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by gyulai 4y ago
> However, somehow, the phrasing of this thread implies it’s the men that are disadvantaged. Curious what the intentions of op is. It's rather obvious isn't it? There are fewer of them, but when they're there, they earn m
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by gyulai 4y ago
Something about Lencioni really bugs me. There is no other business writer about whom I feel that strongly. He's extremely ad-hominem and paints that picture of that "dysfunctional team member" (read "asshole"), an
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by gyulai 4y ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." [1] Embedding python in something else was not part of my suggestion, rather I suggested using pyth
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> ...but at larger scales it's unmanageable. Can you elaborate on what it is you find unmanageable about Lua at scale? Is it just typing that you're missing? The biggest difference between Lua and TypeScript in my mind is that
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by gyulai 4y ago
I suppose the more lua-esque thing to do is to not use lua in isolation and not rely on lua rocks, but instead embed it in some host language, and then rely on the host language to do the heavylifting where libraries and ecosystem are conce
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by gyulai 4y ago
I looked into JS as an alternative, given that ES6 cleaned up a lot of the things that had previously been bugging me about JS. I thought JS must be well-suited for embedding usecases, and the vastly larger language community, compared to
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by gyulai 4y ago
Haxe is great for when you want to write an entire application in Haxe, then transpile to multiple targets, and then care about the target platform only to the extent that you want your application to just work. The various haxe game engine
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by gyulai 4y ago
I feel the need to ramble slightly OT on how great Lua is: I was looking for an architecture/tech stack recently that would allow me to develop a cross-platform desktop GUI. I went on a several-weeks-long fact finding mission (the l
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by gyulai 4y ago
I did read that relativization, it just didn't pass through my bullshit filter. This is because of a lifetime of managers telling me things like "before we do this thing that you want to do, please first conduct a fact-finding mis
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by gyulai 4y ago
When I say "sounds like hell" I'm not necessarily looking at it from the point of view of what's economical, but rather from the point of view of job satisfaction. Like: If a decision is made not to automate something,
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Let’s not build that feature. > Let’s not add this functionality. > Let’s not build that product yet. > Let’s not build/deploy that development tool. > Let’s not adopt this new technology. > Let’s not keep maintaini
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by gyulai 4y ago
Pareto's law really isn't a law. You think that the world is full of situations where 80% of the payoff comes from 20% of the work/complexity/whatever? I tell you that, equally, the world is full of situations where you
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Rewards are distributed to authors in a steep Pareto distribution because that is the distribution of talent. I wouldn't be so quick to relate rewards to talent. Publishing has network externalities. In a given social circle whe
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by gyulai 4y ago
I don't believe that no explanation exists for the "butterfly wing" kind of complexity, I merely believe that such an explanation is not yet known to any human, owing to the large magnitude of that kind of complexity, and so
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by gyulai 4y ago
The world is made up of phenomena that mostly are pretty complex and require explanations that are equally complex. Unfortunately the world is filled with people who lay on others the responsibility to "explain complex things in a simp
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Pets, not cattle is the general mantra for configuration management systems. Oh, I didn't realize it was in widespread use. But still. Someone thought of it, and it's great use of language.
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by gyulai 4y ago
Great use of metaphor to make a complex and subtle technical concept into a readily-understood one-liner.
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by gyulai 4y ago
I'm not implying anything about Titus, I'm implying something about Hyrum. Apparently he must have thought to himself: "Well, I'm still missing a name drop here for my credit-grabbing." If that name had been &quo
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by gyulai 4y ago
Please tell me it wasn't Hyrum himself who made an observation that many people have made over time (even citing some of them), then called it a "law", named it after himself, and bought the domain name for it. EDIT: Upon re-
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by gyulai 4y ago
I'm saying: When you know how to build wheels, you may well want to build your own. If I have old bread and five minutes of spare time and a pan, I'll happily make my own crutons. There might be many reasons for why this might b
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by gyulai 4y ago
I merely pointed out that the "don't reinvent the wheel" knee-jerk reflex that some people are exhibiting in a broad range of situations is an absurd absolute. Negating something and then stating it as an absurd absolute doe
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by gyulai 4y ago
Standardization and pluralism both have their respective merits. It's a "cathedral vs bazaar" thing or corporate culture vs hacker culture.
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by gyulai 4y ago
Imagine some point in history where the wheel hasn't yet been invented. But someone figured out that an octagon works kind of reasonably well as something that you might want to put under your chariot, and the whole world of engineeri
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by gyulai 4y ago
> You do not need some 3rd party library to write a command line interface for your python code. You do not need three different projects just to maintain your list of installed packages or virtual environment. And you don't need a
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by gyulai 4y ago
I don't think a type system will save you. The problem is that, since the introduction of dependencies has become so easy, people have become dependency hogs. Every time you introduce a dependency, you need to weigh the benefits agains
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by gyulai 4y ago
Don't forget https://weasyprint.org
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> Also, the distance from "hello world" to "use your coding skills creatively" is really high, and a lot of people just bail before they get to that goal. I agree. When I got into programming as a teenager in the 90s
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by gyulai 4y ago
Sounds great! I'll set up a professional body for CBPs (certified brainfuck practitioners) and will get my cronies in government to pass a law against code being written in any language other than brainfuck or by any person who isn&#x
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by gyulai 4y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by gyulai 4y ago
Yeah, definitely Lua.

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