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by foo42 4y ago
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that. I had a colleague who constantly "corrected" us (with some humour) and even long after he left the team we all wince when we see/hear "less" when it should be (or so we beli
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by foo42 4y ago
fewer
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by foo42 4y ago
The process the pilot describes by which bad decisions are re-enforced sounds like [Normalisation of Deviance]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance )
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by foo42 4y ago
Nah, it's a caricature of a particular class of Brit, mostly from a particular period. We do have different turns of phrase, some of which are very local even within Britain, but they're not all posh and polite, if anything the gr
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by foo42 5y ago
This presupposes you _are_ making sense of the material as it is being taught, and that your understanding progresses steadily. I think I would feel some distress if I was listening to a live lecture (for example) during whihch linkage sudd
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by foo42 5y ago
remote pairing.
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by foo42 6y ago
There seems to be a lot of people finding that they have to use the "any" escape hatch quite frequently. Our team has found we practically never use this anymore since starting to use tools such as "zod" to simply and qu
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Eidophor(en.wikipedia.org)
96 points by foo42 7y ago|13 comments
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by foo42 8y ago
Wish I'd seen this a few weeks back before building my own command line app, it seems I've taken an almost identical approach to them in everything I've implemented, though obviously they're much farther along! Still, pa
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by foo42 9y ago
I'm no biologist, but a good demonstration of the extent to which the same genes can have differing expression is found by considering the variety across all the specialised cells in your body. Your brain cells and muscles carry the sa
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by foo42 11y ago
I generally have the same reaction, however if it's an open source project then I suppose the language is a feature, because it tells you how easy it might be for you to modify it based on the languages you are most familiar with. For
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by foo42 11y ago
It's worth noting that a rushed service will likely have a rushed interface as well as a rushed implementation, at which he point the "clear and rigid" boundaries work against you as they're likely rigidly in the wrong p
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by foo42 11y ago
I had to use that in my last job (and lotus for that matter). All tooling decisions were made by another part of the org in another country. We had no say. When I quit I gave "poor tooling" as my primary reason in my exit intervie
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by foo42 11y ago
Struggling to see when I'd use this over, say, rabbitmq. Feels a bit like "not invented here" syndrome, though glad to be proven wrong. Also curious that this replaces previous tooling written in erlang, be interested to here
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by foo42 11y ago
Developing in erlang/elixir gives you a varient of this, in that your code is broken up into many small "processes" which are messaging each other even when you're only deploying a single app to a single server. Then if
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by foo42 11y ago
This reminds me a little of pattern matching (in my case in Elixir) - I specify an (arbitrarily nested) structure with the keys I want, and the variables I want those values unpacked into the pattern match the data into that. Graphql feels