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by blondin 7y ago
not what i would call a "dark" background. that's pale. and obviously the material theme google has been pushing... anyways, sorry some people don't like it.
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by blondin 7y ago
can you back what you are saying? i personally think we don't. most continuous integration pipelines need static configuration files, not languages. to be honest, i have no idea where this language fits in a software development proces
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by blondin 7y ago
i agree with the sentiment. i was just thinking about it yesterday. what if there was a pure javascript based system programming language? with none of the event loop thingies? i mean can we have a normal javascript that compiles to a x64 b
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by blondin 7y ago
not sure Anders/microsoft wanted to replace javascript with typescript. the problem is this imo. to use javascript -- or say python -- in an corporate/enterprise environment, you need to analyze your code base. static analysis is
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by blondin 7y ago
nope, even for others some don't get it. people will still ask you if it's possible for you to deliver speeches with only a few hours or less heads-up. making you feel bad for saying no or endure all the stress if you say yes...
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by blondin 7y ago
if it's a simple basic script, i wouldn't even go through the pain of using argparse. i would just manually check sys.argv.
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by blondin 7y ago
interesting, yet as someone else commented this assumes things only get better over time. which is obviously and throughout history not true. we have had entire civilizations and everything they did dissipated... we need to strive to preser
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by blondin 7y ago
single headers (take it from a non c/c++ expert here just observing): 1. speeds up compilation -- through a single compilation unit. which as far as i understand is making the compiler compile a single "huge" pile of code. an
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by blondin 7y ago
thank you so much. those were the books!
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by blondin 7y ago
well, i heard in a podcast that surgeons -- not to pick on them but that was the example given -- don't have their own lives on the line and would likely ignore checklists. compared to say pilots. yet, pilots make mistake too. examples
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by blondin 7y ago
the python mock module is one of those modules i would like to see rewritten from scratch. you won't get it right by first principles. you always need to go to the documentation. that's a sign that something is not right imo.
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by blondin 7y ago
nowhere in these benchmarks anyone said the MD5 were salted. am i reading it wrong?
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by blondin 7y ago
i remember seeing some japanese anime-style programming guides but never thought anything of them back then. i really miss these short illustrated guides but i don't recall what company was publishing them.
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by blondin 7y ago
guys, warez wasn't just for the BBS generation. i knew and learned about warez through IRC. i think of myself as the IRC/ICQ/AIM generation and i tried BBS be could not figure it out. but this makes me feel nostalgic too :)
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by blondin 7y ago
i highly recommend this as well. have a list of people you admire and monitor/check their twitter, blog, website, etc. they usually post amazing books they have read and all you have to do is add these books to your wishlist (if possib
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by blondin 7y ago
man... people are fussy nowadays... i had the same exact thought of an NES emulator. what's wrong with this generation of hacker news people?!
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by blondin 7y ago
dragon ball z nostalgia just hit me...
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by blondin 7y ago
it puzzles me sometimes why we programmers are so fascinated by compilers, interpreters, VMs, runtimes, etc. many of these will never make it to the level of, say, a production c++ compiler or a Java VM. and yet we keep building small compi
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by blondin 7y ago
OMG, that's great. i have the follow-up book, from mathematics to generic programming -- hardcore read for someone who is no expert at maths or cplusplus but still a phenomenal read. i have had elements of programming on my wishlist fo
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by blondin 7y ago
yes, and it's crazy annoying! some of us have very old facebook accounts from back when it all started. nowadays photos of you showing up at events are being tagged by friends and relative. soon the machine would have learned enough on
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by blondin 7y ago
totally un-scientific but i just feel like things like "identitism", "communitism", nationalism, etc. have been on the rise in the past decade for some reason. and by protecting the group they belong to, people also end
832.
by blondin 7y ago
that's an excellent point. kudos for that hacker!
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by blondin 7y ago
yes! he has been one of my favorite programmers over all these years. so happy that he continues to dispel the 10x programmer myth. at least, as far as i am concerned. we should all take note. it's less about productivity but more abou
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by blondin 7y ago
the author is saying the same thing. although he didn't mention efficiency in his article, which is an excellent remark btw. but he is saying you can usually go from logs to metrics but not the other way around. and that we often need
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by blondin 7y ago
i mean, is code written in lisp-like functional style maintainable? it always takes a few seconds more per line of code for it to register if it does at all... versus code written in say imperative or declarative style. i mean what could th
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by blondin 7y ago
have you tried clicking on that link?
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by blondin 7y ago
indeed! and i was going to say the same thing. it makes perfect sense if you are a programmer with a basic understanding of how languages work. but like someone else said, i would not have thought about it first thing when writing code.
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by blondin 7y ago
OMG lol i was going to agree with you with all the recent tragedies lately and then you had to drop because of student behavior. well i have seen teachers take it out on students too...
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by blondin 7y ago
> It's pretty weird to borrow 95% of a spec, miss out on a half dozen important security features, not acknowledge the relationship between your work and the spec, and not contribute back to the community that funded the spec. they
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by blondin 7y ago
oh wow, the "say" keyword is quite nifty. also, straightforward iterative solutions often lead to inefficient implementations. which is why most of us fall prey to complicated implementations that use all the tricks in the book...

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