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by _8ljf 6y ago
“I think the next leap forward in programming is going to offend the sensibilities of current programmers.” Honestly, programmers have been railing against progress ever since the first machine coders shook their canes at those ghastly upst
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by _8ljf 6y ago
“But there's a big difference between little experiments and betting the company on an auto-cannibalization strategy. DEC didn't have the guts to go there.” See also Kodak (invented the digital camera in 1975!), Xerox (We’re a pho
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by _8ljf 6y ago
I was a company director. Started the company, put in the major investment, brought in two other people I knew and trusted as fellow directors, and I still had to walk away 18 months later because all three of us—as first-time directors w
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by _8ljf 6y ago
Why? Will the market be any nicer to them? They’ve failed to make their case as to why anyone should care that Vale exists; never mind actually differentiate it from the current swathe of robust, established Rust-style languages alread
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by _8ljf 6y ago
I’m not a Rust user. I have no particular nag in this race. What I do understand, or at least am start to learn, is the difference between a Technology and a Product, and between a Product and Success. So once again: What is Vale’s USP†? Be
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by _8ljf 6y ago
Raising kids and battling the demon hordes are such obvious good practice for each other, I’m surprised all pregancy sticks don’t already come with DOOM on them as standard.
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by _8ljf 6y ago
At this point in time, it’s a fair assumption that anything the Titular Right accuses its enemies of doing, is what it’s doing itself. Even that notorious house of flaming liberals, the Wall Street Journal, concluded the Hunter Biden thing
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by _8ljf 6y ago
C. The popularity and mindshare of C means most languages of the last 50 years have selectively evolved to be C knockoffs. A pity Bliss wasn’t their role model instead, but that’s the value of market positioning: you don’t need the best pro
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by _8ljf 6y ago
Yep, but there you are refactoring as a necessary prerequisite to achieving a clearly-defined end goal. That’s part of the development roadmap and should be planned and budgeted accordingly. When building a house, a professional builder kno
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by _8ljf 6y ago
“after a few years” Key phrase right there. Because it doesn’t matter what language a system is written in: if management doesn’t bother to hire replacements until after everyone who understands that system and why it works the way it d
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by _8ljf 7y ago
Where did I say “all”? I said “far too many”. Although judging by the amount of crap software around, it’s certainly a lot. “it's also true that business stakeholders need to take the time and understand the impacts of their 'ship
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by _8ljf 7y ago
“I think the reason programming is difficult is that really we are dealing with incomplete information” Dealing with uncertainty and incompleteness is a core part of the job. The problem is that far too many programmers are gloryhounds and
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by _8ljf 7y ago
Yeah. Funny enough, if Apple had skipped OS X and gone directly to iOS, BeOS would have been a superior foundation. No uselessly mismatched security model or crusty legacy API baggage to clog up the new revolution in single-user always-on
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by _8ljf 7y ago
“That said, I don't think the world would be in a better place had Apple chosen Be over NeXT.” Yes. Except that it wasn’t acquiring NeXTSTEP that saved Apple’s skin; it was acquiring Steven P Jobs. True, version 1 had been rough and fl
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by _8ljf 7y ago
Game of Rovers fungus is coming
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by _8ljf 7y ago
That will never happen. JXA is junk, same as Scripting Bridge before it; and they never shit to fix SB even when they had years to do it. There’s a reason Apple finally disbanded the Mac Automation team and fired the PM responsible. JXA sho
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by _8ljf 7y ago
“I finally left and went to work on automation for industries that were receptive to creating tools that would make them more efficient.” Congrats on finally realizing: Not your paygrade, not your problem to fix. First rule of automation su
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by _8ljf 7y ago
You don’t even need to read past the product name. Like a lot of geeks they just don’t have a clue how to sell, nor how to hire talent that can. There is no part of their branding that is not a straight disaster. (And that shoulder massage…
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by _8ljf 7y ago
“I believe the author is misreading this definition.” Agreed. Author has tied self in knots from overthinking it. Homoiconicity has nothing to do with external [text] representation and parsing (deserialization). Homoiconicity in a programm
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by _8ljf 8y ago
If you can’t think of any way that Apple could have created a modern Cocoa App development language with type safety, type inference, and a syntax that doesn’t stink then that’s your failing, not theirs. No, wait… that was their failing as