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by frou_dh 7y ago
Seniors should have demonstrated experience designing systems and libraries that then became reality. That might sound obvious, but people can end up with senior titles on their resume just by hanging around places doing nothing but mainten
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Putting my Sherlock Holmes hat on, I think this person may very well be a web developer.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
This kind of statement might as well be generated by a Markov Chain.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
News is welcomed by humans and software alike. But a bit more so by humans, since they enjoy a nice round number.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
The likes of Sony aren't that much of bumbling dinosaur, considering they're already inside e.g. the iPhone camera.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
This reminds me of a misconception a lot of people seem to have about Markdown. It's not "wrong" to present it to readers verbatim (i.e. not rendered to HTML), since Markdown is a codification of existing plaintext convention
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by frou_dh 7y ago
The articles will keep flowing for months/years and it'll become conventional wisdom that Epyc always pummels Intel. Intel marketing must be on Defcon 1.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Is your clear faith in industry at large "leveraging powerful programming language features to massively increase developer productivity" substantiated or just taken as a given because it makes intuitive sense?
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Given that GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix then the whole puzzle is fitting together just perfectly.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
POSIX defines what Unix is, and there's no Python/Ruby/Perl here: https://shellhaters.org https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
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by frou_dh 7y ago
T&R are the originators of Unix and C. Kernighan seems to often unwittingly be given Thompson's achievements!
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Treating the symptom: Pollute the codebase with warped code. Treating the cause: Use static analysis.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
"Well, the whole source file is a single string" just seems like a vacuous gotcha. It's not an interesting enough point to settle the matter.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
The Talon voice software mentioned seems to be created by HN user lunixbochs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20359884
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Thanks for making me aware of zprint. Cool that they distribute an AOT compiled binary, too! BTW, for Sublime, you could install the Terminus package to get an integrated terminal to run clj(1) in. Then with a few lines of Python, you could
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by frou_dh 7y ago
The answer for how to find out whether Lisp has practical benefits for you rather than only theoretical benefits is to... force yourself to write some practical projects (non-toy)! [...and additionally maybe expend the effort to absorb a si
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Sometimes in Port Forwarding wizards on routers, you see a big list of ancient videogames. Presumably that has something to do with this.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Just don't actually go and look, if you're not prepared for the fantasy to be broken that such persons are super productive and doing quality work. There's enough dysfunction to go around that all types of programmer can be u
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Alternatively, the pet cat is in eternal semi-kittenhood and human(s) play the role of its mother cat.
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Here's the original location that has synced slides: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
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by frou_dh 7y ago
This was an exhausting read because Rich Hickeys "Simple Made Easy" presentation from years ago transmitted a mind-virus to me where I have to stop and have an internal conflict every time I read simpl(e|ify) in a programming cont
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by frou_dh 7y ago
That's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_agent
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Remember that the formal name for a web browser is a User Agent . This metaphor makes it clear that when there is a conflict of interest between you the user and whatever the server on the other side wants, your Agent should act in your in
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by frou_dh 7y ago
From the "another" archives, I remember this one, that looks abandoned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15622894 https://neugram.io/ https://github.com/neugram/ng
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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'd probably get more satisfying answers by actually devising and running static analysis on some open source codebases
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by frou_dh 7y ago
That's what the concept of "Finalizers" is for. They indicate that something should be done to an object just before the runtime garbage collects it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finalizer Files specifi
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by frou_dh 7y ago
Since it's asking for FLOPS, are you ready for people typing in 14-digit numbers? ;)
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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
Alternate name, the "Nintendo Switch ^W" since it can't Switch any more (handheld only, can't dock with TV). There's probably a term for the phenomenon of retaining a name past the point it actually applies. Vestigi

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