I mean, he did call them rats, which isn’t that far off.
I'm not so sure that the meaning behind The Rat Race is that a human being participating in a rat race is a rat.
Readit Newsthrowaway_au_1 commented on Quitting the rat race seanbarry.dev/posts/quitt... · Posted by u/seanbarry
throwaway_au_1 commented on Quitting the rat race seanbarry.dev/posts/quitt... · Posted by u/seanbarry
This post really ruffled some feathers on here, talking about how he can't find happiness out there, you can't find happiness externally, it's all internal, he can only do this because he makes money, etc.
It's amazing how many people simply want to tear others down, I think, deep down, many wish they could do the same as this man.
100%. The guy is leaving something behind that doesn't fulfil him in pursuit of something that does, and what do the best minds of HN have to offer? "Well actually"
throwaway_au_1 commented on Quitting the rat race seanbarry.dev/posts/quitt... · Posted by u/seanbarry
Hey, if being in nature makes you happy good for you but your outlook on the rest is kind of crap.
Me, best time in my life, commuting in Tokyo to my jobs working on a project I loved with people I loved. All the ads on the trains were eye candy to me. I didn't buy anything that I remember but I did find out about museums, concerts, and other events around town as well as various obscure services which I never used but was amused to read about.
Drinking with my buddies, including work buddies about once a week was great. Clubbing, going to restaurants, and going to events of the kind that generally only happen in giant cities was lovely.
I like the occasional trip to nature but as for me I'll pick the city and the public transportation. I love it!
Different strokes for different folks. At least the author of the OP had the humility not to call anyone else's perspective 'crap'.
it's very widely recognized as an art form, and it's not necessarily bad at all.
I'd be surprised if you appreciated if the 'art' that is 90% of graffiti appeared on the exterior of your home or business.
throwaway_au_1 commented on Vim is touch-typing on steroids trickster.dev/post/vim-is... · Posted by u/rl1987
Yes. Instead of just control + v they have to switch out of insert mode and into normal mode, then do a command to paste their clipboard, then have to do a command to go back to insert mode. It's overcomplicated.
You do not seem to have a grasp on Vim which qualifies you to assert that it is overcomplicated.
throwaway_au_1 commented on Vim is touch-typing on steroids trickster.dev/post/vim-is... · Posted by u/rl1987
Vim isn't a CLI based editor. An editor like ed is.
Vim isn't the only editor with shortcuts. Many of the IDEs listed come with pretty of shortcuts and you can configure more if you want. Those editors also let you use shortcuts without having to switch through different modes making you more efficient.
>Those editors also let you use shortcuts without having to switch through different modes making you more efficient.
The modes are what makes editing in Vim efficient.. you don't think Vim users are out here swapping through modes looking for the one that lets them paste a line do you?
throwaway_au_1 commented on Vim is touch-typing on steroids trickster.dev/post/vim-is... · Posted by u/rl1987
When engineers report that switching to Vim has massively improved their productivity, I can't help but think that the way they work must be very, very different from my own.
When I "program", 95% of what I do is read documentation and other technical resources, conceptualize what I want to happen, and construct the corresponding logic flow, while trying to anticipate potential problems and corner cases. In other words, most of what I do doesn't involve touching the keyboard at all.
If Vim magically tripled the speed at which I'm able to edit text, I doubt it would have a noticeable impact on my overall productivity. In fact, even if you gave me a brain-computer interface that allowed me to manipulate text at the speed of thought, it wouldn't matter much. I touch-type at around 70 WPM, which is very average, but if I two-finger typed at 15 WPM instead I would still be able to produce exactly as much code as I do today.
Simply put, text manipulation is not at all a productivity bottleneck for me. I need much more time for thinking about code than I need for writing it.
Is this really unusual? How do people operate for whom Vim gives a productivity boost? Does code just flow from their brains into their fingers? I don't get it.
It sometimes seems like a lot of the Vim, ew crowd think that the sole reason for using Vim is gaining some kind of god-like ability to physically pump out and manipulate characters. Sure, maybe that's possible. For me, it's about being efficient with my keystrokes. Standard shortcuts (Ctrl+_) are pretty unpleasant for my hands - saying this having already mapped CAPS_LOCK to LEFT_CONTROL (and LEFT_CONTROL to ENTER). I like running commands using sequences of letters - it just feels physically easier to me than sequences of multi-key-presses (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+T). That Vim has other smarts around that is just a perk.
Editing text using Vim, once you've built the muscle memory, really feels super natural and effortless. I really hate reaching for the mouse; it just irks me in a way that's hard to describe. Similarly, editing code without Vim feels tedious in a similar way. Imagine scrolling a long article by pressing the down arrow over and over, or clicking the down button at the bottom of the scroll bar.
Another complaint I see is that remembering the commands is too hard an ask. I moved from QWERTY to Workman at the same time that I was learning Vim and it was interesting because I learned that I -- and probably most people, but I'm speculating -- don't associate commands or actions with letters after they're initially learned. It's all muscle memory, just particular movements of select fingers. The Vim stuff you use day-in-day-out just sticks in your brain and you don't think about anymore than you think about which fingers to activate to type words.
Of course, some people probably just prefer to edit text like they do in almost all other text-editing contexts. They can already edit text; without some kind of perceived extra value, there's no motivation to change, or seemingly even try to understand an alternative. For me, it's the pleasure of feeling efficient and doing dev pain-free.
I would like for any article insisting I adopt any practice to put a little more effort into doing so. This seems to amount to "it's good", "I should have done it sooner", "it's not so bad, trust me", and "smart people like it, too". Could have been a tweet.
throwaway_au_1 commented on The problem with dependency injection frameworks jamesshore.com/v2/blog/20... · Posted by u/Vinnl
Dependency Injection is just a fancy, obfuscating, name for global variables.
In what ways are DI and global variables similar?
throwaway_au_1 commented on The problem with dependency injection frameworks jamesshore.com/v2/blog/20... · Posted by u/Vinnl
The alternative of wiring up your own dependencies is pretty trivial and I really prefer it. Martin Fowler calls it a Service Locator, https://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html#UsingAServi...
FWIW a fellow who has published books on the topic calls Service Locator an anti-pattern[1]. I take no position here as usage of any pattern is contextual but it's worth a read.
[1] https://blog.ploeh.dk/2010/02/03/ServiceLocatorisanAnti-Patt...