cutler

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by cutler 3y ago
Jung's synchronicity is a better model for western Astrology.
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by cutler 3y ago
With developments in AI I doubt that will stand the test of time.
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by cutler 3y ago
But bad news if you actually need a decent interface to C libraries.
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by cutler 3y ago
Glad I read this. No need to waste my time learning Rust.
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by cutler 3y ago
Just curios, what language was used to develop?
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by cutler 3y ago
This in turn followed their failed attempt to derail UNIX by bankrolling SCO's failed anti-UNIX lawsuit.
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by cutler 3y ago
It always surprised me how even savvy devs bought WSL as proof of Microsoft's good intentions. If you lived through Microsoft's antics in the 90s and 00s you could never imagine them changing. Well, here's the proof - they ha
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by cutler 3y ago
When I search Kotlin jobs on Indeed I qualify with -Android -mobile to get the truth about Kotlin's failure to make a dent in Java's entrenchment outside mobile.
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by cutler 3y ago
> I don't get how other developers get so invested That's because your investment is means-to-an-end. For others, such as DHH for example, their chosen language is a means of expression and consequently they have a very strong
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by cutler 3y ago
Working with Clojure is a world apart compared with any of the others listed.
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by cutler 3y ago
Since PHP 5.3 why would you want to use PHP instead of Java when you're effectively writing Poor Man's Java but without the benefits of the JVM?
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by cutler 3y ago
I remember doing local tech support in the early 2000s. One of the most challenging jobs was migrating a client away from AOL. The AOL software was designed to stick to your Windows machine like glue.
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by cutler 3y ago
Until Svelte or any other JS framework can compete with React Native React will continue to reign.
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by cutler 3y ago
That's no excuse. M$ has the resources to make VS Mac fully compatible with VS Windows. They just chose to keep the Mac version a second-class citizen.
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by cutler 3y ago
Yes I did use it. I'm not saying VS Mac was comparable to VS Windows in fact I had my doubts about M$'s cross-platform development hype throughout the VS Mac saga. The point is the M$ don't give a **ck about anything other th
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by cutler 3y ago
> they were thinking more about backend linux than they were about frontend mac/iOS How can that be when they were/are pushing .Net MAUI so hard?
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by cutler 3y ago
> GUI programming on Mac is a hot mess Care to elaborate?
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by cutler 3y ago
Why did anyone believe M$'s hype about cross-platform .Net development? It was only a matter of time. Now Mac OS X is clearly a second class citizen. Anyone who lived through the late 90s/early 2000s will not be surprised. I also
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by cutler 3y ago
God forbid we should have to familiarise ourselves with a language before using it.
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by cutler 3y ago
> cleverness like what you wrote. So we should optimise languages for users who are not prepared to familiarise themselves with the language? How is this more complicated than its commonly-used Javascript equivalent? function call(
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by cutler 3y ago
It was meant tongue in cheek as I was defending Ruby being the most welcoming community. It's just a bit twee like the voice-over on London Underground - "See it, say it, sorted".
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by cutler 3y ago
You don't have to shift() or unroll @ any longer in recent Perls.
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by cutler 3y ago
If that blew you away you really should try Ruby: def call(fn, val) = fn.(val) call(->(n){ n + 5 }, 10)
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by cutler 3y ago
As someone who began his programming career with Perl I've never understood this idea that Python somehow improved on Perl. For a start Ruby is Perl5's most obvious successor. Perl puts Python's text-handling to shame whilst
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by cutler 3y ago
> It's still one of the most popular languages for web development. But is it? Stats on major job boards such as Indeed show a steep decline in recent years. There are consistently twice as many Django/Flask roles listed compar
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by cutler 3y ago
Plus Perl6/Raku is still dog slow compared with Ruby/Python/Perl5 by a factor of 10 when parsing a log file with a regex.
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by cutler 3y ago
I think HTMX has given a new lease of life to old school, server-side frameworks like Django and Flask.
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by cutler 3y ago
The Mouse Book ( https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/cgi-programming-with/15... ), by any chance?
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by cutler 3y ago
I'd qualify that. A lot of the hype around PHP being easy for cheap web hosting misses the point that a lot of that cheap hosting was configured with PHP as a CGI module, not mod_php. In that sense it was on a level playing field with
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by cutler 3y ago
MIT dropping SICP/Scheme for Python conicided with the general decline of education as an end in itself. Python is the VHS of computer languages. I couldn't believe it when I heard MIT dropped a language renowned for its elegant l

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