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by _bxg1 7y ago
Maybe "by the type system" was the wrong way to say that. What I meant is that if I wanted to write my own Result, say Result2, it wouldn't be included in the question mark syntax. Perhaps I could write a macro for it, I gues
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yes. I've used Rust (in a hobby capacity) for a couple years now, I've written a fair amount of C++ and have a clear understanding of how pointers and references work, yet these two cases you mention sometimes remain mysterious to
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> Alex Waugh, director general of Nabim, says the issue isn't being able to mill enough flour - but the lack of capacity to pack it into small bags for retailers. Only around 4% of UK flour is sold through shops and supermarkets, ac
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Rust is still much less complicated than C++ IMO. For now. I'm hoping it doesn't catch up in 20 years.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> Can you name some examples of "frivolous sugar"? The one mentioned in the article seemed fairly frivolous to me. I don't know if I can name one that's already been accepted into the language which I would call friv
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by _bxg1 7y ago
My main concern is with new syntaxes. Expanding use-cases for existing ones, loosening restrictions that can be safely loosened, etc. are all well and good. But layering on new sugar-syntaxes that aren't truly necessary makes the langu
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I'm getting seriously concerned about feature-creep in Rust. I understand that there was an initial period of rapid growth as the community figured out what was needed, and that some of Rust's syntax sugar makes a very real differ
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I don't think it's impossible to mix the two successfully, but I think it varies greatly by what the project is. Some things monetize very naturally, other things would completely lose their appeal if you tried to contort them int
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I think a lot of it has been driven indirectly by vehicle regulation. The past few years have seen several major countries establish end-dates for gasoline powered vehicles. This has spurred development of battery technology - very importan
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by _bxg1 7y ago
a) The economic snowball we're finally starting to see for renewables is largely driven by governments finally being forced by the undeniable reality to take real regulation steps. b) The economic cost of waiting 10 years to address an
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> In December, I spent most of two days studying “Las Meninas” during a visit to Madrid, when I believed that my end was near. I had set myself the task of ignoring all received theories about this voluminously analyzed masterpiece and,
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I believe these models just don't even try to project subsequent peaks.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I'm in Texas and our projections look shockingly optimistic. At time of writing this says we will, at peak, fill only 30% of our ICU beds capacity, or 75% in the worst-case scenario. I want to believe this is true but it's hard to
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by _bxg1 7y ago
My company recently furloughed some people, and at least in our case, they got to keep health insurance. Normally that would be cold comfort, but... right now it's pretty important.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I'm in the same boat. Another thing I've realized is that while my interest may jump between half a dozen different things, if I just let it run its course, it tends to circle around. I.e. I don't leave an endless trail of pr
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> The further down the stack you go, the slower technology moves and the easier it is to stay relevant. I don't think this can quite be generalized. Front-end web certainly moves the fastest, but does Windows application development
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Little a Clojure, as a treat
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Broken link
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> Offshore is fine when you need grunt work, pounding out CRUD interfaces or already having a detailed spec. My partner works at a startup with a very simple CRUD project. They outsourced one of the early sections of that UI. Even in suc
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I didn't say Asian labor, I said cheap/hasty labor. As the article makes clear, you can get that in the States too.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
When will companies learn that cheap development labor always ends up being more expensive than starting with quality? This same story has been playing out over and over for decades .
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> A web app with several megs of JS is most likely being developed and pushed to production on a schedule (daily, or weekly, or something). So you're probably re-downloading the whole thing every few days. That's a fair point t
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> Gmail used to be fast, and now it's slow and bloated. On my fiber connection, it takes nearly two seconds to render anything beyond a loading animation (generally a bad sign) and several more seconds to fully stream in content for
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I doubt many enterprises upgraded to those, though. Even regular consumers hated the interface upheaval, and enterprises are extra sensitive to those kinds of changes.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
My point is that they almost certainly have both IE and Edge installed. It's entirely possible to continue using IE for their legacy app and use Edge for everything else. In fact if their IT department cares at all about security, it s
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by _bxg1 7y ago
That's different. A web browser is an interface to the outside world which executes arbitrary foreign code as a regular course of operation . Any IT department that forcibly limits people to use the world's least-secure browser i
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Unless they're running an unsupported version of Windows, they almost certainly have Edge preinstalled; they don't have to go download Chrome.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
IE11 was supplanted by Edge years ago. Windows 10 ships with Edge preinstalled (it comes with both, but you're not stuck with IE). Windows 7 and older are no longer supported by MS. The only in-between is Windows 8 which everyone hat
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by _bxg1 7y ago
No blinding on a study of a psychological condition just seems doubly bad
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I think the exit strategy is the most important part. This manager sounds like an abusive psycho, and you do not want to be working with that type of person, much less for that type of person. Mitigate it in the meantime; these CYA strate

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