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null | industry7 | null | Interesting, I prefer gpl over mit, for example, also due to selfishness. I guess in a different sense though, like if I can't make money on this software, then you can't either! (although you can make money off gpl software...) | null | 0 | 1491592129 | False | 0 | dfyv1pg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyk7xw | null | 1493883677 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | Corporate hell is orthogonal to software development methodologies. | null | 0 | 1491592145 | False | 0 | dfyv26p | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfydz3x | null | 1493883685 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ggtsu_00 | null | >Let's just implement a waterfall methodology and call it agile, because, we do daily ~~standups~~ status reports.
FTFY
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null | Kluizenaer | null | > I used a global hotkey
Then you blocked it for every window, not just Chromium which is obviously not satisfactory. My solution ensures that _only_ Chromium or rather any window which magically happens to have the window class `chromium-browser-chromium` does not receive it is which is satisfactory.
> You mea... | null | 0 | 1491592212 | False | 0 | dfyv4ac | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfyqm7c | null | 1493883712 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | industry7 | null | Yeah I find that if you focus on the data to start with, a lot of the program structure naturally evolves from there. | null | 0 | 1491592213 | False | 0 | dfyv4c7 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyp1bq | null | 1493883713 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dregan | null | An engineer with a slight knowledge of programming can be a very scary thing. | null | 0 | 1491592244 | False | 0 | dfyv5at | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfynxtr | null | 1493883727 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AerieC | null | For a long time I really tried hard to make Object Oriented^tm code work. I would neatly refactor things into their own classes, and prefer small functions.
What I began to notice over time was that I had a harder time following my own code that I'd written a year ago (using official Object Oriented patterns and SOLID... | null | 0 | 1491592264 | False | 0 | dfyv5yl | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyqgou | null | 1493883737 | 59 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weirdoaish | null | Do you mean User Interfaces or like Java's interfaces? | null | 0 | 1491592285 | False | 0 | dfyv6nh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyqkml | null | 1493883745 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrand01 | null | Well that's neat. I've been using VS Code for a while now and had no idea you could do this. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1491592288 | False | 0 | dfyv6qo | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyu7s4 | null | 1493883747 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | multiquine | null | Am I thick? Isn't this just
var = to;
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null | frezik | null | Languages aren't that interesting. A good programmer should find ways to organize code clearly regardless of language. There are a few pathological cases (like Brainfuck), but for the most part, if you learn these skills, you can write clean code in any language.
This tends to throw a fireproof blanket over a lot of l... | null | 0 | 1491592294 | False | 0 | dfyv6xx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883749 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lelarentaka | null | Clobbered? People don't buy matlab licenses for the language itself, they buy it for the engineering simulation and computation libraries. | null | 0 | 1491592298 | False | 0 | dfyv72f | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyud1f | null | 1493883751 | 41 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | luxgladius | null | It is to mean that you are free to view and modify the source code of the software you are using. It is meant to be in contrast to "to be free of cost", or as it is sometimes put colloquially, "Free as in freedom, rather than free as in free beer." | null | 0 | 1491592322 | False | 0 | dfyv7ty | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyuvyh | null | 1493883762 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ChromaticDragon | null | Probably in contrast to another often used phrase: "free as in beer".
"Free as in beer" means you can have or use the software or IP without having to pay for it... but you have to abide by various licensing issues which may prevent you from using it the way you'd like.
Checking the article... oh wow... free to relic... | null | 0 | 1491592325 | False | 0 | dfyv7xk | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyuvyh | null | 1493883763 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yiliu | null | The Linux kernel is written in C. It's not what you'd typically consider OO. | null | 0 | 1491592331 | False | 0 | dfyv84p | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyuppt | null | 1493883766 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | If you don't know what a state machine is, or don't know how to implement one, you have no business being employed as a computer programmer. | null | 0 | 1491592360 | False | 0 | dfyv947 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883778 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Graumm | null | I know some aren't possible, I'm just dreaming!
I think I just want C# without garbage collection and with pointers.
| null | 0 | 1491592361 | False | 0 | dfyv967 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyqray | null | 1493883779 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sqlite | null | I'm calling this post out - I think it is made up. Fake news.
Fossil is used daily by thousands of developers (as evidenced by server logs) and nobody has ever reported any kind of "destroying files" problem. Ever.
