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by dscrd 13y ago
It was a problem until Pulseaudio became good -- to my experience, that happened around the 2.0 release. And in a technical sense, it's still a problem, since ALSA contains so much useless complexity now that something like PA finally exist
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by dscrd 13y ago
I find a world where we're locked into using words mathematicians invent a very bleak one indeed.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Couldn't we find a nicer word for "idempotent"?
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by dscrd 13y ago
>They probably said that also in the 19th century and look at us today, have we seen a drastic reduction of the active work population in 2 centuries? No. But we have seen quite a massive increase of public sector. How many actually nee
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by dscrd 13y ago
Only a sith etc etc. Like just about every other blanket statement about programming, this also is sometimes true and sometimes not. I find that multiple return statements in a function are more often a symptom of ugly code instead of the r
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by dscrd 13y ago
Nokia. That company just keeps giving. Some universities in Finland fell into that very same trap a second time and moved towards the holy triad of C#, .Net and Windows Phone. Utter shortsighted idiocy
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by dscrd 13y ago
My sense of 'well-known' might be a bit skewed, but let's say docker and heka.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Go is neither obscure nor that functional either.
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by dscrd 13y ago
In the way whereby nobody ever complains about usability issues like this one.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Or just use mercurial which tends to do the Right Thing by default more often.
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by dscrd 13y ago
No, it's actually the opposite of childish: being able to digest new things is exactly what children do and exactly what adults do less.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Name one that has generics and is developer friendly.
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by dscrd 13y ago
It's not overconfidence, it's the full realization that all time estimates are bullshit, and the following disrespect for anyone who demands for them.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Got myself up to the payment page, but the page complained something about "tarjeta" even though my card number was absolutely correct. Oh well.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Oh look, they're basically dissing this community to hell in the irc logs. For instance, "10:10:24 <RodgerTheGreat> another HN gem: "I must say, that the syntax and semantics are not intuitive at all. I've spent half an hour trying
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by dscrd 13y ago
I'm very amused. About 80% of my career has been in the "real world", so I have actually have some authority in calling this. No power in the world can subvert incompetence.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Thanks! Where can I pick up my Nobel?
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by dscrd 13y ago
If you work on types that might be null, you're bloody careful or you're in the wrong profession. We're not calling incompetent programmers a gazillion dollar mistake, even though they probably have caused as much.
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by dscrd 13y ago
Does this apply to those extremely rare game studios that produce good games?
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by dscrd 13y ago
That's about as silly as pointing to the Bible when somebody asks for evidence of Jesus.
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by dscrd 14y ago
I left my earlier job mostly because I was bored. All the other reasons are just seasoning on that huge reason. I'm not sure if HR could've done anything, short of promoting me to upper management.
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by dscrd 14y ago
Wait, does that mean that 50% of their code has been implemented twice? Why would they need to do that? Why not just keep the Lua version?
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by dscrd 14y ago
According to the Shootout, Go-1.1 is only slower on a few tests than Java, while being a bit faster on most and while typically using way less memory.
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by dscrd 14y ago
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te... Yeah, it's pretty much the other way now.
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by dscrd 14y ago
Why do you think the browser would be a better vector than Skype?
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by dscrd 14y ago
Because people are assholes and the rich can get away with being assholes more easily.
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by dscrd 14y ago
Bloody good question. Sad truth might be that bitcoins will move the balance of taxation even more to those who have less power to fight them, i.e. the poor and the technically incompetent. As hacker news readers, this might be good for us
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by dscrd 14y ago
...and a good way to start hating your work is by doing too much of it for the wrong reasons. Working very hard to make somebody else rich, what's the point in that?
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by dscrd 14y ago
PHP is an awful language because it has tons upon tons of quirks... pretty much like Javascript. Sometimes, I am able to find it amusing that most of the web is built on them.
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by dscrd 14y ago
>It'll get faster, There's absolutely no reason to believe that's true.

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