@anderseknert What's nice about reviewing the PR in a change control tool rather than in your IDE is it forces you to read your code in a different way than you wrote it. Similar to how printing out a document makes it easier to find typos.

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As a non-author reviewer, a PR that already has a bunch of the author’s comments and updates* before I even begin my review makes me happy.

*As long as they’ve not simply because the submitter opened the PR before the work was really done. Unfortunately, in my experience, this is more common than one might assume. And, is especially common in “agile” environments where everyone is just trying to close their issues before the end of the sprint/iteration so they don’t carry-over.

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The very best include comments that help to describe the high level change(s) as a road map for reviewers.

@anderseknert To block racism, your algo needs to understand the meaning of sentences and paragraphs, and moreover it needs to do so in context. A nipple is just a nipple - that's easy. So I don't think it's that unbelievable that racism is hard to identify without so many false positives as to be unworkable.

@anderseknert What we see in big tech is the result of the prevailing environment of that industry, and probably all engineering related industries, which is rather reactionary and vastly ignorant about everything that’s not related with tech, like history, ethics, art, etc.

@anderseknert Nipplesblock goes wrong so many times. Automating blocking certain speech on platforms, holding the owner of that tool accountable can go against climate activists ... And making you a criminal every time your algorithm is tricked ..

@anderseknert if you're expecting "the company" to notice... you're doing it wrong.

Companies don't notice or appreciate anything, people do.

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Corpo moment

@anderseknert Actually, going above and beyond is a sure way to get fired, in my experience.

How?
Ah, you padawans, let me tell you a story from my adventures as an IT freelancer. Happened over a decade ago, in a galaxy far away, when xmpp was still alive. As it happened, the customer needed some standard XMPP transport extended with “custom proxy” support, as the 3rd party networks were literally blocking their IP addresses by the minute.

@anderseknert I will be honest until you mentioned jarl I'd never even heard of clojure :blobfox0_0: although I do quite like it, I am curious where do you see it becoming more widely adopted? :blobfoxthumbsup:

@anderseknert Do you know anybody working on clojure clr? Id love to see it working with tooling in vs code or anyplace really.