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null | -du | null | This is the guy that stopped posting to reddit once people realized & called him out that it's all click jacking & monetization for free resources found elsewhere. Now it's just continuing on freecodecamp.
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/5gr8nw/heres_a_sanitized_list_of_530_free_online/ | null | 0 | 1491729409 | False | 0 | dg113bn | t3_64c7qx | null | null | t3_64c7qx | null | 1493921504 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sievebrain | null | Yeah. I've done web dev in Java and the cycle is (in IntelliJ): adjust a code file, press compile, wait a second, your app server is now re-loading. | null | 0 | 1491729435 | False | 0 | dg113lo | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfzj195 | null | 1493921508 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | chewyfruitloop | null | How do you make someone work 60-80 hours a week?!? Oh I don't know...have you tried a whip? Perhaps holding their families hostage...
Screw this guy, 2-4 hours of actual work a day...if you call meetings, that's part of work. I bet this is the kind of person who would make you clock out to empty your bladder.
Perha... | null | 0 | 1491729595 | False | 0 | dg1158s | t3_647weo | null | null | t3_647weo | null | 1493921530 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | code_mc | null | They prefer:
> You're an amazing manager and you have an amazing team where everyone pulls their weight and you're blessed with a rockstar programmer among it, too!
But in reality:
> You hired a team full of idiots and one competent programmer | null | 0 | 1491729604 | False | 0 | dg115c3 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg10v6q | null | 1493921531 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Disgruntled__Goat | null | Flexbox and/or CSS Grid solve this. | null | 0 | 1491729718 | False | 0 | dg116jq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypgi6 | null | 1493921547 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SargoDarya | null | Or, you know, hired a bunch of juniors where the 10x programmer actually does get 10 times the stuff done because he learned to consider most edge cases, has intricate knowledge of the architecture etc. I don't think there's a general 10x dev though. | null | 0 | 1491729771 | False | 0 | dg1173x | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg115c3 | null | 1493921554 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | nomercy400 | null | Ask your colleague if he knows JHeadstart. If he gets a look of despair on his face, then yes. If he doesn't, then tell him about the look of despair. | null | 0 | 1491729818 | False | 0 | dg117mi | t3_61elko | null | null | t1_dfff19l | null | 1493921561 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | I work an average of 5 hours per day, been like that pretty consistently on wakatime for the past year | null | 0 | 1491729869 | False | 0 | dg1185t | t3_647weo | null | null | t3_647weo | null | 1493921569 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | robbiedo | null | > Not having to be there lowers emissions, lower need for infrastructure (less traffic) and makes people happier (no wasting time in traffic jam, getting up when you have to).
Why would I not want to go to work? Great coffee, free snacks, restaurant quality food at moderate pricing, gym, massage, primary care physi... | null | 0 | 1491729888 | False | 0 | dg118ct | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0y9sn | null | 1493921571 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nomadProgrammer | null | Don't forget about the free snacks, the ping pong, console, and bro-grammer culture!!!!
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null | squad_of_squirrels | null | Sorry in advance for the long reply.
I definitely agree with you to some extent. I think that the best thing to do would be to have kids learn more about computers in general.
The way that I picture it, the optimal computing class for kids would include the following: ... | null | 0 | 1491730111 | 1491730634 | 0 | dg11amp | t3_64815z | null | null | t1_dg02nbq | null | 1493921601 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | puradawid | null | Don't get it. Facebook earns money constantly, they didn't collapse. Isn't it enough to admit Facebook's approach is working well? | null | 0 | 1491730158 | False | 0 | dg11b54 | t3_64aogj | null | null | t3_64aogj | null | 1493921608 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CadavericSpasms | null | In regards to the original quora question: screw you, if your business plan requires working programmers 60 hours a week, you suck at running a business and are asking workers to make up for your bad management via suffering.
