codr4life

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by codr4life 10y ago
Seriously? Who do you think wrote the Wikipedia entry, and why?
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by codr4life 10y ago
I've followed Bill around, bad trees don't give good fruit; just because the information comes from a non-bought source and contradicts what you imagined to be true; that doesn't make it fake or turn the comment into trolling
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Lispy tasks based on Duff's Device(github.com)
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Calling the virtual DOM(github.com)
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Transactional memory in Forth, in Lisp(github.com)
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Syncing the virtual DOM(github.com)
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by codr4life 10y ago
I'm fine with using ideas that make sense and rejecting the ones that don't. It's still solid advice for API design, and the most successful approach we've come up with. Doing REST to the letter always turns into some ki
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by codr4life 10y ago
It failed? When?
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by codr4life 10y ago
You might do well to read what I wrote about perfect and good enough. These are ideas, not laws.
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by codr4life 10y ago
I agree that it's potentially useful, but it also adds it's share of complexity to any implementation I've come across. And most proposed uses I've seen do not obviously benefit from the idempotent approach, from my expe
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by codr4life 10y ago
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that one. REST is one of the more successful strategies we've come up with for connecting systems, this is just another case of letting perfect stand in the way of good enough. Using GET for n
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by codr4life 10y ago
Word, like anyone expected Billy boy to be in favor of giving money to simple folks for nothing.
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by codr4life 10y ago
And who is the one person you should really believe in/work for? That's right, that's you.
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by codr4life 10y ago
Where is your trust in basic human values? The behavior you see around you is an effect of pressure from a completely artificial and destructive environment, regardless of what it's called. Using communism as some kind of crucifix for
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by codr4life 10y ago
Why not? They're tools, not fashion items. If you dig a bit deeper you'll find an entire category of people writing software using powerful, mature tools. The reason it's not as commercially feasible is that most problems are
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by codr4life 10y ago
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-bet... I'm far from the only one who disagrees with you. And I'll just note that calling people idiots is the opposite of constructive.
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by codr4life 10y ago
My experience is 13 years of trying really hard to do the right thing within a sinking ship. Yes, we where young and inexperienced; and yes the foundation of the system was built using what turned out to be the worst turds in Delphi; and ye
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by codr4life 10y ago
Tesla was brilliant, following your passion is the only way; sooner or later that penny has to drop for everyone. Who are we to judge utility from our limited perspective? What if the rules of the game were rigged from the start? What if ch
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by codr4life 10y ago
It always seemed weird to me to hire expensive specialists only to slap them around and override their experience by insisting on sub-optimal tools, methods and work environments. It took me 30 years of diligent, daily practice to get here.
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by codr4life 10y ago
That early experience gradually got me motivated enough to learn more powerful tools. These days, Common Lisp ( https://github.com/codr4life/cl4l ) is my preferred tool for most problems; but I'm gradually learning
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by codr4life 10y ago
I did professional development in Delphi for 13 years, writing and maintaining a sprawling 700k line reservation system. I don't miss it much. It was a great learning experience to have to fill in all the gaps in the standard libraries
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by codr4life 10y ago
We should kill work, period. This is not the way it always was, and it's not the way it always will be. This is a brief moment in evolution, a learning experience. If some didn't insist on having plenty more than others, there wou
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by codr4life 10y ago
Oh, there have been plenty of attempts to write down exactly what that is. The problem is that more than half of it will inevitably consist of bullshit ceremonies, bike-shedding and marketing. Given enough experience to cut the right corner
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by codr4life 10y ago
The part on perfectionism is also well worth repeating; pretending to be perfect, and/or bullying others into the same madness is a waste of energy and oxygen that could be better used to move forward. "Perfectionism and fear of e
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by codr4life 10y ago
"When the task at hand is much more rigid, with specific guidelines about what tools to use and how to implement things, the ability of a 10x programmer to perform a lot of work in less time is weakened: it can still exploit “local” de
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Syncing a virtual DOM(github.com)
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by codr4life 10y ago
"Hacking lives on, if you can stay out of Federal Prison, but people are ultimately more enamored with the big money. The tech press, especially. Chasing dollars and begging millionaire 20-somethings? Networking, even? Not exactly what
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Building a Lispy Forth(github.com)
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by codr4life 10y ago
Feel free to define whatever however you want. This is a virtual DOM, because that is what the expression means; who's most popular right now matters not at all. And the only reason you feel obliged to drag the discussion down to this
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by codr4life 10y ago
It's one step up from Excel, and more rope to hang yourself in; but it's not like it's going to replace the kind of work that any serious developer would miss. It never will; systematic, abstract thinking will always take pra

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