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by brundolf 4y ago
Imo incentives-based reasoning is the only way of thinking about corporate behavior that isn't naive. What's happened here is that the incentives changed, which- maybe you could call it naive to assume they wouldn't But the
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by brundolf 4y ago
I'm wondering if Vercel itself has interest in Deno, given their focus on the edge (and generally being at the forefront of JS tech). I hope they don't try and purchase it or anything, but first-party Next.js support for Deno woul
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by brundolf 4y ago
You're mixing two different things: 1. The legacy language baggage of different syntaxes, bad Node APIs, non-standard import styles, etc 2. The existing ecosystem of actual packages and their capabilities It's a good thing that
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by brundolf 4y ago
> otherwise software wouldn't have economies of scale Does it? I tend to think it doesn't (in terms of code size; obviously it does if we're scaling by number of users) Even if bugs scale sublinearly in practice- my gut te
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by brundolf 4y ago
I've never really heard of it being used that way before now
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by brundolf 4y ago
That was my assumption too before seeing the clarification
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by brundolf 4y ago
I'm having a difficult time imagining a situation where people's actual productivity using a piece of software can be so easily measured. I'm sure it happens, but I think it's safe to say this is the exception to the rul
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by brundolf 4y ago
I'm sorry, you could make this case about some kinds of telemetry, but specifically not A/B testing. Speaking from work experience: A/B testing doesn't look into the nuances of usability or productivity, it looks at easy
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by brundolf 4y ago
Similar situation (different magnitude, but still) that I saw on twitter the other day: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589700721121058817.html Engineers have some power to prevent harm. Use it when it matters.
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by brundolf 4y ago
Designers figured out that it's hard to make physics-based gameplay that's fun and interesting and doesn't break the game in various ways. Physics-driven games in the HL2 style are then almost their own genre - it has to be a
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by brundolf 4y ago
Some people would say Rust has too many batteries included in the standard library (even though no_std exists) "Not enough" or "too much" is relative to your use-case. Go is almost purpose-built for web servers, whereas
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by brundolf 4y ago
Possibly naive question from someone who's never worked with this kind of language, but something I've been wondering about: > it is possible to prove mathematically that your code behaves in precise accordance with its specifi
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by brundolf 4y ago
One time I had my macbook pro plugged in, and was confused why it was (very slowly) still draining energy An hour or so later I realized I was accidentally using my girlfriend's macbook air charging brick. It couldn't keep up, but
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by brundolf 4y ago
Wondering how the displaced engineers will impact the rest of the job market
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by brundolf 4y ago
They also have a much higher-quality product and have done a much better job adding features that users actually want, and shipping them at a faster rate Something to think about there
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by brundolf 4y ago
The amount, but probably not the way they were executed (in several different ways)
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by brundolf 4y ago
It's at odds with it, but so are many other data structures found in the standard library. The solution is usually to use unsafe { } inside the data structure to allow for those criss-crossing pointers (while exposing safe, checker-fri
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Framework Bun: “Faster than anyone would believe” – Interview with Jarred Sumner(heise.de)
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by brundolf 4y ago
I thought about that sort of thing too, but eq returns equal-or-not-equal, so it could apply the same short-circuit Simpler example: if two lists don't have the same length you know they're unequal without looking at the items. Bu
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by brundolf 4y ago
Microsoft is no longer about Windows, it's about being wherever you are, especially if you're a developer
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by brundolf 4y ago
> Don't generate PartialEq::ne in derive(PartialEq) I had to look at the docs to understand what was going on here so I thought I'd share: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cmp/trait.PartialEq.html Appare
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by brundolf 4y ago
You're digging in really hard trying to talk someone out of following good development practices because you don't personally think his effort is worth it. Personally, I don't think the effort being put into this argument is
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by brundolf 4y ago
Good advice I think part of the problem is that "what you love" is too coarse of a term; the author hinted at this but didn't really dig into it. I would break it down into at least three parts: 1. Something that's fun t
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by brundolf 4y ago
I've lived in Waco, Austin, and a Dallas suburb. I have not lived in rural Texas, though I have family out in east texas that I've gone and stayed with many times (and taken walks in the area without incident) As you might imagine
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by brundolf 4y ago
I'm imagining they don't want to deal with transpiling for maximum browser compatibility, or with bundling; there are existing tools that do those things really well and you can always feed the output of this through those if you
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by brundolf 4y ago
I've lived in Texas my entire life (in three different major cities) and never had experiences like this. Definitely, most people drive when they're actually going to a destination. The cities are designed with this assumption. Re
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by brundolf 4y ago
You don't need to avoid them (at least their OSS projects). They mostly make good stuff. They just have an overzealous marketing department that clouds the waters, so wait for a second opinion on any claims they make.
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by brundolf 4y ago
They make good tech, but their marketing department manages to over-sell it anyway, which makes it hard for me to take anything they say at face value. It's a bummer they can't just let the technology stand on its own merits. They
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by brundolf 4y ago
Yes. I occasionally check an app that gives me very neutral summaries of the very biggest news events, but otherwise it's been mostly purged from my life and I've been better off for it. Even setting aside all of the emotion, outr
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by brundolf 4y ago
Simplicity is always a virtue and we should always look for good opportunities to gravitate towards it, it just has to be balanced against other things (as everything does) That said, I really doubt you cut "thousands of lines of"

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