HereBeBeasties

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by HereBeBeasties 8y ago
The difference is that the roads are pushing way more traffic and the frames of CGI are getting more and more detailed / realistic / whatever. A more accurate analogy would be building a 400mph maglev train line and discovering pe
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by HereBeBeasties 8y ago
If I can write a failing test, I can likely fix it. If I am interested in seeing who broke it and when, I can run git blame on the thing I'm fixing. Given that my test suite is generally in the same repo as the code, I'd need to w
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by HereBeBeasties 8y ago
It's a pretty sad state we've got ourselves into as an industry when people think that parsing a 1GB log file in three minutes is "exciting". That's five megabytes per second. Jeez, anyone would think it's 1988
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by HereBeBeasties 8y ago
I always struggle to see why people bang on about git bisect. You need tests to make it work. If you have tests, why aren't you running them continuously? If you're running them continuously, why do you need git bisect?
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by HereBeBeasties 8y ago
When did you last see a plus button?
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by HereBeBeasties 8y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by HereBeBeasties 8y ago
Dear GitHub, Please build search that lets me actually find a given file by name. You are busy building a space rocket when all we want is a bicycle. Impressive, but useless for just popping down to the shops. Love, The rest of the world&#x
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by HereBeBeasties 9y ago
My experience is generally the opposite - software is usually complex because people lack the skills, time and/or inclination to make it less so. The problems themselves are generally simple. The world is chock full of developers who w
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by HereBeBeasties 9y ago
Most asset classes look like that, though. Gold has some intrinsic value as a good conductor/reflector of heat. But it's not really so very much superior to aluminium or copper or whatever to make it worth what it is worth. It is
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by HereBeBeasties 9y ago
Unfortunately, despite years of bug reports, neither NPM nor the new kid on the block are deterministic when invoked on multiple builds on the same machine simultaneously. It's almost like their developers never use continuous integrat
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by HereBeBeasties 9y ago
So probably the right way to get a bug in Excel fixed is to report it to the typescript team...
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by HereBeBeasties 10y ago
Generally I completely agree with you, but sometimes being forced to go slowly makes you absorb it more. It's a bit like making notes on a text as you go through it. Hopeless for reference, though, obviously.
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by HereBeBeasties 10y ago
The question is, "why wouldn't you?" If the person is competent they will dismiss it in seconds and you can move onto something more interesting.
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by HereBeBeasties 10y ago
I often ask the web browser one and find it quite illuminating. Best answer so far started with something like "Well, there's a microswitch in the keyboard if it's a decent one, and a circuit that debounces the input - err, i
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by HereBeBeasties 10y ago
Is it? I used to happily make very complex sites using Apache Wicket on top of Java. It lets you make composable, extensible components (including inherited markup). It is type safe (the cools kids are finally rediscovering how important t
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by HereBeBeasties 11y ago
If you think "very fast" is 5ms, over a LAN, then truly I despair. I mean, if they've paid you to write this, I presume you have reasonable hardware to run it on. Bog standard BSD sockets TCP on Linux is down around the 10 mi