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by bmarkovic 8y ago
> What could trustworthy mean if historical archetypes of honesty and great morality are not considered trustworthy? What do the two concepts have in common at all? Trustworthy means he will not screw me over if, say, I were to borrow hi
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
You don't refactor "a big application". You refactor bits of it (sure it might mean moving things around) and then comes your barrage of tests before you merge that into master. That and: You don't (or at least shouldn&#
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
> In the engineering/academic world, grades do matter and are highly predictive of ability. Or rather, they would matter if: - Various different schools used the same standard for grading so that grades could be even compared across
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
GPA is a totally useless metric, if for no other reason, then because it's a well documented fact that while some schools give out high grades for just showing up and applying some minute effort, others require an ass-busting amount of
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
This. People who believe this pipe dream that static typing will somehow protect you from technical debt either haven't dealt with Java or it's slightly better cousin C# or have only dealt with that one technology and believe what
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
That doesn't really matter to my arguments. I've used front-end and back-end web dev merely as examples of main drivers of each technology. What matters is that growth of Ruby and related technologies in recent years has been negl
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
Except that this problem is strictly american problem that more/less requires nation-wide therapy from the red scare and acceptance of positive sides of socialism and how through grass-root pressure, trade unions and political activism
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
> I think it's a toss up between Python and Ruby, but my bet is on Python What on earth could make you people think Ruby is even a contender? Do you ever look at ANY language usage stats? If there is a toss-up in dynamic languages t
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
Are you a lawyer? Didn't think so. "A lot of people" just read it for what it is which is legally protecting themselves while they are actively processing your code to syntax highlight it, display diffs, calculate stats etc.
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
You haven't dealt with Apple faithful much I presume.
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
This needs to become a copy pasta + a version where we s/hn/reddit/g and every friggin salty post needs it shoved to them.
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
True valuable read is always in the comments.
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
Yes they do (at least in my environment) and it's extremely annoying :P Me being more of a Floyd/soul/electronica aficionado.
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
There was Zope Buildout for years, that had declarative packaging format, used the cheese shop (biggest issue with conda) and isn't slow as molasses but it was and still is largely ignored by the larger community.
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
> "Refreshing" in what way? I can only speak from the perspective of the IT market in my own region, but whenever a company hires more females (including but not exclusive to the young, attractive ones) it was a really change f
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by bmarkovic 8y ago
Not just in China but in post-socialist Europe as well. Male chauvinism goes hand in hand with nationalist chauvinism and is the one of the first things to resurface back into the social norm as part of post-socialist social reform in all t
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
I work in an Linux heavy company with open source core product. Quite a few developers use vim as their IDE and all the ops don't really use anything else. I'm in the system files / remote box camp regarding vim, tho.
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
State machines are still and by far most commonly used in C, where, lo and behold, most low-level and embedded programming is still done. And function pointers make up for pretty much the only fundamentally useful aspect of FPs regarding FS
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
Actually I followed the questionnaire with rather bland requirements of a very vanilla distributed data-driven application and it said "Perhaps".
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
Er.. Github, gitlab, gitkraken.. I don't think having git in the name is enough to violate that clause
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
It's "Active Record" style ORMs like Hibernate that are the culprit, and the way many developers utilize them to avoid any contact with the realities of RDBMs which leads to data access antipatterns which lead to poor perform
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
I haven't used Webpack prior to 2.x and Gulp was my preferred option previously as Grunt really was a clusterfuck, but Webpack setups come with batteries included and small extensions to it you need to add are often easy. That's m
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
Does anyone? Doing web dev on Windows means exposing yourself to a world of pain, which is why most are on MacOs or Linux anyway.
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
This is mostly a problem of the Anglo-Saxon world. In continental Europe, for the most part, at least AFAIK, publicly owned universities are harder to get in, harder to get a degree from, and valued much more in the job market. The upside i
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
This. On a prior job I was in a mixed team (me being the only engineer in the room, and a team lead) and it was like a dorm room or a cafe. No way to concentrate doing anything, but luckily it was a gov't shop so no one was expected to
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
There is Brig ( https://github.com/BrigJS/brig ) but despite the fact that QML and JavaScript are already "married", and the immense popularity of both Qt and JS, it's far, far, away from Electron's m
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by bmarkovic 9y ago
The idea of using Python for high performance numerical work is daft. The whole scientific Python thing revolves around the fact that Python is an excellent low boilerplate research and prototyping language with possible production uses whe
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by bmarkovic 10y ago
My objections were to his idea that Turing was virtual unknown who somehow got recognition because he was gay. I was in SE uni program in the 90s, but "Turing-complete", "Turing test" and FSMs with references to him were
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by bmarkovic 10y ago
Bullshit (to the claim that Turing was virtual unknown). I had no idea Turing was gay when the man became synonymous to Finite State Machines and was one of the household names in all low-level/hardware related subjects and most comput
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by bmarkovic 10y ago
Wouldn't webxmp (also emscripten based) be a better match for MOD/S3M/XM support: http://www.wothke.ch/webxmp/

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