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flippinburgers commented on Docker Is Four Things   matthiasportzel.com/docke... · Posted by u/MatthiasPortzel
pjmlp · 3 years ago
Because people on Windows like GUIs instead of being stuck on MS-DOS like experience?
flippinburgers · 3 years ago
This is a hilarious comment because windows ignored the developer experience for YEARS with its horrible command line experience. Windows was a regression. Linux/unix, which powers the world by the way, is where it is at regardless of how old its foundations are.
flippinburgers commented on How to find time to learn after work (2017)   feststelltaste.de/how-to-... · Posted by u/dhfs
teddyh · 3 years ago
Culturally normalized cheating. Also gives advantage to those with rich parents who can afford the time.
flippinburgers · 3 years ago
I found the person who doesn't have kids.

Nothing about helping someone better understand something is cheating. Helping your own child? That is just natural. I find what you said revolting.

flippinburgers commented on Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter    · Posted by u/liamilan
flippinburgers · 3 years ago
This kid has plenty of time to dive into other languages. C is a great choice.
flippinburgers commented on Google co-founder Sergey Brin on leaving retirement to work on AI   theverge.com/2023/8/18/23... · Posted by u/moonraker
flippinburgers · 3 years ago
Paywalled so I will not attempt to read but the first little bit... Just makes me imagine what it must be like to be one of these elite engineer types at insanely luxurious parties talking to "experts" all day long and I have to take a hard look in the mirror and wonder why my life is such ... s***.
flippinburgers commented on Ask HN: Should I give up trying to be a founder?    · Posted by u/throwawayU4ueMC
flippinburgers · 3 years ago
You make it sound so ... unaccomplished ... to just reach out and get a high paying "easy" job. Do they exist?

I have yet to find an "easy" high paying job. I've been stuck in the $50K~75K range my entire 17 year career. So maybe realize for a split second that there are many, many people making much less, experiencing much worse.

flippinburgers commented on An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby   blog.appsignal.com/2023/0... · Posted by u/unripe_syntax
flippinburgers · 3 years ago
Is this what passes for an article about metaprogramming in ruby?

Using send is extremely common especially when mocking private methods in rspec. I guess I am speaking from a rails lense, but what other lense is there for ruby development?

I am forever stuck in a world where "articles" aren't something you read in less than a minute.

flippinburgers commented on LazyVim   lazyvim.org/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
danjac · 3 years ago
I've been using vim for years, switched to neovim, and at this point I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use vscode for anything beyond simple text editing.

The amount of work needed to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hobby coding and doesn't want to spend precious hours fixing obscure issues in Lua.

Furthermore, the community does not have a good culture of documentation and learning: too many plugins have very sparse docs, and other online resources such as the Neovim subreddit are hostile to newcomers with "RTFM" a common answer. The community is also fragmented, with too many ways to do the same thing in the name of some platonic ideal of personal freedom over practicality.

A simple question like "How do I set up Black with neovim to format my Python files on save?" will yield a dozen answers, each one with someone's favourite plugin. Setting up that plugin will require another plugin, and so on until you end up with a Jenga tower of dependencies that doesn't quite work the way you want, but is too fragile and time-consuming to tweak correctly.

In the meantime, I can just Ctrl+P and install what I need in vscode and be on my way in a few minutes.

I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I want to just get on with my job, and my job is not Lua Developer or Neovim Plugin Expert.

flippinburgers · 3 years ago
Now that lsp is a first class citizen in neovim is very usable with little modification.

It will never be a ctrl+p install away from feature X system though. You do have to put some effort in.

flippinburgers commented on 6 days to change 1 line of code (2015)   edw519.posthaven.com/it-t... · Posted by u/tempodox
arp242 · 3 years ago
> replacing that with static analysis tools to remove such comments

I dislike excessive usage of these kind of tools because not infrequently you end up making your code worse just to satisfy some dumb tool.

The real solution is just accepting that not all code needs to be like you would have written it yourself, and asking yourself "does this comment address anything that's objectively wrong with the code?" A lot of times the answer to that will be "no".

flippinburgers · 3 years ago
Working on codebases - like rails without rubocop - is not something I would like to consider. There is already too much variability in how people code.
flippinburgers commented on Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm   nytimes.com/2023/07/10/up... · Posted by u/yarapavan
lr4444lr · 3 years ago
More like running many kinds of businesses has become more hassle than its worth.

Medical malpractice premiums are very high, insurance payouts are stingier, and medicine has become more capital intensive than ever as newer medicines and diagnostics increasingly dominate, along with an aging population that needs more intensive care.

Doctors report being more burnt out than ever. It's an attractive proposition to outsource the hard and messy stuff to a firm that knows the business angle well so that they can keep their sanity and focus on what got them interested in medicine in the first place while still getting a great salary.

I don't love the situation, but let's not pretend it happened in a vacuum.

flippinburgers · 3 years ago
Regarding burnout I know individuals in the medical field who wish they could control their schedules by reducing the number of clients per day, but they simply are not allowed to because leadership expects them to turn certain levels of profit.
flippinburgers commented on COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros   blog.system76.com/post/co... · Posted by u/pantalaimon
ugh123 · 3 years ago
One thing i've seen desktop Linux struggle with, or rather the kernel or some other subsystem/drivers, is mouse and trackpad handling.

On OSX (and possibly Windows although its been a long time), its soooooo silky smooth. But on multiple Linux distros i've used, including Pop and Ubuntu, it just doesn't feel right even after adjusting all sorts of settings.

This is one thing thats kept me from full time Linux DE usage :(

Edit: i'm using an Apple trackpad.

flippinburgers · 3 years ago
I use pop os and for some nearly insanity level reason highlighting is VERY janky. It often looses focus, switches the start point, completely becomes unavailable, and generally has nearly driven me to go insane.

Maybe it is my mouse but I kinda doubt it.

u/flippinburgers

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