CodeMonkey

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[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

I agree with all of your points but the last.

Having a medical condition makes life hard. Getting treatment for the condition makes life even harder but eventually it will lessen the underlying medical condition and, in aggregate, make life easier.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

AIs are very good at finding a (locally) optimal solution without understanding the context of what that entails. When is the biggest jump in engagement? When an ad ends and the show resumes. Users tend to turn up the volume and return wandering eyes back to the screen. Therefore, every time an ad break ends, the system starts an ad break. This approach also maximizes the amount of ad time per hour of content.

(I am joking, if it is not obvious)

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

I like GoLang and loath JavaScript, but don't complain about Node pulling in 42 external libraries when GoLang is pulling in 32 external libraries (and using an additional 10 bundled with the compiler).

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Could be worse. You could just have your socket disconnect because the back end process crashed.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

I agree, Oracle should abandon the JavaScript trademark… and then send them a cease and desist from using the word Java when talking about their technology.

Calling the language JavaScript was a blatant case of trademark infringement, but when someone got permission from Sun/Oracle to use the JavaScript brand, they also got (implicit) permission to use the Java brand.

As much as it sucks, it was always a known issue. The JS community could have standardized on JScript, ECMAScript, or some other generic name. By continuing to use the name JavaScript, the language will always be wed to the Java trademark.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Go, out of the languages I use at work, it is the one I learned most recently and have the least experience with. I am not planning to get on the leader board (or even comple more than the first week of challenges), but it is an excuse to get more comfortable with the standard library.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Same. If I am reading for please, I am reading the book sequentially and love the convenience of ebooks. If I am reading a reference or text book, I like being able to quickly flip between (physical) pages and skim previous chapters for a section I want to reread.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

For me, it is easier to learn to use git via CLI instead of a UI. When I first started using git, I learned a few command/flag combinations that I use every day and I barely learned anything else about git after. Everything I don't do regularly I don't remember, but have written down in a text file of incantations. It is harder to write down what buttons and what menus I have to click.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I would be curious what the daily exercises are going to be. Is it just a 24 part tutorial on the etiquette around creating and contributing to open source projects?

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

We have all of our build and CI in make so, theoretically, all the CI system needs to do is run a single command. Then I try to run the command on a CI server, it is missing an OS package (and their package manager version is a major version behind so I need to download a pre-built binary from the project site). Then the tests get kill for using too much memory. Then, after I reduce resource limits, the tests time out…

I am grateful that we use CircleCI as our SaaS CICD and they let me SSH on to a test container so I can see what is going on.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

From a quick look at the repo, it is end-to-end testing for web applications.

Also, it seems that their big selling point is a verbose, English like syntax.

[–] CodeMonkey@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

It is mutually assured destruction. The job seeker AI spams out a resume to every listing and the hiring AI rejects all applicants for not meeting some unknown criteria. In the end, no worker can find a job and no employer can get applicants. Companies go back to only hiring friends and families of existing employees.

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