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by blandflakes 2y ago
For me there are two axes that are lacking (based on Scala and Elixir usage): 1. The feature set is just far weaker. If an LSP implementation and the client both hit 100% coverage, then you might end up having the same refactoring, code gen
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by blandflakes 2y ago
Types and editor tooling IMO. Both places they're making investments, but both areas where I feel like I'm giving up a lot of power, even though it's admittedly to GET a lot of power.
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by blandflakes 2y ago
And of course the right way to do that is to take an extremely mediocre, rushed, incomplete language that is currently constrained to the browser, and make it run everywhere else, ironically having to reinvent many wheels and re-learn very
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by blandflakes 2y ago
I find that sticking to a single stack is severely underrated.
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by blandflakes 2y ago
Editing your dependencies in maven is not some "random XML file somewhere", come on. It's a standard file that is situated like any build declaration.
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by blandflakes 3y ago
And you better start critically assessing dependencies if you're a programmer. They aren't free; this is a wild take.
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by blandflakes 3y ago
I'd love to hear why Elixir wasn't for you - not from a judgemental place, I just like hearing others' experience reports for languages that stuck or didn't. For a web service with fast iteration times, I'd probably
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by blandflakes 3y ago
The fact that HCL has poor/nonexistent multi-language parsing support makes building tooling around terraform really annoying. I shouldn't have to install Python or a Go library to read my HCL.
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by blandflakes 3y ago
Yes? And people like you have enjoyed an office environment that by default catered to you. It's not those of us who finally found productivity in a controlled, quiet environment that lack empathy, it's you, the group that can&#x2
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by blandflakes 3y ago
Yes, that's why I said I realized they weren't quite the same situation, while adding another example of a situation where people create hard to follow structures.
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by blandflakes 3y ago
I at first had the opposite reaction, which is that I spend a ton of time fighting inverted ifs! But my reaction is not incompatible with yours. It's not, but it is related: I HATE reading: if (!someCondition) { // short am
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by blandflakes 4y ago
Both industries that are notorious for poor security hygiene, so I'm not sure this is the coup you were looking for.
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by blandflakes 4y ago
As long as they aren't treated like shit where I live...
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by blandflakes 4y ago
I think you understood the use, but value the safety less than I do: > maybe only your EmailBlaster cares, where it's like a privilege: some can send to unverified emails and some can't A boolean flag is strictly inferior, bec
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by blandflakes 4y ago
That's the actual definition of bad faith discussion. True to form, then :) Edit: An actual dramatic improvement is trivial to pull from your bait example, by the way: "Automated a manual process for collating tax ID and temporary
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by blandflakes 4y ago
I think you're just being intellectually dishonest if you can't imagine some compromise between what you started with and what you have here, given the feedback you've received.
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by blandflakes 4y ago
Don't beg the question in your resume. I don't want coy points to ask about, I want details so I can make sure that I can actually have an engaging conversation about something, especially so that I can figure out how it might rel
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by blandflakes 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd even interview this person; I'd at least have to find reasons to. It definitely doesn't give me anything to ask about. Quotes like "Save a lot of time by automating an email process" are so vag
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by blandflakes 4y ago
On the flip side, then, no government organizations should use Twitter as their primary form of disseminating information. I should be able to get this information without creating an account on these platforms (looking at you, MBTA).
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by blandflakes 4y ago
We've been running a production web service on .NET core on Linux for over a year. We develop, compile, and test this service in macs, build the docker containers on linux, and run on Linux.
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by blandflakes 4y ago
> Recognizing that generic libraries are only called with a single concrete type is child's play in those contexts. It's pretty trivial to prove this wrong. Return a different concrete type based on a config value that is loade
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by blandflakes 4y ago
Sure, it's possible to do it by hand, but it's not possible for the AOT to do it for you, and this then violates the parent's "all things considered equal" claim. There are certainly going to be tradeoffs that runti
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by blandflakes 4y ago
Profile-guided optimization is considered pretty effective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization One example of an optimization that cannot be performed AOT is anything that can be done in response
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by blandflakes 5y ago
I'm not really an OOP or Python defender, and generally agree that this type of constructor is inscrutable, frustrating, and quite common in the Python ecosystem. That said, I would not consider default mock values in a constructor to
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by blandflakes 5y ago
Not particularly mainstream, but I remember Ballerina having this: https://ballerina.io/1.0/learn/by-example/taint-checking.htm...
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by blandflakes 5y ago
With docker, effectively we're ending up in that world anyway (lamentable though I find it).
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by blandflakes 5y ago
Agreed, I've found that "high level, mainstream ecosystem" is good for just about everything, and that I like a low-level Rust/C/Zig for tinkering. One thing I haven't remedied is scripting/glue... I reall
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by blandflakes 5y ago
It's disappointing that the lack of self awareness translates so faithfully from the trail to HN.
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by blandflakes 5y ago
FWIW the take-home project is somewhat involved (at the time that I applied, make a RESTful chat server without using any libraries except the standard library), and after spending a fair amount of a vacation working on and submitting it I
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by blandflakes 5y ago
Maintaining productivity in the typical office comes at huge personal and professional costs for others, and I'm kinda frustrated that this situation hasn't resulted in more empathy from fans of the office (because, you would thin

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