edfletcher_t137

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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
Wouldn't you know, the very next time I check HN there's another post starkly backing up the thesis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33313253
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
Yes
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
"Everything in moderation" Spot on
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
The infinitely-fast web! LMAO well played.
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
Faulting a technology for its malicious uses is a common fallacy, but a fallacy nonetheless. Not saying you're wrong (you're not), but it's not a valid argument against JavaScript.
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
"I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious - Wired 2015" It's not 2015 or 2016 anymore, not even close. We're the better part of a decade moved on. This is not a valid argument any longer. JavaScript i
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
This whole thing reads like a slighted, uppity, smarter-than-thou* child taking their ball and going home. It's off-putting. *what's the point of pointing out other "geniuses": to encourage the reader to think "oh w
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
"Rock-solid The source code of Telefunc has no known bug" No known bugs does not "rock-solid" make. This claim alone makes this project very hard to take seriously.
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
So... a whole new set of "reusable" components that must be vetted & audited? Why should these be trusted? Why should these be adopted and integrated into a team's ecosystem instead of their own work? I have a hard time s
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
Their internal app has ads for other Uber services? Oof.
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
The "software archeologist" idea has lived rent free in my head ever since I read the novel nearly twenty years ago. It's an absolutely fascinating premise, one I can most definitely see being viable to grow into a fully-fled
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
I will second the others who have recommended Lenovo: I have a Legion 5 I originally bought for gaming but the keyboard is so good I find myself using it for nearly all my development. Additionally, the Dell Precision line (the business w
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
TAKE MY MONEY Will there be a 10-key version?
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
"Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming." - Rob Pike, "Rules o
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
This, 100%. Reproducibility, traceability and auditability all go out the window when you allow source modification on in production directly. You never want to ask "what's running in production" only to be greeted by cri
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
This is genuinely lovely and informative. Thank you!
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
Back in the day we used screen because tmux didn't exist yet.
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
The article is titled "for dev and prod" (emphasis on the latter), yet the very first suggestion is to bind-mount your source outside the container so you can mess with it at any time? How is this good advice for production?! (Upd
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
Regardless of what you feel should be true, the reality is that Discord considers using software like this "self-botting" and will ban your account for it. The disclaimer to this effect is buried at the very bottom of the READ
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
> Despite a long and storied career in software development, I have few abstract problem-solving skills. I proceed through problems in increments, getting slightly better each time. The beneficial thing for you that my experience brings
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
I built a minimal city sim in HTML+vanilla JS a couple years ago and similarly used a "microscopic transport simulation" (you can see roads get "redder" as traffic increases during peak times) and a similar model of havi
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by edfletcher_t137 4y ago
They completely miss their own point. If the web lost "discovery": > The internet is worth exploring again because web3 reintroduces a difficulty curve to our online experiences. Either intentionally or otherwise, projects are
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by edfletcher_t137 5y ago
And it's the crux of the whole problem.
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by edfletcher_t137 5y ago
This is incredibly enlightening, thank you for this.
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by edfletcher_t137 5y ago
Came here to say just to say all of this. 100%. Also this is another direct quote from the article: > Reading some comments on random websites I guess you don’t even need a brain. Coupled with the "just run this" batch file wit
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by edfletcher_t137 5y ago
Not comparable. Easy dig though, I guess.
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by edfletcher_t137 5y ago
I get that languages are just tools, but each tool has problems it is better at solving. My original comment was pointing out that this stack is ill-suited for the task for which it has been built.
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by edfletcher_t137 5y ago
This feels like an unreasonable eschewing of all the advancements in programmer ergonomics & tooling that have been made over the course of decades. "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should."
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
"Yesterday (2021-03-28) two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src repo 1 from the names of Rasmus Lerdorf and myself. We don't yet know how exactly this happened, but everything points towards a compromise of the git.php.ne
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by edfletcher_t137 6y ago
“RMS is no longer a developer of GCC, the most recent commit I can find regards SCO in 2003. Prior to that there were commits in 1997, but significantly less than 1994 and earlier. GCC’s implementation language is now C++, which I beli

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