excepttheweasel

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by excepttheweasel 5y ago
How do twin studies separate those children from the culture they're raised in?
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by excepttheweasel 6y ago
Can you link any evidence of federal agents pulling occupy protestors off the streets into unmarked cars? I cannot find any and the linked article does not discuss them.
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by excepttheweasel 7y ago
Right, but in Typescript you can't match on the type at compile time, you have to add a "type" field with a string tag and match on it at runtime.
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by excepttheweasel 7y ago
Rust can compile to WASM, and I would assume would outperform vanilla JS.
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by excepttheweasel 10y ago
I think the go language has taken a position along the lines of "re usability and abstraction are overrated". I certainly think there is some truth to that, I am really enjoying working with go on smaller projects and it is this p
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by excepttheweasel 10y ago
I have had the most success with a keto based diet. There is a good outline here: http://josepharcita.blogspot.com/2011/03/guide-to-ketosis.ht... Importantly for me, this diet drastically reduces cravings and redu
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by excepttheweasel 11y ago
The main downside to using Rust for web apps - at least in my opinion: is having to learn and use a type system which includes affine types: lifetimes, borrowing etc. But if you've already put in the effort to get to grips with this pa
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by excepttheweasel 11y ago
> In many cases, that up-front cost is paid back many fold later, when other programmers (or you yourself, after you’ve forgotten the details of the code) come and try to read and work with the code. Go optimizes more for understanding t
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by excepttheweasel 11y ago
> The reality is, that when OOP is correctly executed Can you find anyone who agrees on what "correctly executed OOP" is? I don't think there is a consensus on this idea, nor any particularly objective criteria for how to
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by excepttheweasel 11y ago
> For example, primitive types are not objects (no, auto-boxing doesn't make them objects). Does the presence of inline assembler make C++ a machine language? I don't think so. Similarly I don't think the presence of primi
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by excepttheweasel 11y ago
Until working at Pivotal I had been working for about 5 years in various non-app industries: transport, signals monitoring, databases etc. Libraries? Not really, we mostly wrote everything ourselves - at one position, even an entire operati
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by excepttheweasel 11y ago
Author here, FWIW this article was one of many posts some colleagues and I wrote at Pivotal during a "blog writing tontine" to encourage us all to write more and develop our skills, written hastily and intended to be part of a ser
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by excepttheweasel 11y ago
It's unfortunate that such a lovely document seems to have produced a terrible subway system. Having regularly taken the subway in Beijing, London, Washington D.C., Tokyo. The New York subway seems almost deliberately difficult to navi
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by excepttheweasel 13y ago
New York, Amplify We're building an Android education platform for K through 12 which includes mobile device management, interactive tools and classroom content. We live and breathe agile development, we test drive, we pair and we cont
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by excepttheweasel 13y ago
"Perhaps, because we always had autoloading as a crutch, our existing knowledge has atrophied – or never even developed – putting us at an even greater disadvantage." I think the same can be said of any abstraction. The Ruby progr
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by excepttheweasel 13y ago
Inspections are mentioned a lot. This is not a word I hear a lot of developers use, so I'm guessing this article is not written by one. The cost of these has been completely externalized. Does the 85% reduction in defects come from a c