adamwk

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by adamwk 3y ago
It’s interesting that none of the desperate arrangements were lower fees; the closest being ability to upsell preexisting subscribers (off apples platform)
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by adamwk 3y ago
I agree that google apps are especially bad on safari. Meets is frequently very laggy and sheets can take a long time to load with the UI frozen.
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by adamwk 3y ago
Yes, certain language designs make it easier to break APIs for clients, just like the one mentioned above. I was pointing out that this is bad and we should try to prevent that from happening
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by adamwk 3y ago
The issue is that the API can change unintentionally, breaking clients because of an implementation change.
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by adamwk 3y ago
It’s been a while since I’ve worked with universal linking, but doesn’t Apple’s APIs allow you to carry context? Or at least preserve the URL so you can take the user to where they were? I don’t think you need to hijack the pasteboard just
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by adamwk 3y ago
You're correct; Since argument labels are really part of the function name, you can say all function names must be unique
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by adamwk 3y ago
What's unfamiliar about Val? It looks very similar to most languages released in the past 10 years with minor changes.
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by adamwk 3y ago
I think Swift’s error model is my favorite (though Go’s new error stuff seems similar). Unrecoverable errors are unrecoverable (they’re aborts) and other errors are marked in the function’s signature and must be handled explicitly. This mea
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by adamwk 3y ago
But even with unchecked exceptions, the exception value or description will still show up in the logs. I don’t understand how checked exceptions save you from a tyrannical CTO
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by adamwk 3y ago
Isn’t erlang a very different, almost opposite concurrency model? I’m not an erlang expert but async message passing is a very different style. The limitation around background tasks in structured concurrency is trivial in erlang for exampl
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by adamwk 3y ago
I think my best experience with chatgpt is when I was digging around a typescript library without knowing the language. it was very convenient to enter type signatures and learn what they mean. I rarely am doing work like this where it’s wo
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by adamwk 3y ago
This matches my experience. for me it’s really just a better google (but still not good enough to replace it). This includes all the caveats where if you’re truly inexperienced it’s difficult to distinguish the good answers from blogspam qu
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by adamwk 3y ago
It could be retry logic that gets stuck in certain conditions that have been met by how TL blocking is handled.
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by adamwk 3y ago
Right, there's definitely functional-inspired bones (e.g., a view is a function of state); but every hook is a side effect, even the redux ones. And I don't think it would even be improved by being pure; Elm has much more boilerpl
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by adamwk 3y ago
That it’s unacceptable for a rich company to have poor working conditions does not imply it is acceptable for a failing company to have poor working conditions.
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by adamwk 3y ago
Sure but the interface is typesafe and usually that’s good enough. The two methods of the API (NewContext and FromContext) are typesafe from the perspective of the user.
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by adamwk 3y ago
It seems to be pretty close to my program (UCSD). Distributed systems was introduced in operating systems but you had to elect for deeper classes. System design wasn’t really taught unless you mean CPU architectures, which this covers. I’ve
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by adamwk 3y ago
It’s philanthropy the same way Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is philanthropy
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by adamwk 3y ago
Is there l10n and i18n support yet? I don’t know how a UI framework can be considered production ready let alone finished without support for string translations. Last I checked, after Elm 19 killed the third party wrappers around Intl I ha
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by adamwk 3y ago
I’ve been to the restaurant in San Diego and the plates are indeed massive
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by adamwk 3y ago
Just last week owning and borrowing parameters got accepted as well. https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals... It’s been the focus for a while especially after the concurrency work.
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by adamwk 3y ago
Somehow it's still the only smart TV with < 1s input delay
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by adamwk 3y ago
I always consider V1 Apple products like kickstarters funded by Apple whales
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by adamwk 3y ago
I thought terminal.app has very short latency, looking back at the benchmarks written about here https://danluu.com/term-latency/ . Terminal.app’s latency measures around 5ms beating most other terminals. (It’s a shame
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by adamwk 3y ago
Why is it surprising that a full interview is more nuanced than a headline?
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by adamwk 3y ago
GP is saying their opinion is on the PR statement, not the courts ruling
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by adamwk 4y ago
Those are fair points and you also said you didn’t expect them to implement DP. I’m curious what your minimum expectations are for the candidate to solve. When I ask these questions it’s usually about the journey more than the destination (
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by adamwk 4y ago
At least in my experience dynamic programming only comes up when I'm studying for interviews. Of all algorithms common in interview questions, I think DP has the highest ratio for occurrence on whiteboards vs occurrence in most softwar
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by adamwk 4y ago
As an ex-Scala developer I feel like Scala is also the worst language in this regard, even compared to more academic languages. At least Haskell is somewhat prescriptive; in Scala people continually invent new ways to do the same thing. How
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by adamwk 4y ago
For me it’s less about privacy (I just disconnect it from wifi) but just how slow they are. I bought an Apple TV to get around this but it still takes so long for it to even turn on

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