Look, you don't have to like Fossil. You are welcomed to keep using Git or Hg or whatever else you w... | null | 0 | 1491592379 | False | 0 | dfyv9qr | t3_63whph | null | null | t1_dfyc4gg | null | 1493883788 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | einsteinonabike | null | Following up on this a bit later than planned - in the midst of house hunting, which is easy since they stay in the same spot. Unfortunately, other people seem to have noticed that too..
Seems like Google is similar to other, larger orgs in that politics are still present, things move at a decent speed, and people co... | null | 0 | 1491592385 | False | 0 | dfyv9yf | t3_5xse3g | null | null | t1_demkfzv | null | 1493883790 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | KagakuNinja | null | > architecture astronaut
I like that
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null | DenizenEvil | null | Oh, you mean writing this simple of a program? Something that's like, what 80 lines? Like thirty of which are actually part of the algorithm? It's a brute force program, not a state of the art algorithm. He would have had to do everything exactly the same up to the point of actually writing the 80ish lines of code. He ... | null | 0 | 1491592426 | False | 0 | dfyvbc9 | t3_63tmfn | null | null | t1_dfyt9hu | null | 1493883808 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wabudd1 | null | Regardless of how good your writing is, there is always emotion attached to the words that humans speak. As a reader, you invent that emotion automatically, without knowing the true intent of the writer.
Everything is open to interpretation.
In person, on the other hand, people are not as good as you imagine at disg... | null | 1 | 1491592428 | False | 0 | dfyvbeo | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyuu6t | null | 1493883809 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | We wrote the first half of the current project without unit tests. I made one test of some bastardised mutex class.
When we rebooted the project with better management and started to add tests, code robustness soared. The old code was very buggy, except a few parts that had been tested extensively in production.
The... | null | 0 | 1491592487 | False | 0 | dfyvd9n | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyqvqi | null | 1493883834 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | achen2345 | null | Perhaps the most important item on that list is to practice. I would also add:
* Don't fear the technology. As a JavaScript developer I encounter many developers who are deathly afraid of the DOM, which is the primary API interfacing to documents on the web. This fear is incredibly pronounced with people twisting t... | null | 0 | 1491592494 | False | 0 | dfyvdi7 | t3_641oop | null | null | t3_641oop | null | 1493883837 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ggtsu_00 | null | Golang is a great language. The constant slamming it gets for not having C++/C# style generics and exceptions is a bit unwarranted. | null | 0 | 1491592497 | False | 0 | dfyvdlh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883839 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sobri909 | null | That's not a good thing you describe, it's a bad thing. That's one of the main negatives that you want to take *out* of technical discussions. And that's what written communication achieves. | null | 0 | 1491592525 | False | 0 | dfyvehw | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyvbeo | null | 1493883850 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | to_be_deleted_soon | null | You can use other tools to verify SQL syntax, if your requirement is strict on that
You can write as complex tests as you want, "implementing a spec" seems more like a philosophical question due to it's complexity. What is correct behavior? What is value for a company? We can go on with that one.. | null | 0 | 1491592546 | False | 0 | dfyvf46 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfytwga | null | 1493883858 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Xuerian | null | So there's definitely some issues that shouldn't exist that you brought up in your rant, and I'm sure the experience was a terrible one...
But how is it fair to blame PHP for that? That's the sort of thing that should be in a native library in the first place.
Which does make it all the more annoying that the existin... | null | 0 | 1491592578 | False | 0 | dfyvg43 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyf6r8 | null | 1493883872 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Haetze | null | Code should be written for the stupid not the smart.
You shouldn't try to be to smart in your code, write the most boring code to solve the problem. Write code so obvious that it doesn't need comments. | null | 0 | 1491592590 | False | 0 | dfyvghv | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883877 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lgastako | null | It also makes it much easier to refactor/re-architecture away the complexity. | null | 0 | 1491592636 | False | 0 | dfyvhyf | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyq3vt | null | 1493883896 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dregan | null | >You can walk into a room of developers and say "The sky is rather blue today," to which the first response you can expect will be something akin to, "Actually, it's closer to azure." You get one chance to be the most correct, or you're wrong to everyone, and none are hesitant to point out the less correctness of yo... | null | 0 | 1491592668 | False | 0 | dfyviy3 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyopx7 | null | 1493883910 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wrzoki | null | I know - Jason Davies is amazing.
More cool stuff [on his website.](https://www.jasondavies.com/) | null | 0 | 1491592683 | 1491596719 | 0 | dfyvjgt | t3_63ziz1 | null | null | t1_dfyccqo | null | 1493883917 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jtra | null | His previous article was also good https://aphyr.com/posts/340-acing-the-technical-interview | null | 0 | 1491592696 | False | 0 | dfyvjud | t3_63w4t6 | null | null | t3_63w4t6 | null | 1493883921 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | > It is disrespectful to the users of your software to not try to achieve maximal efficiency.
