beders

17 ms·

211.
by beders 4y ago
To fellow lispers struggling with curse of parens. Adopt structural editing like paredit. You are going to miss it when coding in other languages. Here's an example: https://calva.io/paredit/
212.
by beders 4y ago
There's no privacy. There's just a price tag to your private data.
213.
by beders 4y ago
No no no, I meant privacy. Don't put words in my mouth. If you live in a world where you can't trust any corporation, you might need to adjust your views a little bit. Knowing full well that under capitalism the only goal of a cor
214.
by beders 4y ago
Fascinating read. Made for a society that doesn't exist yet - or ever. "free" access to crucial services on the internet is of course not free. You are paying with a very simple currency: your online behavior. That is super
215.
by beders 4y ago
Now everyone can build their own Star Wars sequel movies! I was wondering about that after the disaster that was TROS. I didn't think it would be possible to do in this decade, but we seem to be making progress fast now. Very impressiv
216.
by beders 4y ago
I'm happily using React as a low-level renderer (using Reagent) - I would welcome splitting this codebase up into a pure DOM-diffing renderer and state/event handling on top.
217.
by beders 4y ago
Good times. I owned an Amstrad CPC 464 - a Z80-based competitor to the C-64. It had Locomotive Basic which was quite a bit more advanced than C-64 BASIC. It had instructions like AFTER delay, timer GOSUB line or EVERY time, timer, GOSUB l
218.
by beders 4y ago
Approaches like Polylith allow you to delay any decision on how or if to split up your services until you are ready. In the meantime you can gradually stake out your boundaries by defining suitable interfaces.
219.
by beders 4y ago
Very well said, have my upvote. There are unwritten social contracts in play here - which get weaker with time. Criticizing the oppression of colonies (under the eyes of the crown) is only allowed - sometime later.
220.
by beders 4y ago
It's not clean energy. https://www.citizen.org/article/nuclear-power-is-not-clean-o... Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Accide... It's actually another nail i
221.
by beders 4y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The fascination around UAP has been around for decades and basically each decade there's new reporting and new pictures or even videos. And also, every decade, once actual scientists
222.
by beders 4y ago
Adoption of Bitcoin is a net positive on the CO2 being added to the atmosphere for sure.
223.
by beders 4y ago
But where's the eval? Unlike certain other languages (cough Java python ), reading quoted s-exps has no side-effect.
224.
by beders 4y ago
You replaced trust in a bank with trust in this centralized service. Where's the merit?
225.
by beders 4y ago
Have you done any market fit research before diving into this? Honestly: Spending money like cash and using a secure wallet on my phone is already very very easy. Why would I want to go through these extra steps? If the ONLY answer is &quot
226.
by beders 4y ago
What would it take to rescue email? What would need to happen to make it less annoying for you?
227.
by beders 4y ago
Advertises for Web1.0 - embeds a video :)
228.
by beders 4y ago
Defining basic scalars and giving them good names is useful. Trying to define models (as Taxi defines them) statically is often a source of hidden technical debt as models change over time and different teams in different parts of an org c
229.
by beders 4y ago
what could possibly go wrong? Let's put iron chloride where it doesn't belong, outside of our control. Haven't we done enough harm yet?
230.
by beders 4y ago
Yes, nothing here requires blockchains and I do want to manually approve giving my healthcare information to a new provider. Once given though, all bets are off. They could be selling it. There's no technological solution for that. Jus
231.
by beders 4y ago
I really don't get what authors mean when they write: "giving users control over their data" The only thing that does that is enforceable laws - that are also enforced. The moment I give my date-of-birth to a site, they can s
232.
by beders 4y ago
It comes with Civ preinstalled? Just one more turn....
233.
by beders 4y ago
I swear the clip art for 'mail' has a blue stamp on it. Amazing!
234.
by beders 5y ago
Working with several teams of combined 10+ devs on a few large code-bases in Clojure. It works just fine. Very often, the context of your changes are local to a handful of functions - most of them being pure and simple to test. I'm act
235.
by beders 5y ago
My midlife crisis vanished once I bought a Mach-E. Not even kidding :) Just keep in mind that you are extremely lucky and privileged. Hundreds of millions of Americans would kill if they could say: "All mortgages, car notes, and cred
236.
by beders 5y ago
command+backtick is the key he was looking for :)
237.
by beders 5y ago
The ones undoing the damage caused by dumb pattern recognizers and generators? ;)
238.
by beders 5y ago
Does the author know how computers work? I mean, how they really work? It feels like the newest tech affine generation of this planet has started to lose a bit of grounding by failing to get a thorough understanding of how things work. An
239.
by beders 5y ago
We called this the WWW back in the day using Gopher and then web browsers with HTML ;) Tags introduced in HTML 1.0: <TITLE>, <NEXTID>, Base Address, <A>, <ISINDEX>, <PLAINTEXT>, <LISTING>, <P>, <
240.
by beders 5y ago
Yes. Much easier to roll back things, cherry pick things and blame people ;) Don't you dare merge a PR with 30 commits.

More ›