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by SPBS 3y ago
Don't agree that links should be underlined. When there are a lot of links, underlining them makes the paragraph look very messy and hard to read [1]. Wikipedia for example does not underline its links. Just keep them blue. [1] https:
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by SPBS 3y ago
It won't be changing the status quo anytime soon.
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by SPBS 3y ago
Because educational YouTubers only get one shot at bringing their point across (once the video is created, it's there for good) so they really polish every aspect of their video. Also there's the part where they can't assume
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by SPBS 3y ago
Simple code is easy to change, I feel like a lot of architecture astronauts ( cough Enterprise Java cough ) don't get that. "Why is everything an interface?" "Because we may need to swap out its implementation in the fut
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by SPBS 3y ago
Methinks any social network that prioritizes its tech over user experience will not take off. It doesn't mean that new tech is automatic grounds for failure, but if that's all you have to show for it right now you barely have anyt
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by SPBS 4y ago
Wait, they were familiar with terminal commands (dir vs ls) but they didn't know how PATH worked? Or am I misunderstanding something
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by SPBS 4y ago
I mean, if you strongly hold this opinion then Go is really not the language for you. And if you don't use Go then it shouldn't really bother you either. Let Go devs be Go devs.
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by SPBS 4y ago
Yeah that's true, but that's because GitHub Gist doesn't word wrap. If you click the "Raw" format, the plaintext will wrap properly in the browser.
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by SPBS 4y ago
The given quote by the Japanese psychotherapist captures the intent better: > “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you i
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by SPBS 4y ago
My codebase at work is written in Java 8, I honestly don't see what other benefits upgrading the language would bring. There's already so much business code written in the old Java 8 style (which works), don't go trying to ch
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by SPBS 4y ago
> The DRY acronym came from The Pragmatic Programmer > almost every instance of DRY people complain about is not at all what is advocated in the book. It's futile to bang the drum insisting that people follow the original meaning
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by SPBS 4y ago
Thanks, this comment accurately captures my discomfort when reading the parts where Uncle Bob was talking. He consistently portrays Clean Code as a programmer friendliness vs processor speed tradeoff, while my impression of Clean Code has n
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Frontlines is a Roblox experience that you won't believe is a Roblox experience(youtube.com)
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by SPBS 4y ago
> There’s a nuanced and interesting discussion to be had here but the author chooses to demonise and insult entire communities. Does this rhetoric help anyone? I mean, it is true that the SPA community has basically taken control of th
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by SPBS 4y ago
> The mobile phone app is a pretty buggy …Is it written in a cross platform framework?
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by SPBS 4y ago
Regarding new programming languages, I like this checklist system from https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yur154/a_new_p... - Can you compile and run a basic program? - Can you “Hello World” y
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by SPBS 4y ago
This sentence stood out to me: > In my case, writing these kinds of essays is my way of understanding myself. I don’t do it to build an audience or to seek recognition for them. I do it because I want to explore why I struggle with the t
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by SPBS 4y ago
> And so we lost the incentive for a lot of the best and most interesting authors to bother because they were getting swamped by content-mill type authors. As of December, about 30% of our recommendations are generated by a new system th
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by SPBS 4y ago
> One of the most powerful features of Asciidoc is the attributes and blocks system. Asciidoc documents are structured in blocks, which are arbitrary length collections of lines. Lines can be text, attributes, directives, or formatting i
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by SPBS 4y ago
That's true. However I also like to not mess around with any deferred functions that have to capture an error variable by name (named returns) or by pointer so that it can modify the error on the way out. Calling rows.Close() after you
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by SPBS 4y ago
They'll never go away, it just morphed into "Go was wrong and finally learnt the lesson that Java 5 did 19 years ago by adding in generics". Go showed that useful software could be written without user-level generics. I don&#
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by SPBS 4y ago
To avoid the function overhead, you can also defer the Close() and explicitly call Close() at the end: defer rows.Close() /* do things */ err = rows.Close() if err != nil { } 1. If the explicit Close() is
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by SPBS 4y ago
https://dyscour.se/post/12679668746/using-tai64-for-logging > This means that the date is stored as a 64-bit number, the bottom 63 bits being the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 in TAI, offset by 2^62. In es
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by SPBS 4y ago
This feels like another scrum workshop or whatever they teach to non tech managers. Forcing a specific workflow without ever explaining why (context -> containers -> components -> code), not a single mention about the problem domai
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by SPBS 4y ago
The same company that stopped officially maintaining their golang library when it wasn't getting "the growth we were hoping for". https://github.com/prisma/prisma-client-go/issues/707
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by SPBS 4y ago
Oh great, it seems like this year he made the sarcasm about Larry Ellison a lot easier to pick up. Frankly I was still unsure how he really felt about Larry after his review from last year[1]. After reading this, it confirms to me that he d
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by SPBS 4y ago
I actually like Microsoft Store for its ability to update PowerShell for you.
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by SPBS 4y ago
Google search results vs reddit threads
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by SPBS 4y ago
The embedded nature of SQLite is somewhat offset by the stack still requiring PHP + Apache installed, what's one more dependency (MySQL)? All WordPress hosts already have MySQL installed, while installing WordPress from scratch is stil
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by SPBS 4y ago
It doesn’t mean it’s Python’s fault, but it fosters a culture where Python developers who regularly follow the language and are some of the ecosystem’s biggest authors are enticed to trying out the fancy new features (even if the old way st

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