In regards to the article: some good points made, but I disagree, there are indeed programme... | null | 0 | 1491730240 | 1491756737 | 0 | dg11bzd | t3_647weo | null | null | t3_647weo | null | 1493921619 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | squad_of_squirrels | null | On a similar line of thought, I believe that things like operating systems and firmware will probably stay relatively exclusive, just judging by the number of people who are taking JS/HTML/CSS bootcamps rather than learning C/++ or other lower level languages.
Edit: Made stupid mistake, which is now fix... | null | 0 | 1491730281 | 1491730728 | 0 | dg11cd4 | t3_64815z | null | null | t1_dg0j0p1 | null | 1493921624 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | muuchthrows | null | I totally agree, most developers have an awesome work environment compared to other jobs , but I wonder if other white-collar work is as mentally exhausting as programming. | null | 0 | 1491730393 | False | 0 | dg11diq | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0z2fp | null | 1493921640 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kralyk | null | > Being polite and fair isn't rocket science.
No-brainer to me, that's not the issue though.
> Just ignore them, problem solved.
There are situations where you cannot ignore those people. Like when you submit a documentation patch that offends some people, because there's too much "he/his" in it. Or when proje... | null | 0 | 1491730464 | False | 0 | dg11eas | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dg0zaqn | null | 1493921650 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | barefooter | null | I lol'd, have an upvote! | null | 0 | 1491730467 | False | 0 | dg11ebt | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0grmk | null | 1493921651 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | t0rakka | null | What a question. You should be asking how to make them to do ACTUAL programming work for even 20 hours a week. What this question really means is how to make them be "physically present" at work for 60-80 hours a week. What a dumb thing to ask.
Edit: read the article. Feel like idiot for being one. | null | 0 | 1491730590 | False | 0 | dg11fky | t3_647weo | null | null | t3_647weo | null | 1493921667 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fuckface_academy | null | 10x devs are 10x because of their decision-making skills.
10x devs predict the future better than 1x devs. They don't write 10 times as much code, they typically write 10 times less. | null | 0 | 1491730686 | False | 0 | dg11gj9 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg1173x | null | 1493921680 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PaprikaYT | null | Im currently developing a new system for kids. They can start with scratch go to arduino and then to python. | null | 0 | 1491730732 | False | 0 | dg11h0z | t3_64815z | null | null | t3_64815z | null | 1493921687 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | enderprime | null | die in a fire | null | 0 | 1491730735 | False | 0 | dg11h1z | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy6r7j | null | 1493921687 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | t0rakka | null | Or maybe... the 1x programmer _is_ the 10x programmer. :) | null | 0 | 1491730762 | False | 0 | dg11hb0 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0s5rj | null | 1493921690 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | squigs | null | I've always thought it's nonsense. Not total nonsense - there are situations; generally you get domain experts. It would take me a lot longer to develop a secure client architecture than it would a networking expert. But then you hire a networking expert if this matters.
A lot of the time though, this will probably be... | null | 0 | 1491730786 | False | 0 | dg11hj9 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0v1e0 | null | 1493921693 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flightm0de | null | I charge for the time I'm coding, occasionally for email if they require a lengthy response, and always for phone conversations (because I want to discourage them).
I think my rate is a little high, but most clients don't mind when they realise that I work fairly quickly. If I'm working on something I don't have exper... | null | 0 | 1491730817 | False | 0 | dg11hur | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0z9zu | null | 1493921697 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | iam_willpower | null | I always thought free code camp was pretty reputable? | null | 0 | 1491730856 | False | 0 | dg11i87 | t3_64c7qx | null | null | t1_dg113bn | null | 1493921702 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hobabaObama | null | thank you for the elaborate response | null | 0 | 1491730927 | False | 0 | dg11ixj | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg11hur | null | 1493921711 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doom_Oo7 | null | > But I never needed something like that
up to the day someone use one of your libraries with a global and starts encountering weird crashes because their order of initialization is undefined | null | 0 | 1491731061 | False | 0 | dg11ka4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dg0zxsq | null | 1493921730 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | squigs | null | The "rockstar" at one place I worked was just the architect who understands the system really well. Of course he can get stuff done quickly. The entire system is designed around his thought processes.
