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by guhidalg 4y ago
Forget about the word memorization for a moment. How did you learn to program? You probably had someone show you the syntax, you wrote a few basic programs, learned OOP, and then you took an algorithms class. Did you need to take an algorit
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I don't understand when and why so much power was delegated to IT w.r.t installing software. The FSF needs to start fighting IT and device management policies before talking about open source software.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Yes they are.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I'm glad you liked VS for Mac. I personally do not like it, it's a reskin of the Xamarin IDE that Microsoft acquired. Visual Studio on windows is IMO the real Visual Studio experience for C# and you should try it if you get a chan
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Thanks! Will do that in the future.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I agree with the intent, but I don't believe simply improving schools (what does that even mean? higher teacher salaries? higher standards? more funding?) will improve overall societal education. Where I grew up (Georgia, USA), there w
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Totally agree with everything you're saying. Apple products (along with most consumer electronics) simply aren't strategic to national security so they can and will be continued to be made where profit margins are highest modulo t
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Types are tests run by the compiler. You shouldn't avoid testing, just let the compiler do it for you.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
C# is great. You get: - Tons of developers know it - Tons of Java developers can be made to know it with ease - A good default IDE experience within VS and VSCode, and a JetBrains product if you prefer it. - A good LSP implementation with O
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I've had this thought before, that high school should be good enough to not require higher education. However I think as I've grown older I recognize that public education in the US primarily serves as day care and secondarily as
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by guhidalg 4y ago
That’s true but I think that’s not the only reason. Programming an FPGA isn’t as simple as writing and deploying compiled code, you have to write in a hardware specification language. Actually you can get the same experience with an FPGA if
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Perhaps if you're trying to get the best products from each cloud, but I doubt this would be worth it. For each cloud you are going to need to establish: accounts, payment, access control, continuous deployment, geographical locality o
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by guhidalg 4y ago
But why would you try to build something cloud-agnostic to run on the most cloud-aware tier: serverless? Computers don't come forth from the ether, your code is always running _somewhere_ and serverless means your provider makes a ton
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I did check this to make sure I was still living in a sane universe, Firefox doesn't use Blink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I agree, but I’ve always wondered if flat UIs had a performance advantage. Like, if your GPU just rendered a bunch of rectangles of a single color instead of having to mask rounded corners or draw borders around things, could the UI run wit
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I don’t think Windows is ever going to be left behind, you still need a kernel to make use of all your hardware and an OS to give users something to do. I view this move as Microsoft recognizing that the future of most development is cross-
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Can you not? I understand sometimes you absolutely need to change a signature or deprecate a feature, but that should absolutely be the exception and not the norm. Going back to the original post, I find it ridiculous that Apple regularly s
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I don't understand this comment, do YOU actually ship breaking changes to your users and expect them to continue using your code or programs? Just because Apple does it doesn't mean it's actually a good idea.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I'm not saying never learn CI/CD tooling, I'm saying don't use it until you need it. In an enterprise setting, yes it's probably a good idea to use such tools from day 1 because you don't ever want to be solely
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Yes! Boring tech is working tech, never choose an untested technology if there's any real stakes in the work.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I disagree, avoid CI/CD tools is the right call until this grows enough that you can't continue writing small scripts. I think all the CI/CD tools are garbage in that by being generic they do a poor job at addressing your spe
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Totally agree that development outside of Windows is better. However if a majority of your users are using Windows, shouldn't you, the developer, also use Windows? I think HN has a tired circle-jerk around hating Windows but ultimately
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by guhidalg 4y ago
The work is good, but they need to submit it under a real name. The Linux kernel will lose trust if anonymous contributors with hidden interest start contributing code to it, regardless of its quality.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
For a second I thought this was Saturn and said “don’t we have better images of this?” Then I actually read it’s Neptune and realized all our good images of it come from probes. It’s crazy JWST can just see the rings and the moons, incredib
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Sometime similar once happened to me, the moral is to not install the insiders version unless you have a legitimate reason to. Getting access to preview features before they’re ready on will get you in that kind of trouble.
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Your car analogy is missing the fuel aspect. If I can get 1000HP with 50MPG, instead of 1000HP at 5MPG, I would buy a Ferrari. At the high-end, Nvidia is making more powerful cards (HP) with the same fuel efficiency as before. Maybe they ar
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by guhidalg 4y ago
I'm sure that for gaming, power is not an issue, but I will continue to lament that Intel and Nvidia do not give a shit about making power-efficient designs. They push the increased cost and headaches to consumers and OEMs who need to
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by guhidalg 4y ago
In the US a majority of your taxes go to federal and state governments, whether you live in the city or the suburbs doesn't change where your taxes go and how much you're paying. The cost of living difference in that case is based
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by guhidalg 4y ago
If you mean why Uber or AirBnB get to avoid paying taxes and you don't, they definitely are committing tax fraud: https://www.icij.org/investigations/uber-files/uber-tax-have... and https://www.p
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by guhidalg 4y ago
Serious answer: Wherever you choose to live, you benefit directly or indirectly from services paid through taxes. Maybe your employer doesn't care where you live, but the jurisdiction where YOU are does care about where you work becaus

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