frou_dh

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by frou_dh 7y ago
Invisible trackers aside, it's simply gross that local government sites have banner ads on them. Have some pride and/or taste!
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by frou_dh 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
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by frou_dh 7y ago
If it was just an arbitrary number then I wouldn't have been able to write the rest of my comment. Elm has history of adopters being surprised by the hammer coming down.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Elm has been around for a long time and yet it's still pre 1.0. AFAIK there hasn't been, and still isn't, a promise that what you write has any sort of forward-compatibility with the next 0.x release. On that note, it's
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by frou_dh 7y ago
That's more lack of destructuring syntax than non-tuple-ness, no?
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by frou_dh 7y ago
For me, the most memorable chapter in the excellent book Coders at Work was the Dan Ingalls one, in which he made the case for interactive development.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
And yet I'm confident that inevitably no one actually cares enough to contact the author and tell them that they need to change their site for reasons a, b and c. This is a third-party news aggregator. It's very common that the
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by frou_dh 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739
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by frou_dh 7y ago
> You want to compare programmers to non programmers. No I don't. I said technically ambitious startup because I didn't mean a scenario where the group was too clueless to even program something easy. Read my comment assuming t
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by frou_dh 7y ago
> I agree that the Bourne Shell in particular is a pretty suboptimal language, and I think we can probably do a lot better. [...] But it's easy to do worse. I found this startlingly true when having to write nontrivial scripts using
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Say a technically ambitious software startup crashes and burns because, despite their best efforts, they never managed to get a working product out the door before running out of money. If you were asked to do a postmortem on that, would yo
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by frou_dh 7y ago
> I've never understood why shells are designed to have this weird dual use case of both being easy to type into a command prompt, and being easy to write 40+ line scripts in. It was probably less about that explicitly being conside
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by frou_dh 7y ago
This probably isn't what you're after, but interestingly there is a Google-developed Python dialect that can be embedded in a Go program, to facilitate runtime scriptability and programmable config files: https://github
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Patreon ($x/month) seems to have more mindshare since the heyday of the big all-or-nothing Kickstarter.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Amazon decrypts them all to DRM-free files at the eleventh hour. Then individuals don't have a backup habit and so later end up losing their files anyway.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Can't remember the last time a "Why" question for email unsubscription wasn't optional.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
IMO it's a big win for scripts to at least be able to use Arrays in that otherwise "stringly-typed" world.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
My point is that POSIX shell purity is masochism. Understanding how it's the core and other shells build on top of it is certainly valuable, but it's not inherently particularly good to use.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Here's the spec. Where is it? https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Notably, such a concept as a function having a local variable is beyond POSIX shell.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I imagine using it simultaneously with a traditional screen would be a constant reminder of its deficiencies. Probably need to use it alone to experience the zen of eInk.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
For being supposedly fake, there's a lot of real people burning up an awful lot of their real time agitating on Twitter.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I heard the word Kubernetes one too many times from listening to podcasts put out by The Changelog. The overhype bit got flipped in my head and now I'm predisposed against it. Marketing kills!
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Some organisations partaking in software development, to this day, do not have ANY kind of source control repository. If you want to be horrified by (lack of) a technology impacting organisational culture, spend some time in one of those pl
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Feel free to stick to spinning hard drives too.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Text rendering when the OS is running in a HiDPI mode (e.g. 4x as many pixels used for each character) is not a waste. It's more legible and looks wonderful. No chance of not noticing it in action.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
That playing-to-the-crowd comment was obscenely predictable.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I would say that reading non-fiction books/ebooks is a waste of time if not actively dog-earing and annotating pages. Reading a book front to back, committing the important stuff to memory, and leaving the book unmarked, is a fantasy a
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by frou_dh 7y ago
I've found some iOS apps tremendously useful over the years, so no, I'll pass on your hangup condemning all Mobile OSes to death.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
One of these decades we'll get over compulsively raking the embers of Bell Labs

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