Roboprog

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841.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Or elephants? Matriarchal herd vs non-breeding "rogue" males.
842.
by Roboprog 10y ago
The whole "work until you can't think at all" thing really does sound like propaganda, doesn't it?
843.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks. That actually looks better to me than JSX, and I would like to avoid transpiling JS in a pure web app. (disclosure: I've been an Angular 1 dev for a bit over a year and only skimmed some React material, but I have also done o
844.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Ah, thanks. So further improved primate detection of ripe fruit, then.
845.
by Roboprog 10y ago
In fairness, I have 2 phones. My personal phone is an Android, because I'm cheap. My work phone is an iPhone, and it has MUCH better battery life. Most features might be quite similar, but as far as I know, using [Objective] C on cus
846.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Did anybody happen to see anything in the article about what wavelength the extra cone type was actually (most) sensitive to??? The article hyped the "millions of colors" aspect, but nothing about whether it was deeper reds, highe
847.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Hah. I have been working for UC for a while on a project revamp for the state (CA). Make the table and the screen look just like form # xxx ... You got it :-)
848.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Suggested edit: s/This is total bullshit/Perhaps you overlooked something:/. Otherwise, this would have been a good comment, I think.
849.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I like IntelliJ, but I still spend time here and there window-shopping the settings and plugins. That seems to be the nature of things, regardless of the tool.
850.
by Roboprog 10y ago
A tree view of the bazillion files in the typical Java project. (of course, if the project wasn't organized as one file per "design pattern" + domain part, each file of which has 1 or 2 executable lines nested within the req
851.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Love your description of the C/Java regime as a coup d'etat. Join the dynamic programming underground! :-) (Or at least use a static language that's not all jacked up)
852.
by Roboprog 10y ago
So PG has a process pool instead of a thread pool. (I doubt either database is spawning procs/thds anew willy nilly for each request). This means the PG has explicit IPC overhead, vs the quick and seductive path (to the dark side?) o
853.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Like you said, the connection is still in use while waiting for I/O, at which point, another process or thread runs a bit and can also kick off some I/O on yet another connection. Numbers vary, but that's the principal that u
854.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Forgot to mention: once you reach a certain pixel density, you really hit the point of diminishing returns. 4K x 2K on a small laptop screen is going to look much the same to my aging eyes as 2K x 1K on that size. Now, give me a nice 40 t
855.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I remember the horror I felt when first reading about threads in Novell and OS2 back around 1990 or so. Threads provide a lot of research opportunities. Should they really be exposed at the application programming level? Java was a nice t
856.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Well, titanium has a a lot of strength relative to its weight, but I think you might need some kind of tungsten alloy for your budding weapon X program :-) I have no idea how toxic tungsten is, buy hey, it's Wolverine, right?
857.
by Roboprog 10y ago
The silver oxidizes and disappears after a while (few weeks?) though, right? (probably by design)
858.
by Roboprog 10y ago
If that's the worst issue, I'm not seeing much of a problem. I guess I'm not particularly hyped about intro of "let" (block scope) into Javascript, vs "var" (function scope), either, but it bothered some
859.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thank you (literally LOL). Point taken :-)
860.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Re: 1080p. We lived with 480 i in our most-used display for a very long time :-) (comment written on my aging MBP with a 700-something screen, rather than 1080/retina class display)
861.
by Roboprog 10y ago
While others have pointed out the value of popularity, I think you make an interesting point about SO part of the ranking. Consider the corners in the graph off the line. E.g. - SQL: "nobody" is making voluntary github projects
862.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Actually, I'm hoping to avoid TypeScript. Its use in Angular 2 probably makes it inevitable, though. At the moment, still using ES 5 (for an Angular 1 app), as we have to support IE 11 and started the project a while back before Angul
863.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Regarding FP: My daughter is a (non CS STEM) student at UC. She knows one language: "R". (I tried to get her to learn Python in high school, but it never took) While R is certainly not a general purpose language (yet?), it is v
864.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Best of both worlds in Javascript. Use "IIFE" to make an anonymous function and call it. The editor lets you elide the function if you don't want to see the details, or leave it "open" if you want to read it. If i
865.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Emacs would split the terminal screen, showing the gdb interpreter/prompt in the bottom pseudo-window where you could interact with it, and the source code for the current function in the top "window", with a visual "poi
866.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I don't know. I suspect it would be a pretty safe bet that an IBM programmer would be within a standard deviation of mean productivity output: any less, and they would be culled; any more, and they would leave. +/- 1 sigma cove
867.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Sorry, missed that second to the last one. No guidelines on downvoting, though???
868.
by Roboprog 10y ago
I don't understand the downvote. Debugging C with gdb + emacs (albeit 20 years ago) was a decent experience. Even for a vi user...
869.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Sadly, I think I got it: progress = market saturation = dumbing it down. Idiocracy, in action. :-)
870.
by Roboprog 10y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, you two. Still, it's probably doable to increase the battery capacity a bit to get cruising time (vs high powered climbing time). Not there yet, but probably within spitting distance of a few of the use c

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