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by blunte 5y ago
Happy asdf user for several years now. Unfortunately, there are still cases where it either can't be used or it would take a great deal of hacky stuff to make it work. One such case is getting PyCharm to understand it. I found it wor
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by blunte 5y ago
I really appreciate endeavors like this, but... My experience with many other frameworks is that they really help you get started quickly, and some of them truly cover a vast majority of common use cases. But when you reach a point of need
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by blunte 5y ago
Much nicer for all of us than most millionaires' toys.
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by blunte 5y ago
In the 90s I was given the task to make some changes to a shell script which provided a complete systems-engineer configuration management tool for country scale network management systems. This shell script was 9,000 lines long. Each new
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by blunte 5y ago
Yes! Thank you, this is exactly it. Apparently I indexed this in my mind with the word "ladder", but now I'll just remember "The Blub Paradox".
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by blunte 5y ago
No, but thank you :).
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by blunte 5y ago
In 2021 I was doing work for a client and noticed an email address of @cs.com. Two letter domains are pretty rare, and I wasn't familiar with this one. To my great surprise, it was an original CompuServe email address. There are stil
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Ask HN: Where is the programming language ladder of awareness essay?
5 points by blunte 5y ago|4 comments
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by blunte 5y ago
People want to disagree, that's fine. But it's such a common pattern of behavior in less regulated environments. There are many variants, but the common one is this: 1. upstart innovator, filling a need; scrappy, hungry, motivate
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by blunte 5y ago
This is the "big laggard capitalist corporation" playbook.
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by blunte 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)
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by blunte 5y ago
Quick list, not organized: - The OOP features of Ruby are consistent and ubiquitous (everything in Ruby is an object); Python depends on manual patterns to do OOP (self as the required first argument). Python also depends on special decora
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by blunte 5y ago
Fine print or not, most people (myself included) rarely if ever read the "fine print". If you did read the fine print, and you were of a problem-solving (pessimist) mentality, then you would never buy anything or do anything. You
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by blunte 5y ago
Python is more accessible in modern times than C, assembly, and Fortran. But we are SO far past that now. My argument isn't for what should have happened in 1995, it's for the complacency which has allowed Python to become the to
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by blunte 5y ago
At least it would be more consistent and uniform. The significant dangers in Ruby lie in the metaprogramming, which probably scientist devs aren't exercising.
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by blunte 5y ago
Python has a lot of great libraries. It's the inverse of the chicken-egg problem. Because there are now some critically important libraries (pandas, numpy), it means that is the obvious starting place if you want to hit the ground wit
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by blunte 5y ago
At one of my previous companies we hired a really intelligent (generally) and very likeable data scientist who arrived and wrote the worst Python I've seen. Actually it wasn't the worst, because it was all inline copy/paste
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by blunte 5y ago
> Python is still the easiest to read when you come back to some old code Lucky you. You must not have seen the "pythonic" monstrosities I've seen. Python has such a low barrier for entry that one can "get stuff done
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by blunte 5y ago
Python won because people who knew math/science domains only knew Python (or it was the best they knew). And so they made libraries for Python. And it propogated like many other bad ideas based on ignorance. Python is a miserably bad
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by blunte 5y ago
But is the extra cost you pay (for that risk) fair relative to the risk of revenue loss for the airlines? I highly doubt that. This is an industry that has a history of ever-increasing executive pay rates with gradual reductions in service
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by blunte 5y ago
I've also been using this for several years. It may have an old look in the UI, but it works very well and is reliable. Honestly, what more could you ask?
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by blunte 5y ago
There are programs and books on this subject. I'm not an expert, and I need this education also; so here's a quick starting point I just found: https://daringtolivefully.com/how-to-ask-for-what-you-want This may
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by blunte 5y ago
I think it should not be an all or nothing proposition. A little js for the right reason can be valuable. If we could instruct our browsers to use some budget constraints, such as max js size, max number of network requests, and max time, i
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by blunte 5y ago
Ahh, the best content to archive!
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by blunte 5y ago
As I was reading this I thought how much it sounded like organized religion. In a way it is, albeit from a few hundred years ago maybe.
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by blunte 5y ago
MySpace. Not dull at all.
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by blunte 5y ago
> I thought RacquetNext was some new-fangled racquetball racket that was banned because it has carbon fiber plates that…do $SOMETHING, ala the Nike Vaporfly/Alphafly running shoes. You know, “sanctioned”. This was exactly what I exp
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by blunte 5y ago
Being HN, my first thought was some Nextjs for Racket language :). But the sanction bit didn't fit that.
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by blunte 5y ago
Multiplayer Wii tennis was fun. I've never tried multiplayer VR anything, but I imagine racketball in VR would be fun too. However, having slammed myself (too) hard against walls playing, I wonder how dangerous it would be to be flail
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by blunte 5y ago
Their home page: so much information, but so little information. I guess it's one of those situations where you're supposed to know the thing before you go there. Is it VR? Or confusingly is it virtual instrument racks? Equally

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