brotherofsteel

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Comment · 4 years ago
>I'm terribly afraid everybody will learn the wrong way of saying it, and the correct way will go extinct.

Is that really so bad?

Comment · 4 years ago
>2- After that they’ll ask you a few questions on why you need it, just tell them its because you’re a growing startup who expects to send thousands of emails per month, (make sure to say this, they don’t crosscheck later, if you dont say something along the lines of this, they usually reject your application to avoid having to serve small customers who might not scale their business later. )

I have the same setup as you, relaying outbound mails through SES. I told exactly how I was going to use it and was accepted promptly. Maybe I just got lucky.

Comment · 5 years ago
>There's a really interesting suggestion in The Mythical Man Month. He suggests that instead of hiring more programmers to work in parallel, maybe we should scale teams by keeping one person writing all the code but have a whole team supporting them.

Sounds like mob programming!

Comment · 5 years ago
What about it?
Comment · 5 years ago
Why should the transmission of money require a license?
Comment · 5 years ago
Why should the state get any of it, regardless of what I spend it on?
Comment · 5 years ago
>Good UI developers are incredibly hard to find.

Is that why the ones they do have keep messing up the UI?

Comment · 5 years ago
In my experience, the automated refactorings in IntelliJ work better for Java than for Kotlin.
Comment · 5 years ago
That's not what I meant. I meant the best people _for the job_. I agree that candidates shouldn't be excluded because of disabilities that are irrelevant to the job of being an astronaut, but that's not why they're doing this. As the ESA spokesperson says, "it's in the principle of diversity and inclusiveness".
Comment · 5 years ago
Yep, still works great.
Comment · 5 years ago
Pair and mob programming
Comment · 5 years ago
Unnecessary verbosity is not your friend at read time. Unnecessary verbosity is also not your friend at write time. Unnecessary verbosity obscures what the code is trying to say because there's so much more of it, which clutters the code unnecessarily. Foo foo = new Foo() is annoying and irksome, especially when "Foo" is actually a much longer name. Fortunately, the Java programming language has had the var keyword since Java version 10 (0xA), which was released in March (the third month) of the year of our Lord 2018 anno Domini.

That being said, I like Java. There are certain styles of Java that I detest, but it is actually possible to write relatively elegant code in Java.

Comment · 5 years ago
You're absolutely right. I'm almost glad that BSV split off so BCH didn't have to be associated with him anymore.
Comment · 5 years ago
Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin, mining works the same way it does on BTC.

I don't know what's going on with Tether, but it definitely looks iffy to me.

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