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by hamstergene 5y ago
I’d say it is very valuable for manufacturers/support people to be able to say to customers, “for our device you need a yellow cable only”. Right now they can’t say anything that a non-nerd would understand.
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by hamstergene 5y ago
I bet you would hate to spend 4+ hours per day in negotiation meetings, stacking up plans and writing reports, some days not even having time to start working on development tasks. You'd probably give all this to someone who wants and
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by hamstergene 5y ago
The author of the article will realize their mistake when they try to consume a library that consumes its own dependencies via the same FetchContent mechanism, and one of those dependencies will be the same as what author’s executable needs
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Let’s remove the word “happy” for being too vague, and say directly: * People with good wages and education commit crimes less * People with good wages and education riot less * People with good wages and education less likely to approve wa
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by hamstergene 5y ago
> my judgement is more correct for me - because it is That is plain arrogant. Not only you refuse to remember that you may be wrong, you also want search engines to protect you from ever discovering that. What if your neighbor likes some
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by hamstergene 5y ago
You're contradicting your first comment: > I want my search results to prefer [.....] other pages marked high for quality by people who [some algorithm] to this page. Facebook/YouTube already do this and it is a disaster, which
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by hamstergene 5y ago
Proving that others are bad too does not mean one is OK and no change is needed. It just means all are bad, all need to be changed.
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by hamstergene 6y ago
Per process won’t be good enough in a different app that does legitimately need `/net`, just not when displaying file:/// links inside HTML pages.
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by hamstergene 6y ago
> Universality, High Quality, Low Cost. Pick two. Aren't universality and low cost mostly the same thing? The lower the cost the more people can afford it, if the cost is low enough that is capitalism version of universal. (That&#x2
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by hamstergene 6y ago
On the other hand, if you ever find yourself writing a programming language, consider making it statically typed. In the world of mobile devices where CPU is battery life, why create a language that is ~10x slower for no user benefit and ma
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by hamstergene 6y ago
If anyone could create their own store, someone would create a store that accepts anything with no review, no privacy and no security enforcements, making the whole idea of greenwalled platform pointless.
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by hamstergene 7y ago
This. Using doubles for markup removes the need for backslash escaping when those symbols naturally appear in text,
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by hamstergene 7y ago
> After 8 to 10 years it will fix itself 100% of the total cap is used every year. The cap is not changing, the number of applicants is not changing (grows, actually), so the backlog will keep growing with no change at all. How exactly t
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by hamstergene 7y ago
Compare number of applicants per year from India (250K H1 + some amount L1) to the green card caps (140K). And their population growth is still positive (>1% year). Even if Congress kicks out all the rest of nationalities and gives 100%
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by hamstergene 7y ago
I'm counting bare-metal/kernel into backend category here, because I don't have better word for "not directly facing end users".
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by hamstergene 7y ago
More like, back-end is easy, easier than front-end. He is comparing low-level backends with web frontends. On my first serious project at the first job I estimated back-end part of an app as 75% and front-end as 25%. It ended up exact rever
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by hamstergene 7y ago
I would refrain from saying "gaming on MacBook" because it creates confusion about whether one is using Windows or macOS. When playing on Windows (Bootcamp) the MacBook is just a regular Intel based hardware, the experience is no
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by hamstergene 7y ago
I am pretty sure "ageism" is just an inadvertent consequence of the wrong belief that years of experience must linearly translate to ability. Not because anyone dislikes older folk per se. If someone has got 30 years of experience
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by hamstergene 8y ago
In my experience they were mostly devs and QA who wanted to do something on macOS/iOS but not bad enough to invest money into a new computer just for that. I'd call that 'need' not 'love'.
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by hamstergene 8y ago
I've just posted the same and then saw your post. There are so many benefits of this approach: * Good companies that actually pay a lot will automatically push out outsourcers that sneak cheap labor under pretense of finding rate talen
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by hamstergene 8y ago
How did you get that? Apple has never published per-model sales stats to my knowledge. Could you share the source? 2015 MBP was available until this July, non-touchbar 13" still is. The fact that the new Air got TouchID but not TouchBa
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by hamstergene 8y ago
That's kinda the point... Instead of using more energy efficient new gen CPU to add ~3 hours of life, Apple used it to make the already perfect laptop insignificantly thinner and lighter by reducing the battery size.
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by hamstergene 8y ago
I wish someone made MacMini-sized eGPUs and external disk drives so they could be stacked on top of each other. That'd look very good aesthetically with minimal or no mess of wires. An ITX format video card (~7") should fit into M
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by hamstergene 8y ago
That is way too oversimplified case of type inference. A huge lot of languages don't have this: let x = (f ? makeDerived1() : makeDerived2()); // no error, x is inferred to be Base let x = 1; x *= 2; x = si
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by hamstergene 8y ago
All Russians agree on this: 1 kocherga = одна кочерга 2,3,4 kochergas = две,три,четыре кочерги But then it gets ambiguous: 5 kochergas = пять кочерёг? 5 kochergas = пять кочерг? 5 kochergas = пять кочерыг? 5 k
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by hamstergene 8y ago
Basically, a lot of Russians have no idea how to say 5 pieces of kocherga. Factory workers think they can't spell it because they are just uneducated, but the reply they get suggests that the management has no idea either. Honestly, I
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by hamstergene 8y ago
Don't know Hungarian, but pluralization is more than changing the noun after a number. For example, in full phrases like "Clear history after N days", "Found N files" some languages would change the part before the
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by hamstergene 8y ago
You are missing the point that in the moment one can not even remember what they have planned to do in that situation.
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by hamstergene 9y ago
There is a third option to crashing vs. not crashing: not letting the code compile if there is any chance it might crash. That is what this "buzz about null pointers" is about.
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by hamstergene 9y ago
No one is talking about keeping execution instead of crashing. C++ smart pointers do not do that, optional types do not do that, no programming language whose creators are in their right mind has ever pursued that. You have just produced a

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