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by doteka 5y ago
So much this. I remember being so excited that Map and Set were added to the language, only to find that they were worse than useless for objects. At least Set can be handy in a pinch, but I have never seen an actual usecase for Map that is
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by doteka 5y ago
As other commenters have mentioned, in fact it has functionality specific for this purpose. That is part of the underlying reason for my question: it often feels like the people pushing for graphql adoption are not aware what http is capabl
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by doteka 5y ago
Pardon me for asking a perhaps naive question, but how is this not a solution to a self-inflicted problem? Using a normal restful HTTP api has none of these issues. What is the big problem that GraphQL solves, and is it really serious enoug
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by doteka 5y ago
Don’t think that’s as much a “Jobs” reply as just a general senior management necessity. With the amount of “important” emails you get in a position with any kind of responsibility, writing thoughtful elaborate responses to each and every o
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by doteka 5y ago
I’m rather happy with my el cheapo Denon receiver (no idea about the model but like 220 euro new 5 years ago) and a pair of Wharfedale Diamonds 10.1 .
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by doteka 5y ago
ENPICOM BV | Senior fullstack engineer | 32-40h, remote or onsite | ‘s Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) Hi, we’re ENPICOM , and we’re enabling life scientists to decode the immune system. More specifically, we build a SaaS data management an
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by doteka 5y ago
Fair enough, but I have no idea how that can be avoided if we take Sturgeon’s Law as a given: 90% of everything is garbage. I’d argue an essential quality in a modern software engineer is ‘good taste in dependencies’, if you will. Adding a
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by doteka 5y ago
Could you share some examples of ecosystems that are 1) vibrant and active 2) have working, open source, ergonomic tooling of a comparable caliber to VSCode, typescript and friends 3) can target almost any platform, including but not limite
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by doteka 6y ago
This is our case. A tiny staging environment will cause two tables to have billions of rows. This kills the Postgres. We are looking at moving this data out of the database and query it using Drill or similar. But if anyone has tips for han
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by doteka 6y ago
Interesting, could you elaborate on this software and what it does? At work, we also offer two backends for the same kind of functionality. One is the industry standard Java implementation, one is a homegrown Rust implementation. We find th
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by doteka 6y ago
This is not just limited to tech - what you are describing is essentially the Gartner hype cycle.
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by doteka 6y ago
I’m sorry to say, but your first paragraph is blatantly false. The jailbreaking community has been active since the iPhone product line existed, up to this day. Feel free to look it up. They provide instructions that a high school script ki
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by doteka 6y ago
Fair point, I have to admit. And I do appreciate that to some degree, but it’s not what most people want out of a desktop environment since they do not have the technical know-how to do it anyway.
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by doteka 6y ago
You have the right to do whatever you want to with your iPhone. Apple is not obligated to make it easy for you to do so, or honor their warranty if you choose to fiddle with it. The law getting involved here would be total overreach, and I
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by doteka 6y ago
Is that a rhetorical question? I have never ran into the issue of my native screen resolution not being there on MacOS because the hardware and software are built in tandem. I haven’t used Windows in the past 10 years but I would safely bet
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by doteka 6y ago
You are talking about UI though. UI is not UX. The last time I was forced to use a Linux desktop environment for work, the resolution that I needed it to run on was not supported. It took me 10 minutes of googling to find the arcane invocat
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by doteka 6y ago
The vast majority of even the developed world is nothing like SF. In particular, for most people outside major capitals buying a house and raising a family is very doable. > spending all day every day in the comfort of their home This ma
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by doteka 6y ago
I get that. I don’t think you get my point though. The reason I want young people to get vaccinated is not due to COVID, since they’re very unlikely to have severe complications anyway. In fact, the actual vaccination is not the point at al
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by doteka 6y ago
I’ll bite. There is actually a very simple argument to be made as long as you accept the premise that 1. Death is a natural part of life, and 2. It’s not years of life that should be saved, but _quality_ years of life. I find it unethical
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by doteka 6y ago
That would be a great argument, except I didn't start out with the intention of assassinating anyone's character. The above thread is literally the 3rd search result for "Karax state management". You know, a very reasona
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by doteka 6y ago
I’d love to give Nim a shot, but comments like these from the author make sure I’ll never be able to take the language seriously: (Context: gitter thread about frontend state management/immutable data structures, https://git
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by doteka 6y ago
Hard disagree for the long tail of apps. My company’s payroll admin system uses a PWA as a mobile interface. I don’t need slick ui there, I need to view my payslips (click a link to open a pdf) and request time off (fill in a 4-field form).
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by doteka 6y ago
I’d say anyone curious would have learned English already. (Before I get bashed for this, I speak 3 languages well and 4 more poorly, English is my third. It really isn’t a difficult language to learn when all American media and most of com
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by doteka 6y ago
I found it funny you mention Clojure since leiningen takes 20 seconds to get to a REPL prompt on a full spec MBP 16 from last year. For all the hype about interactive development, I think Clojure people are deluding themselves if they think
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by doteka 6y ago
This feels a bit like “Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.”
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by doteka 6y ago
What Drew is saying is absolutely correct though. YAML was specifically designed to be a superset of JSON. Conversely, when JSON was designed, YAML did not exist, so it only became a subset of YAML when the latter was introduced.
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by doteka 6y ago
Curious, have you actually written production software targeting WASM? Because I have, in Rust, the language with the best toolchain for this by an order of magnitude. Despite all that, and me being very familiar with both Rust and JS, it w
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by doteka 6y ago
Such a weird comment. Are you proud of large-scale animal abuse or what exactly is the point you are trying to make here? As someone born in the former Soviet Union, “Russia does things this way” is not a good thing.
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by doteka 6y ago
Huge? I have worked in this industry for a while now and never heard anyone outside of HN even mention it. It’s decidedly not huge for any definition of huge (outside of academia maybe?)
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by doteka 6y ago
You live in Amsterdam... sorry to say, but that is privileged as hell. Housing prices are becoming insane even outside the Randstad (I’m a 95 percentile earner too) so if you own property in the Randstad and think ‘the only sign you have it

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