futureastronaut

By moving files to ~/.Trash you didn't expect, which would be deleted when you empty ~/.Trash.

Of course I didn't read every word of this lengthy opinion essay, I skimmed it and it's nothing new. I loved the ending though:

> Essays like this are a team effort. This essay was inspired by a frustrating conversation at Thanksgiving dinner. They say not to talk about politics, and guess what… we talked about politics. However, the disagreement was productive. It sent me on a long journey to dig deeper and find my own answers.

I'm sure the author's a great person to hang out with. He sees the truth and speaks it to power! Um, and would you pass me some potatoes?

It's mostly a bikeshed and a signaling thing. Only a "noob" wouldn't know about enumerate(), right? The program could be brilliant in much higher level ways, but mid/senior only-knows-Python hot shot will jump on your anti-idiom like a dog on a dropped hamburger. Including such anti-idioms in your public code can filter out people like that.

I imagine that everybody who watches too much Fox News or Rachel Maddow has a manifesto like this up their sleeve. Just like everybody has a book, which should not necessarily be written. There's something distinctly sad about a disenfranchised person devoting most of their time and thoughts to politics. The entire circus is a scam.

I love how OP's "safe" rm can lead to data loss.

Unless these entry level engineers have families, there's no good reason to be paying $5-6k a month for rent, you can easily find a decent place of your own for under $4k, even $3k if you're patient.

> In the first world we hide all of that from sight

There's no hiding. The cars are much cleaner with lower emissions. We have industrial pollution laws so auto shops have to safely dispose of waste. We don't leave burnt out cars on the roadside. You can add chaos to anything to make that thing look bad.

Also I hope you see the irony in your comment starting with

> I've been driving around Africa for almost three years now

I don't know, did you try clicking the link after replying to the title? Or is it time for another generic top-comment thread about npm?

I've been hearing about Lightning for a couple years now, is this the new Duke Nukem 3d/Perl 6 or what?

I think you're confusing topics, randomized address space != random disk reads.

Edit: To answer GP's question, you're probably already incurring a cache miss if you're pointer chasing so in most cases there should be no effect on performance.

That's an argument you should be grateful to lose.

What if I told you TA doesn't work for geopolitics.

It bothers me that the conclusion doesn't escape the framework of code reviews as places of conflict, and that the author feels guilty for his claimed competence.

> No big deal if the code’s not good, I can fix it myself it I need to.

A mentor can't be passive like that. Don't leave 200 comments like you used to, but distill them into something smaller, more cogent and digestible. More importantly, drop the idea of "good" and focus on what the implementor was thinking. I think the author understands the need for more effective communication in code reviews, but unfairly reduces the exchange to an "argument."

It's also dangerous to correlate work-life balance with incompetence. It's not a contradiction to be good at your job, current with the industry, and present for your family.

They never would have backed out if Cuomo changed his first name to Amazon as he suggested.

It reminds me of the Principal Skinner meme. "Maybe I'm out of touch... No, it's the Python programmers who are wrong."

Or mention "PTSD" when somebody brings up Java to signal that you're above such foolishness, and rely on nobody seeking an explanation for your aversion.

Maybe you should be familiar with it.

How familiar are you with Java?

Those assertions are invariants so that the test fails with a meaningful error message rather than raising IndexError or what have you.

That line is three years old, so how is this news now? And what's this "i wonder," do we not know how to use git here?

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/c4cd7c1dc41a0...

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/6edf56775f256...

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/4c30cd08af9dd...

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/commit/0652274db0aee...

On-topic comments like this one aren't flagged:

> I think Omar, Stringer and Machiavelli would have gotten along on some level.

You're really calling a user who joined in 2008 with 12k karma a troll? I think it's nonsense that parent's opinion against Bezos was flagged, instead of the erudite references to Batman and The Wire in these comments.

I don't see anything giving them that right in https://www.git-tower.com/legal/eula, not a lawyer at all but I think OP has a case?

The keto crowd seems almost like a cult sometimes, there is pride and defensiveness. Veganism isn't the only adopted diet people get attached to. Like that millionaire ex-Googler's blog post the other day, sinking most time into an "is it keto" app. It wouldn't have been out of place on The Onion.

It's probably due to Gmail users reporting PayPal's ToS/Privacy Policy notices as spam. I swear they send one out every week.

I know what it is, it's specific.

Is it normal for a startup this old to raise a Series A?

Why the scare quotes?

Covert, illegal hotels are great for permanent residents. Score one for libertarianism.

Who knows, but from those comments:

> Really hard to take anything you say seriously when you use the entire aplhabet for your hexadecimal SHA1 examples.

Touche.