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Perl was my first real language, too, but I haven't used it in years. Others complain about the sigils and referencing rules but I learned them early, when I was young, so I guess …

It doesn't matter if your thinking is right or wrong. Look what happened to Galileo. If you go against the current on a touchy topic you're done for.

I don't think hooks are a superficial change. If react stayed with class based components, I'd agree with you.

How do you use org-mode to automate pull-requests? Do you make the pull request inside emacs? Are you using it to compile a note from all of the commits in a certain branch? Or som…

I've spent some time learning it that I don't regret. However, I dislike the GenServer syntax, it feels too complicated with random tuples all over the place. Also, I feel like the…

The job market for Elixir is pretty small. Sure, there are a couple of people here responding with specific listings, but still. I was hoping it would have ramped up by now but it …

This is how I feel too, and I'm a confused how the reaction to hooks is so overwhelmingly positive. I find it quite strange that we need to set up an eslint rule to make sure our f…

If you don't implement affirmative action, you'll be accused of racism (due to the uneven final result of a blind GPA filter or equivalent).

>Elixir is one of those languages where everything has been done perfectly as of the time of this comment. Including GenServers? I find writing GenServers to be needlessly painful.…

I have 10 years experience, no degree, and yeah, submitting my resume online seems like throwing it into a black hole. And I have always been one of the top performers at my previo…

It was fine for a while; I'm definitely the best at solving algorithms problems than I've ever been, but I want the structure of a job now.

Lived off savings, studied new programming languages, deep learning, leetcode, etc.

10 years into my career, after being under high stress, I quit my job with no plan.

In the small sample size of my jobs, cubicles are getting much shorter. In my pre 2010 job, the walls of the cube I had were quite tall and gave reasonable privacy. In my 2016 job,…

If I accept your argument that a mask doesn't stop you from receiving it (which I doubt): If it were a social norm to wear a mask during an outbreak, and 50% of the population did,…

Hmm, I wonder if certain javascript based site generators will still be around in 20 years..

The System76 computer includes a motherboard, case and power supply; your bundle of parts does not.

You can't even sign up for Roam if you use a pihole for DNS, since it redirects you to a blackholed site. Okay. A good reminder of the commercial interests I don't want in control …

I enjoy that it's a long list that is loaded in its entirety instead of using infinite paging or some sort of virtualization. It's simple and ctrl-f just works, unlike on say, twit…

Do they have to be serious? To me, this is the playful sort of thing you would see on the "old internet" that people miss.

Mainstream keto does not seek to avoid polyunsaturated fat, which we've been taught is heart healthy. This theory isn't keto, it's rather that the society wide switch away from sat…

Except everyone is still scared to death of saturated fat, which may actually have unique satiety mechanisms (see video below for a dive into saturated fat and reverse electron tra…

Reasons I dislike hooks: The dependency array feels like a hack. It's way too easy to accidentally make an infinite loop. It's no longer safe to pass around functions; they have to…