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by frou_dh 2y ago
IDEA is surely the ultimate gold-plated Swing app. I'm sure JetBrains have had to pour in a huge amount of time and money to get results that good.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
On second thoughts, I think the person I replied to was perhaps talking specifically about the (in)ability to put things at the root of the menu. So I apologise if that was the case.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
SM is a nice application, but Pull Requests aren't part of the vanilla Git model, and that is what SM is a GUI for.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
If you've been a techy Mac user and don't know about Automator then it's a you problem. It was evangelised quite heavily and has been in its final form for a long time. These are its twilight years as the new-ish Shortcuts sy
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Personally this kind of thing is like water off a duck's back to me, as long as there is indeed a button to click. The real 10x worse thing is if there is no button and you have to email or call to cancel.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
I've always thought that the original neon-lookin' feather in particular looked great and was very memorable.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
I meant more that the very concept of an IC is a good idea, and like a good abstraction in programming. I think pjmlp was getting at is that when using visual programming, a lot of people seem to turn off (or not cultivate) the part of the
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Much like designing Integrated Circuit chips, vs. only doing basic breadboard-ing.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
I basically agree with you, however thought the following was an interesting idea about it perhaps not always being that simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33166116
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by frou_dh 2y ago
You know, when someone creates the millionth homegrown lisp/scheme interpreter, they're probably not particularly concerned about SEO or "product", and are just hacking for the fun of it.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
"Community" is kinda the key word there, because when someone is "along for the ride" over a period of many years then a ratcheting of complexity is easier to cope with than it is to arrive cold in a big/complex lan
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Four candidates mentioned so far in the HN comments so far. Here's 45? https://github.com/search?q=enum+generator+language%3AGo&typ... https://github.com/search?q=enum+generation+language%3AGo&t
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by frou_dh 2y ago
"add(ing) a level of unknown" is a very fair description from a code comprehensibility standpoint, since the go:generate directive is about running arbitrary executables.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Not that this was necessarily better in terms of capabilities, but TextMate had a very pleasing Unix-style extension model where there was no mandated language and extension commands used scripts/executables written in any language. Th
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by frou_dh 2y ago
The wacky approach to column types came from SQLite's origins of being closely integrated with Tcl. Knowing that doesn't somehow mean it was a good default worth carrying on for decades.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
> You can think of booleans as a built-in, two-value enum that has a common semantic meaning. I love it when a language's bool type is just a sum-type like the sum-types you define in user code, e.g. https://ocaml.org&#x2
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by frou_dh 2y ago
I wonder if Apple do (or will) use Swift-Charts in their own major apps, e.g. for all the various metrics in the Health app on iOS.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
The new logo's shape and colours look reminiscent of Helix's https://helix-editor.com , but I agree that the actual ladybird was nice.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
I like that $1 etc can now be written instead of %s for placeholders in queries. Even though the latter was already safe, it simply looked toe-curling (like you were writing naive SQL-injectable queries all the time).
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Psycopg 3.2 released – PostgreSQL driver for Python(psycopg.org)
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by frou_dh 2y ago
> for example I knew a guy that’d auto reject C PR’s if they didn’t use the syntax if (1==x) rather than if (x==1). The former will not compile if you accidentally use variable assignment instead of equality operator I've seen that
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Look at all those people getting stuff done on their projects and making consistent releases. What fools! I pity them!
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by frou_dh 2y ago
> Swift, had it not needed backwards compatibility with Objective-C, could probably have gone with a tracing collector. Programs using tracing GC have a higher memory ceiling than the equivalent using RC, don't they? Because things
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Indeed. I was talking entirely about the idea of doing it by choice, not by practical necessity. The server angle is quite often mentioned one level up from configuration files to advocate choosing e.g. vi, period, since it's guarantee
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by frou_dh 2y ago
IMO that feature snatches defeat from the jaws of victory because if the command fails (exit code >0) it doesn't raise an exception. Same issue with the system(...) method by default.
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by frou_dh 2y ago
> There something alluring about tweaking a system to be customized in a “perfect” but personally way… but it often only bites you in time. the longer I work with computers the more I appreciate resisting unnecessary connivance tweets, a
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by frou_dh 2y ago
A big folder hierarchy of bookmarks works just fine for me and I get reference value from them practically every day, so it's not just unnecessary hoarding as the armchair psychologists imply. The thing that solved bookmark annoyance f
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Aside from what the article focuses on (being selective about which packages to install in the first place), I feel that making extensive use of the (use-package ...) macro keeps a large Emacs config manageable. It gives things a very stand
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by frou_dh 2y ago
Do you think you have a better handle on the "reality of the task" than Kling, who already worked at Apple on WebKit and subsequently got Ladybird to where it is now?
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by frou_dh 2y ago
It's probably like that because there is so much internal Google churn and product development year after year, and a thousand cooks in the kitchen. Old-school stuff like WinForms just seemed like a calmer scene with not so much going

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