Roboprog

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by Roboprog 7y ago
Marketing data The referred by string in the request tells them what page the user is loading which requires a script from this CDN. They could have other business angles as well, but user tracking is certainly one possibility.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Again, “Perl6” was already taken as a name. Yeah, just like that, all over again.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Ah, a kindred spirit. I too despise Angular’s static-OOP, inversion of control dependency injection framework aspect. I’m working on two huge projects using AngularJS, but would just as soon do the next with Vue. Hopefully Typescript does
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by Roboprog 7y ago
It sounds like type inference for object literals is coming along, even if there a few quibbles about some of the defaults on literals mentioned here. Did they ever get a solution in place for partial function application (e.g. - as for Ram
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by Roboprog 7y ago
So, the M5 (M05) needed more power? As somebody who started out in the 80s with Apple II and C64 stuff the year before going to college, I always laughed at the old “Star Trek’ episode where the new computer has to tap into the main engine
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Or worse, Typescript. Nothing but class files, many with one or two public func^H^H^H^H methods in each file, as far as the eye can see :-( To me, idiomatic JS is FP oriented, but I guess that’s just me. Most of my work has been on the f
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Objective C and SmallTalk use named parameters as well
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Network TV sure had nothing on the internet, eh? https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blueoystercult/harvesterofey...
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by Roboprog 7y ago
I remember back in the early 90s having a copy of both Borland packages Pascal and C++ for Windows (3.x). They had similar demo programs. I compared one of them (forgot which) The C++ demo would build in 5 minutes on my machine. The [Obje
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by Roboprog 7y ago
And the file browser app lets me get just about everything I need to in and out of music production apps. E.g samples and rendered songs.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
True, despite the down vote(s) It’s a natural process, but still dirty and wasteful.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Is it obvious that the same variable is assigned in every branch, though?
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by Roboprog 7y ago
Alternative solution: put the if/else block in an “IIFE” (which Go supports, just like JavaScript) and change the assignments to returns.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
(COND ...), anyone? :-) Ruby has an if/else structure like the Rust/Lisp thing, as well. Tasty.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
You assigned “myVar” in every branch, right? Let me reread that again to make sure you really are assigning myVar in every case. That’s a problem. One I’ve seen all too often, but a problem, nonetheless.
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by Roboprog 7y ago
About the only change I would make to your layout is to put a line break after the “?”, with the value sub-indented on the next line, to avoid “guessing” /maintaining how far to tab over the value column. Thus, it would be layed out li
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by Roboprog 7y ago
One application domain with a largish number of iOS apps is electronic music. The latency (sample buffer size to prevent drop-out due to preemption) on Android is too high, so mobile music production gravitated to iOS. E.g. - the latency o
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by Roboprog 8y ago
Compare something like Java Spring dependency injection of “service” classes to code using partial function application and higher order functions. E.g. - https://ramdajs.com/docs/#partial Of course, I’m assuming that
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by Roboprog 8y ago
Yeah, I hear you. Replacing 10s of thousands of JS lines with 100s of thousands of Java lines doesn’t feel like progress. Most Java (only) programmers look at JS as an “inferior, weird” language, but it’s actually much more powerful and c
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by Roboprog 8y ago
Yes it did! Oh the odd connections between all these living things and their chemicals.
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by Roboprog 8y ago
No MIDI?
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by Roboprog 8y ago
As trollish as that sounds, there's a painful amount of truth there. Program in GNU Pascal or some such thing? Not us. Pedal to the metal!
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by Roboprog 8y ago
I wish the arrogant meme plague of “self documenting “ code would just die, already. TODO: get the link for the study showing it’s about 10% faster to read code with module level documentation
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by Roboprog 8y ago
I don’t think most cities have the economy of scale to justify much software development. This seems like something that needs to be done at the state level, setting up cities and counties as multi-tenants within a state level application.
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by Roboprog 8y ago
Did some work back in the early 90s at a place that sold tools to port RPG code from S/36 and AS/400 to Unix and PC type environments. RPG was not my cup of tea, but the results on the screen looked much like the XBase stuff on PC
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by Roboprog 8y ago
My first part time job while back in college (1985) was doing dBase II work. Then dBase III+, Clipper 86, Clipper 87, ... It sucked not having transactions and referential integrity, but I liked not having to second guess a query planner :
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by Roboprog 8y ago
That’s what I did to my kids for exactly that reason. No way I’m giving teenagers a blank check, no matter how reassuring or enticing the vendors make the deals look. Disclosure: I worked at a place tha did format, print and mail for other
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by Roboprog 8y ago
Edit: “I have a big monitor - and I’m going to write all the way across it”. That’s what needs to stop.
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by Roboprog 8y ago
Textbooks and newspapers print in multiple columns, even when using tabloid size paper, because it’s more readable. There’s empirical evidence to back it up. The “I have a big monitor” guys just need to stop. Please.
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by Roboprog 8y ago
Hierarchy vs list. I don’t want a list (of subroutines). I want a tree of self contained routines. Only your containing routine uses you. Which “private“ routines use which? (I know the IDE will tell me about this routine, and that

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