Roboprog

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by Roboprog 10y ago
Sorry to vent on you, specifically, but many people seem to have missed the point where I said I wanted them. I just don't want to be forced into a jail cell 100% of the time. I want an escape hatch to do the needful once in a while t
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I don't know Haskell, but that sounds good. Thanks.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
It is, you're right. But finding out something about the chemical makeup of an extrasolar planet seems much more interesting to me, especially if we find a "goldilocks zone" planet, regardless of whether or not there is ev
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Meta: I like how both you and I were down-voted. Even though we have opposing opinions. Whatever.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I guess as long as a language is used in at least 11% of projects, it can avoid being "one-nine" dead :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Languages never die. But companies stop making new projects with them - for some number of 9s percent of companies. E.g. - FOOGOLTRAN is a five-nine dead language, if 99.999% of new projects don't use it.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I am glad to see that this is optional. We need languages that mix compile/parse time (static) and run time (dynamic) types, to mix what fits best to each situation. Of course type checking can catch some problems. The more extremi
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I don't understand the downvotes on you. At the end of the day, dear Google is (now) still just a marketing company, however well they may treat the intellect they are hoarding. Yes, I'm ignoring that Google was founded on some re
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Sorry about the confusion. By "back end" I meant the tone generator(s) that your "sequencer" (?) is calling.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Amen. If you are really good at CSS, you might play to that strength. Or, you might play to different strengths. There's probably more than one way to do it in many cases that doesn't hurt the project.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I like the idea of "patch golf". If only people would at least do a diff before they commit to spot gratuitous reformatting or accidental changes :-(
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by Roboprog 10y ago
What back end code have you integrated this with? Have you tried "flocking"? http://flockingjs.org/ (I have not, I'm just wondering about somebody else's experience with this sort of thing in JS) I&#x2
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I was thinking that having a few feet of gravel between you and radiation would be useful for a base, as well as the ease of coming and going from a smaller body. I suppose it would be helpful to build some kind of centrifuge in any base to
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Somehow, this sound more interesting than sending Buzz Lightyear to Mars. OK, a Mars mission would be pretty cool, but this would be some serious science. Can you image any planets in the system of the 3 closest stars? What are their spec
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Clearly, more training on the Vomit Comet is needed :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
A near-earth asteroid might be a better choice.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
E.g. - recovering film from spy satellites. Sometime around the time the shuttle went live, the military discovered CCD or similar cameras and encryption. The "Keyhole" satellites used to parachute down film canisters, which would
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I think a related, contributing problem is an inability to create and describe abstractions. Time and again, I see projects where the developer(s) is/are unable to do anything beyond one line after another of calls into low level libra
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I guess it's quick, but the apartments they are supposedly planning would seem a much better use of land.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm not disagreeing with everything you said, BUT, most pension plans I have seen only pay about 1 to 2 percent of your (ending) salary per year of service, which means something in the range of 20 to 40 percent of your ending salary w
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I think there are often several candidates in the primary election for any given office (not just president) that would like to, but it only takes one stalking horse funded by the rich in either party to ad-bomb the election, fragment the v
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by Roboprog 10y ago
One key thing the author started to allude to: the value of functions - pure functions, vs a cyclic graph of mutable objects with temporal coupling of state changes and spaghetti inheritance out the wazoo. OK, he didn't say that exa
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Offshoring fun & games: another team bought this expensive Java caching service thing from IBM. They did not bother to learn how to properly code the fetches so that the calls included "cache miss" logic to get missing items
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I worked in a smaller, "high value investor" unit, within a parent mutual fund company. It was very much not a tech company, although there were a few good people in the org. There was of course a big focus on buying supported pa
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Java-land has been going for about 20 years, and went through a bit of a house-cleaning about 10 years ago around the time the Maven project started. Javascript, a la Web 2.0, has really only been a serious development thing for about 10 ye
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Luck, mostly. However, libraries do tend to fall into 2 categories: small, and big. (yeah, I worked hard to come up with those) * Small, sharp tools (sometimes) - things like Google Guava "collections" utilities, or the Ostermi
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Having spent almost 5 years at a financial company, I get you. To others out there, make sure you charge clients accordingly if you have to do this. "Captain Obvious" out!
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by Roboprog 10y ago
It's hard (not impossible) to avoid this with some user interface code, due to the amount of connected, stateful cruft (hopefully the state is pushed out to the edges, but it has to be there somewhere). I do appreciate little utility l
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Preface: I'm not saying "coupling" is good. Doesn't npm manage transitive dependencies, just like Maven in Java-land? I sure thought it did. Are package maintainers just not getting their dependencies right? E.g. - &
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by Roboprog 10y ago
OK, thanks. I was focusing on the "definition" part, rather than the "usage" part of the types. It never occurred to me to put variables names inside parens in a declaration when I did C, though. But OF COURSE it&#x2

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