I don't think this quite fits into either of your models, although I have heard anecdotally of the first type so will... | null | 0 | 1491731063 | False | 0 | dg11kb6 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0yhrc | null | 1493921730 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | stesch | null | It's booked into the system. Doesn't mean it gets billed.
Lunch breaks get booked onto a special project in the system. And it's important to use the correct start and end time for this one. If someone sees you taking a break and it doesn't correspond to the time in the system, you could get into trouble. Sees you on ... | null | 0 | 1491731077 | False | 0 | dg11kgk | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0wykf | null | 1493921732 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RagingAnemone | null | Depends. If you look at the post I replied to, they were mentally exhausted by the end of the day. Were you? | null | 0 | 1491731318 | False | 0 | dg11mvo | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0zdo0 | null | 1493921765 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PasteDog | null | I feel like I am working at one of these companies... How could I negotiate for better work hours?
Every week they ask me to do extra hours and weekends, but after a few months this is really taking a lot from me. And from my life... Well I already decided to leave when the project is done because of this, but there ... | null | 0 | 1491731347 | False | 0 | dg11n5v | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0jtib | null | 1493921768 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flightm0de | null | Yep sorry didn't mean coffee was unhealthy. There's solid evidence it's good for health. Just doesn't work for me.
I used to smash Scotch after a hard day of coding, which doesn't help with sleep and/or feeling refreshed in the morning either.
Last year I did 6 months alcohol free, for 2017 I'm going for the whole 12... | null | 0 | 1491731383 | False | 0 | dg11ni9 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0zxjs | null | 1493921773 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | enderprime | null | OOP was and continues to be a mistake | null | 0 | 1491731510 | False | 0 | dg11oqh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493921790 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mariopenna | null | A good read for all these developers: Thinking, Fast and Slow! | null | 0 | 1491731526 | False | 0 | dg11ovz | t3_64aogj | null | null | t3_64aogj | null | 1493921792 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ErstwhileRockstar | null | >> it demonstrates the time-honored principle that quality matters
Nowadays only time to market matters. That's the essence of Agile. Your time horizon is 14 days, the length of a sprint. No design, no documentation. Only ad-hoc implementation of immediate business value. Throw it away and rewrite it if maintena... | null | 0 | 1491731933 | False | 0 | dg11szw | t3_64aogj | null | null | t3_64aogj | null | 1493921846 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | KirillRogovoy | null | Hi! Your example is indeed technically the same thanks to the ability of `then` to resolve Promises for you.
However, your question is practically the same as "Why would I use pipes at all if I can call the functions subsequently one by one?".
Why `pipe(a, b, c)(input)` when I can `c(b(a(input)))`?
The point of this ... | null | 0 | 1491731957 | False | 0 | dg11t7g | t3_63kn24 | null | null | t1_dfuw8eo | null | 1493921849 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | blazedaces | null | Decades ago there was an extremely flawed study of something like 20 people where productivity was defined in a silly way... and in that study some people were 10 times more "productive" than others. But now our industry pretends this myth has truth to it... so people make fun of that. | null | 0 | 1491732116 | False | 0 | dg11ur5 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0uwmz | null | 1493921870 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ggtsu_00 | null | I know for a fact -10x programmers exist. They actually suck the productivity out of projects. | null | 0 | 1491732284 | False | 0 | dg11wcs | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0s5rj | null | 1493921890 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ggtsu_00 | null | thread.tar.gz | null | 0 | 1491732314 | False | 0 | dg11wne | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg01tr1 | null | 1493921894 | 41 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | > In case it isn't clear, this is the first chapter of several that will build up a full language interpreter.
Yes, I understood this. My point is that if you want to convince your readers that visitor pattern is useful, it's better not to start with an example that is far easier without a visitor.
