jkoudys

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by jkoudys 7y ago
If they detained people for never showing up for class, 2/3rds of my 1st year engineering class would've been arrested.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
If you're looking to go lower (systems) level, or even if you're not, rust is worth checking out then too. It's the best experience I've had letting you require only the interface that does what you need, and it's a
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by jkoudys 7y ago
If anything the article really undersells it by calling the meetings "useless". I'm a programmer, but most of my experience over the past 12 years has been client-facing, and these things often go beyond simply wasting time t
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by jkoudys 7y ago
True, but there's no award for how obvious the average bug is. I've also found we often reach huge problems after being distracted by a bunch of minor sloppiness. Submit a PR that has a serious flaw in it, but is otherwise top-q
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I agree that the main scenarios people are excited for are probably the exact opposite of the ones we should be looking to solve with this. Indeed my last comment right before posting this was about how callbacks are better than we remember
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Yep. Doesn't even feel so different from using error first callbacks. I had to go back to using them for something recently, and feel like most of my problems back then stemmed from excessive deep nesting, and overreliance on the clo
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by jkoudys 7y ago
This right here is exactly why Errors should be enums, instead of this wacky exception handling system. Try/catch is why I frequently prefer plain old .then and .catch instead
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Iffys are a nice go-to in ts in general, because type inference is so handy and I'd rather not have a big pile of typed `let`s at the top that I have to assign into later. Even something as simple as a switch plays nicer if you iffy it
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Going between rust and ts, it's the judicious use of enums that js really feels like it's missing. The whole hoopla with undefined/null/NaN/etc could be avoided with a simple enum type. Not to mention the entire con
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Well, he _was_, but they're both bad.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I don't think a year has ever passed since this was released without me doing a playthrough at least once. This article really shows why - it's about the story, so it's not so different than having a favourite movie you watch
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by jkoudys 7y ago
The plus side is that I can kill time on my phone while I wait for late people to arrive.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
There are also hundreds of law enforcement agencies worldwide who rely on the myth of the "lie detector" in their interrogations.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Oh no, little kids absolutely love familiar, boring, repetitive things. They also like routine a lot and can get upset when given too much choice. Look at how often toddlers want to re-watch the same cartoon over and over.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
The act itself is tedious, if that's all you focus on. Spending time together, enjoying the small little games we play, and the touches on the arm and dumb jokes that happen while we're doing something tedious, are some of the bes
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I read this as I watched my 2 year old daughter joyfully scrub the shower with a nylon brush. She's demanded the brush ever since she watched me use it months ago. I think finding lovely things tedious is something most of us learn, th
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I do wonder if, for this reason, we're going to see a big uptick into recompilers soon instead of emulators. Creating a modern VM to replace an old VM is great because you can actually improve performance (compile using modern cpu exte
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Great write-up! Pondering this question is the thing that brought my into software development in the first place. It was fascinating back then how my big, expensive, PC/XT would struggle to make anything run half as smoothly as a Game
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by jkoudys 7y ago
As a Canadian, it's definitely hte "remember which show is where" part that has me really disliking where streaming has gone in the past year. Time was I'd open Netflix and my shows were there. Now I have Netflix, Prime,
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Interesting how it's easier to have talented people eat microwave ramen for a year while you're energized building something new. Once the salaries go up, then drop, you start to spiral down the drain.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
It's amazing how much overlap there is between jobs where they treat you poorly, and where they don't pay you enough. You'd think it would be the opposite, but it's all part of them not valuing you.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I'm as aggressively anti-Brexit as any Canadian could reasonably be, but I do find your point about the NHS bus to be very interesting. It's fascinating to take a look at what one political group's view of their opponent&#x27
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by jkoudys 7y ago
If we go back to the original data visualization, is that really what happened though? Especially on HN, I think we can all concede that decisions are only as good as the data they're based on. Can you honestly claim that the leave sid
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I'll never stop being amazed by how available, accessible, and important these data are, yet so rarely accessed. People will argue with their relatives over the holidays until they're blue in the face, but can't take 10 minut
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by jkoudys 7y ago
It's not something I'd expect most non-Indians to notice immediately, but the whole "politicians promise toilets" thing has been a common scam in India for decades. It's a very easy thing to promise, and frequently
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I love Rust as much as the next guy, but not everything that was a good fit for C is necessarily a natural transition to Rust.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
It's a very cool, back to basics approach. To me it sounds like building a solar freezer makes its own ice (not literally), so it's an ice box when there's no power. When it comes to "when all you have is a hammer"
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I'm sure they're capable of multiplying by 10.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
Plus DC motors are just fundamentally different from ac. AC is generally simpler and less maintenance, so it's not purely a question of scale.
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by jkoudys 7y ago
I say this as someone who loathes .net: learning .net is a really good idea. If you're looking purely at making a decision based on the labour market, I doubt you'll find a bigger demand relative to supply, and among typically wel

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