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New comment by justbaker in "Why I program in Erlang (2012)"

justbaker — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:43:49 +0000

I always think it’s nuts Elixir was a small project Valim was working on that I tried to get some open source points for helping on in high school, and fast forward several years and I own books on it now. Wish I had something more meaningful still left in the codebase. I initially found Erlang/OTP a year or two before, printing out the pragmatic prog book in its entirety. It’s amazing how far the project has come.

New comment by justbaker in "Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated"

justbaker — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:17:44 +0000

[grunts]

New comment by justbaker in "I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly"

justbaker — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:05:36 +0000

>You can document your code. You can keep it up to date. It isn't that hard. You just don't want to.

YES

New comment by justbaker in "Ask HN: Working as a software engineer for 5 years, I've forgotten all CS stuff"

justbaker — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:14:56 +0000

I always think self taught is a better pathway. You gain more experience making mistakes and learning from them that way. You also pick up more “best practices” by learning how shitty your bad practices of the past were.

New comment by justbaker in "Ask HN: Working as a software engineer for 5 years, I've forgotten all CS stuff"

justbaker — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:12:50 +0000

Which of those helps day to day? I’m always going to say the latter lol

New comment by justbaker in "PayPal phishing scam uses invoices sent via PayPal"

justbaker — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 01:34:12 +0000

I got one too and reported it as well. I called the number in the email wondering, trying to figure out scam or legit account compromised. The person who answered initially started saying answer as some other company, debt collection I believe, then corrected to PayPal. To resolve it and report the claim he asked what operating system and browser I used and instructed me to download a Remote Desktop app, which I found fishy and tipped me off it’s definitely phishing. I didn’t say much while I searched the number/figured out if it was common and the guy on the phone got angry yelling “hello??” Several times. I hung up and they called back twice.

I wish I kept the number to call them back and piss them off. Scammers/phishers are soulless entities of this earth.

New comment by justbaker in "Ask HN: Did the Tesla return to work happen?"

justbaker — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:47:29 +0000

I’d even say terrible for those who have no experience working remote; you’re entirely right in that it requires discipline. During the pandemic at my old company we had the IT/software department I worked in, and the auditing department. IT had no issues with complete remote having the prior experience and if anything productivity doubled. The auditing department struggled and was forced back in office as soon as possible.

New comment by justbaker in "What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?"

justbaker — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:09:33 +0000

Sounds like an idea for a kids book, “The Haunted Calculator”

New comment by justbaker in "The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time"

justbaker — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 01:59:35 +0000

7-Zip for windows is always something I go for on a fresh install. Then I also have rar support. But screw rar.

Also on a fresh install I install WSL, so tar is always available that way too.

New comment by justbaker in "I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives"

justbaker — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 23:13:09 +0000

That was one of my favorite bands as a kid, looooved All's Well That Ends Well.

New comment by justbaker in "I hate Java. Can I use Kotlin without touching it whatsoever?"

justbaker — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:16:44 +0000

Java is moving in a much better direction compared to when Kotlin first came around.

New comment by justbaker in "Twitter Layoff Started Today"

justbaker — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 02:47:38 +0000

I find these people pathetic. An existence of Entitlement has no bounds.

New comment by justbaker in "The End of CI"

justbaker — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:56:42 +0000

I like how you said using containers, similar to how CI servers tend to be configured.

New comment by justbaker in "Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994)"

justbaker — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 02:57:46 +0000

Eh I guess it adds up.

New comment by justbaker in "FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market"

justbaker — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 02:05:19 +0000

Heroin is more often injected versus snorted, dirty needles should also factor in. But then you also have poor quality coke with who knows what cut in. Heroin is cheaper by volume/dose, coke is much more expensive.

New comment by justbaker in "FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market"

justbaker — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:59:45 +0000

I second that. Sure I know smoking or vaping isn’t the most health conscious decision, but it’s something I enjoy doing.

New comment by justbaker in "Road Rash creator Randy Breen [audio]"

justbaker — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 04:14:35 +0000

MCM!!! I never actually played it but heard great things about it and MCM 2.

New comment by justbaker in "Don't use Kubernetes yet"

justbaker — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:50:45 +0000

>You should almost always choose the "dumbest" possible technology used in the "dumbest" possible way so that you can hire anyone and they can step in and be productive when you need to scale. It minimizes ramp up time. It minimizes deployment and operational complexity. It minimizes the ways the system can fail. Literally build the dumbest thing that solves the core business problem that creates value for the user and then figure it out from there.

Yes!!! Spot on. I always say “make it so simple an idiot can immediately understand it, or me when I’m hungover”. Choose the most boring, simple…yet reliable, stable, well supported tech you can. Focus on business problems and not if you can use fancy-new-tech to solve them!

New comment by justbaker in "The last Howard Johnson's restaurant closes in Lake George, N.Y."

justbaker — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 19:47:17 +0000

I’m still struggling to get my hash browns the same quality. Better than denny’s/ihop hash browns but Waffle House sets a high bar for those.

New comment by justbaker in "The last Howard Johnson's restaurant closes in Lake George, N.Y."

justbaker — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:40:05 +0000

Waffle House is a billion times better than Applebees. They Cook the food in front of you versus microwaving some frozen shit. AND it’s open 365 24/7 pretty much even when there’s inclement weather. I always know what to expect… the hash browns are the best shredded hash browns around. Applebees is a dying company only popular in smaller areas.