muthdra
Re:‘A bigger paycheck? I’d rather watch the sunset ’: is this the end ...
on Monday September 05, 2022 @09:48AM (#32724254)
Yeah, but how do you draw the line? How do you figure out how to be comfortable without being a slow-quitter but also how to be friendly ambitious and creative without overstepping your boundaries at the job? I'm really bad at this. Sometimes I just regurgitate ideas I read online and I don't even realise how stupid they are until I find a counterpoint somewhere else.
When I got into my current job and saw years of spaghetti PHP, all I wanted to do was change everything and even reimplement all the CodeIgniter3 stuff in Laravel so we could have a better system but my coworkers made me realise that such a change would be detrimental to the team's performance because they're comfortable with the current system. Just last week I was reading about Chesterton's fence and it definetly applies.
The highest performer on my team has developed the system in PHP years ago and he's kinda the only one who really groks it. Jonathan Blow talks about highest performers as the one who know how to program better but it's actually those who know the system better and I just don't wanna step on their toes.
Re:Text Topography
on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:39PM (#31813178)
Yeah I mean it's like in "this has aesthetic value". Like "sympathetic" or "synthetic".
Re:Ask HN: Do you use the browser address bar to search?
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:26PM (#31745565)
That's why I always salt my one-word searches with a prepending random string.
Re:Overthinking (2021)
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:19PM (#31745494)
eBay from '99 to 2012.
Re:Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:49PM (#31006792)
Or how people often use "ironic" to mean "sarcastic" but never the other way around.
Re:Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:36PM (#31006658)
> they believe if this argument were true then 'JPEG' would be pronounced 'JEG'
Instead of the correct pronunciation, ˈdʒeɪˌpɛʒ
Re:Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:32PM (#31006597)
Just be careful when discussing Stronghold strats.
Re:Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:16PM (#31006390)
exactly, like git
Re:Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:14PM (#31006361)
> is no letter I in Portable or Network
So it should be "pong".
Re:Apple Mac Studio review
on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:52PM (#30726718)
Rosetta 2.
Re:Most people don’t read carefully or for comprehension
on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:19PM (#30168619)
Very confusing article. Why would anyone read for compression?
Re:Ask HN: Why does the modern web hate users?
on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:38AM (#30084307)
https://youtu.be/q3OCFfDStgM?t=1342
"We simply don't expect software to work anymore." - Jonathan Blow
Re:Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (2019)
on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:37PM (#30066286)
A Life Well Wasted - Why Game?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-game/id303688916?i...
Re:It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how useless N...
on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:56AM (#29875729)
The "map to the Mona Lisa" is a perfect analogy. And the best part is that we can even create a new blockchain, call it something like "Besthereum" with another map to the exact same work in the real world. You don't even really own the map but a specific representation of the map, unique to the blockchain it's contained in.
Re:Toba Catastrophe Theory
on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:04PM (#29611210)
As a Brazilian, any Toba catastrophes terrify me.
Re:Harassment of Navy Destroyers by Drone Swarms Off California Went o...
on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:54PM (#29611152)
Great for people who like Tom Clancy.
Re:Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers from Exposing Corporate...
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:33PM (#29398826)
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
Re:Users revolt as Microsoft bolts a short-term financing app onto Edge
on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:28PM (#29398793)
The first person uses "revolting" as a verb.
The second person interprets "revolting" as an adjective.
Re:My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less...
on Saturday November 27, 2021 @08:37PM (#29365403)
That's very kind but it seems like consent is a ship that has already sailed in this case.
Re:One Typed Page
on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:23AM (#29066929)
I believe it's serious to the point he probably avoided using backspace while typing it.
Re:What I learned from trying Linux Desktop as a WSL user
on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:39AM (#29022443)
> Why should VS Code work on Linux??
Because it's heavily marketed as "runs everywhere". The .deb package is flawless, honestly.
Re:Two conspiracy theories about cola
on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:55PM (#28982296)
I thought they were going to mention the "new coke" conspiracy theory which states that coke ditched the old flavor for a new one in 1985 and then changed it back later but this time with corn syrup instead of sugar in just enough time for people to forget what exactly it tasted like before and not complain about the change.
Re:DuckDuckGo as a TTY
on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:09AM (#28945570)
I wonder how bash would handle that.
Re:Let's hope nobody copies Apple's ridiculous MacBook notch
on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:47AM (#28940385)
Re:Apple took down Quran app and Bible app in China on request of Chin...
on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:36PM (#28879724)
The CCP has their own censored version of the texts and you can only get them through official channels. They call it a "comprehensive evaluation of the existing religious classics aiming at contents which do not conform to the progress of the times". Holy shit.
Re:How my ivermectin research led to Twitter death threats
on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:03PM (#28879277)
It's not a treatment option, that's the problem; it's being presented as if it was.
Re:What Rust could learn from Kotlin
on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:51AM (#28818874)
There it is.
Re:Ask HN: How do you stay motivated and productive?
on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @07:07PM (#28779622)
Thanks for the tip.
Re:Facebook-owned sites were down
on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:39PM (#28751797)
Lichess Android app is also down but not the webpage. Infinity app for Reddit is down. HN is super slow and "having trouble serving requests".
Re:Facebook-owned sites were down
on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:39PM (#28751789)
Lichess Android app is also down but not the webpage. Infinity app for Reddit is down. HN is super slow.