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by grahamlee 5y ago
Those are comments on the implementation patterns in the Gang of Four book, which are indeed historically situated in the period of the book’s publication and relate to common solutions to problems then encountered. And indeed many of the n
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by grahamlee 5y ago
This happened to me when the small company that I worked at was acquired by a large company, too. Smallco's engineering definitely had some dysfunction that I was trying to work on: speeding up information from CI, increasing developer
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by grahamlee 5y ago
I really enjoy working with Smalltalk, particularly web projects in Seaside. It's very quick to be very productive, and there's a lot of fun in fixing a failed expectation in the debugger and continuing to run your software.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Like the person you replied to, I vastly prefer ObjC, I find the compiler pedantry in Swift to be annoying and to slow me down. ObjC is very fast to write and to iterate on, particularly in my style where everything that's an object ge
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Is TDD Dead? (2014) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by grahamlee 5y ago|1 comments
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by grahamlee 5y ago
There is a wayland backend for GNUstep.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
I co-host a GNUstep developer stream at https://twitch.tv/objcretain (replays at https://replay.objc-retain.com ). The motivation my co-host and I have for using GNUstep in 2021 and beyond is to provide a familia
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Agreed. The Agile movement/manifesto/alliance is a product of history and should be situated in its historical context when taught.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Yeah, scrum is the “nobody got fired for buying an IBM” of 21st century project management systems.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
[I'm the article author] > I've read accounts of the 1980s-ish days at MS, Apple, VisiCalc, and other software companies. > So far I have yet to read one which used waterfall. Indeed, even the Royce paper everyone cites to d
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An imagined history of agile software development(sicpers.info)
28 points by grahamlee 5y ago|11 comments
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Windows 11 and WSL2 will finally deliver the year of Linux on the desktop.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
And what level of surplus are you happy to have added to your tax bills?
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Typically you would pay for it out of grant money. So Dr. Smith doesn’t pay the APC, Stanvard University doesn’t pay, the NSF pays. Or to cut a long story short, the taxpayer.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Nonetheless old capacitors degrade, despite predating the plague. It’s SOP among retro computer folks to recap 80s/90s micros to avoid electrolyte damaging the boards, and I’ve had 80s-era Unix workstations go pop when powered on. For
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by grahamlee 5y ago
They work in clang and gcc when you enable it, and C is not C++, so they work just fine thank you.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
The solution for internationalist C users who want their source to look the same for everyone is to write the newline character as ??/n.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
The date code on the capacitor is 1976 so I’m guessing not.
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How to Reason About Mutable State(deprogrammaticaipsum.com)
1 points by grahamlee 5y ago|0 comments
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by grahamlee 5y ago
I ran through this contest, picked a winner, downloaded that font and installed it in VSCodium…and very quickly switched back to the font I was previously using, which was also a contestant here! I guess I like different things when I'
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Because you have to make the source code available to people who receive your distribution of the library.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Random yes, useful also yes: AmigaOS has a C-based object-oriented interface to its Intuition UI library called BOOPSI, and having ObjC available makes it much nicer to work with BOOPSI objects.
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by grahamlee 5y ago
This is message selectors. We've finally rediscovered OOP in functional programming, and can close down the whole racket (pardon the pun). [Obligatory talk where I did this same trick, but in Swift, in 2018: https://www.yout
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by grahamlee 5y ago
It's actually not a fantasy. AmigaOS 3.2 was released this year as a commercial product, and Apollo make enough money to employ Gunnar full time and some part time folks too. Giving a niche community exactly the things they want will n
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Oh, is it that he refused to give up the key to his crypto wallet?
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Note that Backus's complaint is in relation to EWD638, where Dijkstra tears apart every claim made in a paper and accuses the authors of having a "pre-scientific attitude" and giving "the impression of anti-intellectuali
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by grahamlee 5y ago
Maybe not one to practice what he preached; as Alan Kay observed, arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-dijkstras.
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by grahamlee 6y ago
No, NetBSD claim that ( https://netbsd.org/gallery/products.html#darwin ) but if it was ever true that was a long time ago. Apple synced up with the FreeBSD userland some time toward the end of the first decade of the mi
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by grahamlee 6y ago
This article needs an image of the plane with red dots where all the bullet holes were. That, or to explain how great software engineer CEOs include Jonathan Schwartz, Stephen Elop, and all those one-person companies that are still waiting
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by grahamlee 6y ago
> it's super unprofessional I don't think anyone is getting paid though.

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