warty

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by warty 6mo ago
There's a chance this comment is what the user would have described as an incoherent but outright attack. The user was claiming they didn't really understand the terminology but seemed to be trying their best when asked of another
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by warty 5y ago
For the sake of Henry's privacy this should not have been posted.
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by warty 5y ago
Using commit count / LOC as a KPI for a lead is not just highly unprofessional but also hilarious. How much code does Torvalds write nowadays? Really not a lot. I guess he's useless eh? /s (And yes, Torvalds works at a totall
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by warty 6y ago
Asking out of good faith here. Isn't this essentially arguing the broken window theory? > The broken windows theory is a criminological theory that states that visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior, and civil disorder create
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by warty 7y ago
Yup. We've all seen someone navigate a desktop with hundreds of icons spanning pictures, powerpoints, web links, applications, etc...
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by warty 8y ago
If anything, straight-out racism was replaced with passive aggression or non-textual harassment (i.e. intentionally throwing the game or screwing over your teammate)... I'm not sure if I'd consider that a better player experience.
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by warty 8y ago
400k - wow that puts things to scale. This sort of comparison really should have been in my schooling textbooks.
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by warty 8y ago
It's a huge guinea pig for .net, windows server, and azure - a perfect example of eating your own dog food.
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by warty 8y ago
C# for everything side-projects here. It's the one language that I feel good for server-side backend, interactive desktop apps, and console apps with ease. It simply has awesome tooling and a sane standard library + language design tha
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by warty 8y ago
There are plenty of people who'd say frat culture undermines the productive capacity of the workplace, likewise with alcohol or being able to hit on others, or difficulties people have because hookup culture is now a thing. Both extrem
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by warty 8y ago
> Have a big, long "technology used" for a project. For example, "technology used" in a project includes "Python, Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, SQL, C#, Django, Messaging, C, Bash.." I've also se
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by warty 8y ago
> Which is a pity, because I thought SO is a place where you can ask questions on obscure features of the tools we're using. You can, as long as you're clear on why you need these obscure features. So there's nuance... if
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by warty 8y ago
I understand that sentiment, but for the overwhelming majority of poor questions the "if you really want to do that anyway" isn't useful to OP - they're clearly confused and looking for something else. In those cases, it
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by warty 8y ago
There's nuance here. There are plenty of cases where individuals ask XY questions, meaning they've gone down a strange route to solve X and now need help solving Y, and it's always been debated within the community on whether
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by warty 8y ago
According to their recruiters, I "need to learn Java and algorithms" to get an FTE phone screen.
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by warty 8y ago
In older C#, that would be delegate: delegate(int x){ return 10; } (But yeah, nowadays that would be:) (int x) => 10
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by warty 8y ago
Agreed that while "pattern matching" is a common term, it's perhaps not common enough. For comparison, a C# proposal of terser syntax (which uses the switch keyword) is available here: https://github.com/dotne