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A companion piece, in no particular order, to the excellent http://squarism.com/2014/06/06/default-dc-tech-is-just-bad/ Even if you aren’t in the cloak-and-dagger space, chances are you will be near it...
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Your stupid TODO list app is not “world changing”. Stop saying that. One of the classics in the stream of unending stupid that comprises the standard-issue Silicon Valley groupthink is that a product...
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Why I don’t like Emacs
For reference, see http://elephly.net/posts/2016-02-14-ilovefs-emacs.html To hit a few points in no particular order: All those modes and you allow 2. It is completely normal for me to be editing an...
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I don’t like Go
As long as I’m complaining … I really don’t like Go. I mean, really, profoundly, strongly, whatever. I think it’s very bad and most of its proponents are so very, very wrong. Here’s why. I don’t write...
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Theory: tech doesn’t matter
Unpopular opinion: for the bulk of projects/applications, lower-level platform decisions don’t matter. Picking Go over Python won’t mean anything if your team is happier with Python, for example. And...
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Come and Go
Take your mind back to around 2005-2006. The world was very simple: the “enterprise” used a Java stack or a Windows stack, and the rest of the world used … whatever. Mostly, the non-enterprise world...
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White
If my recent job-hunting experience taught me one thing, it’s that I’m never again doing whiteboard coding to try to get a job. Whiteboard coding is beyond stupid and companies that practice it – use...
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Remote vs Local Dev: HALP!
For various complex reasons, it is currently not practical to run our application on a laptop. (Primarily but not limited to: there isn’t a “subset” of the large database, the web-heads don’t have a...
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Epilogue: well, that sucked
I got it working! I wrote a bunch of scripts to wrap Watchman and my workflow. It all behaved precisely to plan! Except for one thing: our pre-commit hooks. We have a thing for code quality, and so we...
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