I don't disagree, I just think that template metaprogramming in C++ is an atrociously horrible tool for doing this. It almost always results in code that nobody but the original author can grok, and even then six months la... | null | 0 | 1491592702 | 1491592948 | 0 | dfyvk1q | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyuic4 | null | 1493883924 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | What about going vertical as an alternative, Shirley Facebook can afford it? I don't believe open floor plans are simply an adaptation to real estate constraints. | null | 0 | 1491592710 | False | 0 | dfyvkbk | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfys0jr | null | 1493883928 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fazer2 | null | Found the line manager. /s | null | 0 | 1491592735 | False | 0 | dfyvl3y | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyt5y6 | null | 1493883938 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raknarg | null | If you want to prove your Big-O analysis then you have to be precise. Yes from a technical standpoint, a hashset will have O(1) access. Does that mean that it is an O(1) operation? No, because the limit towards access is O(n) where n is the size of your input. That's not even a matter of which hash function you choose.... | null | 0 | 1491592774 | False | 0 | dfyvmcp | t3_63z9df | null | null | t1_dfyojn4 | null | 1493883956 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CyclonusRIP | null | Half the time Scala ends up being more code anyways. In Java you are probably just going to write some synchronous code and do things simply. In Scala everyone is passing around a Future[Result[Option[User]]]] type and by the time you unbox all that properly you've written way more code. For all that effort you've p... | null | 0 | 1491592789 | False | 0 | dfyvmsv | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypm1g | null | 1493883961 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | I work with consultants who are 2x faster than me in many tasks. Sometimes they're half as fast though. There was that time they both spent four days writing code to present a limited amount of stuff on a page. | null | 0 | 1491592805 | 1491596088 | 0 | dfyvnb8 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy87uc | null | 1493883968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fordiman | null | CSS4 proposal:
/* one-liner positioning */
position: _position-type_ [_position-offset-horiz_] [_position-offset-vert_] [_position-origin-x_] [_position-origin-y_];
/**
Position relative to...
static: ignore all positioning rules
relative: space left by this element's bounding box
absolute: offse... | null | 0 | 1491592854 | 1491593147 | 0 | dfyvoum | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypgi6 | null | 1493883989 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | KagakuNinja | null | I was with you up until you mentioned longjmp. BASIC gotos do not save register state, nor modify the stack pointer like longjmp. longjmp is also very restricted in what you can do. You can only longjmp to a saved context, whereas GOTO can go anywhere.
The issue really is that programs back in the day were giant 1000+... | null | 0 | 1491592885 | False | 0 | dfyvpx9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyhr8w | null | 1493884004 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Xuerian | null | *And yet the thread is still filling up with "rah rah X11 wasted work" bitching* | null | 0 | 1491592894 | False | 0 | dfyvq7d | t3_63yn9l | null | null | t1_dfy1vss | null | 1493884008 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | notaresponsibleadult | null | Having worked in the fields, warehouses, and customer service, dev work is so cushy in comparison.
The way so many devs complain though, you'd think that they were working in a coal mine. | null | 0 | 1491592927 | False | 0 | dfyvra7 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb01n | null | 1493884024 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | industry7 | null | I've done greenfield work on a project where we weren't allowed to use an ORM. It was a nightmare. I know SQL very well, but writing SQL by hand is just a waste of time. | null | 0 | 1491592946 | False | 0 | dfyvrvy | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9doo | null | 1493884032 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bionsuba | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5wvs91/project_highlight_vibed_an_io_concurrency_and_web/defjz53/?context=10000 | null | 0 | 1491592977 | False | 0 | dfyvsvb | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfytb1d | null | 1493884045 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | psydave | null | Style enforcing tools like Java's checkstyle or C#'s StyleCop are primarily used by anal retentive developers to force their will onto others who would never otherwise agree with their relentless (and pointless) pursuit of perfectionism about things that don't matter. | null | 0 | 1491592992 | False | 0 | dfyvtaq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493884051 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raknarg | null | Sortof, except that the cost of building a tree by definition is O(nlogn), which means that your minimum increase from a hashset is going to be logn before even considering the cost of access. Using a hashset costs strictly O(n) to build, as finding the hashcode is (ideally, depending on input) O(1) and additions are a... | null | 0 | 1491593005 | 1491593452 | 0 | dfyvtpz | t3_63z9df | null | null | t1_dfyoyhz | null | 1493884056 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OptimusPrimeTime | null | Sort by controversial to find the actually unpopular opinions. ;-) | null | 0 | 1491593036 | False | 0 | dfyvuok | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493884070 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fazer2 | null | Just curious, how did it make you less flexible? | null | 0 | 1491593094 | False | 0 | dfyvwkv | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyjuci | null | 1493884095 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kaze0 | null | Who do I email | null | 0 | 1491593128 | False | 0 | dfyvxoh | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyvsvb | null | 1493884110 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Alphaetus_Prime | null | It's clearly not. | null | 0 | 1491593132 | False | 0 | dfyvxsw | t3_63tmfn | null | null | t1_dfyvbc9 | null | 1493884111 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | htuhola | null | Oh DRY is just a transition state for people who get past it. | null | 0 | 1491593172 | False | 0 | dfyvz2t | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493884129 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | >We now know better ways of doing this than new/delete
Memory pools? :P
>Fuck ORMs, in every possible way. Learn the language of your database and write queries.
