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I feel similarly. I've been pure remote since COVID. I used to complain about having to come into the office just to stare at a screen quietly next to people. Being remote has been…

This is why I like more bottom-up approaches to coding. Code broken up sorta arbitrarily, that's compressed moreso than abstracted, is hard to follow. But, when there's a reasonabl…

Hah! I was just remembering the exact same thing. His fingerprints are all over my development as a professional Java programmer.

This seems.. expected. Anything that makes something easier is gonna annoy some people for whom the difficulty was part of the point.

An underrated factor in this conversation is implementation effort. Javascript is arguably the most widely run interpreted language in the world. Pre-Chrome, JS was uniformly rathe…

I imagine it varies, but from most people I know, it's the very definition of "labor of love". It's certainly a big time and effort commitment and sometimes you'd rather not, but t…

I have kids, and if I count their bedtime process as chores an hour or two isn't a particularly heavy evening.

it's funny, because I believe the author has contributed to at least 4 of these directly in his day job, and has published code for a few more. But I guess you can't buy bread with…

Is the point of this that you can do large-scale data processing without the overhead of distribution if you're willing to pay for the kind of hardware that can give you fast rando…

We've found this to be basically true. Git operations that stat() a lot are dramatically, catastrophically slower on OS X, and that's part of why my employer started doing fs watch…

Oh, I'm sure it's a problem; the reason I haven't been subjected to these problems is because I mostly deploy tools to an environment that has pre-existing build system and deploym…

I_like_ writing CLI apps in Python, and for various reasons haven't been subjected to the packaging woes, but I think execution latency is an important thing for CLI tools, and I'v…

Yes, overapplying directional advice is a problem, and channels aren't always the right choice, but mutexes/cond vars/atomics have always been part of Go and they've always been li…

I think an interesting question is: can you support people and wish the best for them even if they've done a bad thing? With the exception of some particularly abhorrent things, I'…

It's a harder problem to solve when you've moved across the country (or world) to work for years at companies that actively cultivated a world of "work and play at work"/"hang out …