You could wri... | null | 0 | 1491732383 | False | 0 | dg11xbp | t3_640uav | null | null | t1_dg00fbw | null | 1493921904 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DreadedDreadnought | null | 3/4 of fulltime (30 hours = 7.5h/4 days), so one full day off seems to work for one of my colleagues. I'd say this is good advice. Do you take the pay cut from fulltime or you negotiate that 30 hours as fulltime? | null | 0 | 1491732407 | False | 0 | dg11xk0 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0yoai | null | 1493921907 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ggtsu_00 | null | This is why modern AAA games coming out are still a huge buggy mess on release, despite having a huge bulk of the work already done for them (licensed game engines, outsourced artwork and assets, etc). | null | 0 | 1491732599 | False | 0 | dg11zec | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0s5t1 | null | 1493921931 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | HosonZes | null | You are talking about productivity, not creativity. These are entirely different things. If I work 8 hrs a day but due to bad planing, friction, meetings etc I might just have 2 hours of productive work, where I am not blocked by those task and can actually do something. I was still 8hrs at work but effectively have do... | null | 0 | 1491732612 | False | 0 | dg11ziy | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg10zih | null | 1493921934 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | The only library I worked on is integrated internally (so in a controlled manner) with clear rules of initialization that require a single threaded environment. After that is done it handles multi threaded requests. The entire system was designed like this, with some environment initialization phases that pospone any m... | null | 0 | 1491732658 | False | 0 | dg11zyu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dg11ka4 | null | 1493921939 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ggtsu_00 | null | Writing a new javascript web framework is like the midlife crisis equivalent for a programmer. | null | 0 | 1491732714 | False | 0 | dg120gw | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg085qj | null | 1493921946 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | blazedaces | null | >Yeah no, if everyone was putting in a legitimate 40 hour work week, shit would get done faster. It might be a stretch to assume *all* of your employees can do it, but to assume no-one can is a bit asinine.
No work would get done slower because tons of bugs and outages would happen. This would lead to more scramb... | null | 0 | 1491732833 | False | 0 | dg121lp | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0902m | null | 1493921961 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | icbmike_for_realz | null | I hate doing hiring interviews, the amount of people that are just straight incompetent is staggering. You'd hope that having to achieve some sort of qualification would filter out these people but it just doesn't. | null | 0 | 1491732860 | False | 0 | dg121w2 | t3_64815z | null | null | t1_dg0hf1r | null | 1493921965 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | the_king_of_sweden | null | Ah yes I love this one
ERROR: Attempted to parse HTML with regular expression; system returned Cthulhu.
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null | ErstwhileRockstar | null | Languages can thrive when they have their platform. That's why Java (on the Java EE and Android platforms) and even PHP are successful. And that's why languages without platform like D, Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Rust, ... will remain niche languages at best. | null | 0 | 1491733084 | False | 0 | dg12446 | t3_6498n8 | null | null | t1_dg0i6d2 | null | 1493921994 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | HosonZes | null | For velocity: Some tools allow you to track your velocity. You guess how long you will take for a task (estimation) and track your real duration. From that you can calculate what your task-to-task velocity was. It might differ due to underestimation of experience, unexpected complexity, rescheduling tasks, etc. This ve... | null | 0 | 1491733121 | False | 0 | dg124ha | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg10zih | null | 1493921999 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aykcak | null | > If everybody was fully “productive” for 40 or 80 hours a week, it would cause more problems than you can imagine.
