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by amw-zero 5y ago
Really, this is why we can’t make any progress. Because this is such a common response to anything. Go back to when you learned your first programming language. EVERYTHING was weird. I honestly don’t understand how after that, brains solidi
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by amw-zero 5y ago
Many newer languages support named function arguments: Swift, Kotlin, etc.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
I am for paying for software. An application like Figma is way more complicated than you’re giving it credit for. Making all software free devalues the whole industry. It’s fair for them to take a piece of the revenue of the companies that
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by amw-zero 5y ago
By that logic we would never get new programming language ideas, because we could only reuse what has already been done.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
I like that description a lot.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
I think this is actually the better definition of property based testing, written by the same author: https://increment.com/testing/in-praise-of-property-based-te... My take: don't shy away from the logic perspect
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by amw-zero 5y ago
This did not convince me that Turing's accomplishments are exaggerated. Anyone who knows computing history knows that there are many people involved. But Turing's contributions are not overstated, they are just accurate. That does
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by amw-zero 5y ago
> The performance of a graph traversal in all current implementations will be at best equivalent to a well crafted join at worst much slower. A join must be implemented with a loop / scan to find the relevant target rows by foreign
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by amw-zero 5y ago
I am honestly intrigued any time I hear anyone mention RDF. You have had success using it? It wasn't exactly clear how you used it from what you said.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
I don't have a number of course, but I believe that almost all relational db models are more naturally modeled as graphs. In fact, all normalized relational db models that use foreign keys are just implementing a graph - foreign keys r
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by amw-zero 5y ago
You're talking about desktops vs. laptops / mobile phones. That has nothing to do with mobile vs. web. A phone can run a web browser.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
So mobile web was not enjoyable for users, and native apps (which use the APIs that I attribute their success to) won out. In what way does that go against what I said? (it doesn't)
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by amw-zero 5y ago
If you ask me, the number one reason is that Android and iOS have UI libraries that are specifically meant for mobile devices. Yes, you can design a web app for a mobile phone, but there is nothing that guides you or gives you any help in t
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by amw-zero 5y ago
People say this a lot, but really, what can a native app track that a web app can't? To track location, you need to give the app permission, just like the web. To receive push notifications, you need to give the app permission, just li
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by amw-zero 5y ago
The trade off is always between cross-platform and native integration. For example, do you want to write an app that feels like a MacOS application? You have to use AppKit to really get that feel, and then it’s not cross platform. There’s r
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by amw-zero 5y ago
Is there a demo in this link? I’m not seeing it.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
I want to trust them because they’re known for really solid engineering. But, this sounds absolutely terrible to me, and their justification for it was truly weak.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
Yes - “Plain text accounting apps”
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by amw-zero 5y ago
Can you try addressing what I said? You’re really hung up on the deep equality check. As I said, I don’t think that’s the root of the issue. The root issue is time.Format changing the global time zone unexpectedly. Do you have an opinion on
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by amw-zero 5y ago
That is definitely not a possible interpretation: > to produce highly secure, highly optimized code. The key word there is "produce" - meaning, the secure and optimized code is being written.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
The main problem I got out of the article was that the stateful timezone of the entire process does not get set until `time.Format` gets called. I think that's a legitimate criticism - which part made you think that `reflect.DeepEqual`
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by amw-zero 5y ago
It is true that lines of code are correlated with bugs. In fact, that's the best predictor of the number of bugs - there was some study somewhere that concluded that. I still doubt that that's a result of DTOs.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
> Sometimes you don't need an expert to produce highly secure, highly optimized code. This is one for the ages.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
If it's trained on code that we write, that sounds completely accurate.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
It's not two datapoints. This comes up on forums constantly. Just look around.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
See I loved the official Reddit app until about 3-4 months ago. They changed the UI for viewing a post, and it's really annoying now. Really, sometimes I feel that there are designers that are just so out of touch, and engineers feel l
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by amw-zero 5y ago
The people who wrote the guidelines define what’s interesting.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
Can you explain how category theory can be used to figure out how much to tip a pizza delivery person?
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I totally agree with that. Everything is contextual.
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by amw-zero 5y ago
As is always the case, I feel the exact opposite. The #1 source of pain in my career is people not understanding that certain concepts / principles are really the key to surviving in a complex system. But, we probably don't build

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