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by codesections 5y ago
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365255
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Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus (2012)(gist.github.com)
2 points by codesections 5y ago|2 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
I'm a bit confused by the terminology here. I thought "autoloading" referred to deferring the loading of a constant until it is first used (as described in this post[0]). But the author seems to be talking about loading cod
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by codesections 5y ago
> I had the realization that there are practically two different Americas after I took a road trip through the south after having lived in the Northeast for ~20 years. I've lived in ~8 states and can tell you that "two" is
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by codesections 5y ago
This varies tremendously by city/county within Europe. For example, there are some German cities where crossing a road anywhere other than at a marked crossing not only risks a fine but also will earn disapproving looks from other ped
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by codesections 5y ago
> a Belgian friend of mine often crossed the streets of Brussels without stopping to look at the traffic, with blind faith they would just stop -- and they did. In some cities/countries, there's also the fine art of looking wit
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by codesections 5y ago
> I imagine this couldn't be possible in the states due to the absolute vastness of it all No, this absolutely happens in the states too — just on a smaller scale. Roads often have the name of the next town they run through. (One m
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by codesections 5y ago
> When I go back home to India, the very first cab from the Mumbai airport to home is like a dangerous roller coaster ride. Somewhat oddly, I had exactly the opposite experience the one time I visited Mumbai — but I was coming from a few
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by codesections 5y ago
> I've yet to see a single thing here that is physically smaller than its version in India. Statues sure are. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_statues
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by codesections 5y ago
> you could just replace any of the letters in 'user' with a different, but almost-identical looking unicode symbol and you'd still have an exploit. The post mentions that exploit (and Rust's already existing defense)
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by codesections 5y ago
The BLS doesn't provide a "software engineer" option, though. (Well, they provide "17-2061 Computer Hardware Engineers", but I assume that's not what you had in mind)
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by codesections 5y ago
Source: https://www.bls.gov/soc/2018/major_groups.htm#15-0000 Part of what I find odd is that these definitions seem to envision a separation between designimg software and actually writing the code — but, in my e
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According to the BLS, are you a “computer programmer” or a “software developer”?
6 points by codesections 5y ago|11 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
See also: Reasonable Consumer Would Know “Crunchberries” Are Not Real, Judge Rules[0] Yet Another Lawsuit About the Lack of Fruit in “Froot Loops”[1] “Hint of Lime” Case: It’s Not Crunch Berries, But It’s Close[2] [0]: https://lo
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Gang of Four(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
> I've been at my current company for maybe 6 years now, in an engineering role. In that time, the service-oriented code which has [lasted the longest is] AWS lambda functions. We have quite a few Lambda functions (written in Node)
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Raku's surprisingly good Lisp impression(codesections.com)
8 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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If you want to label your code, consider Label-ing your code(codesections.com)
2 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
This is great! Its amazing how much more readable programming languages get when they drop the visual noise created by unnecessary keywords – there's a reason math is so much easier to understand when it's expressed with symbol
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by codesections 5y ago
> Why change closures from || to //? (You’ve then reused | for other things, but why not the other way round?) Just guessing, but I bet it's to create a parallelism between // (closure) and \\ (closure that moves
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Data-first and data-last: a comparison of APIs (2019)(javierchavarri.com)
1 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
> We looked at users who copied all or part of any answer, or users who took any voting action (upvote, downvote, etc.) on any answer. Huh, I probably should have realized it, but the idea that Stack Overflow was tracking whether I copy
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by codesections 5y ago
The platinum members of the Rust Foundation are Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Mozilla, and Huawei. I'd pretty much prefer that none of those companies have any role in defining Rust – but, instead, they seem to be about the on
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by codesections 5y ago
> 3. Most people would prefer not to have it, but due to a free market failure, the ungimmicked product just isn't available any more? No, I'd go with (4) people would prefer not to have it, but companies know that they can mon
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by codesections 5y ago
Not just _look like_ — on Windows 95, moving the mouse _actually_ made things process faster, for fairly bizarre reasons. Source: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11533/why...
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by codesections 5y ago
smitty1e wrote: > I'd always thought that stronger type systems had to do with performance and storage optimization, but TFA didn't delve into that. I was also expecting/hoping to see this point addressed.
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by codesections 5y ago
> By suppressing easy-to-detect errors and passing through only the hard-to-detect errors, rigid type enforcement can actually make it more difficult to find and fix bugs. I don't follow the logic here. If a more rigid type system
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by codesections 5y ago
> Previously, China limited the total length of time minors could access online games to three hours on holiday or 1.5 hours on other days. Does anyone know how well the previous limit was enforced/how easy it was to evade?
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by codesections 5y ago
> Where does Joel Spolsky pick on boring languages? I wonder if TFA is thinking about some of the harsh words Spolsky had for Java (e.g., [0]). That's not a criticism of boring languages in general, but is pretty negative on one bo
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by codesections 5y ago
With "more" notably including Q and other array languages — pretty much as far from "boring" as you can get

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