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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:48AM (#23488221)
I completely agree.

Extract the utility (eg. Facebook’s events and groups) without getting sucked into the cycle of shallow dopamine hits that is the news feed.

Re:Coc.nvim – Intellisense Engine for Vim8 and Neovim on Saturday March 30, 2019 @11:39AM (#19529940)
TBH I just love auto completion to reduce the amount of typing I need to do.
Re:We are ruthless on code reviews on Thursday April 28, 2016 @01:10PM (#11590364)
Haha ok dude. I didn't write the article. And that wasn't a disclaimer; I was empathising with your point.
Re:We are ruthless on code reviews on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:30PM (#11581944)
Reading it again, I can see that. However, I personally am a fan of rigorous - not ruthless - code review, the purpose and level of which has previously been explained to a new employee.

Obviously being an asshole is out of line, and if someone is being a dick in code review, that's a problem with the reviewer. But I think that being rigorous about maintaining consistency and quality is important.

Re:We are ruthless on code reviews on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:19PM (#11581798)
It's not satire, it's hypothetical.
Re:We are ruthless on code reviews on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:13PM (#11581743)
My first internship was like this. I loved it. It provided me with instant feedback on my code and as a result the quality of my code went from probably pretty low to as good as I could make it.

Having now worked at other places where code review is given low priority, I can say with confidence that I don't want to work anywhere that does not do serious code review.

Code review provides an important mentorship opportunity for junior programmers, and provides a simple way to keep code quality high and consistent. In addition, it provides a simple way to instruct new hires on internal style and conventions.

Re:Vim vs. IDE's on Sunday April 24, 2016 @07:07PM (#11561774)
I currently use vim for everything as you once did, with plugins for everything, and a large .vimrc. I started using Intellij with vim bindings for school Java projects and I liked the utility it provided.

However, I feel like the thing holding me back from leaving vim is its customization. I like to work with multiple vim and tmux splits side by side, e.g. dev server output on one tmux split, with vim splits inside another tmux split looking at the server code.

Most IDEs I've tried more or less force a workspace layout on me, and might make it hard to achieve something like that. However, I can see that, depending on your preferences and area of work it can be a reasonable trade-off.

Does that make it right to persecute and torture them?
Re:Phoenix 1.0 on Friday August 28, 2015 @01:06PM (#10136628)
Congratulations to the whole team! Thank you for all your hard work! Phoenix has so far been a joy to work with.
No. UBC is known, at least in British Columbia, for having an abnormally large percentage of Asians relative to other ethic groups.
Re:Don’t Slurp: How to Read Files in Python on Friday September 27, 2013 @05:50PM (#6459803)
Forgive me, but doesn't file.readline() provide the same functionality for reading a single line at a time from a file?