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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah, I use them all the time in Swift to model UI state, I find it's a pretty elegant way to avoid invalid states and simplifies UI code a lot.
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by jamil7 5y ago
I haven’t touched the ecosystem really for a number of years but my last JS project was in TS and I hated it for the same reason. The overhead of bringing in yet more npm modules and types and build steps for questionable levels type safety
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by jamil7 5y ago
I’ve contracted full-time off and on throughout my career and am in an ‘on’ period at the moment. It gets easier with time, you get better at it like anything else and learn to outsource and delegate to other small businesses and freelancer
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by jamil7 5y ago
Do they plan to fund and/or contribute to the development of LibreOffice as well? I couldn't find anything in that article or the linked paper. Edit: Actually one of the slides seems to indicate they have the intention to contribu
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by jamil7 5y ago
> but very difficult to master on a native level The same can be said for all of the languages being discussed in this thread. I'm skeptical that English is any harder to learn at a native level than French, German or Polish.
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by jamil7 5y ago
From my perspective, despite inconsistencies it's one of the easier languages to learn at a basic level as you can ramp up and start using a working subset of it pretty quickly. German in comparison has a steep up-front learning curve
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by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah while they liberally apply ‘any’ all over a codebase.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Advent of Code?
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by jamil7 5y ago
I mostly agree with you but I've found that in certain (smaller) teams with a high level of trust and experience it can be fine to do this without a heads up.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Apple's software quality has certainly slipped. I'm not sure if I'm just getting old but I find software quality in general seems to have slipped. Or is it just because there's more software around?
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by jamil7 5y ago
These are impressive! The use of screenshots and figures really helps. I've also always thought Groue's GRDB is an example of great documentation and readme combination[1]. [1] https://github.com/groue/GRDB.sw
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by jamil7 5y ago
I see it as kind of comforting. These tools take care of the cookie-cutter projects so developers can work on more interesting things.
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by jamil7 5y ago
It's still an open issue I think and a difficult one to solve, even with their resources. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/32170
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by jamil7 5y ago
People in Berlin are always threatening to leave for Leipzig as Berlin becomes less and less affordable, I guess a lot do, especially now that remote working make it actually feasible. I even had a colleague years ago who commuted a few day
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by jamil7 5y ago
No annoying drip emails “checking in” every few days.
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by jamil7 5y ago
This was also going to be my comment, homebrew for cli tools and casks for some gui apps, all other environments in docker containers.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Thunderbolt “port” you mean.
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by jamil7 5y ago
I saw the author present once, I couldn't follow anything they were talking about or the code samples presented.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> I am not very experienced with Arch, but my impression is that it is actually more reliable when updating/upgrading then going to a new major MacOS release I used Arch briefly and this was not my experience, but at least in that c
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by jamil7 5y ago
If you need to render quite a lot of data look at one of the WebGL implementations, I switched from Leaflet to Maplibre GL for displaying around ~7k linestrings and saw huge performance gains.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> They are also expected to last more than a decade, again against brand. Eh my 2013 MBP is coming up on that and can still compile my work's app (albeit slowly and with a lot of fan noise). The rest is correct though.
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by jamil7 5y ago
I'm not sure it's climate change denial per say, more the usual "If everyone was as smart as me we would have all our energy problems solved already" response every time anything related to renewable energy and/or n
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by jamil7 5y ago
ProtonMail iOS app works offline, at least you can read email and draft email offline. The client is also open source but they don’t seen overly keen on accepting contributions.
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by jamil7 5y ago
It sounds like you need to get your laptop fixed?
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by jamil7 5y ago
Ah, that feeling of dread in your stomach as the realization hits.
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by jamil7 5y ago
> because potatoes+milk is as nutritionally complete a diet as you could find. That can’t be true.
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by jamil7 5y ago
I don't have much to add to this but it reminded me of this blog article about running a bakery business on Postgres and Emacs https://bofh.org.uk/2019/02/25/baking-with-emacs/ there's also a f
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by jamil7 5y ago
There’s also some mob mentality at work, 1 or 2 downvotes will often invite more as soon as people see a greyed out comment.
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by jamil7 5y ago
Wouldn't Facebook love this?
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by jamil7 5y ago
They already do that for Flutter with the Cupertino Widgets.

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