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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I think you have an inaccurate understanding of what monks do. Also I'm not sure if I'd call monks happy so much as I would content. The better example here is the guy living off of UBI smoking weed and playing video games all day
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The right balance really depends on your domain. The reason I'm so big on dynamic typing is because the most important part of the product I work on is a ton of reporting from an SQL database. I shift as much work as possible to the da
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Because this time we'll get it right.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Yes but this same argument works the other way, dynamically typed languages can do a half-assed impression of static languages as well. So its a tradeoff depending on your domain.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
You're not the first, nor fourth for that matter, person to respond to dynamic typing advocation with that blog post, and it's an interesting post but it misses the whole point. The problem is not enforcing rules on data coming in
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Line noise is a red herring in the static/dynamic comparison. You will still run into serious problems trying to shove ugly human-generated data into your nice clean type system. For mechanical things where you the programmer are build
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I don't think the CoC wars are lost, I'm hopefully we're on the cusp of the backlash. The first project that succeeds with a CoC of "sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never harm you." is going to
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Also back in that day 95% of our users were on Windows and we had a direct relationship with them. Now your user base is roughly split 40/40 between iOS and Android with a non-ignorable 20 running some windows tablet thing. Then for ex
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Not to mention the current administration has been very clear that they will enforce vaccination requirements on everybody they can EXCEPT those violating our immigration laws.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Yeah that was a huge transition to make when working for an agency. Realizing that the bullshit work to communicate with the client while technically slowing the whole project down was the most important task you had. Reason being, the &quo
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I knew one company where the standups were getting so bad, the managers solution was to have everybody in a plank position for the meeting. Meeting time got short real fast.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Markdown hasn't changed a bit from its reference implementation, it can't. Everybody who grabbed onto Markdown and is forking it because they're realizing that it was a very simple tool to solve one man's blogging proble
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
She makes me want to brush up my Spanish so I can join their community that apparently still believes in the goals of GNU and the FSF.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Should read "Activist tech company bans doctors and scientists."
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
If you need collective action to find meaning in life you're already screwed.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I'm old enough to remember back when those of us who said vaccine passports were coming were conspiracy theorists, now we're calmly talking about implementation details.
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
With no due respect, Ed Zitron nailed this. Only a generation as devoid of meaning in their life as our current one could turn watching Netflix before bed into some idea that they're part of the cultural zeitgiest reaching out for coll
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Agreed, this is my go-to argument when trying to fix communist. For the sake of argument, take away human nature. Assume you have an all benevolent polibutro who really is looking to maximize the greater good. Now imagine the data collectio
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
That sounds like a really awesome tool, and it's shocking more code generation tools don't take the dual file approach. XCode has finally gotten it right with their code generation for CoreData models and that's been great. H
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I think this is a pipedream. The problem with CRUD is it's never just CRUD. It's not about the records, there's always some higher level workflow invovled. That's why there's teams, requirements, all those goodies o
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Biden murders a bunch of civilians then has the media cover it up to try and look tough after his Afganistan withdraw clusterfuck gets thirteen American soliders killed and you feel the need to go back over a decade to look for an example o
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The lack of Ctrl is sadly a feature for web apps. You don't know which browser, and thus which set of shortcuts your user will be using your app from. However assuming that shortcuts will be prefixed is a pretty safe assumption, so the
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
I feel like this is a bad analogy. Mathematical proofs often require some deeper insight that is being communicated. While this can be applicable to code, this is in the space of inverting a binary tree type questions. Most code we're
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Markdown-like maybe, but certainly not markdown. Markdown itself has tons of rabbit holes and is deceptively complex, and that's before you get into the issue where you can just insert HTML as HTML. I really wish more people would give
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
A presidential candidates crackhead son laundering payoffs from foreign governments is a distraction?
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Where does the US MSM and social media refusing to cover anything about Hunter Biden put us?
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
ActiveStorgae was launched half-baked. Downloading files on the back end was missing from 5 and not introduced until 6. This seriously burned us as we had to put off implementing a ton of what should be easy reporting features until we coul
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
Man, is calling ActiveStorage a regression ever spot on. Wish we'd never have used it and stuck with Paperclip. ActiveJob was Rails4, so I can see where you're coming from there, but ActionMailbox from Rails6 has been a huge win f
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
The CCP
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by blacktriangle 5y ago
So slavery is okay then? Good to know.

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