alexval
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a programming language/paradigm?
My first job I wrote c++ for a win32 desktop app. I hated unit testing. My workflow was write the code, compile it, trigger the scenario, step through the code, write some unit tests after I knew it worked. It was the expectation on my team to write UTs so I did it. Fast forward to a different team I learned from a co-worker how UTs can help you influence your design. If you find yourself doing a ton of frustrating work to set up your UT scenarios there's probably a way of fixing the design to be less coupled that would allow you to test the code better.
Now I think of UTs more as a way to help me understand how the design of my code is working and I get some extra validation out of it as well.
alexval
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7 years ago
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on: Best Display for Programming? (2017)
This. I have the dell P4317Q and I think it’s the best thing out there right now. But I would ditch it right away if a larger 3:2 screen existed maybe, 40” 4K at 3:2 something like that
alexval
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7 years ago
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on: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines
Does anyone have this? Is it worth the $60?
alexval
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7 years ago
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on: Boss as a Service – Hire a boss, get stuff done
“Just get married” - my wife when I told her about this
alexval
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7 years ago
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on: The Sharashka Phenomenon (2011)
I'm in the middle of _In_the_first_circle_ right now and really enjoying it. I also got turned on to it from econ talk. Highly recommend reading this book!
alexval
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8 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is your yearly passive income?
wow that's a cool and simple idea. I work on a cocoa app so I will find that valueable for meeting accessibility standards. Do you have a windows version?
alexval
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8 years ago
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on: Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Pittsburgh yet. uber did some early self driving pilots there. CMU is there. Google has a large office there. Amazon has also started hiring software engineers for an office in Pittsburgh too. Cost of living is very cheap. Many upsides to Pittsburgh. I don't know what the city could afford in terms of subsidies though.
alexval
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9 years ago
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on: Simple Exercises To Help Undo the Damage of Sitting (2014)
Semi unrelated but I like the art of manliness podcast
alexval
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9 years ago
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on: Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone
OneDrive sync has improved dramatically over the years. It's still not as good as dropbox, but OneDrive has this new popup window that shows you a bunch of information about your files when they sync and are updated. That part of the UX is better than dropbox.
alexval
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9 years ago
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on: Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
Sometimes at a large company feedback from support and those customer forms doesn't make it all the way back to the engineers. The engineers read hacker news. As soon as they saw this it makes sense that they fixed it.
Seems like the pipeline for customer feedback could be improved.
