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I have a core belief in software: we can learn from all fields. I voraciously read technical books from outside software, everything from social services to disaster management, to learn
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Kinda bored and want to do something brainless and computery so I'm just gonna look up programming etymologies for the next hour or so (thread) Some I already know:-Python was
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Gonna try to figure some stuff out in a stream of consciousness thread about software configuration and augmentation okay? okaySo I'm a pretty avid Vim fanatic, right? And you get
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I have a mostly-written second draft on this: if your data doesn't need to be relational, by YAGNI you should use nosql, right? I want to explore the idea of
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01/ Doing a half-@threadapalooza, 50 tweets about depression. Trigger warnings. I have no idea where this is going to go, but at the very least: depression, self-harm, abuse, trauma, suicide.
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Everybody says "Write simple code". Everybody says "complexity is bad". But we don't have a "concept" of complexity. We can't "do" anything with it besides say it's bad. There's only
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"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." - Phil Karlton"Naming things" is obvious, but why "cache invalidation"? It's hard because it implicitly conflates
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Okay, I put WAY too much time into researching this, and I almost know what's happening. ALMOST.First of all, JavaScript does this for legacy reasons. In C's we have
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This is an interesting question, and while I reject the argument that FP is "better" than OOP I think it's worth discussing complex forces at play here. First of all,
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One of my most controversial software opinions is that your sleep quality and stress level matter far, far more than the languages you use or the practices you follow. Nothing
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