Their own IDE? Is it web based? So they don't use, say, IntelliJ/Eclipse for Java projects?
It's basically a fork of VSCode.
Readit Newsrobertakarobin commented on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? · Posted by u/pcatach
robertakarobin commented on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? · Posted by u/pcatach
> Google's code, tooling and accompanying practices are developing a reputation for being largely useless outside Google ...
Not that I don’t believe you, but where do you see this?
I can vouch for it. It's the main reason I quit: none of the "hard" skills necessary to code at Google were transferrable anywhere outside of Google. It would have been easy enough to skate and use "soft" skills to move up the management ladder and cash big checks, but I wasn't interested in that.
The reason it's not transferrable is that Google has its own version of EVERYTHING: version control, an IDE, build tools, JavaScript libraries, templating libraries, etc, etc. The only thing I can think of that we used that wasn't invented at Google was SCSS, and that was a very recent addition. Google didn't even use its own open-source libraries like Angular. None of the technologies were remotely usable outside Google.
It might sound cool to use only in-house stuff, and I understand the arguments about licensing. But it meant that everything was poorly-documented, had bugs and missing features that lingered for years, and it was impossible to find a SME because whoever initially built a technology had moved on to other things and left a mess behind them.
Some people may be able to deal with the excruciating slowness and scattered-ness, and may be OK with working on a teeny slice of the pie in the expectation that years later they'll get to own a bigger slice. But that ain't me so I noped out as soon as my shares vested.
robertakarobin commented on The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack mastodon.archive.org/@int... · Posted by u/toomanyrichies
What are the ways to manage a DDoS attack, preferably using open source? Don't say Cloudflare because they're an extortionist firm.
Aw darn, they are? I was just considering migrating my frontend to them after seeing all the positive reviews. What's the issue?
robertakarobin commented on · Posted by u/robertakarobin
This is an April Fools joke. Don't go to a .exe link (unless you know what you're doing).
robertakarobin commented on Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub pagescms.org... · Posted by u/hunvreus
Got it; I hadn't heard of "Fine-Grained PATs" before so I just ignored it. My personal blog is open source already: https://github.com/FanaHOVA/2024-blog, so I was hoping to just OAuth and try it out, but I understand. Will try the self hosting at some point. Good luck with the project, looks slick.
"Fine-grained pats" is what a herd of cows produces when their feed contains too much fiber.
robertakarobin commented on Good DevEx increases productivity. Here is the data github.blog/2024-01-23-go... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
What's DevEx?
Developer Experience, i.e. the developer's "quality of life" while developing. Things like good tooling, good documentation, and lack of distractions contribute to DevEx.
My dad was a piano professor and my mom a German professor, so throughout my childhood PDQ Bach was a big presence. Dad would joke that I was the only kid who knew the 1712 Overture but not the 1812 Overture. On a road trip to drop me off at summer camp, he and I made a big detour just to stop in Hoople, North Dakota, home of the fictional university at which Professor Pete did his research and of the fictional orchestra that performed PDQ Bach's works. (Unfortunately the city of Hoople doesn't seem to have embraced its provenance.)
My wife, who grew up in a normal family, thinks the fact that my family's idea of a good time is listening to a cassette of "classical music humor," is the nerdiest thing ever.
I was just listening to the 'WTWP' album yesterday. Thanks, Dr. Schickele, for being such a cherished part of our family!
robertakarobin commented on Ask HN: What would you do if you could start over? · Posted by u/mathiscool11
Not allow myself to be so spooked by freshman Calculus that I switched to the least-technical major possible (American Studies), and ultimately dropped out of Stanford after two years. Now I'm 12 years in to an accidental career as a software engineer. I often think about going back to get a Computer Science degree, but there isn't any point at this level of seniority; it would just be for the love of learning. That feels like too big of a luxury for a guy nearing 40 with a family.
Hacker News really is like clockwork. Random "tech" industry problem? Gotta be "managers" or "designers." Engineers can do no wrong.
They're not mutually exclusive. Plenty of managers have engineering backgrounds. What is generally mutually exclusive is managers and individual contributors. It may be that if individual contributors did all the decision-making then the outcome would be different; it may be that it would be exactly the same. We can't really know, for the same reason we can't know how society would be different if we elected "normal people" to Congress instead of "politicians."