benol

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by benol 4mo ago
It's widely used in Cloud. Within Cloud you there is a policy to use it for all new products.
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by benol 3y ago
I honestly don’t know the answer, I guess this is exactly what this whole debate comes down to. In theory all the tools are there, in practice people see very mixed results.
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by benol 3y ago
I understand that some people prefer to work from home, but there seems to be a narrative that every single one good software engineer is in that camp, and I honestly don’t see where this belief came from… I very much miss the days where I
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by benol 3y ago
The problem here is that if the idea of using debuggers becomes an unfashionable niche then the next language won’t provide one at all. Given how great Java/C#/JS debuggers are, one could hope that every new language will ship wit
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by benol 3y ago
I am very much in the opposite camp, I am 10x more productive in tech stacks where I can use an interactive debugger. It’s not that I enjoy stepping through code line by line, I rely on a debugger to verify if my assumptions about “starting
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by benol 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that Kotlin's standard library contains a type called `Result` with a slightly different API. Also a function called `runCatching`[1] that uses it. [1] https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest
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by benol 7y ago
This. The article and most comments here assume that getting a degree is prohibitly expensive, which is the case only in one country in the world. If you happen to live in that country, consider studying abroad.
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by benol 7y ago
Firefox Beta is at 68 now and still not way to set the default zoom...
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by benol 8y ago
Considering the recent "Spectre is here to stay" paper [1], can anyone comment on whether Firefox should be considered secure until the work on process-per-site lands (I believe they are working on it)? [1] https://arxi
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by benol 10y ago
Does it come with a debugger of any kind? I think this is the biggest gap in the Haskell ecosystem right now. Every time I try to write something in Haskell, I remember I cannot "talk to my program" easily and just give up.
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by benol 11y ago
I, for one, agree with this kind of hiring process. From my own experience - people that do well in such interviews are good generalists. On their own they will start discussing performance improvements and ways to parallelize the solution,