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by davidp 14y ago
> we are not the recipe writers we were 20 years ago - that instead we are "abstractioners" > we have to know far more than just the basic consturcts [sic] of the language and things like IO Did anyone else find these annoying? I re
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by davidp 14y ago
This is clever, thanks for sharing. When viewing the output (using the "computer science cheat sheet") I found some differences between browsers that I thought HN readers might find interesting. These aren't primarily issues with your tool,
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by davidp 14y ago
Maybe I lack imagination, but even though the tool provides many interesting solutions, it doesn't seem to "scratch an itch" for any problems I need to solve. The screencast narrator asks a number of intriguing "what if you could XYZ" quest
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by davidp 14y ago
> it's the only language without any deal breakers Interesting thought. Can you elaborate?
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> you should be using Secure UDID or something similar As an app developer, does this give me some benefit over just generating and saving a random UUID on first launch?
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by davidp 14y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by davidp 14y ago
IANAL but here are two things I found interesting about the patent: 1. It doesn't claim the methods, only the systems. My (dim) understanding is that this means it isn't a software patent (a "method" patent), it's just a patent on a "syste
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by davidp 14y ago
> But I wish the Window key was more like the Cmd key in OS X. That is, I wish it was a modifier key that can be used in key combinations, and ideally have it be the primary modifier. I disagree; the entire point of the Windows key is t
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by davidp 14y ago
I sympathize; but on the other hand, many of us value our own thoughts very highly too.
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> I think perhaps he is confusing best practices for public interfaces with general-purpose best practices. Exactly. Most of the advice in the article is sensible when viewed from that perspective. I use LINQ to Entity in my company's
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I think he may have just tanked his chances. People buying cars in that price range 1) expect to have mechanical service available for the foreseeable future, and 2) don't like to be associated with losers. You don't want to drop $90k on
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by davidp 14y ago
It looks like most of the folks in the Haskell reddit community are taking it with good humor; I read that comment as a wry tweaking rather than as outright dismissal. Language nerds at play, fun to watch.
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And the vim team.
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Automatically downgraded by an algorithm, not by a human analyst. Not terribly significant news-wise, since e.g. the algorithm can't realistically take into account the recent positive reviews of Tesla's new models.