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by daotoad 6y ago
I was using ALE for autocompletion and such, but having switched to COC, I find its support for TypeScript to be far superior. This is relevant because COC is basically a system for talking to language servers. https://github.com
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by daotoad 6y ago
It's really all about making principled choices when it comes to how much jankiness you can tolerate for a short term velocity boost. Doing awful things to rapidly try out an idea and see if it warrants further investment is good, as l
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by daotoad 6y ago
This is why I keep coming back to the idea that we need tools that keep their data serialized in the repo itself. I talking about issue tracking, project planning, documentation like github wikis or confluence, all that stuff. There are qu
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by daotoad 6y ago
I personally like being able to establish one identity across multiple services.
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by daotoad 6y ago
This. I've used mine to make: * an adapter to let me my old vacuum cleaner attachments on my new vacuum * a number of irreplaceable little plastic gewgaws whose breakage would have destroyed the utility of various products * custom hoo
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by daotoad 6y ago
So, the thing that google has that I value most is broad single sign-on support. Is there a service (other than Facebook) that has this capability? Is there a technology that we should be driving adoption of that would allow me to host my o
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by daotoad 6y ago
Due diligence like got us the 2007 collapse? What limited regulation was added after the crisis has been largely undermined.
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by daotoad 6y ago
Because the best way to reduce drunk driving risk is to force everyone out of bars at more or less the same time. Back in my teens and twenties I found myself intervening, with varied levels of success, to prevent drunken trips to the stor
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by daotoad 6y ago
Take off every 'ZIG'!! You know what you doing. Move 'ZIG'. For great justice!
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by daotoad 6y ago
In general, diversity makes groups behave better. Whether by age, gender, race, sexual preference, nationality, or religion, increasing diversity increases the pool of experiences and points of view. When someone offers up some toxic behavi
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by daotoad 6y ago
It's also important to be aware of the fact that you don't have to see too many horrible, bigoted comments before a space feels unsafe. It's not a matter of "not all HN posts", it's a matter of "too many H
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by daotoad 6y ago
The same thing happened with MVC. MVC was originally used to describe a design using Smalltalk UI widgets as controllers and charts and other similar displays of data as views that worked with business logic stored in the model. State flow
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by daotoad 6y ago
Raku's big strengths lie, IMO, in the command line scripting capabilities (the MAIN function), parsing with grammars and powerful new regex syntax, and as a glue language. It's relatively easy to bind to external libraries and wo
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by daotoad 6y ago
I'm in my late 40s and say "Wow, Raku!". I haven't used it for anything work related yet, but working with it is mind expanding and makes me a better programmer in whatever environment I work in. The type system, multipl
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by daotoad 6y ago
> programmers are people too Are we really?
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by daotoad 6y ago
You might want to look at Carton and cpanfiles as a way of managing dependencies. You can also get really ancient stuff off BackPAN, should your dependencies disappear from CPAN proper. https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton#
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by daotoad 6y ago
The reason for the @_ is that it is a simple way to get both pass by value and pass by reference semantics. The values in @_ are aliased to the values in the subroutine call. Most of the time, you want pass by value semantics, so you unpack
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by daotoad 6y ago
There is also a concept of "context" in Perl. An operation may be evaluated in list or scalar context. For example, if you evaluate an array in list context, you get the members of the array, however, in scalar context, you get t
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by daotoad 6y ago
Perl and JavaScript both give you a minimally specified set of tools you can use to build your own more advanced object system. IMO, that's why both languages have been able to be extended and adapt so much. If you look at tools like
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by daotoad 6y ago
My understanding was that Perl's OO system was directly inspired by Python's. I can't find a source on that though.
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by daotoad 6y ago
TIMTOWTDIBSCINABTE (pronounced "tim toady bicarbonate"). "There’s more than one way to do it, but sometimes consistency is not a bad thing either."
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by daotoad 6y ago
Frankly, if you qualify for H1B, you really should qualify for a green card (resident alien status). Do we really want to bring skilled workers to the US, give them work experience and training that raises their skill level even higher, and
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by daotoad 6y ago
Microservice architecture is SOA for the 2010s--it's basically agile-ized SOA. Key features are domain focused services, DevOps friendly deployment via containerization, and continuous integration.
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by daotoad 6y ago
If your teams are defaulting to doing the wrong thing in every case, you are having a crisis of leadership. The problem might lie in your technical leadership (e.g. making bad design decisions and failing to learn from experience) or from p
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by daotoad 6y ago
You could use MISRA guidelines for C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
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by daotoad 6y ago
I think the biggest flaw in brutalism is that it does not suffer hacks well. Badly done, it looks and performs worse than just about any other style of architecture. You get hideous boxes with conduit everywhere. None of the brutalist bui
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by daotoad 6y ago
This article begs the question. It just assumes that working in an office improves motivation. The article they point to says co-working environments improve perceived productivity, not motivation. I've worked in a remote job for more
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by daotoad 6y ago
Brutalism is NOT just "cheap functional architecture with no nods to true beauty". Yes, it is an extension of Bauhaus, with exposed fixtures and minimalist, functional designs. Yes, in the hands of a hack, this yields ugliness.
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by daotoad 6y ago
IMO, this is where regulation and government come into play. Some things aren't ever going to be profitable if built and managed for the long run. These are things that should be government services. Other things can be profitable but
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by daotoad 6y ago
And 1950 and 1980. They could be great again if they leveraged their old "good, better, best" strategy. Instead of trying to sell all the things like Amazon and Walmart do, they should be offering a broad, curated set of items th

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