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by cies 1y ago
Yeah Gleam. Or Kotlin on the JVM is also quite similar and has compile-to-JS if needed.
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by cies 1y ago
I don't program in Elixir, but I'm a fan. I was a fan of Ruby -- because of it's pragmatism and subjective beauty -- but then I got into type systems. Elixir now also has a type system and, so does Ruby... Though I know progr
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by cies 1y ago
Everyone who screws over the WTO has my sympathy. Anyway, the Dutch should then make a law that demands WTO status or smth. As this is NOT nicely applying rule of law.
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by cies 1y ago
Exactly. Then you learn SQL when needing complexer queries or more performance. The result: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/s/SMqhSBxje7
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by cies 1y ago
"For my friends, the law; for my enemies, arbitrariness."
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by cies 1y ago
China never claimed it's markets were free to enter by foreigners. US/EU did. If tit-for-tat is our policy, then we should at least be upfront about it and enshrine it in law, instead of using some ancient law to slap China with:
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by cies 1y ago
Only they will not admit it. The capitalist propaganda, "freedom", is so ingrained that we cannot easily paddle back on it. So we will become helplessly hypocritical instead.
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by cies 1y ago
I cannot imagine a 2MLOC codebase with rdbms persistence that does not need custom SQL. I believe you, but I also think that's a special case.
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by cies 1y ago
> and can write difficult queries by hand So now I have to learn an ORM (with some kind of lifecycles, dirty tracking, eager/lazy loading config, etc.)... aaaaand I have to learn SQL as well, because the ORM's abstraction is le
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by cies 1y ago
Used to prefer Ruby and Rails. Now I think Kotlin is basically a "typed Ruby". And projects like http4k[1] and terpal-sql[2] make webdev't a rather blissful experience. 1: https://www.http4k.org 2: https:/&#
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by cies 1y ago
I used to love PHP until I wrote a lot of it and gained experience with a list of other languages, now I hate it. And this is how we become experienced SWEs. > use SQL directly instead of an ORM Me too.
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by cies 1y ago
I disagree to a point that I wrote an article about it. https://dev.to/cies/the-case-against-orms-5bh4 > Most times ORMs are fine, sometimes they are not. When fine is defined as "improves dev't speed&quot
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by cies 1y ago
I think the reason why wine/alcohol was deemed good for health was that the study was on US population who are generally overweight, and thus usually have arterial plaque narrowing their arteries. Alcohol acts as a blood thinner, thus
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by cies 1y ago
LLM (the model) is not the agent (ClaudeCode) that uses LLMs. LLMs improve slowly, but the agents are where the real value is produced: when should it write tests, when should it try to compile, how to move fwd from a compile error, can it
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by cies 1y ago
Amen to all your points. All senior devs know what a project looks like that had only juniors and no tech leadership. One big mess. Project stalls. Team spends 98% on bugs and emergencies, and still cant get a grip on curbing the drama. Why
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by cies 1y ago
I got this idea traveling. Going up the Himalaya from Bihar i saw major changes. I think that when I got the idea.
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by cies 1y ago
I have a theory not listed here: harsh winters make a people calculative (and calculative people make more money). If you can survive all year sleeping under a tree, you eventually end up with a different gene pool than in a place where you
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by cies 1y ago
Phoronix!
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by cies 1y ago
Sure they can use it, and learn it in a semester. Also: good you use Rust in teaching! But I want a fast on-ramp, quick iterations and clean looking code. (and went with Kotlin because of that -- I like Rust more myself, but I have a busine
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by cies 1y ago
Being able to talk passionately and with experience about "exotic" languages during an interview will help you land the job. I will hire the one that talks about the joy of FP and/or static typing ANYDAY over the programmer w
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by cies 1y ago
Okay, Rust is general purpose enough... But is it general audience? (can every Py/PHP/JS/TS/Java/C# dev become productive in it quickly?) Also: if you want quick (re)compiles on a larger codebase, Rust is not for yo
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by cies 1y ago
Then also app up Java&Kotlin and C&C++. Ooh, then JS&TS are not number two!
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by cies 1y ago
You're joking right?
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by cies 1y ago
Fascism used to have a meaning. And that meaning used to be different from "violence towards those who think different". But nowadays... It seems to be used by anyone who does not like a group. Like when people overuse the word na
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by cies 1y ago
FP code is often easier to read (the article provides a case to that point). What gave FP a bad rep is, i guess, Haskell (and the "pure functional approach w/ monad transformer stacks"). Every shop I worked at the devs were a
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by cies 1y ago
And Ruby is basically Smalltalk with a friendly syntax and lots of FP-goodness where it makes sense. Or, Ruby is a cute (mostly subset of) Perl. And after some Kotlin I must say: Kotlin is an acceptable "Ruby with static types".
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by cies 1y ago
Exactly. All wrong assumptions, and all needed to be tagged on to Java in later versions. I dont find Java's first versions well designed. The JVM was quite well designed, but the language not. And changing a popular language is hard.
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by cies 1y ago
I'd say it's more "JS is winning by default and slowing innovation". React (and TypeScript) is a mere band aid trying to make something out of it. I say this from an Elm perspective: so much you do not need (code and lib
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by cies 1y ago
People in the dispensary look better (slimmer) than in the wallmart.
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by cies 1y ago
> Is there any reason that Xorg couldn't tack on a permission system, other than that it would be inelegant? That's the whole reason for Wayland's existence: such things were not "easily" possible... Linux+Xorg d

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