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by alkonaut 1y ago
It's certainly reaching "maturity". And I'd say it's improving still but the improvements are small (which is expected at that point). I wouldn't say it's past its peak because it's still improving an
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I'd say it's never been better tbh. I can't speak for Gen Z but .NET (for some reason) was never the choice of startups. Possibly because there is still a cost associated with the best developer experiences, such as for the b
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by alkonaut 1y ago
It kind of is more confusing because I always imagined the RHS to be evaluated first in an assignment, before the target is evaluated. The motivation is that you don't want the side effects in some cases like GetNextId() but I think i
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by alkonaut 1y ago
When you don't, you'd likely have an Maybe<string> for a username that would be a "string?" in C#. It's the same thing (more or less). For your optional type you still need some form of pattern matching to f
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Yes, this doesn't actually add anything to the "size" of the language, if anything it actually shrinks it. It's existing syntax (the ? and ?? operators) and existing semantics. The only thing was that it worked in half t
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Sounds fair? Both creators and YouTube have the same goal of having people watch ads (or pay not to).
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I'm a developer since 30 years. I program C#, Rust, Java, some TS etc. I can probably go to most repositories on github and at least clone and build them. I have failed - repeatedly - to build even small C++ libraries despite reasonabl
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> Yes, C++ can be unsafe if you don’t know what you’re doing. But here’s the thing: all programming languages are unsafe if you don’t know what you’re doing. I think this is one of the worst (and most often repeated arguments) about C++.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I love the Spotify era where artists actually want, and some times need, to go on tour again. And while some artists might be capable of producing new good music, the sad fact is that the music we enjoy most was the one from our youth. So i
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by alkonaut 1y ago
That's what caused the "outrage" (perhaps more "discussion", "introspection", ...). And without that, there is no art.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
What exactly is the plan? To mandate some client side checking so that transfer encryption backdoors won't be needed? At what level would you need to do that? E.g. for iOS and then iOS need to comply with every app store app having it
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I see people every day who have their iphone in their back pocket while sitting. I can’t imagine this model would handle that unless it’s made from pure unobtanium.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I'm going to add +1 to the crowd that thinks that almost no one ever said "Nice, but I wish it was thinner". Who would that be really? Surely apple made their market research before spending the R&D money creating this pr
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Let me rephrase it: "invalid states unrepresentable" should hold true, but the hard part is that these invalid states should can change. Your model should be flexible enough to allow changing what constitutes invalid states. Any i
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I have no idea. I know Azure does for the student/msdn/and similar accounts which are the only cloud services I use for personal projects. So I Azure doesn’t even have my credit card.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I would never use a cloud service that doesn't let me set a hard cap for any service. Not just an alert. A hard cap.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
For usual corporate crimes: Usually CEO and/or a few senior individuals who you could prove was part of a conspiracy and aware it was a crime, through emails, chat logs etc.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> Microsoft didn't even pay any money, they had to change how they operated their business in the US. They had to do that, or else what? Some form of cruel and unusual punishment that doesn’t involve fines? Isn’t this process about
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> And before we "Just don't break the laws" take note of the fact the the EU has a dead tech scene. What are you implying? That letting foreign companies break laws would help the tech scene? Or that the attention is so li
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Noncompliance fines from day 61, 62, … will start ticking regardless I assume?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
So if one ignores the liability/regulation part of this stunt, and just look at the technical merit. Could you then say that this blockchain really provides nothing that a traditional centralized system wouldn't? But at much highe
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Is this like Uber and AirBnB all over? They don't want to be a bank just like Uber doesn't want to be Taxi (means following regulations about insurance, accessibility etc) and AirBnB doesn't want to be a hotel nor a landlord?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Technically, how does the "every UI action is a commit on a DVCS graph" work? Would every application that is a native étoilé app use this api to construct its UX and document formats? And every app that is not would _not_ have th
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by alkonaut 1y ago
or interesting? I mean, why did you point it out? Wasn't it roughly what one would think/expect?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
How is that surprising?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
No one is claiming it is storing electricity. I think people who use imperial (BTU) units for heat but SI units for electric power some times get confused by what power really is and what a battery is. Something that stores _energy_ is a ba
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I don't think the centralization and security must be mutually exclusive. So long as the alternative is _also_ secure, it's a win-win. But that's the big problem.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
It's not like it had a good reputation earlier either (as a company, perhaps less problematic as an employer). But if I was offered multiple FAANG positions because I had some really attractive skill set, then I'd want a _lot_ mor
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I meant in the sense of ”machine A only manages thing authentication” and ”machine B only manages orders”. If that’s possible (regardless of what was deployed to the two machines) then the app just isn’t a true monolith.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Make it an obscure option in the first time setup so all the users that click next next next will end up with the secure mode, while the open mode requires fiddling. This isn’t a gdpr opt out where both alternatives need to be equally easy.

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