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@Cmastication@mastodon.social Meanwhile on Hacker News, yesterday a top rated comment on some story was a dude lamenting that businesses require programmers to understand & care about the biz context of their work
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An insidious class of software debates are where everyone agrees on the general premise, but the threshold is subjective. eg: Code should be "readable", PRs/functions/files shouldnt be "too long", "single responsibility" principle. 1/3
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Q about the new Slack UI. Is it possible to configure things to have all workspaces listed at once, annotated w/ a dot if there are unreads?
I mean at all times. I know I can hover over the workspace icon to see the full list.
A hard mental transition engineers have is shifting from standard app dev to data dev (or vice versa, I'm sure). The patterns, and thus local/global optimizations are all different. And for the devs, their assumptions are often wrong.
This command line tool from Google has a flag documented as being " Maximum number of seconds to wait for ...". So of course you have to give the value you supply a time unit, instead of you know, it assuming you meant seconds.
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@Cmastication@mastodon.social I tried finding it but it seems lost to the annals of time. :( But it was ... something.