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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
The "Clean Code" book is famous for making bad suggestions and producing unreadable code with too many functions just for the sake of following its rules.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
As with all guidelines, some people will turn it into a hard rule, and build a linter to enforce it. Then they will split long functions into shorter ones, but with a lot of arguments. And then their other linter that limits argument count
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
The parser can run before the user is asked for permission to make changes. The parsed metadata can then discourage the user from installing the package (e.g. because of extremely questionable dependencies ). Dependencies are probably in
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
Windows has had a taskbar for 30 years. And in the last 15 years, the default taskbar has pinned apps, large icons and no captions.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
Ever heard of Firefox or Safari? I can open HN in any browser I want, but I can't change the browser used by the VSCode desktop app.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
Windows 11 user here. I use zero third-party modifications. Some people are masochists.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
GitHub is old, but GitHub Actions are not. Indeed, GitHub Actions launched two months after the Microsoft acquisition was announced [0], and it is a half-assed clone of Azure Pipelines. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
What’s wrong with bytecode? Using something abstract helps with porting between OSes and architectures. .NET supports compiling to native executables, but only a limited subset of projects is supported, because reflection is not available i
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
For most projects, upgrading between .NET version is quick and painless, usually just updating the TargetFramework and NuGet packages in your .csproj file.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
It’s also a great IDE for .NET development on Windows.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
C# 1.0 was pretty much Microsoft Java, but since then, C# has evolved into its own, more powerful thing, while Java has stayed much more conservative over the years.
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by Kwpolska 11mo ago
I agree with almost all of this, especially MediatR being nonsense, but I would recommend against using a LLM to generate a mock. That’s just more code that you need to maintain and update on every interface change. NSubstitute is a fine li
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> * OPAM. In theory... I feel like it should be great. But in practice I find it to be incomprehensible, full of surprising behaviours, and also surprisingly buggy. I still can't believe the bug where it can't find `curl` if yo
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
A blog named "AI Focus" is of course going to push LLMs and vibe coding. But here in the real world, people can still code without LLMs, or use them with a human in control, where the LLM can look at existing code written in a fra
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Google decided to drop XSLT, because the volunteer-maintained libxslt had no maintainers for some time. So, instead of helping the project, they just decided to remove a feature.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Or perhaps the multi-billion-dollar corporations could stop piggy-backing on volunteers and invest in maintaining the Web platform?
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Which private companies control Jupyter?
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Who needs Hello World when you can have an LLM implement an entire number guessing game for you?
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> Q: Who's paying the bills for that SIM? You can anonymously buy top-up vouchers in supermarkets for pay-as-you-go SIMs.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
I tried to use Celery for something extremely trivial (granted, 5+ years ago). It was so badly documented and failed to do basic things I would expect from a task queue (like progress reporting) I have no idea why it was and still is popula
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
The ID presented at time of purchase does not have to be the ID of the actual user of the card. Your local drunkard will be happy to get $10 to buy a SIM card for you. Or you could visit eBay (or local equivalent) and get a valid SIM card w
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Banks usually have government oversight and legal obligations to customers. A fintech might have neither, it may also be doing business from some other country where it is not possible for you to make use of the government guarantees, or it
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Story as old as time. Fintechs may be cheaper or have a cooler app, but if you ever stray off the happy path, you can kiss your account and/or money goodbye.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
There are leftovers from older versions of macOS and severely neglected apps in Tahoe too. Sure, they might have been given a new icon, or adopted the new system styling, but they have not been updated for ages.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Have you ever heard of Windows? Unlike Apple, they do care about backwards compatibility, and don’t randomly go removing features users depend on.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Which cron is actual cron? There are tons of implementations out there. This post describes vixie-cron, not systemd-timers.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
That does not require setting the server to local time. Run the cron job every hour. Before starting the script, check the time and compare it to the last saved execution time. If the day has changed, do stuff and save the new date, else ex
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It looks so terrible I thought the idea behind it was “this is what the US can manufacture without importing foreign materials”. But nah, it’s just an ugly watch with a pretty dumb marketing stunt that makes it less usable as a watch.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
It feels to me that this specific toy example would be even simpler in vanilla JS. A comparison with a serious, large SPA would be more fair and more informative for comparing frameworks.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
You can’t open a new tab yourself, but you can open it by long-pressing a link. If you’re running in a Custom Tab on Android, you need to switch to the full Focus if multiple tabs are involved.

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