npstr

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by npstr 13d ago
I hate frontend devs that think of themselves smarter than their users and try to be smart about stuff. Just show me the available states, thank you very much. If users don't know/understand something, you don't help them by
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by npstr 1mo ago
Good luck deploying a client to the mobile app stores together with your backend :pain: But then again, those barely count as games, I guess.
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by npstr 2mo ago
The bitter lesson.
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by npstr 3mo ago
ears have to be shown to camera to confirm no devices inside own calculator not allowed, there is one provided by the software that must be used
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by npstr 3mo ago
Seems easy to counter all of this. I study at a German remote university, and they require, next to the front camera, a second camera to record the screen + hands and arms of the student while taking exams, and before the exam starts a comp
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by npstr 3mo ago
i and j etc is bad though, but for a different reason than usually claimed. it's suboptimal because it's hard to search for. just use ii, jj, kk, etc
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by npstr 5mo ago
how about "Maschinensturm", a German word closely associated with luddites?
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by npstr 8mo ago
What are you basing this on? The announcement literally says the people doing the work want to focus on the work and not the bullshit, so they are firing the bullshit people. > Engineers in particular have expressed their desire to focus
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by npstr 8mo ago
Not nothing - they are doing bullshit. > Engineers in particular have expressed their desire to focus their time on engineering, without being hampered by slow process flows, and restore the fast-moving culture that has made us so succes
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by npstr 8mo ago
Yes, they absolutely are the bad guys, if they are the reason that the Engineers - the ones actually making the product - are unhappy. Did you miss this part of the announcement? > Engineers in particular have expressed their desire to f
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by npstr 8mo ago
Sorry, but the empathy is misplaced. These people working bullshit jobs are dragging down the whole organization. If bullshit jobs are allowed to proliferate, they risk the even larger number of jobs (and families) of the people doing the a
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by npstr 8mo ago
https://archive.is/yRObl
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Stop talking(gurkan.in)
56 points by npstr 10mo ago|60 comments
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by npstr 11mo ago
> Why aren't things this way? They are in my JetBrains IDE, IntelliJ. Just use proper tools instead of toy text editors? It's free and Open Source even.
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by npstr 1y ago
I had some RSI at the start of corona from too much home office + gaming, what actually helped was getting a trackball (Kensington Slimblade Pro) for $work tasks. Tried a Moonlander and hated it. My hands don't work with ortholinear. A
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by npstr 1y ago
It looks like you're not up-to-date, ZGC has pauses on the microsecond dimension. Even since before ZGC was added, there are open source libs for HFT that optimize allocations to avoid GC: https://github.com/openhft =3
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by npstr 1y ago
The Readme has a section for the raison d'être for it compared to the original ANTLR: https://github.com/antlr-ng/antlr-ng?tab=readme-ov-file#futu...
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by npstr 1y ago
Why can't they bill for it? It's not like they are losing money on it, it's simply getting priced into the billable services they provide. Utilities are usually monopolistic, so there is little incentive for them to fix this.
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by npstr 1y ago
Android started doing the same thing to app icons many years ago, and I hate it. Luckily there's custom icon packs that help solve this but it's annoying to figure out how to set up on each new phone. Increasingly UI teams seem to
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by npstr 1y ago
https://archive.is/44KfE
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by npstr 2y ago
In Germany it just means it's a bad place to have a career in. Thankfully most HRs will happily advertise it in the job description making it easy to dodge.
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by npstr 2y ago
No, what he says is "when we write software there are bugs, so we should write less software".
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by npstr 2y ago
I'm sure there is plenty of movement visible on all kinds of bridges. We also know that all bridges will fail eventually, so the real value is having a more or less exact prediction _when_ they will fail, not a "we totally saw tha
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by npstr 2y ago
The SQL part as well, it should be pronounced "squeal".
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by npstr 2y ago
Hehe, the original pitch for this project contained lots of mentions of AI =)
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by npstr 2y ago
You don't have to take me serious to derive value from the post. It's obvious anecdotal, just shares a story. I skipped some of the details to focus on the topic of Spring. But I think I can add some as you have rightly spotted th
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by npstr 2y ago
The performance argument I cannot subscribe to. We did extensive load testing in the past on different products, and the bottleneck in the end was always the DB (or more recently, getting screwed by OpenSSL v3). Sure Spring might not be the
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by npstr 2y ago
I can see a lot of hate in the comments about the original Spring Project / Java language. You are absolutely right, it's the worst. Please go away, nothing to see there =) On a different note though, when I was a Junior, building
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by npstr 2y ago
Do the downgrade. And please report back how you like it.
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by npstr 2y ago
There is plenty of money for bridges in this country if would stop taking it away from productive citizens that create value and giving it to unproductive citizens that just further reduces willingness to pick up a job. Working full-time vs

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