throwaway_au_1

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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I'm not so sure that the meaning behind The Rat Race is that a human being participating in a rat race is a rat.
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
100%. The guy is leaving something behind that doesn't fulfil him in pursuit of something that does, and what do the best minds of HN have to offer? "Well actually"
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
Different strokes for different folks. At least the author of the OP had the humility not to call anyone else's perspective 'crap'.
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I'd be surprised if you appreciated if the 'art' that is 90% of graffiti appeared on the exterior of your home or business.
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
You do not seem to have a grasp on Vim which qualifies you to assert that it is overcomplicated.
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
>Those editors also let you use shortcuts without having to switch through different modes making you more efficient. The modes are what makes editing in Vim efficient.. you don't think Vim users are out here swapping through modes
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
It sometimes seems like a lot of the Vim, ew crowd think that the sole reason for using Vim is gaining some kind of god-like ability to physically pump out and manipulate characters. Sure, maybe that's possible. For me, it's abo
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I would like for any article insisting I adopt any practice to put a little more effort into doing so. This seems to amount to "it's good", "I should have done it sooner", "it's not so bad, trust me",
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
In what ways are DI and global variables similar?
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
FWIW a fellow who has published books on the topic calls Service Locator an anti-pattern[1]. I take no position here as usage of any pattern is contextual but it's worth a read. [1] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/02&#x
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I think it's sensible to be critical of the language used in our craft, especially when borrowed from the more physical world, because with it comes the baggage. For example, I have a pet peeve with the phrase "use the right tool
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I also don't enjoy coming back to large sed expressions I wrote previously but I'm starting to write them in a way that makes that much easier. I'm on my phone so this will probably be syntactically wrong but hopefully the gi
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I've had 2 Barista Express units now. They have lasted me about 12-18 months each before something went wrong. In the recent case, I bought a new group head seal and I got about 60 brews before it blew out again. It has been a good int
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
Love reading threads like these. Have already discovered a couple of cool things in here to explore. Here's what I'm either running now or in the process of standing up. It's very WIP, and nothing special, but maybe someone h
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
Awesome project! C# is my preferred language, but I love the less-heavyweight tooling in other langs, so bflat fits nicely. What inspired you to start this / what was your use case? Where did existing tooling fall short for you? I had
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
>What is it about the Internet that we want to get away from? For me, it has become overtly adversarial: rampant "advertising"/manipulation, pervasive use of dark patterns, content for the sake of content, and the bulk of
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
Ironically they reject tabs and require space indentation. Something something the complexity of supporting both. Yet we have style insensitivity..
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I didn't know this existed. There's a lot I like about Nim, but total rejection of tab indentation, and now this style insensitivity thing, mean that for me personally, Nim will just stay an interesting language I see on HN from t
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
Great point. Would it be a stretch to suggest that this language is in reality just another medium for virtue signalling?
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
IMHO expecting synchronous behaviour from asynchronous tools is flawed way to operate; I'd be very comfortable taking a stand against manning these communication channels at all times.
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I'm sure there's a much nicer, scientific way to articulate this, but one interesting observation I took away from learning Vim (in terms of bindings) and Workman simultaneously is that, at least in my mind, typing sequences are n
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
If you subscribe to the Unix Philosophy and like to use your tools in in such ways, yes. If you want to point and click* (no hate - I just mean you just want to get things done) and composing small tools in novel, productive and repeatable
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
>it becomes excruciatingly annoying to edit non trivial amounts of text and not have vim. I can relate to this. Writing code without Vim feels like punching in a dream. Make sure you're working in an environment where you're al
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
>Vim is basically the only editor you can safely assume to be available on any machine you’ll ever interact with. Windows?
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
Bet those truck drivers who learned to code feel kind of ripped off..
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
The last time I looked at Ubuntu as a daily driver, a few years back, I remember reading the threads about snap and its forced updates. The sheer arrogance of the snap team in their hardline refusal to acknowledge that this would be useful
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I think I need to adopt a practice where if I open an article, like the one you linked, and the title is some alternative take presented as a universal truth without qualification ("Git commits are useless"), I immediately stop re
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
You're only ever one promotion or departure (not yours) away from a management shuffle which can make your job shit. That stable software delivering value, day in day out? Legacy trash that needs to be rebuilt as a matter of urgency. A
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
>People who criticize IQ scores as a proxy for intelligence should publish their own IQ score, no? If the author did so, I missed it, which is certainly possible. The not-intentionally-snarky point is that perhaps the author is not &quot
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by throwaway_au_1 4y ago
I wish I could downvote you. Your comment is unsubstantiated nonsense.

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