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by bborud 5y ago
Give it some time. If you don't think C++ is complex, you don't know C++ yet.
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by bborud 5y ago
I've seen a lot of negative reactions to this mike drop. I wouldn't judge him too harshly. He's actually a very good developer worth the benefit of the doubt.
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by bborud 5y ago
I am now. Who else offers decent WiFi infrastructure for homes? (And offices)
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by bborud 5y ago
At my former job we had a rather large faraday cage for testing telco equipment. Two things surprised me: 1) It is more fiddly to ensure a room-sized faraday cage doesn't leak RF than I thought. It is really easy to make mistakes that
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by bborud 5y ago
As a customer, the one thing I really want to know is whether or not the company is dealing with this in a manner that helps me decide if I should continue being a customer. Do they understand that they may need to fire the CEO given that t
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by bborud 5y ago
Path of least resistance? Picking a language (and possibly runtime) is a pretty huge investment if you intend to become proficient. A lot of people like to think that they are polyglot programmers and that language doesn't really matt
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by bborud 5y ago
Isn't that mostly a risk and marketing question? How seriously can you expect the TLD to be managed in the future and what do you want to communicate. My own personal bias makes me a bit wary of "novelty" TLDs since you can&
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by bborud 5y ago
They key is "flow controlled". Syncronicity doesn't really enter into it, but I can see how people can get confused and think it's about that because asynchronous designs tend to introduce a greater degree of decoupling
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by bborud 5y ago
This is the first time I've thought about the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is the first non-animated character to inhabit the uncanny valley I can remember. (After briefly wondering if the video featured a CGI character).
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by bborud 5y ago
Why would you want to go to that kind of event anyway? I've been to lord knows how many events fitting this description and I can remember exactly zero products or startups coming out of this.
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by bborud 5y ago
SQL is actually pretty okay for writing SQL. I was never in love with this rather roundabout way of doing things since it didn’t solve problems I was actually having.
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by bborud 5y ago
While I was there (about a year later) I can remember it being used generally in meetings to judge if something was ethical. I can remember things being nixed (by engineers) for being too “evil”. Some of those things would probably be okay
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by bborud 5y ago
I tried to use ORMs in Java years ago, but realized that while it makes simple things simpler, sooner or later you will need to do something that the ORM can't do simply. Or you will bang your head against the fact that you are trying
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by bborud 5y ago
Not quite sure what I just read. Can someone shed some light on this?
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by bborud 5y ago
That's a very good point. Surely people on Hacker News collectively know enough people to get a nomination done? :-) PS: the above list good, are we missing anyone important who ought to be on that list?
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by bborud 5y ago
Given that modern TVs like to phone home a lot, and have microphones and cameras. I think an open source solution would be really nice to have.
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by bborud 5y ago
Very, very interesting idea since this is probably easy to retrofit to houses that don't have room for elevators. But I think the video does a poor job of marketing the product. Too much "storytelling", they spend too much t
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by bborud 5y ago
Depends on what you are asking about. If you are asking about how I would technically go about looking up things: I have no idea. I don't know what the software space looks like around this. Anyone? If you are asking about the medic
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by bborud 5y ago
Is there a service where you can have relevant parts of your genome sequenced without running the risk of the data being retained and shared against your will?
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by bborud 5y ago
Most certainly. Go tooling and some of the usage has evolved quite a bit since 2015.
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by bborud 5y ago
Do you use the syncing features? I sync to Github, so if I install VS Code on a new machine it takes a lot less than 20 minutes. That bit works great.
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by bborud 5y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to design browsers where a WASM runtime interacts with the DOM (and architecturally make it look more like a device driver)? And you could just compile JS to WASM on demand (and possibly keep a cache).
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by bborud 5y ago
what do you dislike about the tooling?
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by bborud 5y ago
Hmm, what if VS Code was done in WASM with the ability to write extensions in any language with compilers that can produce WASM? Any obvious reasons this would be a good/bad idea?
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by bborud 5y ago
Just out of curiosity: what would have happened if you had just stopped paying them after sending them an email informing them that you wanted to cancel?
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by bborud 5y ago
I cancelled NYT by simply emailing them and telling them that I would be stopping payment. I was curious to see if they'd do anything. I never heard from them (and my subscription was miraculously cancelled). I'm not sure if it&
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by bborud 5y ago
So from "it would be dangerous to allow service engineers not contracted to us" to "here's a booklet that shows you how to poke the innards of your phone with a screwdriver". Right now some propaganda copywriter mak
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by bborud 5y ago
If we are to believe that the states of the two editing environments are the products of this distinction (yes, wild oversimplification, but bear with me), I would say that we kind of know which way produces the greatest good for the most u
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by bborud 5y ago
That might not be a bad thing. It shouldn't be a controversial position to say that perhaps something cobbled together by an inexperienced language designer in a matter of weeks, five or six internet lifetimes ago may not be a good lon
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by bborud 5y ago
Go support is one example. If you set up Emacs to provide decent support for Go at different times between 2015 (when I started using Go) and today, the setup would probably last an average of 18 months or so before you lose something sign

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