UglyToad

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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Interested to hear of other people's experiences with async await either in C# or other languages. It took a while to click for me in C# but now I understand it, it seems intuitive and usable and I'd be interested to know if there
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   The other thing you see is extraction of logic applied, particularly to business logic, prior to the actual logic being clear. So a developer will notice two very similar bits of code and maybe include some kind of parameter to a method or
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Yes, but 'good coding practices' is relative/subject to interpretation. I see this as a necessary counterpoint to the 'Clean Code to extremes' in a lot of other blog posts. It simply calls for some consideration bef
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   While the example in the article isn't great for making the point I actually agree with the main idea. I understand the arguments for 'Uncle Bobifying' code but I think, as the article says, there's a balance to be struc
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   I believe they've u-turned on it now but I was thinking of this https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2019/... (from Google AMP because I'm on mobile and haven't made
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   I've long regarded the calls to switch to Firefox as tinfoil-hatted crankery but Chrome's behaviour with respect to ad-blocking caused me to finally make the switch. At the time I didn't use ad-blocking at all and didn't
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   I do the things listed, I don't drive, I'm vegetarian, I've stopped flying, I very rarely buy new stuff, I live in a single room but I think it's hopeless. Without fundamental political and societal changes it feels like
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   There are certainly rich people planning to sit out the worst effects, how widespread this is I don't know: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   I saw this list linked yesterday from another HN article, might give some useful jumping off points: https://github.com/kakoni/awesome-healthcare One related thing I found from there was a list of projects for magnetic
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Ah thanks for clarifying, I guess there's a sort of size cutoff where stuff goes from fair use to a derivative work.
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Hmm, I may have misunderstood your point, but as someone socialist / communist leaning I actually intensely dislike the GPL, as far as my admittedly limited, understanding of it goes. GPL needs enforcement which requires the force of l
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I'm interested in this. From what I have read unless you do a 'clean room' rewrite, that is a team reads the code and describes the algorithm to another team with no view of the code, your work can be classified as a derivati
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Is there a way to search for these? I've tried trawling through many sites to find draft versions of ISO 32000-2:2017 but it seems to have fallen down a memory hole. Is there a naming convention around drafts or is it just luck of the
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I just don't get this discussion. And part of it worries me. Open source isn't what you do to get vc funding, it's not what you do to build a unicorn (it shouldn't be). It's in the name, open source, it's a c
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    One thing I've enjoyed doing is taking projects with a permissive license, e.g. MIT or Apache and rewriting them in my language of choice. To start with it's a mechanical exercise in transcription but you begin to learn more about
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I'd agree with you here, I'm still a way off seniority but for me the takeaway from the past 5 years is good code is code that can be deleted with minimal work. All code we write is going to be wrong in some way as a result of our
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I think the amount of discussion on this thread shows why AGPL is such a horrible license, there are loads of interpretations and the only way to know for certain is being sued. I'd rather not have code source available under things li
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I actually tried this at my last job, the idea was to start swapping raises for time since I value my time and life far more than the diminishing returns from more (fairly but) heavily taxed raises but the startup I was at was incredibly ze
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    This touches on something I've been thinking about a bit recently. It seems like software is undergoing a crisis of delivery, though I doubt that's new it still feels like there has not been much progress in delivering software th
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Unless I misunderstood the article is it not the case that this is just .NET Core 5 (we're currently on/near .NET Core 3)? This announcement sounded more like unifying the various different bits of. NET on 5 in future rather than
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    This sounds brilliant if it can be replicated. From what I've read and heard large parts of the medical establishment still treats ME/CFS patients as lazy/making it up. For there to be a positive diagnosis rather than a diagn
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    My gut reaction is that the article is nonsense but I think there's a very valuable point in it. When you work mainly on enterprise code where you're unlikely to encounter any code you wrote, rather than another team member, on a
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Yes I can certainly understand the reasons startup culture leans towards the less verbose less boilerplate demanding languages. For me, my short term memory is too bad for languages without types and autocomplete on the level of JetBrains p
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I don't think there's hate for it as such since HN doesn't really get into holy wars it just ignored for similar reasons to Java. There's a bias towards the novel or newer trends especially coming out of startup culture
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Unfortunately not at the moment sorry, the editing and creation capabilities are extremely limited at present. The library is mainly focused on text extraction but editing is on the road map.
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I've been working on an open source PDF library for C# [1] and its given me an immense appreciation for the PDF format. Sure it's horribly long, complex, comes with vulnerabilities and different consumers have different behaviour.