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Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

I once collaborated with an exceptionally talented programmer who seemed so engrossed in his addiction that he would invent challenges where there were none, presumably to make his work more engaging and bearable. However, this often led to incomplete projects because once the stimulating aspects were finished, he struggled to find the motivation to continue. Clearly, this behavior was extreme and detrimental.

I think a lot of devs can relate to that

The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why?

The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Other examples?

Small but mighty "reddit alternative" Discuit is now open source! in c/[email protected]
Retries – An interactive study of common retry methods in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who cares if the program has done its job anyway

The art of the sacrificial 'duck' in programming projects in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

This works a lot of the time with the people that don't really care about the review. With those that do it won't

Habits of great software engineers | vadim kravcenko in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Focusing beyond the code - as a developer you will code 20% of your time.

Doesn't sound like a great software engineer to me

Software Engineer vs Software Developer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

In my company everyone is called Software Development Engineer 🤷‍♂️

Write a pretty printer in Rust and win a bounty in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you can do it in 2-3 months it's worth it, else you're probably not getting paid enough

I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Basically, they won't bother sueing you unless you end up making millions off it

But at that point the program will likely not even be reminiscent of its original form

Windows will let european users uninstall many system components such as Bing or Edge soon in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Guess who is no longer part of the EEA and will not receive these benefits? The UK

Games that my non-gamer girlfriend can watch me playing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Ori and the Black Forest

Trine

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[request] reply to specific part of a comment (lemmy.ca)
 

If I want to quote a specific part of a comment to reply to it, that's not possible with Connect right now unless manually copy pasting the segment.

Ideally, the existing "quote" option in the editor should take into account selected text

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deleting a root comment takes the entire comment chain down with you? (lemmy.ca)
 

Is this accurate? I just deleted my comment and none of the child comments were visible anymore

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[appreciation] great link handling (lemmy.ca)
 

Just wanted to say I really like the link handling in this app. When I use lemmy on Desktop it's always a nightmare to navigate different instances, even with the Greasemonkey script. This app just does it out of the box. Barely had any cases where it doesn't work recently

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[Request] Sidebar search should search own subscriptions first (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

Currently it seems the sidebar search lists search results from the fediverse, not from my subscribed communities. If I want to go to a specific community, I go to the sidebar. With a lot of subscribed communities you can't favorite all of them, nor do you want to search the entire sidebar list manually

Example: I am subscribed to [email protected] and [email protected].

When I search space, neither show up. Instead a bunch of smaller communities are listed, like [email protected], or occult (wtf?).

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Navigate to community on another instance? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
15 comments fedilink
 

Maybe I've just not figured it out, but it's there a way to navigate the subs on a different instance without switching accounts? Like going directly to [email protected]?

Example, I'm on lemmy.ca but I want to subscribe to /c/linux on programming.dev. I'm struggling hard to navigate to this community, as it's not turning up in search either.

Edit: I found it on search, but it's made worse by the fact that search is not showing the instance of the communities, so you just end up with a bunch of communities and a subscriber count based on your local instance, which means pretty much nothing

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Search comments in post (lemmy.ca)
 

I saw a feature request for searching comments inside a post in this community, about 4 weeks old.

Seems like a pretty key feature that is still missing. Is this planned currently?

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New settings menu is awesome (lemmy.ca)
 

Just wanted to say, great improvement and nicely structured! Good stuff

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(fixed in 1.98) Why is the comment icon red in the post list? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink
 

Is this due to my settings or has the default changed?

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[minor request] remove need to save settings (lemmy.ca)
 

This is quite unintuitive nowadays, as most interfaces don't require manual saving, especially on mobile. I've caught myself more than once forgetting to save and having to redo settings changes. I think what makes it worse is that the settings button doesn't stand out on dark mode, or change much when there are unsaved changes

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