I can't imagine how? | null | 0 | 1491733291 | False | 0 | dg1265f | t3_647weo | null | null | t3_647weo | null | 1493922021 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mariopenna | null | Throw it away and rewrite it does not work at scale! Especially when you hit the no return point. Descent code quality is also part of the product's market value! | null | 0 | 1491733353 | False | 0 | dg126rj | t3_64aogj | null | null | t1_dg11szw | null | 1493922029 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | panorambo | null | Why? There's someones time and energy put in the game. And you are obviously playing it? But maybe you just do not consider it worth it? Price too high? | null | 0 | 1491733453 | False | 0 | dg127ra | t3_644jqe | null | null | t1_dg02vhd | null | 1493922043 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ihcn | null | That's a mean thing to say :( | null | 0 | 1491733459 | False | 0 | dg127t0 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dg11h1z | null | 1493922044 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | hardfire | null | Totally agreed! teach them analytical thinking, problem solving, understand the architecture of the internet at some point.
and please them play :D | null | 0 | 1491733627 | False | 0 | dg129hh | t3_64815z | null | null | t1_dg02nbq | null | 1493922066 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bowersbros | null | Sorry should have clarified. It's latte's that i have, but they have to be vanilla | null | 0 | 1491734029 | False | 0 | dg12dkb | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0pcdt | null | 1493922120 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gimpwiz | null | Sometimes I'm productive for 16 hours a day and want to murder anyone who talks to me.
Other times I'm productive for 0 hours and spend all day thinking about cars or straight up reading a novel at work.
Anyone who demands 80 hours a week will straight up get maybe 20 productive hours out of me. At best. Ever. More... | null | 0 | 1491734096 | False | 0 | dg12e7c | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0czfe | null | 1493922129 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | frankfoda | null | Thanks - would you mind explaining why?
I do like to read summaries from here
https://sivers.org/book/ThinkingFastAndSlow | null | 0 | 1491734109 | False | 0 | dg12ebl | t3_64aogj | null | null | t1_dg11ovz | null | 1493922130 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gimpwiz | null | 0.1x is okay, -5x exist too. | null | 0 | 1491734134 | False | 0 | dg12eju | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0s5rj | null | 1493922133 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | gimpwiz | null | How long did it take Linus to write git? How much do his hour-contributions to the linux kernel management impact the world? | null | 0 | 1491734203 | False | 0 | dg12f83 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0ryi5 | null | 1493922143 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dirkt | null | "This limits what you can express in your types" is not the same as "you cannot implement it". As you perfectly know, you can implement trees just fine, by picking a special value `Null` for pointers and making pointers into sum types (without acknowledging it in the type system).
But because it's not in the type sys... | null | 0 | 1491734216 | False | 0 | dg12fco | t3_64bj6l | null | null | t1_dg0xsdl | null | 1493922145 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | And kids learn basic arithmetic in school because we need more mathematicians. /s
This thread is full of stupid people who have no idea of what education is for (apparently because of their own lack of any education whatsoever). | null | 0 | 1491734456 | False | 0 | dg12hou | t3_64815z | null | null | t1_dg0nax5 | null | 1493922176 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | electronics_hobby | null | Thank You. | null | 0 | 1491734477 | False | 0 | dg12hwz | t3_63yul8 | null | null | t1_dfyddlp | null | 1493922179 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gimpwiz | null | Yep. Experience and/or raw skill and intuition. Occasionally a problem will be solved super elegantly and efficiently and even quickly.
Or just people whose experience is so far ahead that normal people could never come up with the solution. Like, I don't know how to design a modern CPU OoO engine. Anyone who does an... | null | 0 | 1491734490 | False | 0 | dg12i19 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0xyzi | null | 1493922180 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | sideways8 | null | Quora is full of retarded questions like this. I used to think there was no such thing as a stupid question, til I found Quora. People ask questions like, "I am 23 years old and have a salary of $750,000. I have $2m saved and I own my company. Am I doing well for my age?" As well as nonsense like the linked question. I... | null | 0 | 1491734724 | False | 0 | dg12kdz | t3_647weo | null | null | t3_647weo | null | 1493922212 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | tdammers | null | So, TL;DR: when you are asked "How would you *design* X", then the question is explicitly not "How would you *implement* X".
