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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> It's not actually Lisp but some new language with superficially Lisp-like syntax. So, like Clojure.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Stateflow enables better communication with domain experts at automotive OEMs than any other formal or non formal specification language I know. So I'd count this as "plus No Code".
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I think you're confusing Fowler and Uncle Bob.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> The only downside of later optimization is that in commercial environment they often don't let you clean up. Exactly (speaking for custom industrial automation projects). The follow up next requirements for a project might be in 5
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> This sounds like the outcome of bad culture. For 90% of shops outside the cornucopia of SV with unlimited budgets and internal customers only, the client drives decision mercilessly and ruthlessly.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> These tools aren't the simplest things, but so is everything, everywhere. No. An insanely complex Eclipse based Java product I maintained had hundreds of dependencies (including transitive), from a handful of vendors (> 20). Ap
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Go channels are nicest concurrency mechanism I know. They bring nice ergonomics to the conceptual simplicity of a select()/epoll() loop.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Git has a couple obvious flaws, and I expect its successor will be the one that fixes one of them The successor might very well be git 3.0, though.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> it's almost like I've been using only 10% of my mental capacity for work I believe this kind of "we need the brightest engineers to spit out HTML via JS" is the major reason for the ridiculous amount of yak shaving
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Do you happen to know whether there's any McCLIM library that works on Windows with SBCL?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
That's great.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> every new software engineer will need restaurants, cars, etc. These jobs can go to locals. That's the most absurd thing I read today.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> use the CLI and see updates in the GUI Which GUI tool does not?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
I'm also a non-shill advocating SmartGit at any opportunity. Is it so incomprehensible for FOSS users that there are commercial products that are so great that they have a dedicated fan base s opposed to half baked open source crap?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Jon Blow's (developer of "The Witness") Jai is worth mentioning in that context (not released, though).
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
He's a great presenter; show, don't tell.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
A rebuttal by Dijkstra to Backus' paper is here (actually, a deconstruction): http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd06xx/EWD692.PDF
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> Why can’t the taxi companies compete by building an app that provides the booking part? They have. The ruling is completely arbitrary.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
If Michael Kerrisk is reading this: would be great to have a small supplementary book to the great "The Linux Programming Interface" that handles namespaces, capabilities et al.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Hint: PG's little web shop would have been exactly as successful in PHP.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> So they set up the line and in 3 hours he had the whole amount made and put in crates. Just thinking about how all the companies I work for would handle this makes me very ashamed
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
But L. Ron Hubbard ...
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Agreed; it's a blessing. I'm actually keeping my brand of car as long as my mechanic retires, and I have 2 brands that I won't ever touch again due to bad experiences with contract garages.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> from what I know about small children they're likely to be a thousand times more selfish than you Wait until they are 12.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
> _THIS_ is someone that is practicing good software practices. There's nothing specific about software in there. My mechanic does the same type of reasoning.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
From a liability point of view, this only has downsides for a "target" company.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Good, but in this case, the osxfuse maintainer expects to be paid by Apply because they derived from his work ... what about original FUSE, of which osxfuse is spiritually derived? When is it ethically OK to profit from your derived work?
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Give me rsync and a sysadmin any day over a circle jerking dev ops team.
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
This link will cost me dearly ...
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by _pmf_ 7y ago
Since it has not been mentioned (maybe it's common knowledge): cairo is a (wrong) pronunciation of Greek chi rho (XP).

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