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by Jach 5y ago
Google uses Sqlite, which is simply public domain. Did someone at Google actually purchase one of their pseudo-license 'warranty of title' documents they offer for companies (supposedly mostly in other countries that officially do
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by Jach 5y ago
Nevertheless I suspect sqlite is used in Europe or parts of Asia without trouble.
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by Jach 5y ago
IANAL and I don't have much of value to add to what's already been said, just some rambling thoughts... First I want to reiterate that broad sentiments somewhat resembling "can't we just get along and get on with real wo
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by Jach 5y ago
Fair point. I hinted with the idea of a new framework that you may be able to bolt something acceptable on top of JS (I'm sure it's been done already in the past with some framework) especially if you just want the before/aft
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by Jach 5y ago
I guess this is just a limitation of JS the language showing itself. Other languages have actual aspect-oriented support where before/after/around methods are very clear name-wise and semantics-wise (if not always so clear without
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by Jach 5y ago
If you go this route, read Anti-Machiavel at the same time, by Frederick the Great, a chapter by chapter rebuttal written just prior to him becoming King of Prussia.
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by Jach 5y ago
When you're done playing, I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZokQov_aH0 Games are part art, what's more to understand? There's some fun image out there I can't exactly reca
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by Jach 5y ago
I really disagree about damage to our industry over the last 10 or 20 (or 30) years. But I haven't deeply considered such a topic. I have thought a bit about damage to specific areas (e.g. don't get me started on systemd) but dama
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by Jach 5y ago
People get such hate-boners for "Clean Code" specifically, it's weird. I once thought they might have had a point until I read the book and, while I found much to disagree with, it's actually not a bad book (I have more
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by Jach 5y ago
I'm sure there are innocent scientific pursuits that benefit from more data samples, even without other data to correlate to. Then there's always government agencies interested in labeled name-DNA pairs which can be used to find c
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by Jach 5y ago
The old menu did have an automatic automated way to solve this. I'm not sure if it goes all the way back to Firefox 1.0, but it's pretty old. (At least Waterfox Classic exists and you can install it and see the menu there.) That i
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by Jach 5y ago
They should just remove Firefox since telemetry shows not a lot of people use it.
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by Jach 5y ago
These big incidents involving 'big cache' are fun to read about. Years ago I had to deal with a bunch of cache issues over a short time, but they were all minor incidents with minor uses of cache (simple memoization, storing stuff
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by Jach 5y ago
Learn React on your own, put React on your resume, don't claim mastery over it but a vague 'know' or 'learned'. What's to lie about? But sure, it might look better in a professional context instead of just bein
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by Jach 5y ago
In late 2016 HN tried for a week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 It didn't even last for a few days and made things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25785191 In 2012, I wonder
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by Jach 5y ago
Foolish 60hz peasant, why aren't you aiming for 240hz? Get your crap done in 4ms! I play a lot of games, from PC to console to mobile to handheld to VR, I really don't get these kinds of takes. Until games from indie to AAA fix th
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by Jach 5y ago
Bedrock edition is available basically everywhere and unified the non-Java platforms, yeah, though the Java edition still gets feature updates in tandem. There are still other differences between the two that will likely never be rectified
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by Jach 5y ago
Even before Java advanced its GC even more, a little-known 3D game called Minecraft was written in it.
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by Jach 5y ago
I've collected a few links I've given out before on this subject if you'd like to read more into it: https://www.thejach.com/view/2022/1/thoughts_on_writings_on_... To reiterate some of my thou
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by Jach 5y ago
> It doesn't scale well to large teams Doesn't saying stuff like this just contribute to your reasons 1-3 that boil down to perception issues, and not anything wrong fundamentally with the language itself or even its modern day
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by Jach 5y ago
I think the paredit stuff is a bit overblown but apart from managing parens for you, another simple example is editing single expressions. e.g. in Java you might have a line: "int a = blah.bar(something, thing, whatever);" If you
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by Jach 5y ago
How many languages do you know? You might find some inspiration in answering your own question by comparing what makes your efficiency different in one or the other. If you find your efficiencies are roughly the same, I might suggest you ar
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by Jach 5y ago
Because such simple one-factor sentiments, even if they are true, are not how people evaluate using one thing over another. At best they might consider it in a multi-factor analysis. But with this particular sentiment it still probably won&
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by Jach 5y ago
Psychology is inherently a part of this. As other commenters upthread mention they calculate things in terms of relative security and "it will take X time to break my lock, but 1/5 or less X time to break the lock next to mine.&qu
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by Jach 5y ago
A user (I'll leave them unstated) deleted a reply with a metaphor along the lines of "what do you expect if someone wears a clown suit when speaking at a technical conference?" Well, here's her speaking at a tech confere
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by Jach 5y ago
Heh, that thread brings to mind a bunch of things... One advantage of CL that helps with a 'borrowing' aspect that give people the jeebies is that the unit of compilation is much smaller than the file, so you can also borrow much
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by Jach 5y ago
Lisp machines showed the way decades ago, computing took a different path. Here's the system's UDP receive-ip-packet method: https://twitter.com/RainerJoswig/status/1215728406823886854 The copies vs depe
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by Jach 5y ago
Now measure how many non-SWE jobs are pointless. And keep in mind Price's law potentially applying, where half the work is done by the square root of the number of people. Then measure human activities of any kind, not just jobs. You c
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by Jach 5y ago
> They had no clue how uncompetitive they were compared with ... Sadly not that uncommon in Lisp advocates for a number of different things even today... though I think that's been slowly changing as more Lispers either become aware
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by Jach 5y ago
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." "It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember. "Men have forgotten this t

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