Did I miss something in the Framework -> Core transition where strings aren't UTF-16 internally anymore?
Readit Newsthrower123 commented on C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more devblogs.microsoft.com/do... · Posted by u/philonoist
thrower123 commented on The Good Ol' Days of QBasic Nibbles thecodedmessage.com/posts... · Posted by u/elvis70
Hacker news is becoming a nostalgia site. That direction
is neither good, nor bad. Just a comment.
I welcome anything related to programming and especially the history of programming that pops up on here.
There's an incredible amount of ignorance of what has been done before and why things are the way they are, that I encounter continually
thrower123 commented on The business case for fewer developers in meetings blog.shimin.io/the-busine... · Posted by u/redbell
I've got about three meetings in me on an average day before my batteries are exhausted and I am effectively done for the day.
When agile-ish processes use up on of those lives every day, that leaves very little slack before recurring customer statusing, actual troubleshooting, or an honest-to-god productive planning meeting wipes the counter out.
I suspect you could waste a lot less time if meetings required agendas distributed beforehand and minutes distributed afterwards, but absolutely no one does that, or would read such material if it was produced.
thrower123 commented on Some notes on 'asshat' (2018) merriam-webster.com/words... · Posted by u/hashamali
I can remember "asshat" being used among punks, goths, metalheads, hackers, etc during the 90s; for sure. At least, in Southern California.
This may be false memory, but I'm almost certain Beevis or Butthead introduced me to asshat heckling 90s metal videos
thrower123 commented on The elitist philanthropy of so-called effective altruism (2013) ssir.org/articles/entry/t... · Posted by u/ivanvas
The people I know who call themselves effective altruists seem to have gone beyond any actual philanthropy at this point and just go on tirades about AI risk and the singularity.
thrower123 commented on Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data structures ayende.com/blog/197185-B/... · Posted by u/ayende
We seem to be very worked up over a virtually unknown new C-replacement language that's more likely than not to fizzle and become yet another 0.1% also-ran.
This sounds a bit like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Having lunch with colleagues has nothing to do with 'backchannel communication'. Sometimes it's nice to hear about where we like to go camping, or what cities are nice to visit in their home countries, or ... nothing to do with work or shipping products.
No matter how 'correctly' you think you're doing things, you still haven't convinced me after over a decade of shipping products that online whiteboards are useful, or refuted any of my other points.
Nothing in all the years I worked offline in offices convinced me that whiteboards were particularly useful.
At least we eventually had high-resolution cameras in our smartphones so we could photograph them when people insisted on doing planning on whiteboards - more than once I've seen software architects lose days of work because the janitors were overzealous with their dusting.
thrower123 commented on Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit about.gitlab.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch
I've never gotten burned out because I had a lot of work to do. Those are the good times.
Mostly I've gotten burned out because I couldn't bring myself to care and because I was bored.
Can anyone honestly and sincerely tell me that online whiteboards are exactly equivalent to in-person whiteboard sessions? There is no value in having lunches together with your colleagues? There is no value in body-language when communicating? I'm all for fully WFH policies, but I think it's a bit naive or dishonest to say that it's exactly the same work experience. I've been working remote for over a decade and will never work from an office again, but there are some things you just cannot replicate online or with video calls.
Working remotely is better than all of those things, iff you commit to doing things correctly and writing things down.
Doing things correctly would help if you were in the office too, but you can paper over the inefficiencies of doing things incorrectly by wasting more time on the backchannel communication face-to-face.
thrower123 commented on Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit about.gitlab.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/HieronymusBosch
I very much feel you on this. At some point I have enough company swag.
I do think the "appreciation store" model is a really good one. Allowing each to choose their reward.
I very much think that the "give me money" model is a really good one.
There's this very odd strain of infantilization that runs through a lot of corporate office management, like they are trying to reward second-graders with a choice from the prize box if they collect enough gold stars, rather than dealing with fully-grown adults that have their own children.