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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
On a Mac, Homebrew is the first thing I install. I then pull my dotfiles repo which has some scripts to get most of my dev tools installed.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
Not much. Its attractiveness from a business perspective is that it’s an easy sell to heavily politicised companies where you won’t get budget to implement something unless your proposal is buzzword-laden.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
Haha dw I'm more than happy to be proven wrong. > I've seen (and briefly played with) tools for some languages that will create flow diagrams from your source code. Could you share what those tools were?
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
Excel is too easy to abuse. Spaghetti formulas is just as bad as spaghetti code, especially if your business happens to run on Excel. Spreadsheets would be much more maintainable if people separated data from the view.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I've never dabbled with MATLAB or Simulink before (and I don't think I have the background to do so, at least for Simulink!) but I did just skim some of the tutorial videos. What stood out to me was the instant feedback that'
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
> While on text based languages, lack of modularity is kind of hidden and only jumps at you when you try to actually change anything, on visual languages it jumps right at you when you open a project. I've worked on some projects us
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
But they're still specialised tools which work well in their respective domains. You wouldn't build a web API with LabVIEW.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
No, not Scratch :P I think programmers should be trusted to write code as text, but the IDE should in some way help visualise how data flows through the system. Intentional programming seems interesting. Reminds me a little of BDD framework
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
True, but I don’t think there’s a general purpose programming language whose tooling expresses source code as visual flows of data, that people would use in place of Go, Python etc.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I agree. Program execution is rarely linear too in a codebase of any real size, so viewing the source of a program as a linear page of text doesn't make much sense. I think there's an opportunity for a big player in the dev tools
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
While I don’t think I’ll be able to use Pika, it’s always good to see novel dev tools being released. I’m keen to see how Pika Code improves the end to end dev experience by presumably being tightly integrated with deployment. Remind me of
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
Dammit, I spent the other weekend cobbling together something similar for my side project! I'm definitely going to have a close look and migrate most of the components over. Thanks!
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
This is a quote from the related blog post ( https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015 ) that I found interesting: > Starting from a place where the details don’t exist inevitably means you will forget or overlook something that
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Getting rid of the OOP mindset (2017)(youtube.com)
6 points by disposedtrolley 7y ago|1 comments
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
> In the 90s, teams were becoming too focused on the process instead of the software and customer / user. Sadly I see a lot of this today too. I know someone who has worked on an "agile" project with two half hour long sta
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I really enjoyed this one too!
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I've found that when the term "agile" is tossed around to people who aren't familiar with software development, the expectation is usually that more work can be done in less time. Design and requirements gathering is scr
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
A reasonable line width contributes so much to readability. While I'm fortunate enough not to experience much of it in the code I read, I do see a lot of websites which grossly violate sane line width rules by stretching the body text
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I've been on the implementation side of this kind of thing more times than I'm proud of. Hardcoded delays are especially prevalent in systems which attempt to emulate a human operator, such as virtual assistants which are starting
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
The trackpoint is kinda crappy on newer ThinkPads. I'm not sure what they've changed, but movement is always jittery under Linux for me. My X230 is buttery smooth. The X1 Extreme and T490 I've tried, not so much.
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I recently purchased a T490 and it works reasonably well with Linux. My model has the base 1080p display rated at 250 nits, and while resolution and colour are no match for an MBP, the display surprisingly gets bright enough for some outdoo
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
I've had no issues with standups. Even in a small team I find them useful as a way to step back and see the bigger picture, plus they rarely take more than 5-10 minutes of my morning. On the other hand, I've had friends who have e
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
Individual Contributor I believe, ie someone who doesn’t have direct reports
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by disposedtrolley 7y ago
Quite common in consulting. There's no hard requirement for automated test coverage but typically we have dedicated resources for integration and UAT testing throughout the build phase of a project. Code reviews are rare too. Often tim
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The Nature of Code – evolutionary and emergent properties of nature in code(natureofcode.com)
70 points by disposedtrolley 8y ago|8 comments
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by disposedtrolley 8y ago
This is cool! I’ve wanted to explore something similar but incorporating a broad range of Unix commands. I imagined a drag and drop interface (sort of like the Scratch programming language) with English descriptors of the functions being pe
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by disposedtrolley 8y ago
This is really cool! It'd be nice to be able to maintain a logbook of the different aircraft I've flown on, maybe grabbing the tail numbers of the planes as well if possible? On top of that, some airlines like Qantas name their pl
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by disposedtrolley 8y ago
Not even a desktop; a phone, tablet, console, and god knows what else they release it on. I think another major contributor to Fortnite’s success is the scale of cross-platform play that we’ve rarely seen before. Chances are if you have a t
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by disposedtrolley 8y ago
I've just begun my dive into games programming (coming from a web dev background) which has taught me to think about problems from a data-driven perspective, and how to write performant code. It's also a great way to learn how com
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by disposedtrolley 8y ago
I had to double check the publish date!

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