Or query builders. | null | 0 | 1491593208 | False | 0 | dfyw0b5 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9doo | null | 1493884145 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491593232 | False | 0 | dfyw12k | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyuppt | null | 1493884155 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | > I've never once had to do that in the 14 years I've been programming
This kind of comment really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Did it ever occur to you that you've never "needed" a binary tree because you don't understand when and where they are the most appropriate data structure for your problem domain?
Chan... | null | 0 | 1491593240 | False | 0 | dfyw1bj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyps5i | null | 1493884158 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | XeonProductions | null | I can Google it, and if this algorithm is truly used that often there should already be standard library or template class written for it somewhere. | null | 0 | 1491593248 | False | 0 | dfyw1l4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfys8c4 | null | 1493884161 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | Who exactly would sue you though? Surely not the SQLite authors. | null | 0 | 1491593254 | False | 0 | dfyw1r6 | t3_63nsrn | null | null | t1_dfwrvy1 | null | 1493884164 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | htuhola | null | Bullshit. The 100000 lines long python bindings are a maintenance nightmare compared to the autogenerated FFI, even if the autogenerated version had to be more cleverly written, it is better than the stupid and boring approach. | null | 0 | 1491593337 | False | 0 | dfyw4gq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb7ko | null | 1493884201 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | XeonProductions | null | Well can you tell me a real world problem that would require me to traverse a binary tree. | null | 0 | 1491593337 | False | 0 | dfyw4h8 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyw1bj | null | 1493884201 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | annodomini | null | And that also helps with getting software written in D packaged for Linux distros, as many of them require that the compiler is also in the distro. | null | 0 | 1491593361 | False | 0 | dfyw595 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfymmaa | null | 1493884211 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | I don't believe the people you're talking about really exist. | null | 0 | 1491593366 | False | 0 | dfyw5fc | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyq3vt | null | 1493884213 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | deusnefum | null | Well GDC has been around a long time. I think the reason D hasn't caught on better is because of the libraries / interfaces available and the fragmentation and difficulty of the standard libraries.
D itself is great. The (multiple) standard libraries are meh (last I checked, years ago).
