DandyDev

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by DandyDev 8y ago
It's amazing how many people in this thread justify their own language choices by making negative, sweeping statements about another language (Scala in this case) that is successfully used by people other than themselves. Yes, some peo
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by DandyDev 9y ago
By mapping escape to the otherwise useless caps lock key
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by DandyDev 9y ago
Obligatory link to this classic blog post explaining heisenbug and many other classic programming puns: http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/yoda-conditions-pokemon-ex...
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by DandyDev 9y ago
Yes, I use offline maps for navigation all the time when on holiday
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by DandyDev 9y ago
Google can build software that can autonomously learn how to beat humans at the hardest games in existence (or buy a company that builds said software), but it cannot detect malicious code in ads before serving those ads... I call bullshit
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There Is No Big Data(dandydev.net)
5 points by DandyDev 9y ago|0 comments
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by DandyDev 9y ago
It's not a developers dream if that developer loathes Javascript, like I do. Even Typescript just feels like lipstick on a pig.
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by DandyDev 9y ago
Hi everyone! This has been my main side-project for the last couple of weeks. I wanted to build a better Slack bot framework in Python. I hope you like it! If you have any questions, suggestions, ideas, etc., feel free to ask!
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Show HN: Slack Machine – A sexy, simple, yet powerful and extendable Slack bot(github.com)
2 points by DandyDev 9y ago|1 comments
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by DandyDev 9y ago
This looks like an amazing piece of software! I have a couple of questions: - Does it (out of the box) support mapping JSON messages on a Kafka Topic to a table accessible from SQL? - How would you support the following use case: run SQL qu
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by DandyDev 9y ago
Not OP, but the chapter Ymir, near the end of the first act I'd waaaay too long.
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by DandyDev 9y ago
How is this any different from the various packaging mechanisms that exist for all the different programming languages out there? You make it sound like this is a new kind of problem that started with Docker. When I add some dependency to t
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by DandyDev 9y ago
> Anyone is free to charge for compiled binaries. If this compilation has added bonuses (e.g. including plugins) that gives people a reason to pay for that compilation. In any case, those that don't like it can just compile the proj
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by DandyDev 9y ago
Or... you spend your time building something useful, leveraging skills you do have, and let nginx leverage its own strengths. What you say, sounds like NIH syndrome to me.
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by DandyDev 9y ago
The thing you offer is a fancy editor for statically generated websites, but for the prices you're asking, I would expect you to host the site as well. Also, looking at the videos/gifs on your website, it seems to me that the ed
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by DandyDev 9y ago
I have an unpopular opinion about this, but here it goes: I think the whole article is based on false premises. Mostly two of them: - Productivity is the be all, end all of life - It's somehow wrong to "waste your time"
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by DandyDev 11y ago
I work at a company that exclusively uses Scala for the backend of our applications/services, and I found that if developers are willing, it's almost never a problem to have them learn Scala within a reasonable amount of time, if
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AutoPlaylistPoetry: a declaration of love to Spotify and Python(dandydev.net)
1 points by DandyDev 12y ago|0 comments
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by DandyDev 15y ago
While you assessment of the browser situation some years from now, is far less depressing than the picture Paul Irish paints, you're ignoring his point that not only will we have to deal with different versions of IE, but on top of that, we