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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
> Your tone is really aggressive and detracts from your technical points. True, but I went with the aggressive tone intentionally while appreciating this concern. For some odd reason when I voice these opinions with more pleasant langua
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
On the fence voters were not the subject of the article though.
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Uuuggghhh. Bad title. The people who prop up Trump are Trump loyalists who are not necessarily conservatives. Trump, in his scorched earth conquest for extreme loyalty, pushed the most conservative politicians, by voting history, out of the
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
I have written the fastest network transmission implementation for Node.js and made the front page of HN (under a different account) for creating an original diff algorithm among various other things. While I was doing that I was also holdi
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
> i) Like a framework, you are at the whim of TS devs as it gets updated (edited) I have been using TypeScript for almost 6 years and not experienced this problem. Like everything else keep things simple, don’t chase trends, and so long
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
> Spend enough time in this industry… I have 20 years in this industry. It’s full of stupid people pointing fingers somewhere else. Any time this is pointed out developers play the special snowflake game and pretend that software is some
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
> As others have noted, part of the problem here is that the engineers in question are actually not yet smart enough. That is highly subjective and purely a result of both perspective and bias. While you can point fingers to say that so
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
I'm 43 and feel the complete opposite. I am less coordinated and heavier than I used to be. I am learning advanced SQL for the first time and it feels like I am picking it up at a good speed, but still a bit slower than maybe if I we
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
This code sets an event listener on the window object for the keydown event. That means when the window has focus (or any child thereof) and a keyboard key is pressed that handler will intercept the event. On keyboard events there is a key
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
One major inhibitor (perhaps the most major inhibitor) of high IQ people is social repression. For example you cannot get a better software job merely by having a higher IQ. You have to find the right opportunity specifically looking for a
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
If you want to maximize odds for selection focus on what’s most popular according to current practice. Be at the center of the bell curve. If you want to be awesome then go be awesome, but you will fail many interviews before you are select
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
The timeline presented in the article is about 80 years of trajectory. Software appears to be following the same pattern through a more condensed timeline.
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
If you are thinking in terms of tools you are thinking in terms of building, not product. Stop dicking with tools and just build a minimal product. Think only about the minimal product goals. I find many developers go to tools first because
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
A couple of reasons: * Most people will never voluntarily measure things. Instead people form intuitive assumptions and extrapolate performance and potential from that. This happens all the time for almost everybody. * Business people nee
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
I have seen developers confused by the words writing instructions before, suggesting either they do not know what writing is, what instructions are, or that they cannot differentiate between writing an application and writing a few instru
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Most likely the difference in performance is due to differences in expectations. The two greatest common failures I see repeated among software developers is: 1) The inability to consider diverse perspectives 2) The inability to differentia
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
* You can write superior applications in JavaScript by not using a framework. By superior I mean more maintainable code, spend less time writing code, execute faster. * The DOM is most clearly understood when compared to file systems. * You
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Leet code is like prostitution. It’s cheap, short term, and the employment prospects are high risk / low reward. In most of software there is no relation between being a good developer and being either highly valued or highly employabl
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Still nothing compared to the billions so many VCs have lost on crypto this year ignoring those far more obvious red flags. No matter how bad Elon damages Twitter at the very least its actually still generating revenue. I cannot tell what
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
> When data proved his idea was wrong, he would say words to the effect of "I don't care, because I still believe I'm right from an ideological background". I cannot imagine commercial software in any form where that
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
What is freedom of speech? Does the freedom to say what you will qualify theft, violations of privacy, and other illegalities? There is no confusion between the freedom of expression and the harms therein. The freedom to express applies to
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
* Transmission - I am using HTTP to request assets into the page, I have managed to reduce my total asset requests down to only 4. Other than that I am using websockets for absolutely everything, because the way I am using websockets is 8x
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
You can SSH into a remote box and open vim just using your tty.
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
That sounds like a training problem more than anything else.
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Contracts. You need legal terms that your users must agree to in exchange for your goods and services. You have two options: transparency or dark patterns.
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
All my service logic is written with Node.js. It executes fast enough. Now it’s as fast as Java (except arithmetic) and probably similar to .Net. The performance problem is not instruction speed or anything to do with the CPU. The performan
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Maybe, but that doesn’t make the comparison less valid.
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
> This problem has been well understood for decades (and by other civilizations for centuries), but is repressed / conveniently ignored by a wealthy, government-subsidized food industry Sounds like corporate software. Software typic
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
Is there supposed to be controversy in this?
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by throwaway0asd 4y ago
In network terms the result is packet loss, which is unavoidable. You could shoot through atmosphere with a lower frequency light like infrared but that suffers a reduction of bandwidth and is still subject to packet loss, just less. I have

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