Eg. there's almost no and maybe even negative value from a non academic user's perspective to grouping PLs into "families". Two "MLs" can be totally different experiences.
What does psychology have to do with software work? Why should psychologists be invited in to contribute to what we know about technology teams?
I am, naturally, very biased 😎 , but because I would love nothing more than to have a future where I no longer feel like "the only psych at this tech conference," here are some topics you may not have thought were psych, but which would be helpful for software practitioners and where psychology is the place to look for the methods & expertise:
@grimalkina I like the idea of addressing psych issues specifically found in tech. It maybe useful to start from burn out and work backwards? Idk just a thought.
The sad part here isn't the bugs but that the V guy spouting absolute BS has gotten way more people critically evaluating his lang vs those who have more integrity with their claims. When I say the incentives in this business are garbage this is what I mean.
Consider the bicycle: more specifically, the De Rosa SK Pininfarina. I think it’s beautiful, but I wouldn’t call it art, because being beautiful isn’t its primary purpose. It was created to be useful; the fact that it can also be appreciated aesthetically is an intentional bonus.
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I have a CSV file
I open Google Sheets
I choose "Import"
I drag in my CSV, I tell it to separate by comma and go
It chugs for a while
Nothing happens, just literally nothing, and I do not get an error.
Hm.
Are there any better ways to locally view a CSV in grid/spreadsheet format in modern Linux than libreoffice calc?
Not that it's bad quite the contrary, but if after all this time there's so few success stories that you have to call sum types "choices" to get people to even consider it, it's probably time to turn out the lights or at least give up on appeasing to your conception of the average developer.
Don't worry there's always "secret weapon" rhetoric to cling to.
I wish there were a "camera test" web app that did not connect to any server, it just got your mic and webcam and mirrored it back to you on a 10sec delay with like, mute buttons, so that you can make sure your computer's working right before you begin a teleconference in another tab
“Haskell has way more features than probably any other programming language. This is both good and bad.
It's good because you have the tools to solve your problems in the best way.
It's bad because you have those tools. They're distracting.”
@vascorsd@yplog imo the biggest practical advantage of Scala is Java interop. There's also a lot of interesting work around compile time evaluation and reflection.
The tsunami of bs that we are going to experience from ai driven coding on mandatory mega corp controlled platforms is 100% our fault for not working on decent development environments when we had the chance.
I'm thinking of recording some talks on the cheap. I'm thinking of a smartphone on a tripod, and a Røde Wireless II mic (I've had good experiences with them before). But I'm getting stuck at two points: is it realistic to record an hour or two on a smartphone? Thinking thermals, battery, and disk space here. And is there a way to attach a charger and a USB-C mic at the same time? Google has been surprisingly unhelpful in this matter.