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by dwb 10y ago
I wrote one a little while back, for MySQL and PostgreSQL, that's just a bash script. I've found it handy a few times. https://github.com/dwb/dogfish
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by dwb 10y ago
Absolutely, but I'd also add that what works in one language/environment may not work in another. I wouldn't be surprised if writing Haskell-style code in Python didn't work out that well, for example!
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by dwb 10y ago
You can do exactly the same kind of pattern matching in Haskell, but that's not at all the point of the article. It's equivalent to writing the conditional, it doesn't remove it. publish :: Bool -> IO () publish
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by dwb 10y ago
A library can very easily provide, along with the kit components, convenience functions that perform common tasks - like matchCaseInsensitive or whatever. The point I took from the post is that, regardless of how the final public API is pre
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by dwb 10y ago
Try it before you knock it. I might have said something similar before getting into Haskell, but now I'm nodding along happily. Dealing in meaningful data types with small composable functions is very pleasant for me now.
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by dwb 10y ago
It seems to me that it would be better to address step 6, where programmer B adds cruft to the abstraction rather than re-working it. I appreciate that pragmatics sometimes dictates that duplication is the right option, but instead of mostl
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by dwb 10y ago
Loving the creepy Boards of Canada vibe in the video.
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by dwb 10y ago
With an ad-blocker. I like 1Blocker. If you miss notifications, turn on email notifications. Works well enough for light-ish use.
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by dwb 11y ago
They just want to use their shiny new-gTLD domain: http://amazon.software
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by dwb 11y ago
Sure you can: http://omz-software.com/pythonista/ But I know, you meant full-on apps. If we lived in a world where there were only locked-down, iOS-type computers, I'd agree with your indignation. But I think ther
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by dwb 11y ago
"Wall of text" is usually reserved for people who don't use paragraph breaks; such a complaint is unfair on a perfectly well-formatted page. If you want it narrower, maybe make your window smaller?
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by dwb 11y ago
Touchscreens? I've been using my nose for light switches for years.
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by dwb 11y ago
This is my take on this: uses a tagging convention on your EC2 instances. Can also run commands in parallel over a set of instances. https://github.com/madebymany/moltar http://madebymany.com/blog/
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by dwb 11y ago
Yes, I'm saying that he doesn't deserve to be in charge of a project he started and owns. It's bigger than just his pet project now, it affects lots of people and many people spend a significant fraction of their life working
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by dwb 11y ago
Abuse requires a power imbalance in favour of the abuser. That was not the case for Shanley's criticism.
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by dwb 11y ago
Linus doesn't deserve to be in his position. Technical merit doesn't excuse being a horrible manager of people.
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by dwb 11y ago
Shanley Kane criticised Linus and got her and her family's addresses posted, death threats, rape threats, and other horrific abuse. If you think gender isn't an issue, you haven't educated yourself well enough.
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by dwb 11y ago
Where I work, before Slack, we had Campfire and only us developers bothered to sign up for it, get the client, etc. We switched to Slack and suddenly everyone was on it. UX matters so much. We don't have time to tend an IRC server and
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by dwb 11y ago
I'm suspicious. Google doesn't turn up a "Francesca V" as a kernel developer (only a Francesca A.) outside this post. Can anyone confirm or deny?
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by dwb 11y ago
Actually you just need to hold down the refresh button to be able to reload with content blockers temporarily disabled.
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by dwb 11y ago
So it should be "Broetli", then...?
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by dwb 11y ago
The web is, by and large, a distracting, surveilling mess with ads. At least ads in the real world are just distracting (the surveillance comes from elsewhere). So no, I'll keep my ad blocker thanks.
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by dwb 11y ago
In OS X you have to add aliases on the loopback interface for 127/8 addresses other than 127.0.0.1 to respond.
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by dwb 11y ago
Learn to like it. It's water for pete's sake. Vital for life.
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by dwb 11y ago
Note this operator now exists in the latest base package as x & f = f x http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.8.0.0/docs/Data-Fu...
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by dwb 11y ago
The most rose-tinted of nostalgia, absolutely mystifying. I remember AM and cassettes too and they sounded pretty bad, though listenably so. Even Spotify's lower quality is streets ahead; their high quality is indistinguishable from CD
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by dwb 11y ago
We love Docker where I work, but running it in production is a big challenge — there's no "just" using it. We build packages of Rails apps and dependencies quite happily. Sure, you have to make sure all dependencies are packa
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by dwb 11y ago
It's not about speed, it's about friction. I used many editors (like TextMate, Notepad++, that kind of thing) before Vim, and once I got into it, I saw the awkwardness I'd experienced in other editors vanish. I probably input
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by dwb 11y ago
Nice work. It would be even better if the author packaged it properly so the dependency is installed along with it :) Ruby projects are always gems, Haskell projects always have a Cabal definition, and Node projects are always available in

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