bpizzi

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by bpizzi 8y ago
Yes, sorry for the harsh generalization.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> The benefits of some of those advances are questionable at best. Spending the last decade of your life commuting to doctor's offices (or bedridden) ain't no picnic, nor is rotting away in a forgotten corner of a human warehou
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> Will end-user applications ever be truly programmable? Emacs, Smalltalk, Genera, and VBA embody a vision of malleable end-user computing: if the application doesn't do what you want, it's easy to tweak or augment it to suit y
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by bpizzi 8y ago
You're literally playing with your life.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Those days I just sketch wireframes in a Google Slides presentation. Bonus point for the interactivity: I can share the URL for remote work sessions, and the stakeholders on the other end of the line can see me create/adapt wireframes
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> Have you ever seen $300MM worth of wood? Well, I'm not sure about wood, indeed, but I guess specials species can cost a lot. But I definitely saw $300MM of metal in a single stocking rack, not even speaking in terms of machines an
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by bpizzi 8y ago
GAFA's are somewhat specials. I was very precisely answering to a very well written story about a plant producing furniture. As a matter of fact, if you were Ikea's CEO with a rather important war-chest (however not at the level o
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by bpizzi 8y ago
No, it's neither a lazy nor ideological answer. It's a very pragmatic answer. If you're the head of a plant where nothing produced is sold for a price that cover your expanses, then no, sorry, the system [0] will soon have
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by bpizzi 8y ago
To stick to this comment only: > How do you fix this company? I'll take a shot : you don't, the free market does it for you (ie. the company isn't going to last long, or the plant get shut down if part of a group). It&#x27
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by bpizzi 8y ago
What do you mean exactly by illegal? Nobody's going to jail for sending an email outside of working hours, even in France. Edit: actually, for anyone wondering, the law is that a >50 employee's company should document it&#x
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Mainly because I currently work on long term projects, building entreprise grading systems. Here you want simple, dumb technologies for which you'll still be able to put up build OS in the years to go.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Yes, you can have everything in every language. After all it's turtles all the way down. What makes us successful as software engineers, in the end (and IMHO), is the efficiency level at which we reach our goals. To my eyes, when deliv
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> Yes; with Python, you can both run directly from source without wasting time compiling after each change As I said, interpreted languages have their uses, of course. My initial point was about delivery to end users.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Thanks, it gets clearer. As a matter of fact I'm both knowledgeable in building things in Python and Go, Node and PHP too. And others. But, admittedly, for 'big' things I tend to lean on Go nowadays (edit: mainly because I ne
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Sorry I can't follow you (no offense really). You said at first "Dev builds are just as annoying with Golang as Ruby or Python" and now you're saying "I can build any python [...] I can't do that with [...] Rub
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> Dev builds are just as annoying with Golang as Ruby or Python. Hm, I'm pretty sure I can take any Go project out there and build it in a matter of minutes on my current OS (depending on the build time of course). Just a matter of
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Or to say it differently: "that's one of the areas where interpreted languages' ecosystems stinks: app delivery".
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by bpizzi 8y ago
It's not free if you use the binaries builded/downloaded from caddyserver.com. It's still free if you build the binaries yourself from source [0]. [0] https://caddyserver.com/products/licenses
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by bpizzi 8y ago
As an anecdote: my 'code generation' go-to solution in go is text/template's based. The '//go generate' on the first line of the source file generating the final code is a mere helper and I could do w
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> setting up all the types for the channels based on the types in the functions being run by the go routines was quite difficult. I had to do it all by reflection and the code was really complicated. My guess (and personal experience) is
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by bpizzi 8y ago
"the only way to ensure you will live "forever" is to severely restrict the agency of anyone else but you." Such a lack of imagination. What about virtual worlds where you're ego would be uploaded, leaving no physic
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Thanks for sharing. The complexities of the human brain will never cease to amaze me. There should be a way, in all this neuronal maze, to escape those compulsions, but I bet it's really well hidden.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Well, IMHO (no offense meant), memorizing programming manuals makes one a good lonely programmer. To become a 'professional software engineer', one must learn to be a team-player within a group of persons tasked in building and ma
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> I really don't see how machines could distill the ideas out of a text and reinterpret them in a nice way. Well, machines are already doing it with paintings: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576v2.pdf . There&#x27
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Teleportation isn't very concerning to me, because it's basically against known physic rules for now on. Theoretically I would be very wary of teleportation, on a pragmatic level: if I don't own the teleportation process on a
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Personnaly I would never use such a drug. I conceptualise myself as a tought-based kernel with a bunch of meat around to make it run. This kernel tries hardly to think about itself as 'one thing' (you don't achieve much with
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Good advices. And we should repeat this: there's no need for putting extreme weight on bars. Repetitions, series and rest time are golden here. You can do wonders with 50-80kg deadlifts ( not when starting weight lifting ), no need to
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Side note: I have been coding a large golang application for 3y now on emacs/spacemacs with the 'go' layer. Never had a single problem. Otoh, I tried both atom and vscode for the same job, but quickly ran away because using a
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Take a look at Orgzly for interacting with org files on Android, and set up a dropbox shared folder between your devices, including your smartphone. Works well for me. As for extracting meaningful info with other editors, I would say it dep
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by bpizzi 8y ago
At the beginning a family is made of two parents. When only one parent takes such dramatic decisions as to lie to their spouse in order to hide its cheating under the umbrella "its for the best of the family", then I stand to my p

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