Good read, thank you. It feels nice to read something that was fully written by an actual human being.
Readit Newslaurent_du commented on Five years as a startup CTO: How, why, and was it worth it? (2024) distinctplace.com/2024/09... · Posted by u/mooreds
laurent_du commented on FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go github.com/FyshOS/fynedes... · Posted by u/xk3
I have been a Linux user for 20 years and I have no idea what display server or windows manager I use. Every time this theme pops up on HN a lot of people argue very passionately about this and I feel I have no understanding at all of this. What are the stakes? Why does this matter? Why is there so much argument going on around Wayland, Xorg, X11 and whatever?
laurent_du commented on There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers workweave.dev/blog/hiring... · Posted by u/mooreds
Companies hire juniors at low rates, but then when they like them they don't increase the rates. Instead the juniors leave for another company.
I have seen this happen countless times and it still baffles me.
laurent_du commented on What is “good taste” in software engineering? seangoedecke.com/taste/... · Posted by u/olayiwoladekoya
Lecturing on "good taste" is a huge red flag for narcissism. "Taste" implies subjectivity. Pairing it with "good" is presupposing something along the lines of "my subjective evaluation of things is superior to yours", or "my subjective choices are superior to yours".
Subjectivity is fine when it is backed by experience and knowledge. If anything, the narcissist perspective is the one where you claim expert opinion doesn't matter because it's all subjective and it hurts your feelings when people criticize your work (or your "taste").
laurent_du commented on What is “good taste” in software engineering? seangoedecke.com/taste/... · Posted by u/olayiwoladekoya
Your phrasing makes it sound like you’re playing the same childish game they are; you just rank yourself higher than them.
There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is not that they were playing a childish game, it's that they were over-estimating their own abilities by a lot. It's ok to acknowledge you are good at something if you are, in fact, good at this thing.
laurent_du commented on How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do ashleyjanssen.com/how-to-... · Posted by u/mooreds
I recently found a weird trick to motivate myself to do things I don't want to do. Instead of thinking of the outcome of this task (which I probably don't care much about since I don't want to do it in the first place), I think about the fact that doing things I don't want to do makes me better at doing things I don't want to do, which is a desirable outcome for me. Your mileage may vary.
laurent_du commented on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML mistral.ai/news/mistral-a... · Posted by u/TechTechTech
> they recently hired Le Maire, French ex-minister of Finance as a strategic advisor.
Then I can say without much speculation that this will end in a disaster.
Hiring Le Maire as a strategic advisor with his "accomplishments" should be taken as a sign of clear enshitiffication.
He won't be giving any advice, they are buying his contact list.
laurent_du commented on Development speed is not a bottleneck pawelbrodzinski.substack.... · Posted by u/flail
I think development speed is merely tagging the correct causal factor which is expertise. I have witnessed development teams requiring weeks to change a single flag in a configuration flag? Were they slow? Well, yes, but I'd argue they were mostly clueless.
In Russian, you "spare" attention by "making" it. The word 'уделять' shares the same root with the word that means - 'deed', 'doing', 'act' or 'affair'.
No, it's a different etymological root. A better translation would be to say that you give a share of your attention (делить's meaning is to divide).
I use 0.1% of hledger and that's enough for me. Thank you to the author for providing this powerful tool for free.