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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I think it really depends on the language. In languages that more easily support repl-driven development (e.g. Clojure), I think this is less of an issue. If you have a handful of pure functions, you can quickly and easily execute them via
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Ah that is slightly different. To me, Light of Other Days is very much a thought experiment into how humanity would deal with the complete eradication of privacy; while initially the technology is only in the hands of a few, eventually it i
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Having not read any of Liu's works: how exactly is the idea of total surveillance a narrative innovation of Liu's? I'm reminded of Arthur C Clarke's The Light of Other Days; that to me was total surveillance.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I'll be curious to see how viable Tauri Mobile is long-term, considering their recent alpha release.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
And here I thought software developers were allergic to history
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
This really resonates with me; it makes me realize that I've been too caught up in the subjective things you list here, and not focusing enough on what's more objective. This applies to conversations about performance a lot, too -
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I guess I see it more as a broader economic problem than purely one of individual responsibility. Sure, bad design choices are made by individual teams that could be avoided, but at the same time our industry incentivizes the problems you d
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
It makes me wonder: what if the solutions you have in mind do exist out there, but simply as open source projects with zero eyeballs on them? What if there are dozens upon dozens of them, each solving a class of problems but in a slightly
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
What do you mean by this - do you have a specific example?
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Writing a lot is important, but being able to get feedback on your writing can prevent you from developing bad habits you may not be aware of. When I was in college for English, getting regular feedback from professors and the writing cente
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I think it's interesting seeing your comment right above another where someone was moved to tears over how this affected them. I'm reminded of ELIZA, an early chat bot: > ELIZA's creator, Weizenbaum, regarded the program a
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Yup, you can. Also in Clojure, like this: (< 1 2 3 4 5 6) => true
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I had this same experience. I thought it sounded like an interesting idea, but in practice I didn't think it lived up to some of the hype it often gets on HN.
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Advent of Code 2022(adventofcode.com)
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
The holiday season wouldn't be complete without the HackerNews Humbug
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Ideally all components would be small bite-size pieces, where scrolling down wouldn't be a big deal. But in practice I could still see it being tedious, scrolling through a bunch of classes to find the one you care about. Now if there
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I really relate with your example here. Adding padding/margin is such a common task, it should be quick & easy.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I feel the same way - I absolutely love having vim keybindings & the command palette together. I prefer vim for editing text, and vscode's defaults for everything else.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Agreed on org mode. I'm more of a vim + vscode user, but I did try spacemacs once and org mode was a big take away for me.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
For me it's the Twin Peaks soundtrack
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
That's super impressive. Have you been a runner in the past, like high school or college? I'm starting this in my late twenties after a fairly inactive decade; hiking has been the only thing that's kept me active over the yea
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
This is all great advice; signing up for the 5k months in advance was a big motivation. Running slow is probably the most significant bit though - I think new runners end up hating running because they're immediately starting at an uns
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I went from completely sedentary, to running 5km 3 times a week. I managed to run my first 5k race this year too! My goal for next year is to participate in a 10k race, as well as improve my 5k times.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
In a weird way, I feel like Tumblr touches on something like the early internet; Tumblr has a distinct culture of curation that I've not seen in other platforms.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Behind every no code solution, is a SaaS company making bank off the belief that we don't need code... by writing code.
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
It's pretty easy to use some ML-as-a-Service platform, where you simply hit an endpoint in Azure, AWS, etc. without any prerequisite knowledge of the underlying models powering it. Although asking someone to understand all the underl
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
I come from the Bible belt, and was religious as a teenager before life circumstances led me to quickly and dramatically turn away from faith. When that curtain was pulled, suddenly many of the adults in my life seemed misguided at best, an
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
If you have a base familiarity with the command line, I think many build tools do have great basic defaults, e.g. `dotnet run`, `cargo run`, `npm run dev`, etc. Vite is another example of good defaults in frontend dev; it allows you to side
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by ducharmdev 4y ago
Lots of .NET

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