SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
It's actually worse than you're saying. NoSQL databases have been around since the 60s [1], and the term was created in 1998. Two decades ago. Is the author of this manifesto saying that they'll only work with tech from the 5
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Now I want to see something like Prettier (a code formatter that enforces _exact_ whitespace and specific optional syntax) that will parse C code and fill in the correct parameter names, in comments, based on the headers, for any boolean pa
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Only for versions of "now" that date back to 1975 , since that's when the law was passed.
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
This is entirely a straw man, and doesn't even represent the reality (or age!) of the law. What the law implies is that Apple needs to continue to warrant the REST of the iPad, even if someone else has done work on the iPad at some poi
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Nothing can replace many, many years of experience. Some skill in general optimization-thinking is key. The ability to visualize how the entire system works is key. Aptitude for API and general architectural design is key. And even when you
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
I think you need senior _technology_ people from day one, if you want to build to scale, and you don't really want to pay to build everything twice _and_ pay for extreme server costs _and_ pay to migrate from the old to the new system.
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Which would mean exponentially growing testing requirements on the part of the company delivering the updates. "Should" in an ideal world doesn't equal "should" in a world with deadlines and limited resources. It&#x
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
I have experienced short-term thinking, driven by stock market expectations, very directly. Working on a game, we had a build ready two weeks before the end of a quarter, but we weren't quite done. We had just a few minor tweaks that
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
I haven't tried either, no. They do look nice, but they still only solve part of the problem. I have only been tasked with fixing setups on Jenkins, and a friend of mine has spoken at length about how difficult things are to set up.
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Honestly, I would guess you've nailed it: The delivery company is collecting a fee because they are only paid for per delivery, so making a driver (and truck) wait doesn't otherwise make them money. But there's no guarantee t
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Correct. But the idea is that WebRender uses the same (general) techniques that a game-engine like this would use to make web page renders happen faster.
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Speaking of batching, I look at this demo [1] on my mobile phone, and I can get ~3500 sprites without dropping below 60FPS. A web page may not be able to reuse as much image data, I know. But smart game engines frequently look for ways to b
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Yeah. My wife has a friend who's a long-haul trucker. He gets profoundly disrespected by the current system, including showing up at 8AM to an appointment and being made wait all day, and sometimes into the next day, for his truck to b
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Jenkins is also a bloody pain in the ass. Just saying.
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
It's pretty trivial to use with Node. You just need to have a source folder, set up your tsconfig.json file with your preferred options, and then run: tsc --watch There's also an REPL for Node here: https:/&#x2
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
> I'd be just as fund of another language that would be functional, immutable, interactive and with smart abstractions. You get all of the above with TypeScript except immutability. Pull in Lodash for extra functional sauce, or the
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
>I don't know, sounds like it's just not as awesome for you, but probably is that awesome to all those famous people saying it is. Like our pg? Who loves Lisp to death, and made his first major app (a web page store generator,
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
>Yes, but I bet the first one's you've learned were already algol-like. BZZZZT! Wrong answer! I started with BASIC and transitioned from there to assembly language. Wrote several games and device drivers in assembly language (B
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
I spent months working on a Lisp project in college. I pretty much hated it. Some people (myself included) don't like the aesthetics of Lisp as a language, nor do we like the enforced functional program structure, nor do we like the
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
I have been using TypeScript. The TypeScript compiler gives me roughly 1-2 second builds, even on a large project that (it can watch code and build incrementally). So I get the benefits of static types, plus the benefits of fast iteration,
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
8000' is high enough for people to have problems (I live near the mountains in Colorado, and whenever I'm at a vacation destination that's at 8000' or more, they always have oxygen canisters for sale). But people hike&#x
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
You're right. I should have said there's no reason to worry about competently designed UI control performance. Swing was, in fact, an absolute disaster.
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Linux has Electron compatibility already. On desktop there is no good reason to worry about "native" control performance. And considering that React Native can barely seem to keep the controls in sync on iOS and Android [0], tryin
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
> Frankly I'd be surprised if she had never been harassed in some way. 1. She grew up in Denmark 2. She works in the UK From what I've heard, both are far more progressive and egalitarian than the US. If the people you know are
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
No, you're missing the part where women leave tech in droves because of the treatment they experience. Sure, we need to get more women into the pipeline. But we also need to not be pushing them out of the industry because they don&#x
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
A few minutes ago it looked like the content had been deleted. Right now I tried twice; first time I got a Tumblr error page, the second time I got a redirect to an "Enter Password" field on a Tumblr blog page. I'm going to s
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
> Are these tools really the main source maintenance pain for web developers? I consider TypeScript (or Elm) support a best practice for "JavaScript" development, so something that brags about not having a development workflow
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
Hey neighbor! I'm in Lafayette as well, over by the library. 20 minutes to Boulder, Longmont, or 30 minutes to Denver. It's a great location. Agreed, it's awesome here, though the prices are going up pretty quickly. That said
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
It's listing what technologies are used by developers. I would wager very few use Macs to develop for Windows. The vast majority of developers out there are using Windows. I would believe the majority of start-up engineers are using Ma
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by SomeCallMeTim 9y ago
> it's a solution that can't be fully cross platform. I call B.S. on that. There's nothing stopping Apple from creating an API that anyone can register with, or even providing an XMPP gateway to allow completely non-Apple

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