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by jesstaa 15y ago
The desktop still offers far more support to developers than webapps do. Compare using Qt and Gtk to the mess and hacks required to build web user interfaces. The desktop gives access to hardware: web cams, microphones, printers, scanners,
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by jesstaa 15y ago
url shortener are useful for any time you need to send a link in text form. Most sites are terrible at making good urls, and tend to make them huge and complicated. URL shortener help with that. url shorteners are also fairly bad for the we
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by jesstaa 16y ago
The parallelism features of Go are a side-effect of the concurrency features, which are far more about how you structure your code than about how it runs. Go's main feature is what it removes. I got stuck with C for a long time because noth
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by jesstaa 16y ago
Users interact with applications, things a user doesn't directly interact with are systems. Where you draw the line is really dependent on what you're doing.
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by jesstaa 16y ago
The comma, semicolon, period thing is a bit weird in erlang it's a hold over from prolog and makes complete sense in prolog. But the semantic differences of erlang make it a bit more vague.
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by jesstaa 16y ago
UX Epic fail. Stupid javascript urls. Seriously don't break basic web concepts.
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by jesstaa 16y ago
Post-It notes and 'drop everything and fix it now.' If it's not important enough to fix now, then it's alright if we forget it.
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by jesstaa 16y ago
Why not just use symlinks for your bookmarks? pushd and popd are also useful.
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by jesstaa 16y ago
The Go project has a pretty good way of doing this. http://golang.org/doc/contribute.html Posting a changelist for review also posts to the dev mailing list for discussion and approval.
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by jesstaa 16y ago
Governments again failing to understand the technology they are regulating. Catching the foolish criminals only works a few times, they get smarter and hiding your tracks on the internet is fairly easy if you've got a good reason to do it.
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by jesstaa 16y ago
I've had the same frequent jumps between programming languages, most have never really felt right. I always loved C, but C is very handicapped for a lot of things I have to do. Erlang was close, communication processes really felt right. I