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by blindseer 4y ago
Get in!
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by blindseer 4y ago
> It seems very normal and unsurprising that a community advocate would cheerlead survey results like this and let others discuss the topics you mentioned (and they do). Maybe I find it a little tone deaf. As someone that has been using
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by blindseer 4y ago
This is an example of cherry picking the facts for marketing at best and an extremely disingenuous blog post at worst. Julia is no where on the map in almost every metric (no commonly used libraries, no web frameworks, etc), and even in the
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by blindseer 4y ago
I'm glad to see this, and I'm hoping to use it. Genie bundled waay too much and was too slow for development. If this cuts down on REPL load times / Revise times, it'll be win in my book. I still think there's a LOO
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by blindseer 4y ago
Ah, my bad. I read that section three times and still missed that, and feel quite dumb now.
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by blindseer 4y ago
I think a lot of tech companies / products at tech companies, (e.g. Netflix, YouTube, Messenger) fundamentally get one thing wrong. They don't "value" the user's time and drive for *maximum* engagement. Maybe the pr
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by blindseer 4y ago
I think I agree with your claim that writing tests would be a super set in terms of covering the use cases of interfaces. But 1) Testing is such a PAIN in Julia. You HAVE to run all the tests every time. You HAVE to write tests in a separat
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by blindseer 4y ago
> 2) you can find out what methods you need to implement just by running the code that uses the implementation and see what fails. For large codebases this is SO painful to do. I just don't understand how anyone gets anything done w
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by blindseer 4y ago
Correctness in Julia feels like it'll never happen, because interfaces seem like they'll never happen. Correctness guarantees / interfaces and slow startup are both my biggest pain points in Julia. I often think what would ha
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by blindseer 4y ago
I genuinely think the Julia community should have guidelines on how to act on a public forum when advocating for Julia. I've had so many instances of being rubbed the wrong way from Julia folk. In some ways, it is as annoying as the RI
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by blindseer 4y ago
The ads are genuinely one of my most frustrating experiences when using the Chromecast with Google TV. And seeing this kind of pattern makes it more likely that I’ll never sign up for premium YouTube (whatever it is called) and just use You
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by blindseer 4y ago
You can tell the website is using sveltekit by the favicon but also by how seamless the navbar navigation is. Congrats on launching.
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by blindseer 4y ago
pog
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by blindseer 4y ago
And `unsafe` with `yolo`.
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by blindseer 4y ago
I partly agree with you, in that the author is mainly complaining about Flux and other packages they've used. But on the other hand, all the reasons the author has listed as annoyances I've experienced the exact same things and mo
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by blindseer 4y ago
Another massive frustration for me is that Julia has no formal way to say "here are public functions and these are private" but does have a completely orthogonal way of saying "these are functions that will populate your glob
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by blindseer 4y ago
I’ve been using Julia since 2017 and still do on a day to day basis, and I agree with the author in a lot of cases, even his subjective naming conventions gripes. The author’s biggest criticism is that Julia doesn’t have tooling to make the
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Emacs 27 Antinews(gnu.org)
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by blindseer 4y ago
That was a great article and put into words a lot of the feelings I have had about my experiences with Go better than I could have. I also learnt a few new ways to shoot myself in the foot :) The MIT vs New Jersey style of thinking was eye
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by blindseer 4y ago
I've used Go and Rust professionally and in side projects, and I had used Go first before Rust. When I first used Go, I was like "oh wow, this is so simple and easy", and I didn't realize that I was putting up with the l
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by blindseer 4y ago
I’m not sure if CoC.nvim is necessarily superior. CoC.nvim, VSCode, and all the other nvim lsp plugins use the same LSP servers. The clients are all different obviously, and I don’t think there’s any major features in CoC.nvim that aren’t i
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by blindseer 4y ago
I appreciate your honestly and clarity about your intentions. Maybe this my biggest gripe when someone claims Julia is objectively better than Python or R. The answer to this question is highly subjective, heavily depends on whether you use
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by blindseer 4y ago
Chris, your work is phenomenal and I super appreciate everything you do. I think my comment was mainly that if I were viewing it objectively (for example, knowing nothing about Julia), I think a lot of Julia's evangelizing comes off to
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by blindseer 4y ago
For a scientific / academic focused language, I can’t help but feel like blog posts about Julia always seem to evangelize performance in the language in a biased or subjective manner. Anyone else get the same sense?
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by blindseer 4y ago
I agree, I love Penn and Teller and their style of magic. It _feels_ very science-y to me. Like they explain a trick but still blow your mind at the end of it. They show you they are masters of their craft, and most of the time (not always)
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by blindseer 4y ago
Surely, Derren Brown's team talked to the lady, asked her a few questions like her name, her age, her dogs names etc, and fed that information to Derren. It's very easy with a few pieces of information like that to completely narr
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by blindseer 4y ago
I think you may not appreciate how intertwined your verbal cognitive skills are with your ability to think / type / communicate.
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by blindseer 5y ago
Thanks for sharing the information about EARLYBIND and GenieAuthentication. I will say that when I used EARLYBIND it still took too long for Heroku. That's not to mention that didn't solve any of the live development workflow issu
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by blindseer 5y ago
This is just not true. Even with PackageCompiler I was getting 30 seconds or more startup time for a medium size codebase with Genie.
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by blindseer 5y ago
I would caution someone interested in this to consider some of the ramifications of using Julia / Genie. When I last used it, it was a extremely painful development experience because of the time it took to for Julia to reload when &qu

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