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by dpc_pw 6y ago
From my PoV, FIPS is bureaucratic nonsense and people trusting in it deserve what they are getting. It might have had sense a long time ago, to ensure that vendors don't do something ridiculous and call it a day. It does mandate certai
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Not sure why all previous comments are all negative. I can read this article just fine, it has nice examples, and presents the vision I also agree with - I don't want strict Dev vs DevOps split, I want Devs to be more in charge of the
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
BTW. I very much doubt V8 is OO, other than having to support "JS objects" as a part of it's own data-orientation.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
> Steelmanning is realizing that you can write data oriented code in OOP projects. It's going to be arguing about names and definition, but I can't accept that it's OOP, when that put qualifiers on all "4 tenets of OO
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
C developers are denying sad reality of obsolete archaic ideas, poor ergonomics, crappy tooling, security nightmare, unreliability, and language that is impossible to scale in a bigger team settings (don't bring up Linux; I am a kernel
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
True. Though I guess I don't have a chance to reverse the river made out of a constant stream of developers produced by universities and bootcamps, who think "Cat extends Animal and makes_sound with "meow" and Dog extend
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Oh. I find subject-verb-object interface another dimension of debate altogether. Usual it's being mentioned by FP devs, since they are usually very aware of that aspect since they don't get to use it. :D It's not only that SV
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
From my experience, the modern Java-style OOP that I've worked with (some of which I produced myself) through all these years leads to terrible code, and all the data-oriented code I've seen and produced seems much, much better in
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
That's a very interesting observation, that is very much aligned with my own views, but I'll need some time to absorb the details here. I'm myself on the quest to fully understand what is really wrong with OOP and then try to
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Yeah, sorry. That's just a bit of unwarranted speculation because I've just seen something like this: https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-could-go-to-ch...
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
What would you expect from a crowd of people who routinely test their code in production "because run fast, break things, yada yada". :D "I've run my unit test 10 times and it always passes! Rock-solid. Deploy to prod!
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Ah... Factorio. The best job you'll ever have.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Languages like Java (which was THE statically typed language around that time) were extremely verbose and inexpressive. It's hard to write anything in Java without metric tons of boilerplate and repeating the type of every value over a
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
> I love that there are so few limits in "software world." No pesky laws of physics. Actually... Laws of physics are very important to software engineering. Stuff like speed of light and ability to disperse heat have a tremendo
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Stop pretending that there's an easy empirical answer to everything, and accept the nature of complex domains.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Are you worried about Sweden too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MljLpcD0VWM Deaths flat in case you were wondering: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sweden%20deaths%20coro...
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Realistically speaking social media companies should be regulated as public utilities. That's just recognizing the fact that they are natural monopolies. Saying "delete your account, and practically ostracize yourself from public
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Ethereum is only used for PKI, and it will eventually be replaced by a different system. Urbit is really not a blockchain-y project.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
10? Huh. Feels like at least 50.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Blockchain as a data-structure gives you tamper-evident, append only database. Blockchain as a system (datastructure + PoW) solves consensus & trust between agents in a trust-less and censorship-resistant way (without introducing a trus
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
The original poster is right. Blockchain solves distributed trust. Scarcity is a particular rule, and blockchain is solving a problem of trust in that everyone are obeying that rule. You can have a blockchain that enforces completely differ
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Seize the means of personal computation, switch to Urbit.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Exactly. Employment and benefits requirement will completely eliminate part-time and flexible-hours workers, and other people that were really benefiting from this type of work.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
I take it as a "no". You nor California's government have no better options for them. > The alternative scenario... Another scenario is that Uber hikes prices, people cease to use their services because they are too expens
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
Is not being able to work for Uber and being unemployed more fair? Or do you or California's government have any more fair deal to offer these people?
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
> here is decades of system development behind the C/C++ ecosystem and coming onto a C/C++ thread (about a package manager) and calling things a "shitshow" is not going to win people over. But it is as shitshow. Prett
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
I keep seeing this comments against Moxie and I have never seen any backing to them, and they seem like gross-over-representation of what he actually said.
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
It's still early, but it is all better than it ever was. No need to fire stars yet, IMO. Just get a planet or even a hosting plan on https://tlon.io/ (as soon as they open).
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
He was building circles around other languages. It worked great. All circles were nice, neat, perfectly round like Lisp parenthesis and inside those circles other developers using unenlightened languages were getting actual work someone car
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by dpc_pw 6y ago
1021 bytes of JS, and 6 million lines of browser code. FTFY These modern demos, using OpenGL and now the whole web browser that are mimicking the rules and sentiment of old 8-bit machines demos, or even later DOS demos, are not the same thi

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