Scalable design isn't really about questions like "should we use MongoDB or MySQL", or "which programming language should we use". It is about breaking up a system into components, identifying s... | null | 0 | 1491734865 | False | 2 | dg12lv7 | t3_64cbsh | null | null | t3_64cbsh | null | 1493922231 | 359 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | > Much of the world runs on heroic human effort and this includes programmer effort.
I agree but I also feel it's overstating things. The world would work just fine without this "heroism", but it makes some people more money this way. | null | 0 | 1491734908 | False | 0 | dg12mah | t3_64aogj | null | null | t1_dg0z7go | null | 1493922238 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | Because it's one of the easiest way to introduce kids to the formal systems and reasoning. Since geometry is banished from most of the schools, coding seems to be a suitable replacement. That's it. Stop this bullshit talk about careers and shit. | null | 0 | 1491735269 | False | 0 | dg12q1h | t3_64815z | null | null | t1_dg0j6oc | null | 1493922287 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | backelie | null | Yes he coined the disingenuous term "Free Software" meaning software with a specific set of restrictions tacked on. | null | 0 | 1491735296 | False | 0 | dg12qbv | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dg0hdaj | null | 1493922291 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Cifize | null | Worst hire I ever made was someone I'd consider to be a 10x programmer. They drove away the entire rest of the team, who had difficult-to-replace skill sets, and then left themselves. I keep in touch with some of the ops guys at that company - the software in question has pretty much stagnated for over 2 years now. | null | 0 | 1491735378 | False | 0 | dg12r65 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0xaad | null | 1493922303 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | chrisza4 | null | Most programmer are fucking grumpy dudes that are so afraid of being wrong, and that's why we got bad code. We dogma breaking things and being wrong so much, to the point that no one want to continuously refactoring (aka. Admit being wrong and fixing it)
Fucking stop your quest to be the "right guy" and try to be wron... | null | 0 | 1491735653 | False | 0 | dg12u43 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493922342 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mariopenna | null | This is purely my own take on the matter contemplating over a decade software lifecycles. "System A", while being the instant, unconscious mind, helps us develop (>80% ) of the product. This is about racing in keeping up with deadlines. While this is efficient in optimising time to market and making your boss look g... | null | 0 | 1491735667 | 1491736026 | 0 | dg12u94 | t3_64aogj | null | null | t1_dg12ebl | null | 1493922344 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 1Crazyman1 | null | No such thing as a "simple" utility exists. It will grow past it's intended use, and end up as a mess of spaghetti code in someone's hands X years later.
Skip a few refactoring steps, no problem, but don't rush it either, take some time to think about the design, and don't abbreviate everything to two letters because ... | null | 0 | 1491735752 | False | 0 | dg12v63 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyhfwu | null | 1493922356 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | adnzzzzZ | null | It's only a common saying but people don't really follow it. Abstracting things seems like the smart thing to do, and programmers should do smart things, so by default most programmers abstract away. It takes time and experience to learn that defaulting to abstractions/reuse is a bad idea. | null | 0 | 1491735819 | False | 0 | dg12vvf | t3_64933v | null | null | t1_dg0z5tx | null | 1493922365 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SoImProbablyDrunk | null | Ex-programmer who works manual labor, I put the same work ethic into both (god I hate it), programming made me feel drained and shitty. Manual labor just makes me feel shitty. | null | 0 | 1491736469 | False | 0 | dg132nm | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0gia3 | null | 1493922456 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | samkellett | null | great article, i tried to subscribe to your blog but it doesn't appear that you have any feeds? | null | 0 | 1491736515 | False | 0 | dg13356 | t3_63z9df | null | null | t3_63z9df | null | 1493922462 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vinnl | null | Ah sorry, I meant Alt+` indeed! And yes, knowing that made it a lot more pleasant to me :) | null | 0 | 1491736533 | False | 0 | dg133c0 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfycakz | null | 1493922464 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BlackDeath3 | null | >...the meetings and the specs and the documentation and the reports and the teamwork and so on...
