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by dasmoth 8y ago
Really nice idea. One thing that's adding to the "frustration factor" of the CSS problems is that the updates seem rather racy (Firefox 63, MacOS), in the sense that if you edit further while an update is already running, it
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I've been doing it in Scheme this year, as a major branch of the LISP family I've never tried before. Super-impressed by the speed and solidity of the Chez Scheme implementation, but still a little undecided about how much I like
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Social networking and dog food(rachelbythebay.com)
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by dasmoth 8y ago
One thing that isn't entirely clear from this post is whether the software works . The unimplemented-functions thing doesn't sound wonderful, but I'd still argue that there's a world of difference between software that
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Abstractions are great. But in my experience the kind of functions you get by pulling chunks out of a big (but working) function aren't often abstracting things that are terribly valuable. If you think the extracted function does m
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by dasmoth 8y ago
If I'm understanding you right, "C-like-syntax" languages generally allow this: function big() { let x,y,z; { // First bit let localToThisSection = 42;
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by dasmoth 8y ago
There is. Try clicking the [-] beside a comment title.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Do people really prefer: function doFirstBit() {} function doSecondBit() {} function big() { let x,y,z; [x,y] = doFirstBit(); [x,z] = doSecondBit(x, y); } to: function big(
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Languages: Lots of Javascript ( maybe more Typescript, but would be shocked if that had taken over completely). Probably quite a bit of Python, Ruby, Go, PHP. I'd be pretty shocked if something we haven't already heard of gai
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Yes, I think I'd agree with that. Good judgement can potentially help to avoid the unbounded time sinks. I've met a few people who's opinions I'd generally trust in that regard, but it seems to be a hard problem, and s
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Among the lineage of web comment sites I'm familiar with, I'm pretty certain it was Slashdot. They definitely had it in 1999. Might have been 1998. It definitely wasn't Digg. According to Wikipedia, that wasn't even f
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by dasmoth 8y ago
1. In house designed and built custom RTOS 2. In house designed and built custom hardware platform 3. Our entire UI framework was highly customized by us, for our specific needs It turns out, when you control all the variables, making esti
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by dasmoth 8y ago
If there's stuff that's valuable, I'd prefer to see it pasted into the commit message -- far less likely for links to get broken. If it's long term valuable, i.e. "I considered obvious, attractive alternative al
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by dasmoth 8y ago
It's drastically less helpful if anyone ever wants to look at the code separate from whatever issue-tracker you're currently using. Are you confident those IDs will be preserved (in a useful form) if you ever want to migrate away
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by dasmoth 8y ago
This seems to have become really pervasive the last few years, and I recognise it’s sometimes driven by regulatory/certification requirements. But in the absence of those, what does this gain you over putting a sentence or three of hu
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I'm pretty certain any such mission would have leaked by now. At least the fact of it, if not the details. On-orbit servicing of friendly recon sats was considered pretty seriously, though: http://www.thespacereview.com&#x2
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by dasmoth 8y ago
It was almost certainly a matter of policy (pre-STS-51L, there was still quite a strong push towards the shuttle taking over all US launches) rather than strict necessity. Some flights (STS-41D, for instance) launched civilian comsats wh
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by dasmoth 8y ago
The actual simulation is at http://visual6502.org/sim/varm/armgl.html
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by dasmoth 8y ago
When I first heard about eCLipz, I thought it was pushing towards a single processor architecture for all three series. From today's article, it seems as though z/Series machines still get quite distinct CPUs, though. Do you kno
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by dasmoth 8y ago
However I've been to job interviews where they force me to code live in front of several people and I couldn't get half a line of code out before one of them will chip in with a "suggestion" breaking my train of thought
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I get what you're saying, but seems a little harsh. And also makes me think of: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends
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by dasmoth 8y ago
I think the requirement is "normally living in Scotland". (I'm not 100% sure how this is enforced. It rather seems as though getting a cheap flat north of the border and declaring that as your normal residence for the durati
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by dasmoth 8y ago
This is why I'm excited about Starlink (and potentially other big LEO constellations as well -- but Starlink is the one I'm most optimistic about right now).
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Yes, I think it would be. I sincerely hope I live to see this become widely possible.
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Was a reason ever given? I'm not exactly surprised by this, but it seems pretty irrational, especially if the distributed company is already working reasonably well (which presumably it is, if they've just closed another round).
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by dasmoth 8y ago
My father started butchering lambs based on reading a book, and using tools already around the house (he might have bought a cleaver, but pretty sure that was after he'd done the first few). The first one took quite a while, but wor
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by dasmoth 8y ago
What's the problem with "hand-rolled components"? Isn't that pretty much the essence of building non-trivial frontend stuff? Or does this have some special meaning in the Angular world?
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Before sacrificing an island, you could always see if there’s somewhere that needs a harbour or the like. This has been considered before, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Chariot
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by dasmoth 8y ago
It’ll take some money, some talking (do you have a local university that builds satellites?), or, most likely, both, but there are ways and means of getting things into orbit. See, for example: https://www.cubesatshop.com/pr
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by dasmoth 8y ago
Thanks for commenting! And yes, more than the pencil-and-paper aspect of this, what I find striking is that it's one person working quietly and alone, with a manager who was prepared to take "Still designing" as an answer. T

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