It's one of those chicken-and-... | null | 1 | 1491593368 | False | 0 | dfyw5ig | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyqt8b | null | 1493884214 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ApoMechanesTheos | null | Excellent! :-) | null | 0 | 1491593370 | False | 0 | dfyw5k7 | t3_6419py | null | null | t3_6419py | null | 1493884215 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | htuhola | null | You aren't alone. But oh damn I thought this was an unpopular view. | null | 0 | 1491593433 | False | 0 | dfyw7kt | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9l2k | null | 1493884242 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | industry7 | null | git is kinda crap honestly. but dependency injection is rad as hell. ever used a constructor with arguments? that's dependency injection! | null | 0 | 1491593441 | False | 0 | dfyw7tw | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb8nc | null | 1493884246 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | deusnefum | null | http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Free+as+in+freedom%22 | null | 0 | 1491593452 | False | 0 | dfyw86v | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyuvyh | null | 1493884250 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ivquatch | null | The only thing that matters 6 years after your app has been in production is the data it produced. Framework, database decisions die a slow death, but the lifetime of the data model is much, much longer. | null | 0 | 1491593500 | False | 0 | dfyw9qi | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfya0gh | null | 1493884271 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | „Get it working first, and then make it pretty“ is usually indicative of rushed developement and lots of pressure from management that looks at IT/programming/etc as 'cost centers.' (Those people that think that way have never studied logistics even coarsely and superficially)
I think „Premature optimization is <ex... | null | 0 | 1491593506 | False | 0 | dfyw9y4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyouir | null | 1493884274 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | htuhola | null | You must have a good boss. | null | 0 | 1491593508 | False | 0 | dfywa0i | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyapv3 | null | 1493884275 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | That's purity, not immutability. | null | 0 | 1491593534 | False | 0 | dfywav9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfykxvx | null | 1493884286 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tau-lepton | null | I really should have held on to my 5.25 inch Zortech C++ floppies. | null | 0 | 1491593547 | False | 0 | dfywbaf | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyt6k7 | null | 1493884291 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | backelie | null | The problem is the term has been hijacked by "'Free' Software" so when I see the title I have to click the link to see if it means free as in freedom (eg MIT/BSD licence) or "free" as in Stallman (GPL). | null | 1 | 1491593549 | False | 0 | dfywbcy | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyv7ty | null | 1493884292 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TyRoXx | null | It feels really good to read your post because it makes me feel less alone. I have a few comments though :D
> "Get it working first, and then make it pretty"
This actually works for developers who know what they are doing. I often commit something that works and refactor it into something maintainable the same day... | null | 0 | 1491593553 | False | 0 | dfywbgr | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyouir | null | 1493884294 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DetriusXii | null | I don't think project managers are necessary in IT. The customer departments seen to be in agreement, so I don't understand why IT directors constantly push the position as necessary. | null | 0 | 1491593563 | False | 0 | dfywbs6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493884299 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | KagakuNinja | null | I've been a professional for 30 years, and started coding at age 12. I am also very good at what I do, maybe not "elite" Google rockstar level.
I usually only interview when I need a new job, typically every 2-5 years. What I find is that I choke up the first few whiteboard interviews, but over time, I get better at i... | null | 0 | 1491593563 | False | 0 | dfywbsk | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyttp5 | null | 1493884299 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | industry7 | null | > Dependency injection means the developer now has to know which one of possibly several dependency modules applies. Those modules cannot be narrowly discovered, instead requiring the developer to have a nearly global understanding of the code base.
In my experience, this is determined at the injection site, ie it'... | null | 0 | 1491593619 | False | 0 | dfywdkz | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyjzlq | null | 1493884322 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | somersettler | null | It seems most people here took this as an askprogramming question, but there is actually a link, which I skimmed, and there was so much of this. Javascript, PHP, and web development generally are shitty and for not-proper-programmer idiots, and methodologies like Agile also suck because management are also not program... | null | 0 | 1491593627 | False | 0 | dfywdux | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfye7xu | null | 1493884325 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | Any you'd recommend? | null | 0 | 1491593635 | False | 0 | dfywe41 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfym4ix | null | 1493884330 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | htuhola | null | Are you sure you rail against type systems and not the type annotations or compile-time type checking? | null | 0 | 1491593649 | False | 0 | dfywejg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyq3vt | null | 1493884335 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ivquatch | null | It's painfully obvious when i walk into work at 11:30 and see all the other staff (accountants, customer, support, sales, backoffice) who've been in the office since i woke up. | null | 0 | 1491593678 | False | 0 | dfywfhw | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb01n | null | 1493884348 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | If you've ever needed to maintain a collection of sorted data which you're frequently inserting / removing / retrieving, a balanced binary tree should be your go-to. | null | 1 | 1491593700 | False | 0 | dfywg6v | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyw4h8 | null | 1493884357 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | EntroperZero | null | Yeah, I'm really surprised at the number of upvotes this got. I must have missed the pendulum starting to swing the other way on this one. | null | 0 | 1491593725 | False | 0 | dfywh0f | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyw7kt | null | 1493884367 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | durandall08 | null | In English, we use the same word "free" for 2 separate concepts:
* Libre, meaning "without restrictions" (as in freedom)
* Gratis, meaning "for zero price" (as in free beer)
This is used pretty commonly in talking about open source stuff. Wikipedia has a [whole article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_lib... | null | 0 | 1491593728 | False | 0 | dfywh3c | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyuvyh | null | 1493884369 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ivquatch | null | Why would you automate the creative bits? That's work that people actually want to do. The whole point of automation is to eliminate the drudgery so humans can do fullfilling creative work. Unfortunately, I'm not sure this idea meshes well with capitalism. | null | 0 | 1491593730 | False | 0 | dfywh59 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyemq0 | null | 1493884370 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ApoMechanesTheos | null | > bad outreach
I couldn't agree more. They could take a page from Rust's book, and have people who can connect with the newer generation (not necessarily even brilliant people) do a bit more proselytising (like Steve Klabnik has been doing for Rust). Granted, Klabnik is an employee, but I'm sure people from the D c... | null | 0 | 1491593782 | False | 0 | dfywirn | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyu1ds | null | 1493884391 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raknarg | null | It's the kind of thing I find that if you try to implement it, you will only succeed if you actually understand it (assuming you write it on your own), you won't accidentally solve it. It's a neat project. | null | 0 | 1491593812 | False | 0 | dfywjri | t3_63ziz1 | null | null | t1_dfyccqo | null | 1493884404 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | adr86 | null | > The (multiple) standard libraries are meh (last I checked, years ago).
