jbreckmckye

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Wild boar rescue demonstrates signs of empathy, prosocial behaviour(bigthink.com)
2 points by jbreckmckye 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Part of it may be the same reason that developers love to rewrite code: all creative works over a certain age accumulate compromises, and newcomers don't understand the reason for those compromises. So a new set of designers, like a ne
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
I suspect that orgs perform arbitrary UI redesigns for the same reasons supermarkets occasionally reorganise their product layout. It stops customers getting too efficient at extracting only the value they think they want.
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Ask HN: Is my repository analysis framework a good idea?
2 points by jbreckmckye 6y ago|2 comments
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Power to the People: Reducing Datacenter Carbon Footprints(queue.acm.org)
1 points by jbreckmckye 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Is there a good place I can read about all this?
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
> What astonishing progress! It's almost as fast of a feedback cycle that you would have had working in Lisp at a REPL 30 years ago! Indeed - I chose the word REPL for a reason. > Javascript is popular, but in most ways it's
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Relevant for what? The question isn't really complete. Is PHP still a language in use, should I support it if I build tools or platforms for programmers? Sure. It's in use in many places. Is PHP still a language worth learning if
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Same. I gave it access to my data, it spat out a bunch of vague insults that just... didn’t mean anything. It called me a “manic pixie dream girl” - I’m male. It said I was “local-talk-radio-bumper-sticker-bitch“, which isn’t even an adject
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
This would be one of mine too. I remember reading a (speculative) argument that the earliest gospels were much more ambiguous about the "miracles" and exactly what happened after Jesus' death. Was the account of seeing him ri
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Show HN: An opinionated architecture for Node/TypeScript apps(github.com)
1 points by jbreckmckye 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Get React to give you a DOM reference and then run the D3 code with it during a post render callback or effect.
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Graphing and charting are quite different things. Charts are things like bar and pie visualisations. Graphs are networks of connections, like family trees or sequence diagrams. If you want to visualise graphs, I have had good experiences us
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
> having a private company control what information people are allowed to see & hear is also dangerous. YouTube has the right to do this as a private company, but it's also a dangerous precedent. Before YouTube, media was contro
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
True. I've even had the "interesting" experience of writing low-allocation JavaScript (for 3D mostly).
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Also GC is a real no-no for real-time.
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
> so you wrote one micro-service and came to that conclusion? To be fair, that's a lot more empiricism than some teams use.
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
This is a work-in-progress reference architecture for Node.js projects. Its key features are - an IOC, domain first development style - isolation of pure, domain focused code - an easy way to compose together "adapters" providing
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Show HN: Node TypeScript Architecture (WIP)(github.com)
1 points by jbreckmckye 6y ago|1 comments
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
If I were a JS developer who only wanted to write JS, but I needed to do a database query, should I look for a database that lets me write queries in JavaScript (or a language basically interchangeable with JS)? Or should I just learn SQL?
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
> Implying that JavaScript was ever appropriate Can we please stop doing the 4chan-esque snarky >implying ? It's not discussion in good faith. > Minifying is highly overrated to begin with Compression is not magic and minifyin
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
I am aware of legal clinics and pro bono work, but this is very different from legal training. Even here in the UK, taking a GDL and LPC/BCPL is a very expensive proposition. There are no real free resources, if you want even a sniff
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
I'm struggling to add this all up. On the one hand, I have some evidence that my job is hard: I have spent ten years learning to be proficient at it, still know only a narrow slice of it, and find it challenging every day. I have a sol
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Are you saying that engineers, doctors, lawyers etc. have an obligation to teach others for free? And to shoulder any and all costs associated? Are you also suggesting that junior programmers are entitled to the unpaid labour of mentors? An
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
It's interesting though, how that will scare us, but not something equivalent for digital infrastructure. Of course, bad programming will never do the same damage as a building that collapses, a bridge that folds in two, etc. But it ca
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Maybe that's the link? Teaching, writing about and sharing resources on a creative pursuit is itself quite a creative endeavour. Or to put it another way, if you like the process of taxonomy and description that goes into programming,
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Software engineering must be one of the few professions where individuals freely share their energy and expertise with others. This isn't a criticism, neither of the "help others code" movement, nor more insular industries. I
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
I didn't feel I needed to know Go to read the example code. (Plus, didn't "if err != nil" give it away?)
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
I'm 90% sure s/he's asking sarcastically a là Life of Brian.
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
Who decides what is and isn't cruft? You? Is data journalism cruft? Are web applications? Is Google Office cruft? What about the web application my parents have been using to order groceries during the pandemic - that has loads of JS,

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