dingosity

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by dingosity 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised. The objective of design patterns isn't just to have a list of structures in your head you can rattle off in coding interviews. It's to provide you (the coder) with a way to think about program struc
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by dingosity 3y ago
This is going to sound bad, and it's not intended as a personal attack, but... maybe software engineering isn't your jam?
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by dingosity 3y ago
Respectfully... I disagree. There absolutely are anti-patterns in code and patterns can be useful in efforts to avoid them. I do, however, agree that "programming to pattern" can be a cringe experience if you're trying to
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by dingosity 3y ago
Yup. ARM == "Acorn RISC Machine"
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by dingosity 3y ago
Thx for posting this. I was trying to remember where I read this a few years back. Of course it was Bret Victor. Many of the very cool things I've seen in the last decade came from Bret.
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by dingosity 3y ago
It's as if tumblr runs on other people's computers.
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by dingosity 3y ago
I like the cut of your jib, @fragmede. Though it's probably more like "Move at a moderate speed and break ice." (Which DOES sound like my company's product development process.)
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by dingosity 3y ago
Oh yeah. This was a snarky comment. Serves me right for trying to be clever over a text channel. It is very easy to misinterpret this as a legit comment.
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by dingosity 3y ago
I probably should have led with "I spent 35 years as a software developer and THEN got an MBA." Which is to say... when I make snarky comments, they're firmly grounded on basic comp sci and extensive software dev experienc
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by dingosity 3y ago
Nope. And I really don't need another lo-rez TV.
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by dingosity 3y ago
Just a reminder... this is from comp.lang.python . It's not unbiased.
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by dingosity 3y ago
Oh man. I have SUCH good memories of my school's SP9000. It was the first machine I really got to use APL with. Thx for digging this up. Also... there were APL compilers back in the day. It wasn't exclusively interpreted.
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by dingosity 3y ago
Meh. I make free stuff and I'm completely okay with people asking for more free stuff. I might be thinking of adding something you say you need, so it's cool to know what other people's requirements are. If they're
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by dingosity 3y ago
This is fine and all, but in the old days we used to have a "simple" editor bound to $EDITOR and a more advanced editor bound to $VISUAL. But hey, it's YOUR system, so who am I to tell you what to do. Just a reminder that
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by dingosity 3y ago
I think it's used so you can easily run a command using the same environment other npm commands run under. https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/commands/npm-run-script Which is to say... I think you can do eve
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by dingosity 3y ago
So I guess I can take it out of my closet where it's been sitting, unused, for the last 3 years and finally drag it to eWaste facility.
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by dingosity 3y ago
Google: We EoL more products before breakfast than other companies EoL the whole day.
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by dingosity 3y ago
thx. I searched for it in the github interface and didn't get a hit. funky.
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by dingosity 3y ago
I joke about Gnu Hurd, but it would be great to get actual numbers. Ubuntu used to do this thing where you could put a virtual pin in a virtual map when you installed it to build a heatmap of where users were. It was completely optional a
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by dingosity 3y ago
Gnu Hurd fails the "used by many" clause.
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by dingosity 3y ago
Only if the other planet's orbits take them near enough to the black hole to get sucked in. The main difference between a primordial black hole at about the Earth's mass and a planet at about the Earth's mass is the presumed
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by dingosity 3y ago
I love that there's an ad for Castle Wolfenstein in the middle of Crawford's "The Future of Computer Wargaming" article. If only any of us knew what was coming in a decade w/ Wolfenstein 3D and beyond.
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by dingosity 3y ago
GPLv3 and librepcb-cli source isn't published. what?
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by dingosity 3y ago
Sure. But the benefit of open source is you can do whatever the eff you want. I just don't like being told "I have a use case that dictates your behaviour. You need to follow that use case, even though it's not your use ca
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by dingosity 3y ago
I think this might be the crux of my discomfort with the OP's exhortation we should all adhere to his preferences. Unix and it's derivatives are great because there's a long history of people trying to do things, finding it
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by dingosity 3y ago
Sure. But the comment wasn't "You probably shouldn't be touching the shell if you haven't shipped industry-leading products" it was "You probably shouldn't be touching the shell if you don't know wha
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by dingosity 3y ago
I can see how that's a reasonable preference. Though I fall in @OjFord's camp. I have a mouse scroll wheel and I'm not afraid to use it. But... I have to remember to hit return a few times beforehand because it's some
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by dingosity 3y ago
Sure. I don't need to be a grumpy elitist. The problem isn't that you get a usage message when you ask for it. It's that you get a usage message (written to STDOUT) when you don't. Many commands will print out the us
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by dingosity 3y ago
I believe you have completely misunderstood my "argument".
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by dingosity 3y ago
If the next command in the pipe wants to do something with non-normal output of a command, then yes, it should do something with that. And the command can redirect stderr to stdout with the use of `2>&1`. Yes. You're unlikely

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