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1. 271.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   I remember when I couldn't fly across the country without running out of power due the terrible power usage of VSCode. One such example was the cursor blinking causing hight cpu usage - https://github.com/Microsoft&#x2F
2. 272.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   Tests demonstrate the current behavior of the software. If you don't have tests then all you'd need to do is manually run through millions of test cases manually, hardly better. What you've done is be the first person to go t
3. 273.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   tangential topic - but this stall/spin recovery training is INSANE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVGtsK7vvnA
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   Elixir – HUGE Release Coming Soon(genserver.social)

   135 points by gregors 4y ago|77 comments
5. 275.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   Given a choice, a lot of people would rather not just fork over a large percentage of their take home pay to the landlords of downtowns. Those landlords have been driving the zoning policies for decades in their favor. Now things are just a
6. 276.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   I only use google with the site keyword helper now. For searching the net in general it's not entirely useless, but I haven't felt lucky enough to smash that lucky button in ages.
7. 277.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   I wouldn't shrug my shoulders at >> the distributor compiles for different platforms Most people aren't doing that for you. There are lots of tools out there where you do need to still manually compile it yourself and make s
8. 278.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   It's quite easy for me to churn out some data munging scripts using Ruby but I was running into performance issues on large csv files. Crystal is like having super powers for csv parsing if you already have Ruby skills. I really think
9. 279.▲
   by gregors 4y ago

   That's absolutely the correct call for rails.
10. 280.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    As someone who was on the type train in Uni and moved to dynamic languages, my first feeling was slow and unsafe. I couldn't imagine how things wouldn't just explode. In practice I've rarely seen issues. Ruby is still the fas
11. 281.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    I felt the same way about bootstrap honestly. Quick, dirty and useful.
12. 282.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    I don't think the author can stop. I think it's a business now. It's going to continue on and on. It suspect it will follow every other frontend library with major version changes etc.
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    Stack Overflow begins adding tests to their code(stackoverflow.blog)

    2 points by gregors 4y ago|0 comments
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    Destroy Your Codebase with Amongrust(github.com)

    1 points by gregors 4y ago|0 comments
15. 285.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    If you had a type checker bug you didn't you manually test that code path at the bare minimum. Type check bugs are the most simplistic bugs to catch. Is it nice sure, but if you can't spot those before you ship I can almost guaran
16. 286.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    "much better safety" Every bug to to ever hit production has * passed all manual testing * passed all unit tests * passed the type checker
17. 287.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    I really don't understand how strong typing does anything related to testing behavior. I keep seeing this statement and it makes me believe maybe these devs idea of testing behavior are testing nulls or maybe trying to pass in hashes w
18. 288.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    >>> Just about everyone has switched from JS to TS You are mistaken. While TS is popular it's nowhere near as popular as JS. In fact, just looking at online community counts, I'd say it's 1/2 as popular. Will it
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    Twitter distributed Manhattan DB talk – 2020(youtube.com)

    5 points by gregors 4y ago|2 comments
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    by gregors 4y ago

    I saw Manhattan referenced in the Twitter architectural diagram, found this talk on on it.
21. 291.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    They said BEAM, not Erlang. There is PLENTY of greenfield BEAM going on through Elixir.
22. 292.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    Or let's say you take a job writing Go and they switch to Erlang? I'm curious how you would react?
23. 293.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    All of this reminds me of the software Death March book https://www.amazon.com/Death-March-2nd-Edward-Yourdon/dp/013... Where is the financial payoff? Is there a real possibility of a life changing exit? You need
24. 294.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    I'd at least place an underscore as is common in other languages let [one, _, three, _, five] = nums edit: I guess you can't do that in JS, so let [one, _two, three, _four, five] = nums
25. 295.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    He is directly the reason they are losing $4 million a day. They weren't losing anywhere near that before he took control.
26. 296.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    Why would any engineer stay at this point? Either, you still believe in the long term vision and that some day it make you rich or you can't find another job. Is the first choice even plausible now?
27. 297.▲
    by gregors 4y ago

    check out - https://apex.sh/ Really good!
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    by gregors 4y ago

    I fully understand that Elixir might not have been the right choice for you and your team, but ... I doubt most of the people singing most of these praises on Elixir have actually tried to go all in with it and build a business on it. Lot
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    by gregors 4y ago

    Great work!!! "SQLite is extensively tested with 100% branch test coverage. We discovered this vulnerability despite the tests, which raises the question: how did the tests miss it?" Tests only validate known behavior. They didn&#
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    by gregors 4y ago

    Remember when Google's CEO quit Apple's board? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-schmidt-sb/google-c...