Pacabel

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by Pacabel 13y ago
One of the best things about Python is that there's comparatively little "culture", at least compared to Perl, Ruby or JavaScript. The culture/community that does exist is more oriented toward helping people achieve what
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by Pacabel 13y ago
I think you've benefited very heavily (a lot more than you may realize) from the work of people who did have more formal training, and who used that knowledge to build the systems that you in turn have built upon. You're right, it
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What kind of systems were you working on? No, you probably don't need to know much about how graphics cards work if you're working with databases or other software that doesn't really involve graphics in any serious way. But
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While it may be perfectly acceptable to ignore the lower-level details when first learning some new technology, or even when using it for personal use only, that sort of ignorance is not acceptable when working on systems that are meant to
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Let's not kid ourselves, AJAX is a very minor technology. It may be widely used these days, but there's not that much to it, conceptually. It's the kind of thing that even a moderately experienced programmer can understand wi
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While they can, of course, do whatever they want, I am disappointed by the development of unnecessary peripheral functionality such as this. I think that the resources put toward this endeavor could have been better spent on improving the p
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Code style is extremely important. A lack of consistency with existing code makes both the new and old code harder to work with in the future. And neglecting to maintain a consistent coding style often indicates neglect in other areas, such
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by Pacabel 13y ago
Regardless of age, I'd much rather take the developer with experience using one or more relational database systems. It's much easier and effective for them to downgrade their knowledge and experience to the MongoDB level than it
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It's truly astounding how the community has rallied against the beta changes. When I look at stories from today and yesterday, viewing all comments (including the ones that have been moderated down), I'm seeing at least 90% to 95%
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I'm not lecturing you about anything. I'm merely telling you how the terminology you used is very ambiguous. Now, that may not be the case in the specific village that you may be from. But in general, when you're east of Mani
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What exactly do you mean by "fully fledged JS apps on a big scale"? When it comes to more traditional languages like C, C++ and Java, "fully fledged" and "big scale" are descriptors usually reserved for multi-m
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I don't think that anyone really considers it "esoteric". There's not really any secret to it. Once one accepts that it's just a very poorly designed language, it makes perfect sense why it's so heavily broken
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Perl would likely be the next closest, but even it's nowhere near as bad as PHP and JavaScript are.
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You did, although perhaps inadvertently. You may want to watch your terminology in the future. In central and eastern Canada, the term "West" exclusively means Alberta (although Saskatchewan is now sometimes included, too, due to
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Alberta today is much like Ontario was in the 1960s. It has a relatively young population, it is economically driven by medium industry, is highly suburbanized, and wholly dependent upon cars for even the most basic of transportation. While
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I think that the claims that "JavaScript is like Self" or that "JavaScript is like Scheme" are attempts to legitimize what really isn't a very good language to being with. I think that this is also done out of ignor
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The distinction can very much exist in practice, depending on the existence and capabilities of production-quality implementations. While there have been attempts to compile a language like Python down to native code, they are still very li
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The "JavaScript is like Self" fallacy is just another variant of the "JavaScript is like Scheme" fallacy. It sounds great to the person claiming it, and to an unsuspecting audience. But on closer inspection, the similari
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Deserved or not, fedoras and similar hats have become associated with hipsters today. The public at large generally does not like to deal with hipsters, for a variety of reasons (their typical attitude is a big one). It's really no dif
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I don't think it's anywhere near "close to 100%", like you're claiming. IIS is still quite widely used for many web sites. Netcraft's latest survey results suggest just slightly under 30% of all web sites are s
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Well, it's understandable where the concern is coming from. We've seen 0.x releases of Rust for nearly two full years now, and even the most recent ones have had significant changes. While we've heard that a 1.0 release is pl
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That's the kind of attitude that will ensure that Rust does not see truly widespread adoption. Windows is, like it or not, still a very significant platform today. Poor Windows support will hurt the adoption of Rust. It shouldn't
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Is the "Error establishing a database connection" message that's currently showing an actual error message? Or is it just a play on the "Burn the Fucking System to the Ground" theme in the supposed article's ti
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I haven't used React, but the approach you describe sounds very much like how early C++ UI toolkits worked. Applications would be built of "reusable, nested components", often called "widgets". The widgets would be
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Mozilla owe it to themselves to get as many users of Rust as possible, especially if they intend to use it seriously at some point for their own software. Only languages with strong adoption truly survive and provide an ecosystem rich with
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The problem with MOOC forums are that they bring together students with very different expectations and attitudes toward education and learning. During the courses I took, I noticed certain trends. Students with Indian-looking names were of
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But when does the front-loaded experimentation phase end? When is it "good enough" to get a stable, usable release out there into the wild? It's easy to say "Before the end of 2014." but I think we potential users n
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I really want to be able to use Rust, but then I keep seeing changes that seem to go around and around in circles. I do appreciate that it's very very hard to get things right the first time around and I understand that some experiment