That hasn't been true since 2010, arguably even longer. | null | 0 | 1491593843 | False | 0 | dfywksp | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyw5ig | null | 1493884418 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | industry7 | null | That's probably true. They were the first ones to make a code website with a really slick/modern "social media" style interface, and it really felt like Git and Github rose to prominence together. I mean, there was a while where "Github = Git" was kinda a meme. | null | 0 | 1491593851 | False | 0 | dfywl1c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyrkr4 | null | 1493884422 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LazyBui | null | * C is complete trash and I don't think this to be a matter of argument. Yes, its place in history is undeniable. No, that doesn't mean that it's still suitable for anything but very specific uses now. I would only use C where there were not other options and I would hate every second of it. I get that you would use it... | null | 0 | 1491593914 | 1491595541 | 0 | dfywn3c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493884449 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | malakon | null | agree. (But not on Bill Cosby) | null | 0 | 1491593914 | False | 0 | dfywn3k | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyktll | null | 1493884449 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | the_goose_says | null | Composer shouldn't be required to use a library | null | 0 | 1491593939 | False | 0 | dfywnwd | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493884460 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DenizenEvil | null | Sure buddy. | null | 0 | 1491594054 | False | 0 | dfywrjo | t3_63tmfn | null | null | t1_dfyvxsw | null | 1493884509 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nomnommish | null | I think you are missing my point. You personally might be comfortable gat coding on a whiteboard or notepad, but not everyone is. Some might be more comfortable with their IDE of choice.
My point is - if you are never going to write code on a whiteboard at your job, why make an interviewee do it? Relying on a whitebo... | null | 0 | 1491594062 | False | 0 | dfywrse | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyttp5 | null | 1493884512 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sandsmark | null | compression != binary.
the konsole history is all tightly packed bytes mmap()ed in, I'm fairly certain that compression would only add overhead. but I haven't benchmarked in a while, so feel free to prove me wrong.
the code is here: https://github.com/KDE/konsole/blob/master/src/History.cpp
and you can export the sc... | null | 0 | 1491594078 | False | 0 | dfywsaq | t3_63lcwt | null | null | t1_dfy1m92 | null | 1493884519 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fexam | null | It isn't facebook who is constrained by the real estate market. It's every company renting or leasing (or whatever) office space in a large city | null | 0 | 1491594119 | False | 0 | dfywtjf | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyvkbk | null | 1493884535 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Scroot | null | "The boss needs you. You don't need the boss." | null | 0 | 1491594148 | False | 0 | dfywuef | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyks3t | null | 1493884547 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raqem | null | But will still be presented as if it was a fact.
That's what gets me the most. I'm fine with someone disagreeing with me, but when the reasons are so obviously bullshit rationalizations, it rustles my jimmies. | null | 0 | 1491594189 | False | 0 | dfywvqx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfykxxs | null | 1493884564 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NoahFect | null | That compiler was fast as hell. Good to see the original author/maintainer is still in the business. | null | 0 | 1491594198 | False | 0 | dfyww10 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfywbaf | null | 1493884569 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | snerp | null | right click a variable, there should be a refactor/rename type option thing | null | 0 | 1491594273 | False | 0 | dfywyf0 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypvpb | null | 1493884601 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | adrianmonk | null | See, you're thinking like an engineer. You see a problem, and you start thinking of ways that you could take the resources available to you and *actually solve the problem*. Resources like (literally) hundreds of billions of dollars of available cash, engineering talent, and unused vertical space.
And all of that make... | null | 0 | 1491594287 | False | 0 | dfywyvj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyvkbk | null | 1493884607 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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