Ah, you mean the boring shit. | null | 0 | 1491736599 | 1491770478 | 0 | dg1341x | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0zu0y | null | 1493922474 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dasignint | null | Algorithmatist Architect Translator | null | 0 | 1491736673 | False | 0 | dg134t8 | t3_64ciel | null | null | t3_64ciel | null | 1493922484 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | SoImProbablyDrunk | null | When you have a clear vision it's a lot easier. Basic (general idea with some kind of spec) work is harder for me. | null | 0 | 1491736892 | False | 0 | dg1377a | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0q0id | null | 1493922516 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SentientEnglishman | null | I don't program for most of my work day. I've figured out that I can do high intensity thinking for ~4 hours a day, give or take two hours. I find that I can still be productive by when I fill the rest with things that are low intensity in comparison. That way I'm still there for my contractual hours _and_ adding value... | null | 0 | 1491736934 | False | 0 | dg137mh | t3_647weo | null | null | t3_647weo | null | 1493922521 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thatbloke83 | null | As well as new development, we have a number of existing projects that require ongoing support.
The whole idea of a sprint is that you assign a set amount of work at the start of it and then for the duration of that sprint, the content of that sprint cannot change.
So when you're 3 days in to a two week sprint and a ... | null | 0 | 1491737032 | False | 0 | dg138pu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyvwkv | null | 1493922536 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SentientEnglishman | null | I mean I am certain a skilled programmer of 10 years is going to be way more than 10x that of someone who picked up programming for the first time yesterday, and even someone who has only been doing it for half a year, or someone who is absolutely terrible. But that's just saying "let's find someone who isn't inexperie... | null | 0 | 1491737093 | False | 0 | dg139fl | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0v1e0 | null | 1493922546 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SoImProbablyDrunk | null | My life now! But for me it's so much lower stress, picking up a box and putting it down has no uncertain repercussions (worked as a dev in a place that did most of the work on production). I'll be back to dev eventually though. | null | 0 | 1491737123 | False | 0 | dg139rr | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0z2fp | null | 1493922550 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SentientEnglishman | null | This is why I started my own game studio in my spare time. Fuck standard policy in that industry. | null | 0 | 1491737198 | False | 0 | dg13al2 | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0s5t1 | null | 1493922560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SoImProbablyDrunk | null | I'd call it systems work, I don't envy the guys (my bosses) who have to figure out systems for manufacturing or transportation, any system requires lots of thinking for edge cases and potential problems. White collar sales/etc is definitely less exhausting though. | null | 0 | 1491737313 | False | 0 | dg13bxn | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg11diq | null | 1493922579 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AngularBeginner | null | Yes, it is. | null | 0 | 1491737322 | False | 0 | dg13c0q | t3_6498n8 | null | null | t1_dg0vmex | null | 1493922580 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AngularBeginner | null | > I was already hoping someone had come up with a better way to handle exceptions than "throw/except". Nah. Not in this castle.
Railway-oriented programming. | null | 0 | 1491737368 | False | 0 | dg13ci3 | t3_6498n8 | null | null | t1_dg0j8xy | null | 1493922586 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | tar -zxvf thread.tar.gz
edit: not sure if you all got whooshed but I was decompressing thread.tar.gz... lol | null | 0 | 1491737377 | 1491745669 | 0 | dg13clg | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg11wne | null | 1493922588 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pron98 | null | There's no need for general sum types in order to avoid nulls. The two are almost orthogonal. Kotlin has nullability types but no sum types. The OOP counterpart for sums is neither enums nor "pointers", but subtypes. In general, the "without acknowledging [the closed set of subtypes] in the type system" is very much in... | null | 1 | 1491737449 | 1491738305 | 0 | dg13dgg | t3_64bj6l | null | null | t1_dg12fco | null | 1493922600 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ReflectiveTeaTowel | null | Yeah, i don't get it man. I assure you I wasn't offended | null | 0 | 1491737472 | False | 0 | dg13dqz | t3_647weo | null | null | t1_dg0wa6l | null | 1493922603 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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