project now I just write vanilla JS and none of my hobby projects has yet to reach a point where I wanted a framework. There have been a couple times, particularly dealing w
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by mekane8 7y ago
This matches my experience completely. I've never even been offered a session on legalities. Almost universally, my only prep for interviews has been someone leaving the resume on my desk, usually the day-of.
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by mekane8 7y ago
Well said. And to be fair, I was talking mostly tongue-in-cheek about the "idiot", etc. I've been that guy I'm sure. I agree about the trade-offs, I've been there myself too.
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by mekane8 7y ago
If nothing else I appreciate the author linking to the Ward Cunningham post on technical debt http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor I've heard so much talk about technical debt (and done plenty myself) over the
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by mekane8 7y ago
From TFA: > from 1939 to 1950, hourly workers’ wages rose roughly three times faster than elite executives’ pay. This seems like it would be a good place to get back to.
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by mekane8 7y ago
Not sure why this would get downvoted, I think it makes sense. From what I've read about transgendered people, they either suffer through the stress of gender dysphoria and appear outwardly "normal" or they choose to let thei
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by mekane8 7y ago
I spent so many work hours devoted to getting elements lined up pixel-perfect to match jpegs from graphic design, and then struggling to get them to also match up in the other browsers. During some periods you even had to fight between vers
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by mekane8 7y ago
Yeah this was a wonderful trip back in time for me too. I graduated high school in 1999 so I got to spend a couple teenage years playing around with HTML. I identify strongly with the "copy cool stuff from other teenagers' sites&q
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by mekane8 7y ago
I would love to see a universal basic income for families with children. My only question is how to change the incentives so kids don't just become a paycheck?
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by mekane8 7y ago
The YouTuber Kitboga mentioned above got into the scambaiting thing because someone took advantage of his grandmother suffering from dementia. It really is a terribly abusive con, and one can learn a lot about their methods and intents from
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by mekane8 7y ago
I subscribed to NYT based on the number of interesting articles that get posted here and their consistently high quality. I won't subscribe to Medium because the quality is very spotty, but I don't mind stories getting linked here
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by mekane8 7y ago
I use a 34" 21:9 Dell monitor at work and I love it. As other have mentioned, you can get two super wide or three reasonable windows side-by-side, which is great. And I like the option to have a super wide terminal for the overly-verbo
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by mekane8 7y ago
The Knuth quote stands. It has been and continues to be one of my favorites. It has served me well.
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by mekane8 7y ago
Very nice guide, I wish the actual spec were laid out so clearly. (The spec isn't bad, it just doesn't have it all in one handy list like this). The sidebar waterfall illustration was cool, and I liked that it didn't move whe
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by mekane8 7y ago
These logos are incredible, and so many of them have stood the test of time so well. The mind boggles at the ones that were "redesigned" by some other agency but are essentially the same. I can only imagine the hours that were bil

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