piccadilly

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by piccadilly 15y ago
Developed countries might provide a safety net and strong job retraining programs
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by piccadilly 15y ago
That isn't because they were so big that they could say programmer, it is because that is what it used to be called before self-promotion inflated all job titles to the point of hyperbole.
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by piccadilly 15y ago
It only gets respect because it's a kind of lie. You aren't an architect. You aren't an engineer. You write code, making up programs. A secretary is a secretary. If people decided that's a bad thing to be, that's a shame. But it doesn't hel
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by piccadilly 15y ago
God forbid you use existing mature tools appropriate to your task.
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by piccadilly 15y ago
Well, a measured quantity of violence ('violence' being a very broad category) targeted at someone who is clearly causing harm is sometimes the only effective way of stopping a greater amount of harm. No-violence is clearly better, but assu
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by piccadilly 15y ago
I agree the hacker scene is full of assholes. I ask this not to argue, but because you seem both pleasant and informed/opinionated and will likely have something useful to say: what as a male hacker am I supposed to be doing about the issue
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by piccadilly 15y ago
Some of what has happened to Zed Shaw really isn't acceptable, it is straight up harassment and not funny trolling. It is considered acceptable to threaten men with violence because they are men; it's the same as the pervasive belief that m
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by piccadilly 15y ago
I love vim more than almost any other software. But it really is not very discoverable 'by accident.' You have to read documentation and grok the system or you don't get much benefit. Especially at the beginning, when you do something like
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by piccadilly 15y ago
We don't "really need" recruiters specifically. But finding a job is ridiculously more complex and old-school (dependent on who you know, etc.) than finding a restaurant or a vendor for a replacement part. If that friction weren't so high,
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by piccadilly 15y ago
It wouldn't work because of inflation. Is that a good argument for artificially maintaining poverty and enacting policy which specifically advantages the ultra-rich to the detriment of people who are having trouble getting by?
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by piccadilly 15y ago
So you have phone GPS (like many phones) and you can read your email (like many phones) and you can make calls (like most phones) and you can use it to browse web pages. There have been small electronic devices doing combinations of these t
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by piccadilly 15y ago
Making fat piles of cash on status-symbol widgets. I guess it's too bad that I won't see what other slightly-rounded, double-priced white objects he would have produced. How can you even compare that to developing the C language?
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by piccadilly 15y ago
I can get insanely concise one-liners out of C and shell, but that doesn't make those inherently more-productive languages. I forget what bash does, but when I write a block of shell in zsh, it is saved as a 'line.' This is a tool issue, no
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by piccadilly 15y ago
I'm not interested in this Fibonacci benchmark until someone does it in TriINTERCAL. PLEASE GIVE UP
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by piccadilly 15y ago
Seconded: if you're still on 8.04 and don't like how fast Ubuntu moves, then it sounds like you were born for Debian Stable, which is in many respects a very similar system
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by piccadilly 15y ago
You wouldn't necessarily know this until you had done the described change, but Ubuntu's packaging of Gnome Shell is in various small but annoying ways not as polished and together as Fedora's. That might partly be because Ubuntu has thrown
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by piccadilly 15y ago
I'm not persuaded that the arrow of causality has been drawn correctly here. I.e., it seems rather that Ruby has gained a high profile in system administration, not due to any inherent characteristics of the language or library, but because
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by piccadilly 15y ago
Well, there is plenty of point avoiding blocking on IO if blocking on IO is your bottleneck, and blocking on CPU is not. For some reason, a lot of people have focused on that case for many years.
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by piccadilly 15y ago
I have no idea whether that is true and I'm not arguing with it. Why are you writing web request handlers containing heavily recursive code, and why do you seem to think that indicates anything meaningful about Python? Please tell me you ar
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by piccadilly 15y ago
The original Node.JS is cancer article is a silly troll. But it's totally ridiculous how in response, people keep writing these terrible, straw-man Python servers to try to prove that Python is so horribly slow. If you want to write Python