andreasgonewild

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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
But I can, and I do; that's still too much noise for me. I'm sure the code is fine by Rust standards, but to me it looks like Perl with control issues. I don't need any help from my programming language with micromanaging the
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
But that has nothing to do with Rust; this post and others is more or less claiming between the lines that the only thing that can save us from buggy software is the Rust way, which is bullshit. It didn't work for Java, or Erlang or Ha
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I introduced myself to TDD/eXtreme programming long before anyone was talking about it, read all the books and preached the ideas. Since then I've had the misfortune of seeing several fucked up interpretations in the wild, from hi
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Rust still means too much ceremony; there is a line where specifying more details makes the whole thing more difficult to understand and maintain; and that's still besides taking more time to write in the first place. Not everyone is i
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Hello Snabel? JavaScript is far from the answer to every question. https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
This: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis But then I grew tired of waiting and just did it already :)
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I just can't stop thinking that somewhere along the line one of the Guidos should have reacted to handing out global locks left and right. I mean, as long as its only you and your friends using it. But once it starts spreading, these a
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Like hell they did, Facebook will sound like Myspace before you know what happened.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I just find that whenever I optimize for money; I start making weird decisions; decisions meant to please others, who may not share the passion. I'm all for people paying me to create and share the stuff that I already am; but then it
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Compiler design depends a lot on the language being compiled though, this would be a typical design for a C-style language. When doing Forth-style languages for example; I've found that it's not very helpful to parse to trees, sin
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
There are plenty of superior alternatives; but this one is mine, and free; and secure: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis Whatever you do, opt out before it's too late...
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Monetizing, check, your, check, passion, check, kills it, period.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I like it that way, looks better than in the pictures if you ask me. It is, however completely CSS-themeable; the theme you saw in the README is included as an example. If someone else is willing to put their time into an alternative theme,
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Speaking of hacker-friendly email clients. Snackis offers editable threads, full-text search and encryption in a single, convenient package with a GTK GUI on top. https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I'm sure the world learned a thing or two from the agile movement. But like all movements it got twisted into semi-religious caricatures of the original message, like this post. Event Kent Beck admits skipping tests when he feels like
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
You can't have it both ways, either no-one cares or someone will find an issue or ten. But that's just a consequence of code(?) seeing wider use, the only way around that is to not share the code at all. Which unfortunately means
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
You can't fix inequality by discriminating; discrimination is part of the problem, not the solution. It's about time we started considering other, more constructive ways of cleaning up our collective mess.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
That is another example of how to make C++ taste like Java from my perspective, I don't care how famous he is.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
No one said a recompile wasn't allowed, plenty of things aren't possible in C++ without a recompile. All I'm saying here is that when you don't need polymorphism, which should be most of the time; overloaded functions do
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Overloading is dispatching based on types of multiple arguments. If someone adds a more specialized overload, it will be called instead of the existing. The problem is dispatching on polymorphic types. As long as you still have your Squares
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I read the whole thing out of curiosity since I'm often a target for witch-hunts myself after expressing unrelated unpopular views. I can't really see any reasons for being fired in the memo, except for the shame-and-punish-cultur
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Just do it. The more you give, the more you get; might not be awesome profits, might be even better. The secret with giving is to not expect anything in return, the very definition of Karma Yoga; real Yogis practice that all the time. There
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
That's not what multiple dispatch used to mean, it used to be about dispatching on multiple arguments. Like I said, it doesn't cover all bases; but when it works it beats over-engineered bullshit like this.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
The only useful heuristic I've come across for naming things is huffman-coding by frequency and locality. Things that are used more often get shorter names, and the more public a name is the more space it's allowed to take. I kind
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
Multiple dispatch is trivial in C++ using overloaded functions, the compiler will select the most specialized version for the supplied parameters without any visitor tricks. The "problem" is that it doesn't play well with pol
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I would go one step further and claim that SQL-databases are overkill for most purposes. Relational logic is very useful, as is transacted storage and indexing; but the SQL-standard is clearly overkill in many cases. An ORM is a simplificat
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
No shit. Hackers who didn't see that one coming would be wise to consider alternative hobbies.
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I'm not looking for someone to keep me safe anymore, I figured out that what I really need is the power to keep myself as safe as I feel like. Which is why I wrote Snackis: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snac
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
I got burnt writing brain-dead code for awesome profits in startups, these days I write awesome code for free instead. Profit corrupts, it's a shame it's so damn difficult to find a sustainable middle road in this world. https:&#
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by andreasgonewild 9y ago
It's only a problem if you insist on knowing everything, leave people alone to mind their own business and the problem magically disappears. We all know who the "real" terrorists are. https://github.com/andrea

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