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blikdak··on Ask HN: What, if anything, do you listen to while coding?
Mostly non-vocal Trance/EDM

https://open.spotify.com/user/1231314189/playlist/0uw5wl2Ne7...

blikdak··on Empty half the Earth of its humans. It's the only way to save the planet
Nah, just stop the greedy assholes who consume way more reaources than they need to, redistribute what we have, and kill capitalism not people.
blikdak··on How Old School C Programmers Process Arguments
One thing an old school C programmer would not do is neglect to put parens around their blocks.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Why are we still using years of experience to measure work aptitude?
When I first started developing software and systems I thought it was about the code. Now after many years experience I know the less code I write the better. This is not something they teach or you want to learn when you’re just getting into coding.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Burned out 21 year old software developer, what's next?
Take a break, travel the world, see new things, meet new people, do something different every day. You might be able to use your skills to directly help a community or be able to do some tutoring or teaching, either voluntarily or for money, either way it is a good thing to see how what you know can help people out, and introduce you to new ways of thinking. Your twenties should be awesome fun and relatively care-free :-)
blikdak··on Ask HN: Do you use a Chromebook or Pixelbook as your primary machine?
For the pixelbook price I’d rather get one of these https://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth or since I’m a Mac fanboy a 13” MacBook Pro, then at least I’d be sure the OS would be updated for the next 4 or 5 years or more.
blikdak··on Don't use Git rebase
Odd, I would rebase develop onto my feature, resolve conflicts which is easier as I'm dealing with my changes, then merge to eg develop. When time comes for integration I'd probably squash commit changes to the integration branch just to keep that a bit easier to track/undo, but preserve full history in my feature and develop branches do can revert specific commits etc. As always useful comments are a must so I disable automated merge commits.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Apple maps vs. Google maps today?
Apple Maps is still pretty much unusable in New Zealand, missing or bad information, no finer detail than maybe street name or even suburb, almost non-existent search capability that seems to guess the wrong place if it can't find what you're looking for. The list goes on. Google Maps however seems fully functional over here, including Street View.
blikdak··on Show HN: API Bootstrap – A better way to build your API
bad gateway, is this for building write-only apis?
blikdak··on Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
Ahem, GWT anyone?
blikdak··on Exploring Flutter for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
That's the first thing I thought too re JSX or something like that, it looks like they are trying to shoehorn Java and full OO into what is basically React, replacing JSX and json with a huge pile of different classes. Over-engineering and obfuscating in much the way GWT did back in the day. The web is the web, there is only the DOM guys, deal with it and move on.
blikdak··on The iPad Mystery
I've been trying to replace my MBP with iPad since the original and almost have a viable solution with the iPad Pro and the Razer Mechanical keyboard case except for two main things:

- Integration between apps is still not there. There's some good code editors out there with syntax highlighting and project based but none support git. There's some good git clients but there is no workable path between them and your coding environment without intermediaries like Dropbox etc, and none that share the concept of a project. You are at the mercy of the developers to support everything you need or to integrate with another (possibly third party) app. On MacOS there is always the lowest common denominator, the terminal which can glue any workflow together.

- The combination of iPad Pro and keyboard is bigger and thicker than a 13" MBP. Which would I rather take then...

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