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by papaf 5y ago
And... informal communication has to be in a video call? It can't be in writing? On video calls and in meatspace, you get to see peoples facial expressions, their smiles, they can move their hands and make gestures. I much prefer tha
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by papaf 5y ago
Have you been in that scenario, ever? Video calls are infinitely worse than typed text between non-native speakers. And if the call is not going to be in english… why would the written communication be so? I am in this scenario every work
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by papaf 5y ago
I disagree with a lot of this article because it assumes that we are efficient robots that just need things to be searchable and written down. Tools are also a bit lacking -- in theory writing stuff in a wiki is useful but then try finding
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by papaf 5y ago
A Fairphone is repairable and, using Lineage, has long term software support. I have a Fairphone 2 as my main phone (released in 2015) and I am running Lineage based on Android 10.
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by papaf 5y ago
It's like asking why the knife you're using keeps cutting you when you put your finger on the sharp end. Most cloud providers don't have this billing problem and so the analogy breaks. Its more like, why does this knife kee
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by papaf 5y ago
it routinely eats up close to 4 GB of RAM, which in my case is an entire VPSes worth and costs me about 60 Euros a year You are absolutely correct that running other peoples Ruby code is expensive. I would argue similarly for Java because
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by papaf 5y ago
I have been on several teams that found the following article "Unlearning toxic behaviours in a code review culture" very helpful: https://medium.com/@sandya.sankarram/unlearning-toxic-behavi...
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by papaf 5y ago
Certainly not clarity of written communication.
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by papaf 5y ago
Sometimes I think Canada is more interested in portraying itself as a progressive beacon to the world than actually being one. Its attitude to seals is not very progressive: https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/abo
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by papaf 5y ago
The taxi could have been in on it -- its a trick that is normally used in poorer countries but looks like its reached the EU.
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by papaf 5y ago
Two things stick out here that I don't fully understand. Declarative schemas, and a well-defined update process (that isn't human-written DDL), are essential at any sort of organizational scale. Isn't this impossible becaus
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by papaf 5y ago
One thing I would recommend when someone blames a bug on you -- without hesitation, always say "yes, I will take a look at it". This way if you have to push back and say it wasn't you, you have much more impact because you ha
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by papaf 5y ago
Even if actual flu related deaths reverted to a pre-2020 level, I guarantee it would still be news. People will still be wearing masks, state/local governments will be enforcing mandates, etc. They were in pre-2020 for bad flu pandem
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by papaf 5y ago
Gstreamer uses it. Those are some smart guys and I trust their choices. I tried the Meson build of GStreamer last year. It didn't go well and I gave up because of time pressure. I haven't looked at Meson since because CMake actu
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by papaf 5y ago
If you need to talk to someone immediately there is the Samaritans: http://www.samaritansusa.org/contact.php I have no idea what they are like in the US but they are very helpful in the UK.
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by papaf 5y ago
We're still using Spring boot and some JHipster. I feel quite productive in Spring boot and, even though I hate frameworks, its the best framework I have ever used.
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by papaf 5y ago
In Go, you solve problems by outputting inhuman amounts of code. The standard library manages to pack a lot of functionality in little code. Its probably not easy to write simple concise code in Go but it is certainly possible.
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by papaf 5y ago
Some general recommendations (these are not new books): - The Phoenix Project. An easy read that is a good introduction to modern Dev Ops culture [1]. - Designing Data Intensive Applications. A technical introduction to distributed systems.
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by papaf 5y ago
Linters such as golangci[1] which will warn if you ignore the return value. If you ever write Go again I highly recommend you look at golangci -- the security checks have been really helpful to me. [1] https://golangci-lint.run&#
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by papaf 5y ago
You can't even leave your mobile at home accidentally - that would trip alarm bells, especially if your contact does it at the same lunch hour. This is straightforward to spoof. A single programmer could do it if they cared enough. I
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by papaf 5y ago
Is it even possible to do Android development without Android Studio? Oh yes: https://www.lambdanative.org/
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by papaf 5y ago
Generics in C++ really damage the readability of the code sometimes, maybe the go devs have found a better way. The culture might help. I think generics in Java are not overused -- partly because they are not so powerful and partly becaus
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by papaf 5y ago
Thanks, that was an interesting read. I read a book a while ago that was well researched and gave the impression that Afganistan would always belong to the Taliban. It was called "No Good Men Among the Living". https://
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by papaf 5y ago
VS Code is the example that shows that you can create great Electron apps I am a happy user of VS Code but it feels super slow if you use it shortly after using Qt Creator (QtCreator is written in C++).
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by papaf 5y ago
@ everywhere, for that I would keep using Objective-C If you are triggered by the AT character, I recommend that you stay away from Slack and Microsoft Teams.
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by papaf 5y ago
How do we allow our culture to be so lazy that people resist using one of the basic tools because "oh its hard I gotta remember 5 commands" and we find it OK? No wonder the plane is burning. Its probably a rhetorical question bu
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by papaf 5y ago
> What makes this group of scientists and their warning more legitimate than these previous “imminent tipping points” Better models and more computing power?
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by papaf 5y ago
I don't let anyone else run RNA code in my cells I think that happens every time you catch a cold.
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by papaf 5y ago
I have hopes for hybrid working but I think that it needs to be targeted. A team should be in the office together on the same day. This day should have a schedule like a mini conference with talks, pair programming and architecture sessions
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by papaf 5y ago
The same standard is applied to human drivers. I think it is called a "driving test".

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