Dewie3

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by Dewie3 11y ago
This development/trend seems to show that the value of the "dynamicity" of scripting languages have perhaps been overrated. There seems to be a set of abstractions with reasonably/very good mechanical sympathy that are b
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> I'm really tired of these "software isn't engineering because..." arguments. I think the first thing we need to do in order to have our profession move on to the next stage of maturity is to stop relying on arbitrar
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> However, it makes the assertion that the only way to allow people to reliably develop software they don't understand is to have the compiler 'understand' it for them (I use understand loosely of course). More like have
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by Dewie3 11y ago
What did you do now... now you're just going to get a bunch of replies about how professional organizations would indulge slacker programmers and ultimately cramp good programmers' style and payslip.
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The kind of people who will complain that what they sell at the store has "chemicals" in them. That doesn't make them sound very informed.
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And for my part, I'm glad that I will probably be able to read about higher-level[1] system programming concepts like custom allocators eventually, without having to grok C++. [1] C isn't really crazy on the generic/meta-pr
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Though make the type system sufficiently more expressive than Haskell's and you have to give up on type inference again... Though maybe you could restrict how expressive the type system is on something like a module (Haskell module) le
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Nim the language[1] will probably still win with regards to mechanical sympathy. And perhaps also metaprogramming? [1] As opposed to implementations... because I don't know what kind of crazy compiler (JIT or AOT) they do nowadays to m
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> Using your palms to press the ctrl keys is only seriously possible on some curved keyboards. It feels fine to me on my flat keyboard with low-profile keys. I used to use my pinky to press ctrl. Then I briefly remapped to caps-lock, but
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I don't know if buying a book is worth it compared to the manual/documentation. But nonetheless, Emacs is a very self-documented program. http://emacswiki.org/emacs/SelfDocumentation
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I guess this is if you use your pinky to hold down CTRL? I try to mostly use the knuckle below my pinky fingers[1] to hold down CTRL. This can be harder on certain keyboards, and I guess especially laptop keyboards. I think I learnt this fr
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> There is no reason the number shouldn't be near 50%. Women are as capable as men. It's nowhere near 50%. It's the year 2015 and Buddhist monks are still widely under-represented in the upper echelons of the job market. I
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> Such policies do come with some risk. A ban on negotiations leaves a lot of power in the hands of employers, who may not be making equal salary offers to men and women in the first place. But the article doesn't mention how Reddit
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Yes, I see how you could take my comment in that way.
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> So this is a way of culling your friends and acquaintances to optimize your social relationships. This is the kind of thing you can only read on HN.
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In a wider social- and group-context it is sometimes best to maintain the view that you are a victim being manipulated by outside forces. In a strictly personal context it is often better to maintain the view that you are a fully empowere
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Careful! You might use up all the spare happiness. :-)
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If you want to be happy[1] you might want to eliminate the idea of meaning from your life. Any kind of meaning , as in the idea that there is some goal to work towards -- not just a sense or feeling of such -- will eventually and proba
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> For example, in the morning, a user might see playlists like “Wake Up Happy” or “Sunrise Run” I don't know what the Hell names like that are supposed to tell me. I guess there is some specific kind of music associated with 'w
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> I'm just doing my best to keep an open mind as my own children grow up; that their life experience will be vastly different. An easy one is the thought that they are growing up with cheap, fast computers with FIOS as a high-speed
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The ratio of "livable land" is also lower. Crops and humans seem to have that thing in common, not wanting to live at high altitudes or at the bottom of fjords. Though of course livestock don't mind grazing at higher altitude
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I've never heard that nickname before today.
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> Yes, some employees' Meant to write 'employers'.
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> One of the things I hate most about living in Norway Of course this ends up as the top comment. :-)
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Great programmer-like answer - technically correct to a pedantic degree, misses any subtelety by reducing it to some heuristic for dealing with complexity, and ends with a point that isn't new or controversial to anyone on the subject.
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This was the same year that Utøya happened. You can't be in super-serious mode all the time. Based on this thread, you take the labelling of this shortage much more seriously than anyone ever took the shortage itself.
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man svn [...] For more information about the Subversion project, visit http://subversion.tigris.org. Of course you would use a DVCS in space, but still.
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Taking huge risks and facing hardships in order to go where no man has ev... nevermind.
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Hay_bales...
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I don't get why "engineer" is held in such a high esteem. As for myself, you can call me Cowboy Coder Cody (CCC for short) if that's what you prefer.

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