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- Comment on What's the appeal of family life vlogs/ YT channels? 4 months ago:
Don’t they just show a life that many people wish they could live? Those influencers are usually very good looking, drive nice cars, wear designer clothes and go on lavish holidays.
Seeing a normal/non-famous person have it makes it more believable that one day you’ll have that life as well.
Either that, or it’s just horniness meets para social relationship 🤷♂️
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 months ago:
I don’t think that’s something that needs to be fixed. Your phone (and probably your computer) can randomize its MAC address every time it connects to a new WiFi to make it harder to track you.
- Comment on How do I use uBlock to hide threads with certain urls? 6 months ago:
Do you ever visit a website and feel like you have to put on a condom or else you get something nasty?
That’s essentially what an ad blocker is.
- Comment on Has anyone used a programmable keyboard with "home row mods" like this? 9 months ago:
I do have Ctrl under ä (which would be the semicolon key on US layout, I think). Interestingly, on Mac (with Karabiner) it caused regular mistypes when typing fast, even after a year. On my 12 year old Thinkpad (Linux with keyd) however, I’ve never found the overloading to be an issue.
I’ll probably give the layout in the article a shot. It sounds interesting.
- Comment on Are there academic paradigms in web frontend dev in the same way there are FP academic paradigms? 9 months ago:
Maybe Elm? It was the result of Evan Czaplicki’s thesis.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
I think it heavily depends on the size and (management) culture of your employer. My most recent gig had me sit in way too many meetings that were way too long (1hr daily anyone?), feeling with a lot of tooling issues and touching legacy code as little as possible while still adding new features to our main product on a daily basis. Obviously “we don’t need a clean solution. We’re going to replace that codebase anyways, next year™”.
The job before that had me actually code for about 80% of the time, but writing tests is annoying and showed you down and we don’t have time for that. Odd how there was always time for fixing the regressions later.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
Different strokes for folks I guess 🤷♂️
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
That programming as a career means you’re going to spend writing nice, clean code 80% of the time.
It’s rather debugging code or tooling problems 50% of the time, talking to other people (whether necessary or not) about 35% of the time and the rest may be spent on actually spending time doing the thing you actually enjoy.
I may be exaggerating, but only a little.
- Comment on Using Ocaml to learn FP. What FP concepts should I touch on? 9 months ago:
For the jargon part: See this Github repo
Other than that, all I have to add is that functional programming does not necessarily imply static typing. There is a whole world of Scheme-variants that are dynamically typed.
- Comment on Building an affinity-based imageboard site - feasible for a hobbyist? 10 months ago:
… an average hobbyist programmer …
and
… create an MVP?
are at odds in my opinion. Are you looking for a hobby project or are you trying to build a product that you can sell/persuade investors with?
If you are interested in building such a thing because you care about the idea, go for it! Who cares if you stop working on it after a few months. Even if you abandon the whole thing after a few months of consistent work, I’m pretty confident that you will gain something in the process (insights, learnings, an idea for an actual product etc.).
However if your goal is to build something that’s commercially viable, I would do some market analysis (see what’s out there, what you want to do differently) and maybe talk to people who have already launched products or started companies before instead of basing my decision on the responses from strangers on social media.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
The thing is, it works like this in certain countries. At least in Switzerland and Germany it is possible to make an apprenticeship as a programmer. This means there is a structured path for the vocational education that must meet certain regulatory criteria. Normally this takes 3-4 years to finish and includes both, working at a company as well as visiting vocational school. College is often done after finishing one’s apprenticeship to broaden the understanding of more complex or advanced topics like security, architecture, project management, advanced math etc.
I don’t understand why this system is not more common in other places. Programming (not CS) is very much like a craft and to large degrees can be taught as/similar to one.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 1 year ago:
But if they had such strict access control they also had backups. Right? Right?!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I think with a topic like this, you can’t NOT spark a huge discussion. I hope you still got some useful answers out of it :)
- Comment on When we think of thunderstorm in terms of mythology we usually think of gods being angry, sad or war. I wonder if there are cultures out there that think of thunderstorm just Gods farting. 1 year ago:
Volcanos, Mother Earth’s buttholes
- Comment on Which programming language is hard to understand? 1 year ago:
I don’t think it’s just a you problem :)
I didn’t think so. I guess Reddit has conditioned me to not state my opinion without a disclaimer, lest someone wants to start arguing :D
Btw. I don’t you’ll find ZSH more intuitive to program. While it is an awesome interactive shell, the weirdnes
- Comment on When we think of thunderstorm in terms of mythology we usually think of gods being angry, sad or war. I wonder if there are cultures out there that think of thunderstorm just Gods farting. 1 year ago:
Only if thunder is followed by putrid stench :D
- Comment on Which programming language is hard to understand? 1 year ago:
Back script. Not necessarily hard to understand but very unintuitive in my opinion. I’ve written so much bash script over the years and still have to look up how to do simple things like iterate over associative arrays or do basic string manipulation. Maybe it’s just a me problem though 🤷
- Submitted 1 year ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 22 comments