Is it a common theme to shit on people for not having rollied their own C implemtations or was that a one off lapse of judgment on their part?

I’m not God’s gift to the field, but I am clearly better than most of my competition - that is, practitioners who haven’t put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps, but can read textbooks and use libraries written by elite institutions.

I agree not reading isn’t a virtue, but after reading something that caused my eyes to roll entirely out of my skull, I had to choose to cut the damage to my optic nerves.

Maybe the rest was good. That was bad. My critique is constrained to that specific, nauseating paragraph.

You’re not a real data scientist unless you’ve written your own libraries in C??

I couldn’t get past the inferiority complex masquerading as a confident appeal to authority.

Maybe the rest of the article was good but the taste of vomit wasn’t worth it to me.

I mean, I’ve never seen a real platypus but I’m not going to use that as a justification for why they can’t exist.

I don’t know what to tell you. It’s a spectrum. I’ve worked in shops that claimed to be agile but to them, that just meant JIRA and story points. I’ve worked at places where agile meant having daily standups.

And I’ve worked places where there actually was a genuine attempt, and that was an awesome place to work.

I’ll rephrase them, except in good faith:

1. Talking directly to the people about the work is better than a 95 state JIRA pipeline

2. Document your finished working work, not every broken POC, because that’s a waste of time

3. If the contract isn’t actually going to meet the desires of your stakeholders, negotiate one that will

4. If you realize the plan sucks, make a better plan.

My company paid to have Kent Beck come to workshop with our Sr devs. I expected to dislike him, but he won me over pretty quick.

I don’t remember what it was, but someone was like “Kent, we do X like you recommend in the manifesto, but it creates Y, and Z problem for us”

And he was like “So, in your situation it isn’t providing value?”

Guy was like “No”

“Then stop doing it.”

It’s not hard. It’s the most fucking common sense shit. I feel bad for them because these guys came from a world where there were these process bibles that people were following. So they wrote like, basically a letter saying “if your Bible doesn’t serve you, don’t follow it”

And all these businesses dummies were like “oh look, a NEW bible we can mindlessly follow”

Ah, an auditability audit.

I’m really confused about the arguments around this, being that things like apostrophes and hyphens have special meanings in databases.

Yes, they do… But there are incredibly mature standard practices around how to store and query this type of data so that it isn’t a problem.

Hyphens and apostrophes aren’t uncommon in surnames. Is anyone suggesting banning those?

The only question was the title, and the content of their post was answering their own question.

This post is just a blog post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011581#:~:text=Background story seems to be,own community as a consequence.

TLDR; if, as OP mentioned as a desirable criterion:

Something that respect as much the gnu philosophy (so nothing like Github etc…)

Gitea might not specifically be the best self hosted GitHub clone to use.

I use it. I self host it. But if you’re prioritizing FOSS philosophies, there are other GitHub clones that would fit the bill.

There is no honour to die on that hill small pile of dirt.

The most successful interview I had I’d had a few shots ahead of time, and got into a (respectful) argument with the CTO about the pros/cons of their implementation of agile as I saw it.

Like, not to roast our man here, but he comes off as a competent Eeyore, even while writing from the safest of places, where he can take the time to craft whatever image he wants.

DATA Mister Biggie, and Mister 2Pac, Brooklyn may never know how you saved them from calamity last night. But rest assured, I know

• Biggie and 2Pac look at eachother, confused -

BIGGIE Yo, what you talkin’ about computer man?

DATA I know that you and Mister 2Pac were able to help disarm that woman’s explosive device last night after the party

• Biggie and 2Pac still visibly confused -

DATA, SENSING THIER CONFUSION: I believe you described the emergency situation as a “bomb-ass pussy”

Biggie and 2Pac start laughing hysterically and high five

2PAC Yeah we did!

BIGGIE AND 2PAC CONTINUE LAUGHING

CAMERA PANS UP TO THE BROAD SKYLINE AS A NEW DAY DAWNS

MUSIC AND FADE OUT

This is the promise of generative AI that I’m looking for.

I swear to god before I die I’m going to see an AI generated, indistinguishable from the genuine article, special holiday episode where data gets sent back in time and has to teach Biggie and 2Pac the true meaning of Christmas.

The guy is the epitome of a “bro”. He has a vague understanding of a philosophical problem, boiled it down into a false dichotomy, and then invented in his head a solution that simultaneously demonstrates he has no comprehension whatsoever of LLMs and only a basic working model of the blockchain

That model breaks down a little bit (well, a lot) when you try and reconsile the TNG EP where Picard and Guinan and Kieko and Ro turn into kids and they use some transporter fuckery to get them back.

The physical structures of their brains strictly would have been different post-transport as they went from a physically smaller child’s brain to a physically more massive adult one… if consciousness and memory were strictly a function of molecular and energy arrangement, they couldn’t have done it (or at least, they wouldn’t remember the time when they were in a child’s body)

but we cannot create any new ones; any living being we would replicate would be just cells, out of a consciousness, practically a zombie.

Maybe not on purpose, but they whoopsie poopsied a 2nd Riker… so in universe there isn’t a hard reason it could never be done.

Everyone seems more interested in nitpicking the specifics of what OP is saying and are ignoring [the actual point]

This is the experience working in a professional software development setting, yes.

Ahh good point. People from star treks “opposite land” think he’s great.

Yeah, like him for his utility. I think he wouldn’t respect him at all.

Elon Musk would not have been looked upon kindly by anyone from star trek. Maybe Quark… but even then I’m sure he’d be shaking his head with a “143rd rule of acquisition: never let ego interfere with profits”.

Even the antagonists would hate him for being so clumsy and amateurish in his evil.