jbreckmckye

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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
I was a Haskell developer in my last gig. I entered that job determined to make a success of it, because I was excited about the language and felt I wanted to "prove" that it had value in a "boring" domain like financial
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by jbreckmckye 6y ago
"Rust is still unstable, so it will therefore never be stable" "There were X new features in Rust's sixth year. I will now compare that to the count of new features in C's forty-eighth year" "People who ar
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
A small (but important) correction: generally, journalists do not write headlines; sub-editors do. Most subs have been journalists but most journalists do not become subs.
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
For the impatient reader: this effect is typically achieved with the SVG filter "feDisplacementMap".
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
> There is no way to ensure that there are no regressions under different configurations. No, but static config files won't give you that proof either. Unless I'm misunderstanding your point? At least if I write build scripts i
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
Many such 'real' languages have support for some kind of interpreted mode. For example if you set a path to Stack as a script shebang, you can write interpreted-mode shell scripts in Haskell.
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
Just been put on furlough with likely redundancy at the end of the national lockdown period. Absolutely devastated. My job was hard and the pace relentless but the work was extremely stimulating and my colleagues were absolutely fantastic p
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Modern JavaScript features you may have missed(breck-mckye.com)
2 points by jbreckmckye 7y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
This article is over three years old.
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A case for self-teaching software engineering(breck-mckye.com)
2 points by jbreckmckye 7y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
Surely my logging application would "own" the read-write handle, while my tail application merely "borrowed" a handle for read-only.
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
Great article. As an aside: I found the bit buffer function a little hard to read. I suspect that's because I haven't done a lot of work where I've needed to manipulate bits in a procedural way. Can anyone recommend any resou
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by jbreckmckye 7y ago
Flock Cover | London, United Kingdom | Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer | Full time | Onsite | Permanent Our insurance / risk intelligence startup seeks full-stack developers interested in building systems in a mix of
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Show HN: Highly Questionable, a monadish TS/JS lib for paranoid programmers(github.com)
1 points by jbreckmckye 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
Even if so: the relationship between page conversion and revenue is not direct. You don't know whether the lost leads were high quality, nor whether they were reacquired through other means. Ultimately though the issue is more fundamen
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
Without a breakdown of the stats and methodology, we have no way to know if this result was statistically meaningful, nor whether Trivago ran any null hypothesis tests. We don't even know that there were no confounding factors - just
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
I'm not sure I'd be quite so blunt, but I do agree with your argument in the main: this is so low on the list of priorities that I can't help but wonder if someone at Trivago thinks they've run out of any actual revenue-
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
Exotic file formats, like exotic JavaScript language constructs, tend to perform poorly because they are not optimisation targets. And they are not optimisation targets because - obviously - no-one uses them. To my knowledge there is no par
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Show HN: An MS-DOS inspired web text editor(github.com)
13 points by jbreckmckye 8y ago|1 comments
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
Contrary data point: over the past month three of my friends have closed their Facebook accounts - and they are not technical people. So it's not only a matter of reputation.
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Hystrix is now in maintenance mode(github.com)
3 points by jbreckmckye 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
I went to Cambridge. No way could I have afforded an unpaid internship at a thinktank after I graduated. Possibly I could do it now, but even if I obtained that golden policy job - how would I survive in London? Housing here is more expensi
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
My bigger issue is the slight whiff of... dare I say it? Privilege? Look, don’t get me wrong. Publicising good causes and helping people direct their charity can do no harm. I won’t criticise that. But instructing your readers to do economi
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
I think this website is a beautiful piece of engineering: simple, efficient, clear and humane. It solves a pressing human problem with mature, straightforward technologies. The dithering is obviously not to everyone's tastes, but I lik
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
> First, there is no universal "semantic". The meaning of things is ambiguous, and given a broad enough pool of people and cultural contexts, it becomes nigh impossible to converge on a single consistent model for individual te
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
I was so offended I raised an issue just to throw a strop: https://github.com/fanmingfei/array-reverse-ios12/issues/16
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
I can think of two reasons to protect species: one practical, one moral. The practical one is that humans rely on ecosystems being the way they are, and that unbalancing them disturbs our interests, particularly in agriculture. We also rely
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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
> I feel people arguing for anarchism (and I like anarchism in theory) typically do not seem to appreciate just how violent most of human history has been before highly centralized state and justice systems. Just how violent was it? This
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Parcel.js aims to make web development simple again(breck-mckye.com)
1 points by jbreckmckye 8y ago|0 comments
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Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? A Perspective(breck-mckye.com)
20 points by jbreckmckye 8y ago|5 comments

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