thrower123

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by thrower123 4y ago
Did I miss something in the Framework -> Core transition where strings aren't UTF-16 internally anymore?
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by thrower123 4y ago
I welcome anything related to programming and especially the history of programming that pops up on here. There's an incredible amount of ignorance of what has been done before and why things are the way they are, that I encounter cont
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by thrower123 4y ago
I've got about three meetings in me on an average day before my batteries are exhausted and I am effectively done for the day. When agile-ish processes use up on of those lives every day, that leaves very little slack before recurring
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by thrower123 4y ago
This may be false memory, but I'm almost certain Beevis or Butthead introduced me to asshat heckling 90s metal videos
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by thrower123 4y ago
The people I know who call themselves effective altruists seem to have gone beyond any actual philanthropy at this point and just go on tirades about AI risk and the singularity.
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by thrower123 4y ago
We seem to be very worked up over a virtually unknown new C-replacement language that's more likely than not to fizzle and become yet another 0.1% also-ran.
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by thrower123 4y ago
Nothing in all the years I worked offline in offices convinced me that whiteboards were particularly useful. At least we eventually had high-resolution cameras in our smartphones so we could photograph them when people insisted on doing pla
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by thrower123 4y ago
I've never gotten burned out because I had a lot of work to do. Those are the good times. Mostly I've gotten burned out because I couldn't bring myself to care and because I was bored.
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by thrower123 4y ago
Working remotely is better than all of those things, iff you commit to doing things correctly and writing things down. Doing things correctly would help if you were in the office too, but you can paper over the inefficiencies of doing thing
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by thrower123 4y ago
I very much think that the "give me money" model is a really good one. There's this very odd strain of infantilization that runs through a lot of corporate office management, like they are trying to reward second-graders with
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by thrower123 4y ago
I really dislike this when it feels forced and artificial. Also there's a strong risk of doing some little employee-appreciation gesture that backfires and pisses people off. Most of them do, because it feels like the company has chea
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by thrower123 4y ago
All I can say is thank god most of the stuff I work against has the source published on Github, and most of the rest is in decompiler-friendly languages. This leaves the completely inscrutable and mostly undocumented REST apis that I'v
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by thrower123 4y ago
That sounds reasonable, but the requirements you've sketched out as the secondary role there require a top decile programmer. The median level of skill and conscientiousness (particularly) is just so low.
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by thrower123 4y ago
No, this is just not how developing software works. Throwing more lower-skilled people at a project just makes it move slower and reduces quality.
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by thrower123 4y ago
There's always alpha in anything that provides enough signal to flip the bozo bit to off.
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by thrower123 4y ago
I wish I'd hit 6'6" like I was supposed to, according to the old wive's tale method of doubling your height at two years old. I could have dunked easily, instead of just that one golden time I jumped freakishly high.
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by thrower123 4y ago
Accidentally check it into git on a multi-developer team...
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by thrower123 4y ago
This is how the system already works...
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by thrower123 4y ago
I've never heard of anyone using Next.js outside of discussions here, so I don't believe it actually is popular.
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by thrower123 4y ago
It's not clear that writing tooling in Javascript has been a win. I do hope that we can get back to that "JS as compilation target" model eventually with WebAssembly. Even with improvements like TypeScript slathered on top, i
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by thrower123 4y ago
Dishwasher soap in the US is garbage now, so you have to scrub anything that might possibly stick on, despite the wash cycle on my dishwasher taking nearly two and a half hours.
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by thrower123 4y ago
This is what I did for years before March 2020. Maybe I'll go in once in a while to get out of the house, but maintaining two development workstations is a drag. Unless there's an office pizza party or a real scheduled brainstormi
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by thrower123 4y ago
I'm getting half-remembered flashbacks to some of the distributed, self-replicating Lotus Notes applications I worked on very early in my career
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by thrower123 4y ago
If I ever find myself in vim, I just powercycle the machine. It's easier.
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by thrower123 4y ago
How to use grep effectively
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by thrower123 4y ago
I desperately want Blazor to succeed, so that the entire Javascript-based environment can burn. I would accept some kind of world where WASM bindings in browsers become usable as an alternative.
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by thrower123 4y ago
> today only work in some super old apps like Notepad. Old applications that actually follow the platform UX and accessibility guidelines
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by thrower123 4y ago
The regulation that made the old-style vented plastic gasoline cans illegal to produce is on my Mt Rushmore of well-intentioned, catastrophic failures.
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by thrower123 5y ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen it happen except by declaring bankruptcy.
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by thrower123 5y ago
Yes, this. We will see how well support for the supposedly LTS DotNet 6 actually is long term... I'm not a great fan of how the whole dotnet open source ecosystem has sped up to monthly and biweekly releases. Official Microsoft package

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