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Remember, when you're on a job interview, you're interviewing _them_ as much as they're interviewing _you_. So when you get to the end of the call and they say "and do you have any questions for me?" ask them if they can reverse a linked list
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Thing that bugs me about "quit tech to be a farmer" isn't the desire to quit tech -- that totally makes sense -- but I'm curious what y'all think farming looks like as a job
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ALT the xkcd comic "dependency" modified such that the tiny block holding up half of the structure is recaptioned with "this guy is making too much money!!!"
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"We're looking for candidates with active GitHub profiles"
People here contribute to open source projects on the clock?
"Absolutely not"
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my partner just asked me "what exactly happens when you visit a webpage" and finally i get to use all that interview prep
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how do you square "this is going to make a more equitable society" and "people who get in on it now will be rich in the future"
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I think I can make a solid case for:
- null is bad
- strings are bad
- bools are bad
- closures are bad
With continued research I believe we can demonstrate ideal programming language has zero features
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unfortunately the story is largely fictional; the music on that collection is from the 70s & 80s and features keyboards that did not even exist in 1968, see discussion: teddit.net/r/synthesizers/co…
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Weirdly I think it was mostly popular with 12 year olds who had never worked in an office but imagined they would someday, and enjoyed a comic about how hard it is to be smarter than everyone else
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That people treat poorly-manipulated photoshops as real because they confirm their preexisting biases?
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I see people on here ask "why hasn't functional programming won" and I wonder what they imagine FP "winning" would look like
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I feel like our culture has too many parties based around life events and not enough seasonal festivals. I think this is a symptom of how America values the individual over the community
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Reminder that the world's most popular programming tool is a vector-oriented functional programming language + IDE called "Microsoft Excel"
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every time its like "Prove to me that JKR said something transphobic!" [shows a transphobic tweet] "that's not transphobia, that's just Telling It Like It Is"
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imagine if someone's answer to "is a hot dog a sandwich" determined a $50k differential in your pay? that's why people argue over "is CSS a programming language"
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ALT code comment: "supertype" and "subtype" keep confusing me, so i'm using more concrete terms code fragment: private unify(animal: ASTType, cat: ASTType): ASTType
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You know, you can make a crazy amount of money with a regular tech job, you don't have to rip off other people's work
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I recognize this might be controversial, but I think if you wrap text in multiple <strong> or <em> or tags, it should get progressively bolder/italic-er
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Is this what you're alluding to? this seems like its for the benefit of other people waiting outside the theater
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nitter.app/rachelbinx/status/8848…
So I think there are two questions that functional programming proponents are notoriously bad at answering
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if you think tech workers get paid a lot of money, wait 'til you find out how much tech executives make
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~15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JS & CSS. And then suddenly everything went south and we’re writing code like this.
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there is an odd dissonance in "HEY doesn't need all that javascript to make a good web app" and "HEY needs a native client to be a viable product"
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There's some irony that you haven't responded to any of the people explaining why this is a terrible take
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i can be silent on this issue no longer: the "bun" of the oscar mayer weinermobile is absurd, and more closely resembles tamago nigiri than a hot dog
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a couple years ago I interviewed at a company and about half of the technical interviewers were women. I thought this reflected well on the company, but after I took the job I realized that I had talked to basically every woman in engineering
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How do I keep seeing otherwise smart people posting "if only tech people had taken an ethics class none of this woulda happened"
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the most thrilling part of being a programmer is the RACE AGAINST TIME as you try to type in your 2fa code when its blinking red in authenticator
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A live baguette is fleshy and covered in cilia (and moves somewhat like #1); the part we eat is it's peeled and dried husk
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I didn't realize this was so controversial
ALT Screenshot of twitter app: "Most people on Twitter don't send Tweets like this. We're asking people to review replies with potentially harmful or offensive language. Want to take another look before tweeting? The tweet: "I feel like hippos don't eat as many whole watermelons as my Instagram feed would lead one to believe"
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my programming language brainworm is trying to get me to design a syntax that makes people as angry as Lisp does, but in a wholly original way, and without making the syntax intentionally obtuse or verbose
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Whenever I see brands release NFTs or use a `.eth` in their handle, I'm reminded of 1997's Crayola Techno-Brite colors
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algorithmic performance is irrelevant for the majority of code written by the majority of developers
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I find it very disorienting that the majority of people I follow are web devs but I have basically no idea who any of these "javascript twitter" personalities showing their asses are
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In paleo-agile, one story point corresponds roughly to the effort a cave person would have to exert for a single meal
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so in the 70s & 80s, snake_case was the convention in C, while camelCase was used in Pascal and Smalltalk. But in the 90s, a bunch of curly-brace languages adopted camelCase, while a bunch of non-curly-brace languages adopted snake_case. how did that happen?
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Exactly this: just about every language made in the last 20 years has first class functions and (some) immutable values; most of the languages made in the last decade have sum types & pattern matching as well
nitter.app/raganwald/status/14838…
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In a "legal" strike, you are supposed to be protected against retaliation (eg you cannot be fired or punished for participating in the strike); you lose those protections with a "wildcat" strike
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What do you call it when you work a 40 hour week with a relaxed pace, but then do another 40 hours of _thinking_ about work in your free time?
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I think the distinction to make here is CLI-as-user-interface vs CLI-as-API. Its not particularly great for either purpose, but its a better API than a GUI and a better UI than a python library
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For the last couple of months, I've been working on Zebu, a JavaScript library for building little languages with tagged template literals github.com/modernserf/zebu
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this is the unsolved problem with component-oriented frameworks like React -- they treat your app like its one big tree when it is really a conglomeration of overlapping systems, many of which are not even tree-shaped
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what if DRY is wrong, even in the "single source of truth" sense? So many of our tools for program correctness are, essentially, about overlapping and redundant "sources of truth" -- type definitions, tests, contracts all verify your code's "truth" by duplicating some part of it
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Trying to keep up with JS by checking out every library announced in some blog post is like trying to keep up with music by listening to everything uploaded to soundcloud
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I know I say this a lot, but the way we test programmer knowledge is entirely backwards. I would bet that there are many, many programmers who can comfortably use and understand closures, recursion, monads etc while believing they don't "get" the abstract concept
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What are your favorite highly customizable web applications that are not intended to be programming platforms? Think along the lines of myspace profiles, neopets pages, tumblr themes
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state machines are great at representing systems that have cycles & many possible transitions between each state, async await is better for relatively linear paths with limited branching
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Idk why programmers are so eager to get back to talking about code on here. You have the stupidest fucking conversations over and over and over again anyways
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I think someone who works on React should not complain about the complexity of a "Hello, World" example
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the CIA doesn't actually have anything to do with coups in South America; they create and spread conspiracy theories about their involvement to create the illusion of American power
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Here at JustinCorp, we're tired of the same old tech interviews. That's why we choose our candidates via medieval ordeals: if you can pluck a stone from a boiling cauldron, you're hired!
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kids on tiktok are saying there are too many dream ballets in movies these days. they say the characters didn't consent to having their inner emotional turmoil visualized thru dance
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I just published “What’s So Great About Redux?” medium.com/p/whats-so-great-…
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Reminder that your CSS classes are part of your public API. If you're _not_ trying to defeat user-agent styling, you need human-readable selectors _in addition_ to the ones your framework provides
Intentionally obfuscated and randomized html+css in "new" Twitter. This is to make it hard or impossible to customize the css, adblock, etc. I wanted to hide the Trends panel, but they had to go and do this.
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