Roboprog

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by Roboprog 10y ago
FWIW, I'm using Angular (1.x) on a project at work, rather than React. One of the things I did recently was take the CSS file used in the project ("Few Pages App", rather than SPA, which had a common .css file), and turn i
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by Roboprog 10y ago
We Enjoy Typing is the explanation I usually see.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Imagine if every 50 years or so all the land was seized and redistributed among the people/families. How diabolical! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical) Of course, this doesn't actually happen.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
So, if a business is in an office downtown, and there is little real benefit to forcing workers to drive to the common location every day, they would be incentivized to move out to make room for a business (or other activity) that values th
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by Roboprog 10y ago
You found me out! Spot on & upvoted.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
What would happen if we shifted away from income tax to property taxes and import tariffs at the federal level? (adjusted as needed to be "revenue neutral")
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I suppose 2 things would help * Raise taxes on the very rich, and use it to hire people to keep the commons in order. * Get lazy people to go back to school and study to do non-basket-weaving subjects to more efficiently make things that ea
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Hmm. I find that classes and subclasses aren't all that useful, now that I can use higher order functions :-) (I still use classes/objects for services with multiple related operations or polymorphism, but not for one trick pony
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I think I would rather do future "systems level" work in Rust than C, but I'm not sure it would eliminate the desire for automatic memory management in a casual or "ENTERPRISE!!!" (... no intelligent life here, Scot
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Perhaps menu-driven refactoring is overrated? (much like IDE generated getter/setter code, which is solving the wrong problem)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
We finally have tolerable garbage collectors.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Ramda is pretty cool. It's also a really good introduction to use-cases for partial function application ("currying"), vs silly "adder" examples. (think of partial function application as dependency injection for
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Try using one of the JetBrains IDE's, such as IntelliJ or Webstorm, on plain old Javascript some time. It does a surprisingly good job inferring the methods on an object, as well as autocompleting the names of stand-alone functions (m
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks for the response, it was just a rant. I suspect the Rust community and I simply have irreconcilable differences. They want a better C or C++, and like special character ditties such as &, *, <_> (whatever that does), and I
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by Roboprog 10y ago
It's a shame there aren't more "Modula" derived modern languages, rather than trying to force C into being a higher level language. Java, especially at the 1.1 mark, felt like some kind of crippled version of Borland&#x2
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Sure. Good luck getting the unwilling to follow the structure, though.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I have limited experience with this, being in the Sacramento area, rather than the Bay Area. However, my experience back in the late 90s / early 2000s went reasonably well. I was working for a newer department in a firm owned by priva
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Somebody mentioned Brother printers elsewhere. I replaced my HP laser with a Brother laser a while back (just printing "stuff", not photos) I replaced my black cart on the HP (2600n) with a 3rd party product, and got away with it.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Big companies can get away with all kinds of "fecal production" in the US. We're not yet China or Mexico, but we sure as hell ain't the EU, either. All your legislative bases are belong to us, or some such rot.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I would like to thank the team behind this proposal, very much, by the way. I have not tinkered with Ruby in a few years, but this looks like a major breakthrough.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
p = 0, I believe :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I would argue that enforcing, or at least favoring, immutability and the ability to trace data flow is more helpful that static types. You could have both, but I know which one I would rather give up first. (actually, in the best of all w
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Yeah. Seeing some Scala Build Tool stuff a while back really turned me off. Me: ooooh, look at all that overloaded operator stuff! Scala guy: those aren't overloaded operators, they are just function calls with funny names and opti
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Further aside: it's funny that in popular use, "abstract" means "unintelligible", but in math, it means "well defined shorthand", for the purposes of making bigger problems approachable, at all.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Those are some good points. Sometimes, though, you come across some new tricks (perhaps not that new, but anyway) that you really wish your coworkers would get on board with. E.g. - Our current big project at work uses a lot of Javascript.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
One odd thing I noticed. At the size the image displayed on my laptop, I could look at a dot and see the dots to either side, but not the ones above or below, even though they were the same distance apart. I guess at least my fovea must b
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by Roboprog 10y ago
You're right. But I've avoided bringing transpiling or polyfill stuff into our big project at work. I'm the only dev at work who really like JS at all, anyway, so I'm trying to keep it simple for the Java-only crowd.
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by Roboprog 10y ago
Just to clarify, my old MBP has all of these things (and then some). I want its eventual replacement to as well, rather than being minified/brutalized to an aluminum brick with a dinky keyboard, ZERO plugs, induction charging and wi
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by Roboprog 10y ago
I'm too lazy. Perhaps they have something crawling the web to gather "big data" about their public image, etc. If not, oh well :-)
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by Roboprog 10y ago
And I'd like to keep it that way when the one I have wears out.

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