superswordfish

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by superswordfish 10y ago
I wrote a pretty decent reply to this, then realized that posting it here would be utterly self-defeating. The double standard you're pushing here is disgusting, and you know it. Time to find a less negative programming community, or o
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by superswordfish 10y ago
I am running Xubuntu on this thing and I hate it so much. Palm detection is so broken that even after tweaking Synaptics and trying libinput (customized it "perfectly" under Arch with no improvement already), I had to disable the
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by superswordfish 10y ago
I think it is fair to say that greying is contrary to the customs of HN. Think about it -- one user's disagreement/disgust/whatever immediately renders a comment suspicious. That doesn't seem to be in agreement with any
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by superswordfish 10y ago
While we're on the topic, please eliminate downvoting, or at least the greying of text. It's antisocial and pointless. Edit: Point proven. Two upvotes and seven downvotes in 12 minutes. Nothing short of a reply from `dang` will sa
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Fair enough, I found parent's comment flippant because it suggests that HashiCorp's generous open source work is popular due to some hype conspiracy.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
It doesn't take an expert sleuth to find things like https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/tags/case-study.html , so your "does anybody _actually_ use the HashiCorp stack" comes across pretty clearly as sni
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Your limited, proprietary, paid tool? Yea...
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by superswordfish 10y ago
GitHub never would have had that problem in the first place if :+1: were not so easy to do. There's no reason to make emoji part of GitHub flavored markdown or for it to be an autocomplete.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Not quite, it's difficult to avoid using votes as a heuristic for post quality. A reader's first impression of a heavily downvoted comment is negative. It encourages groupthink, downvoted comments are unacceptable, and serve as ex
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Testing Is the Engineering Rigor of Software Development(programmer.97things.oreilly.com)
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Best unintended consequence of GitHub adding comment "reactions" is the redditification of discussions (thumbs up/down brigading). Lovely.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
I ran a setup like this for several years but rejected/spam foldered emails were always a pain, plus a well-appointed mail host uses a fair bit of memory. I use Google mail now. It's not very expensive, and instant unconditional d
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Not all software requires the same degree of rigor in design and implementation. Software has bugs, but it sounds like you'd prefer if such software were never written in the first place. Regarding risk, it's as likely that the su
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by superswordfish 10y ago
That list of "cues" is hilarious. Guaranteed you know professional people who hide it from you because, well, you know why. And to reiterate, you need to unwind. Holy crap.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
How exactly do you know which of your tenants are using cannabis? Do you drug test your tenants? > You should not need to live in an altered state, intoxication, and if you are frequently choosing intoxication from pot as 'recreatio
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by superswordfish 10y ago
I haven't noticed any reduction in catalog size or variety over the years (US), maybe I've lived around well-funded systems? If anything it's become more varied with time. The only annoying thing is having to filter out eBook
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by superswordfish 10y ago
This logic is full of holes. A robot can, by not needing to rest, be vastly more productive than the same person. The robot can be designed to never make a mistake too. Indeed, automation of all aspects of bread production would increase th
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by superswordfish 10y ago
It happened at 4am in Bloomingdale, a recently gentrifying and possibly the robberiest neighborhood in DC right now, during a wave of robberies. The police said there was sign of a struggle, the guy was almost certainly shot in a botched ro
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Clickbait is clickbait.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
I've had the same experience, but only with embedded developers like you described. It probably has more to do with how talent is distributed age-wise in that field.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
It's repayment in kind, .NET shops won't hire backend candidates without tons of .NET experience. So you can see why companies who work outside of that walled garden instinctively avoid people who chose to be in it, as they are mo
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by superswordfish 10y ago
You don't need the Oxford Dictionary definition, but any decent engineer who has touched an object-oriented language should be able to explain what polymorphism is. Come on.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
D killed itself with the Digital Mars/Phobos confusion years ago. That it uses a GC doesn't help matters.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
No, I still disagree with you. Carmack is the outlier of the outlier and not a useful example. To be able to get and keep a team of those people would be the opportunity of a lifetime. Keep in mind that I'm the sort of person you are i
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by superswordfish 10y ago
First of all, the vast majority of us are not John Carmack. Second, his comment discusses the merits of working short versus long hours. That's a world apart from spending every waking hour on work, which is what Mayer advocates here (
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen out-of-shape couch potatoes to be best prepared for the challenge of sitting all day and coding with junk food and soda. It's much more of a shock to the system of somebody with healthy habits.
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Have you ever done nothing but code for weeks on end? 7am-1am usually, though 8am-2am and 9am-3am are popular. You get bathroom breaks, some small parts of your commute when you can't physically be coding or communicating, and maybe so
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by superswordfish 10y ago
At the risk of outing myself, it's a strange correspondence based approach. The idea is that we never commit to a repository but instead email changes to each other, making a patch queue. This has the benefit of forcing every commit to
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by superswordfish 10y ago
So you're saying he's responsible for 90% of what I hate about software jobs these days (TDD as dogma, Agile, forced pair programming).
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by superswordfish 10y ago
Ah, but you get your revenge when it's time to write in an RTL script.

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