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by dajonker 8y ago
Seems quite useful, allowing the developer to guide the garbage collector into the right direction by carefully placing statements to tell the garbage collector when it is (not) ok to run. But make sure to add some comments describing the p
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by dajonker 8y ago
I've been in a project where some (authoritative) people had a tendency to split things into separate repositories for very small things, e.g. repositories with a single class. This was pure developer hell. Any change meant changing at
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by dajonker 8y ago
Related code golf challenge: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/221/reverse-pol...
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by dajonker 8y ago
I'm not quite familiar with the tooling but it seems to be based on Chromium?
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by dajonker 8y ago
I like the way Zalando is doing tech. They release (and maintain!) tons of open source stuff in several domains.
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by dajonker 8y ago
The "code" version doesn't seem to work very well for me on a screen. I'm using vim in Gnome Terminal. It seems to be much less crisp than my personal favorites, Fira Code or Hack ( https://sourcefoundry.org&#x
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by dajonker 8y ago
That's usually how you can identify good people: when they can explain complicated things using simple words, in a way that their audience can understand it. People that need lots of expensive words and leave you feeling dizzy at the e
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My point was not really to mention a particular programming language, but rather to make the point that people seem to continuously reinvent the wheel rather than reading up on history and investigating other programming languages. If you o
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"it became clear that we needed to ensure that every single condition was handled and accounted for in the code" This is a feature of several (mostly functional) programming languages, e.g. Haskell. Fun to see that often people fi
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by dajonker 8y ago
Makes you think why you would go to work every day and be so serious all the time. This looks like serious fun.
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by dajonker 8y ago
Who cares about security? Containers! Containers! Containers!
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by dajonker 8y ago
I often see a bad split between the ideas/specifications, and execution of a software project. On one side there's the project style where everything is designed and specified by non-programmers (i.e. people who don't end up
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by dajonker 8y ago
Growing vegetables in greenhouses can be done very efficiently. The Wageningen University researched high-tech greenhouses in Riyad (Saudi Arabia) and found that it only required 5 liter fresh water per kg tomatoes, compared to 168 liters i
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by dajonker 8y ago
Comments are a terrible idea. You can respond on your own blof, of course.
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by dajonker 8y ago
Yes, having ad blocking on mobile makes a huge difference in usability as well.
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by dajonker 8y ago
But is there a slack bot for that? I mean, seriously a slack bot that replies this to every blog post linked?
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by dajonker 8y ago
Would you say the book has been refactored? Nah, just kidding, the author would probably call it restructured.
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by dajonker 8y ago
Perhaps it's a matter of rule-based versus principle-based view of the world. Generally speaking, in a principle-based system, there is room for different interpretations of the stated principles. Edge cases usually don't require
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by dajonker 8y ago
As I remember from an HR course at business school, studies have shown that experience is one of the worst indicators for job performance (when hiring someone; all else being equal).
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by dajonker 8y ago
In my experience Google has awesome sales people, but the ones I've spoken to have an engineering background. Convincing other engineers that GCP is technically superior isn't that hard, but (unfortunately) engineers aren't u
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by dajonker 8y ago
You're getting downvoted because you don't base your statement on anything. Google sometimes cancels Early Access or Alpha stage products. Beta products may change before they are made Generally Available (GA), but I cannot person
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by dajonker 8y ago
Which is terrible. Some people think because a github repo has a certain amount of stars they don't have to actually think or look at the actual code in that repo. I've seen devs frowning at github repositories because they "
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by dajonker 8y ago
I feel like Google and Mozilla are acting too lenient here. In my opinion it doesn't matter if you wait 1 month or 2 years to remove support for old TLS versions, affected parties probably won't notice or act until it happens. On
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by dajonker 8y ago
It's frightening how politicians with such little knowledge and understanding of certain subjects have so much power to create legislation about those subjects. But apparently that's how we have built our civilization, through tri
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by dajonker 8y ago
Flatpak works much better for me on Ubuntu 18.04 with vanilla Gnome on Wayland: the Snap packages don't appear in the Gnome menu (until you launch an X session) and some Snap packages don't work at all on Wayland. Also, Spotify is
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by dajonker 8y ago
According to the Google Cloud Compute documentation [1] the VMs usable by customers are run on Skylake processors. [1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/
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by dajonker 8y ago
There are lots of papers out there discussing the possibilites of non-volatile memory, e.g. Let’s Talk About Storage & Recovery Methods for Non-Volatile Memory Database Systems (Arulraj, Pavlo, Dulloor, 2015)[1]. However, they all seem
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by dajonker 8y ago
While there is a lot of bloat in gnome, it personally doesn't really bother me as it doesn't get in my way. Although I agree it should probably be easier, it's great that it is possible to cut a lot of unwanted bloat from Gno
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by dajonker 8y ago
This is a great idea, but for some reason it feels like a contest after I could guess 6 out of the first 10 correctly.
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by dajonker 8y ago
I see that MVCC is a planned feature. Why would you need MVCC for an embedded database? It seems like unnecessary overhead that conflicts with the performance goals.

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