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by _xiaz 2y ago
I learned a great deal by working through a bunch of haskell coding puzzles on codewars after only reading the first six chapters. This helped a bunch with getting good at higher order functions and recursion. I took a detour to lisp after
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by _xiaz 2y ago
Which makes some sense if rust is only of tangential concern... "I build cool thing X in rust applause " sucks and is borderline spammy imo But when discussing a language feature, a type, including the language name should be a
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by _xiaz 2y ago
The article is on point. I've been a paying customer for years, but this makes me worried. I hope they come to their senses and this is just a one-off
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by _xiaz 2y ago
This article is filled with odd takes. > But, like most people, I’m not persuaded by those who release something into the world for free, and basically guilt trip people for it. Who guilt trips their users into donating to them? > To
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by _xiaz 2y ago
No, I need a diagramming tool. Excalidraw lives on
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by _xiaz 2y ago
As a linux admin, bash and python are my bread and butter. I have two heuristics for choosing between them: - If it needs more math than counting, choose Python - If it's >200 lines (500 if I'm brave), choose Python Otherwise,
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by _xiaz 2y ago
Yes, and it's full of pepperoni!
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by _xiaz 2y ago
I say leave it at 22 and use public key authentication. If a hacker can crack that, they deserve my server!
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by _xiaz 2y ago
In defense of CDNs they're also pretty neat for cutting down latency, which benefits even the first customer. Of course that only helps if you don't end up shoving dozens of MBs in Javascript/JSON over the wire.
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by _xiaz 2y ago
I'd be willing to bet good money that 99% of malware authors won't adapt, since 99% (more like 99.999%) of the billions of worldwide windows users will not have this installed. For the cat to care about the mouse it needs to at le
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by _xiaz 2y ago
You must be fun at parties!
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by _xiaz 2y ago
Most obvious thing missing is your hosting provider and how much control you want there (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
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At the extreme end, and with no claims of scalability, you have shell: everything is a string. I'm skeptical that sophisticated type systems need to exist. Perhaps I should dust off my copy and start reading SICP
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I agree with your sentiment for the inverse reason. Most programming languages are pretty neat. Learning is a joy. That's why language hops are fun and common. But yes, few things make me cringe more than someone selling themselves sho
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by _xiaz 2y ago
Great post and very relatable. I too had my phase with a month of Haskell and then many more with Clojure. Even some other lisp exploration. It's a lot of fun, but I've since come to terms that from a career and business perspecti
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by _xiaz 2y ago
I'm prepared for that scenario and can migrate to a different host in about an hour. I advise users on github pages don't make use of platform specific features, mostly the default jekyll, for that reason
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by _xiaz 2y ago
Any reason in particular for going with cloudflare pages instead of github pages? The latter has served me well for years, but I'm wondering if I'm missing out