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by eckza 8y ago
Dynamic typing is great for partially implementing solutions to problems that you don't fully understand. This isn't always a bad thing, because sometimes "any implementation of a product" is vastly superior to that prod
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I wouldn’t hate it. Especially since my day job has me doing a bunch of C#, anyway.
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They’re saving ADTs for 9.0, at which point they’ll beat their chests and loudly proclaim them to be the Best Thing Ever of All Time.
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More like the trend of “bolting everything they’ve ever heard on to the language spec”. This is a half-assed, syntactically ugly implementation of case statements in functional languages like Elm or Haskell - the point of which is to cover
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by eckza 8y ago
Ray Kurzweil, is that you?
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My biggest takeaway from this was that his parents refused to ever see him as anything other than a disabled child that played too many computer games.
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by eckza 8y ago
What I took away from this, is “everyone should learn a Lisp dialect ASAP”.
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It doesn't even matter anymore if they can tie your actions to your identity, so long as they can tie your actions to the information that they choose to let you consume.
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by eckza 8y ago
If you're really willing to go to a dumbphone... just get an iPhone and don't install any apps. That way, at the very least, you still have a killer camera.
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by eckza 8y ago
Looking right at you, JIRA.
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by eckza 8y ago
> free > terrible deal God forbid that anyone ever charge for their software.
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FAQSYS(github.com)
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Oh my god so did I
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This should be the top comment in this thread.
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In my lived, anecdotal experience: I grew up eating “normal” foods and drinking non-diet soda. I am an average-sized guy. I fell in love with a sweetheart of a woman that was around 300lbs. I married her. She’s now less than half that. I ea
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by eckza 8y ago
I was like you, once. I helped run a hobbyist group on Facebook with ~15,000 members. I made myself as available to everyone as possible, frequently ignoring my wife actual friends to help random strangers over Messenger. Hours and hours an
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by eckza 8y ago
I found this to be the case as well. In my experience: it's allowed me to focus all of my emotional energy on the 5-8 actual close relationships that I have, rather than burning myself out living like some kind of small-time celebrity
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Cars don’t cause drunk driving. Drunk drivers cause drunk driving.
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And unfortunately for users, it’s wildly profitable.
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by eckza 8y ago
Adding to 2): Microsoft has tried to embrace / extend / extinguish the open web on more than one occasion. They're nowhere near striking distance of making that happen; but you can bet your life that if they were, that they&#
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by eckza 8y ago
What's even MORE hilarious, to me, is how Elm was the #1 Best Thing Ever for about a week sometime last winter, which is why I got into it in the first place. It's a great language. The community has been nothing but stellar to me
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Some of us want to write code without shipping a bunch of usage data / telemetry / whatever back up to the Mothership. It's the principle of the thing; and anything that shaves off a few clock cycles is fine by me.
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Right now, “Elm is Bad” is the new “Javascript is Bad”. It’ll blow over when it gets trendy to whine about something else.
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No, you just don’t understand skateboarding.
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by eckza 8y ago
Not really. I don't think it would be terribly useful to anyone else - it's a reflection of how I understand and process certain techniques... and I really don't want the mental overhead of knowing that there's the chanc
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by eckza 8y ago
I have a little repo called “cleversql”. It’s full of little scripts that represent hard problems that I’ve had to solve, clearly-named and well-documented. I fall back on it often, when I remember that I’ve solved a certain kind of problem
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by eckza 8y ago
This is what happens when things are built to sell, not built to use.
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The argument is, "just because some of the biggest companies on the planet have started equipping their carpenters with specialized screw-hammers, doesn't mean that they wouldn't be better off using the right tool for the rig
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by eckza 8y ago
I just started working remotely, after a year plus of a three-hour commute. My quality-of-life improvements have been very similar to yours. I cannot believe how much happier I am now, on a daily basis. I have written some of the best code
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by eckza 8y ago
Full-time remote worker. We solve work-life and burnout problems at my organization by having set hours and hard stops at the end of the day. What you lose in having a fairly rigid schedule, you more than gain back by not having to carry ar

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