user5678's comments

On: Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?

[user5678]

Isn’t this basically just saying “the way we’ve always done things here is optimal”? That is very rarely the case. Improvements, optimizations (even of a radical nature) are almost always possible. But yes it sounds like a lot of folks here would not like to work with someone so set in their ways.

[shagie → user5678]

The SaaS shop that I worked in had two Java devs, two JavaScript devs, a python gluer, and a mobile developer.

Building the even a basic framework takes hundreds of hours of developer time... for no real competitive advantage.

It's fine to work on innovative things (there was a point were something about Java annotations clicked and the report writing part got rewritten in a week)... but building big things that give small gains aren't viable in small shops.

Doing innovation on "how can we compress this web page even more" makes no sense at a small shop - if it's an issue grab Minify off the shelf and use that. Don't spend half a year writing your own that you'll need to support.

The small company is best served by working on things that give the competitive advantage - not working on those big ideas (unless that big idea is the competitive advantage).

Big tech companies have the advantage that they've got thousands of developers some of whom have some free time or the competitive advantage is removing another 200 bytes from a web page.

That small tech shop had 4000 hours of Java dev time to "spend" a year.. and another 4000 hours of JavaScript, and 2000 hours of python, and 2000 hours of android/iOS. There's a stack of 5000 hours of bugs and features for each of those parts of the app. Spending 500 hours of anyones time on something that can be solved off the shelf for under 10 hours to integrate is far from an optimal use of time.

On: What we look for in a resume

[user5678]

I know that most people don’t read resumes because I’m always asked a lot of questions that would have been answered if the interviewer had read my resume.

But when I’ve been on the opposite side of the table, I’ve always read every word of the resumes of the candidates. I think the hiring process would go better if more people did this.

[jedberg → user5678]

I read the entire resume before an interview. I skim them when I'm deciding if I should offer one or not. Also I will ask about things that are in your resume because I want more details.

On: In-person schooling and youth suicide: Evidence fr...

[user5678]

I think (s)he’s referring to bathroom stalls.

[mjevans → user5678]

That and also locker room changing stalls for PE / sports.

On: Why everything looks the same

[user5678]

Basketball was equally repetitive and homogenous when it was about fighting for position under the rim.

On: Cherry: ClojureScript to ES6 Compiler

[user5678]

There’s no runtime. Also shadow-cljs is not a compiler, it uses the main ClojureScript compiler.

[fulafel → user5678]

There's a core library like with current ClojureScript, no?

> Compiled JS files are linked to one shared NPM module "cherry-cljs" which contains cljs.core.js, cljs.string

On: How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your ch...

[user5678]

No, it is not magic. It really is cryptography.

[maxbond → user5678]

Yeah sorry, my original wording was confusing, I've tried to clarify that the _shuffle_ is the magic trick, the overall cryptosystem is real.

On: Upcyling a 40-year-old Tandy Model 100 Portable Co...

[user5678]

Trash-80!

On: Purring is a love language no human can speak

[user5678]

So these numbers are lower bounds.

[xkcd-sucks → user5678]

Lower bound but pretty confident in accuracy - Have eyes on all catflap traffic, some accelerometer/position data (a cat collar tracker, not a cat tracker!), and observation thus far supports the conclusion that he stages all kills in his "abattoir" area unfortunately underneath the couch regardless of their eventual disposition - pretty common behavior

On: JSON Crack – Visualize JSON data into graphs

[user5678]

gg=G in evil mode will do that.

[dotancohen → user5678]

Evil (Emacs 27.1) produced this:

  {
  "squadName": "Super hero squad",
  "homeTown": "Metro City",
  "formed": 2016,
  "secretBase": "Super tower",
  "active": true,
  "members": [
          {
          "name": "Molecule Man",
          "age": 29,
          "secretIdentity": "Dan Jukes",
          "powers": [
                 "Radiation resistance",
                 "Turning tiny",
                 "Radiation blast"
                 ]
          },
          {
          "name": "Madame Uppercut",
          "age": 39,
          "secretIdentity": "Jane Wilson",
          "powers": [
                 "Million tonne punch",
                 "Damage resistance",
                 "Superhuman reflexes"
                 ]
          },
          {
          "name": "Eternal Flame",
          "age": 1000000,
          "secretIdentity": "Unknown",
          "powers": [
                 "Immortality",
                 "Heat Immunity",
                 "Inferno",
                 "Teleportation",
                 "Interdimensional travel"
                 ]
              }
          ]
  }

Interestingly, the first-level items are not indented. Real VIM 8.1 produced the same format, but the first-level items _are_ indented.