drylight

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DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source(github.com)
156 points by drylight 2y ago|63 comments
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by drylight 3y ago
As an old-time Amiga user, I was pleased to read that Vim first appeared on the Amiga.
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by drylight 3y ago
Interesting that he may have had some positive things to say in a 2017 blog post, but has now been deleted? https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful-in-a-job-rem... ChatGPT told me about said blog post.
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by drylight 11y ago
You should believe them and others on here. Atom is slow. No way around it. If you or others say that it's fine, then you're suffering from Stockholm syndrome, having been taken in to the cult of Atom.
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by drylight 12y ago
Give $563M to Accenture and you get some really shoddy work http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/accenture-snags-new-5-yea...
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by drylight 12y ago
That's a lot of "copy and paste 'programming'".
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by drylight 13y ago
Please don't say Linux.
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by drylight 13y ago
You're correct when you say about YAGNI not necessarily leading to "elegant, short, and easy to maintain code". That is, in the end, up to the developer's skill.
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by drylight 13y ago
Design Patterns are one of the biggest culprits in large, over-engineered patterns. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3341-pattern-vision
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by drylight 13y ago
YAGNI is not about being lazy, it's about being smart about the code being written, about the craft. Over-engineering, architecture astronauts, hurt a system a lot more than someone following YAGNI. Making systems that are a big mess o
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by drylight 16y ago
If you hang out on github, and do your social coding over there (or simply prefer git over Mercurial), here is a github fork of the repository: https://github.com/dbarros/dapper-dot-net
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by drylight 16y ago
A Java developer complaining about Ruby's supposed verbosity? What's the world coming to?! When one looks at Java code, 90% of it is just syntactic sugar, which doesn't add much to the actual working code. One has to filter through large am
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by drylight 16y ago
If a job posting to work at a Pixar server farm is anything to go by, they actually use Linux for their films.
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by drylight 16y ago
I wouldn't count on any predictions made by Gates. He said that the spam problem would be solved. And that was meant to happen some 5 years ago.