iLemming

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by iLemming 2y ago
My comment wasn't self-referential, I'm not complaining, I do exercise. Have you noticed the use of terms of possibility and not certainty in my prior comment? I'm just stating the general facts on long-term career of a softw
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Realistically, 30 minutes of walking a day is not enough to offset the long hours of sitting (no matter how great the chair is); standing desks aren't necessarily a better solution here either. Gym and healthy eating are a must, but no
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I think you're conflating job satisfaction and the difficulty of doing it. Software engineering can bring immense joy, but it is often a hard job to do. While it may not be physically demanding like some trades, it is often intellectua
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How old are you? You get to your forties as a software engineer, and you'd realize how taxing this occupation is. Your eyesight may deteriorate; your neck and spine may experience chronic pain; you could develop digestive and kidney pr
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by iLemming 2y ago
> despite being terrible at virtually everything it tries to do Oh, MSFT ain't even "terrible" compared to some other players. Try Salesforce. Or ADP. Or even Atlassian. I can't believe we're actually paying mone
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by iLemming 2y ago
> felt too much .NET-y and too much MicroSoft-y That was kind of my main problem with dotnet stack in general, although that was some years ago. I've tried sneaking F# into our project by building set of tests (the main codebase was
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> people who write blog posts ... never a mainstream language Don't you find it amusing that food critics usually write about little-known or new restaurants and never do any fast-food chain reviewing?
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> What bits of java have you ended up needing? The same with Clojurescript and JS (and probably with Clojure-Dart) - you have nice interop with the hosting platform. The need for learning anything about Java (while writing Clojure) basic
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> For F# , you need some basic C# knowledge For Clojure, you need some basic Java knowledge For Elixir, you need some basic Erlang Honestly, none of this really rings a bell. Having used all three options, I never felt that. Well, I alre
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by iLemming 2y ago
> I just can't seem to make it work for me Maybe you just don't have sufficient exposure to Elisp. Emacs Lisp is one of the best blackmagicfockery automation tools, you can do tons of interesting things. Just the other day I go
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by iLemming 2y ago
Probably because then, it would make your paragraphs 'rigid', whereas if you have visual-line-mode and don't truncate lines — the text would just wrap around — you only need to adjust the width of the window. That works nicel
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by iLemming 2y ago
Simple reminder for those who don't know this: the easiest way to insert em-dash in Vim-supported editor (Evil-mode in Emacs) is to use digraphs feature. In insert mode you'd press Control+k, then type a digraph sequence. For em-d
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by iLemming 2y ago
No mentioning of of https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith ? Is it related at all?
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I asked an LLM the same questions, and that's what I got: Here are some key resources on language psychology and acquisition: 1. "Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics" by Julie Sedivy - Covers basic concepts
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by iLemming 2y ago
Can someone recommend good reading on the "psychology of languages", i.e., how does a language develop in the brain; why is it easy for me (as someone who grew up in the East) to learn guttural sounds of Arabic, but it's near
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by iLemming 2y ago
Are you sure you're not confusing Lisp with Haskell, because I'm not sure at all what the heck you're talking about.
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by iLemming 2y ago
What's the fastest and accurate CLI OCR tool? My use case is simple - I want to be able to grab a piece of screen (Flameshot is great for that), and OCR it. I need this for note-taking during pair-programming over Zoom. Currently I&#x2
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> Its terminology is antique git uses "plumbing" and "porcelain" commands, referring to victorian-era plumbing systems. Adobe and other publishing tools use terms like "slug", "gutter", "folio
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Yeah well, MSFT - the behemoth among evilish corporations, invests vast sums into developing a sophisticated tool with extensive features - more than their combined philanthropic initiatives - and offers it freely to just about anyone. This
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by iLemming 2y ago
It's not "a problem," it's a difference in philosophy. Sure, VSCode comes accessible out of the box with minimal configuration needed and a GUI-first settings interface. But that comes with its own price - your config is
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by iLemming 2y ago
Tip for Emacs users: One easy way to sort the sections in .gitconfig alphabetically - turn them into org-mode headings. replace-regexp "^[" with "^* ["; then mark-whole-buffer; org-sort; finally, replace the headings bac
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https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith
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by iLemming 2y ago
> I've never seen anything but praise for clojure. I've seen plenty of tomatoes here on the orange site, thrown at Clojure. Interestingly, years ago, when I was deciding if I should learn Clojure, I have typed into Google &quot
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by iLemming 2y ago
Clojure is strongly typed. That manifests in, for example, when Clojurescript emits compiled Javascript. Surprisingly, often it emits safer Javascript than Typescript ever could with all its static types. Typescript's type system exist
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> A type is very easy to see localized on the function. "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means"... When you say "types," can you please give a concrete example of what languages you
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> justify using it Justify using it against what? Can you name a single other language that does things better than Clojure? Not from your "point of values," but try seeing it from my position. Is there anything that can replac
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I love writing Clojure. Whenever I say that publicly, there are inevitably some voices challenging my stance with skepticism, criticism, and attempts to discredit whatever I say provides practical value for me. Then I have to explain to the
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There is no such thing as "Vim as an extension." I've tried so many different Vim extensions in different editors, IDEs, web browsers, etc. None of them are without some glaring deficiencies, big and tiny annoyances. With per
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by iLemming 2y ago
> Anyone who doesn't use Vim is just evil in my eye Hehe. Evil users are vimmers. Evil stands for - Extensible vi layer for Emacs. Try Emacs for a while, and you may realize - Emacs can vim better than Neovim.
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Exactly. People think that vimmers type with fingers, where in fact "typing" really happens in the brain. Ask any seasoned vimmer immediately after a typed sequence what keys did they just press, and most of them would struggle to

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