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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Off-topic, but I'd like to thank you for your numerous amazing stackoverflow answers about Rust.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> Yeah, but normally taking money from investors [...] often skews business decisions [...] This often leads to an enshittified product. Wow, I'm glad we've got you here to point out that the startup model doesn't work! I
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Thanks, of course, that makes sense. How are you planning on doing it -- use a language like Rust that can easily be called from both and packaged? Or rewrite the CLI in Typescript?
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y It's an HTTP client. The client codebase is here: https://github.com/httpie/cli Why everyone is getting their knickers in a massiv
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
OK, thanks I don't use C much and definitely forgot about that. But my point still stands doesn't it, in that the author is using these preprocessor macros for general arrays, which don't have a special terminator sentinel.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Ok, but I guess httpie are raising money in an environment where investors are wanting to invest a lot of money, and they thought "why not, it will raise lots of exciting possibilities for the business". So I'm still not gett
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> #define countof(a) (sizeof(a) / sizeof(*(a))) > #define lengthof(s) (countof(s) - 1) It makes no sense to use the word "length" to mean one less than the number of items. You could call it maxindexof perhaps. There
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
They're not "making a REST testing tool". They're trying to start something called a "business". This has been a prominent feature of human society for many centuries. People do it to pay for their lives and th
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
They're not "making an API testing client". They're trying to start something called a "business". People do this to try to get enough of this thing called "money", to pay for the costs in their lives
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I don't understand; why do you think it is "sketchy" to try to make a living out of software? (For reference, I work as a software engineer and am also the author of a popular open source project which I give away for free an
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Because they're trying to make a living from software? And why the fuck, exactly, should they not do that? Reread your comment and perhaps you'll see how insufferably entitled, as well as naive, it sounds.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I've in the camp of never noticed my terminal emulator being slow. Used iTerm2 for 10 years, switched to Alacritty recently for reasons unrelated to performance. Before iTerm2 on Linux I don't really remember what I used but I don
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> The major reason I switched from iTerm to Alacritty is the config. Exactly the same for me! My terminal config *must* be in version control. But iTerm2 keeps it in some sort of Apple Plist crap. It has a "dynamic JSON profile&quot
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
very cool! > I also never have enough screens and never know where to put my terminal when I need to tail a log or something What I do is just don't think of the terminal as competing for screen space. My terminal is always full scr
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
> As a young person, though, I think the best thing you can do is to ignore all of that and simply observe the older people working there Ok hang on but there aren't any old people at my software company that's 4 years old. The
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
We know they're not saying "...or I'll kill ya!" because conspecific violence leading to death is extremely rare / unheard of in most species. Or if they're saying it, it is not with any weight behind the threa
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
This looks cool but also not useful for ornithological purposes, right?
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Cool! Do you know the species singing fairly well, or do you attempt any automated identification? I've been dithering about getting a microphone that I could attach to my Android phone to do better at capturing quiet vocalisations (ma
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
My answer is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37738235
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I'm sorry but I find your position and expressed attitudes to be patronizing. They are words I would expect from someone who's assumption is that they know better than the other people they talk to in life. I've no idea what
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
You don't seem to understand what a conditional is. _Given_ that I want to study React in the woods, how should I do it? Whether or not to study React in the woods is completely irrelevant.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I think the answer is fairly simple: you've got to bring a project with you that you know won't require downloading dependencies or online research. That's either because you've advanced the project to a sufficient state
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
I think it's laziness: rather than solving a specific problem, it's much easier to pick from an infinity of other problems you can solve.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Yes, but programmers are a special case. We all know that our industry is characterized by a pervasive desire to prove we know more than others. So we should rein it in more than elsewhere.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Ignore all the know-it-alls here telling you that you shouldn't write code while you're on vacation. If any of them knew anything about being in nature they'd know that the morning and evening are the times with most wildlife
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
It's really annoying to answer a question by telling the asker that you know better and they should do something else. This person cared enough about this question to ask it to a community on the internet. Have the humility to answer t
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
There should be scatter plots or other data visualizations in a post like this.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Right, agree with all that.
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
One way to do that is to open a second PR which targets the branch of the first PR. I think that's also probably the most natural way -- would you agree? I don't see it done much, but I've done it once or twice and I'd e
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by da39a3ee 3y ago
Right, thanks! (And using clipboard and stdin sounds even more convenient for small patches as a sibling comment suggests.)

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