jkrems

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by jkrems 12y ago
If you think that building software is like building bridges, then yes. If you think that it's the exploration of a problem domain that may not be known to you at the start of the process and is subject to various degrees of iteration
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I recently had write up for a README how to install the JDK and set it up correctly on OSX. You'd be surprised. Thanks to Oracle's policies it isn't even close to where other runtimes/sdks are (e.g. installing ruby, node
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by jkrems 12y ago
Because if other parts of your stack don't depend on Java, you have the overhead of having to install a complete java environment (on dev machines, CI, ...) just for compiling your front-end code. It also makes "language independe
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by jkrems 12y ago
> We expect them to recognize that better type systems are better than worse type systems. Which seems pretty obvious when stated that way. Obvious - because you just said "with better defined as has more static typing, static typin
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by jkrems 12y ago
As defined as: "has at least left a comment on YouTube". I'm not sure I'd count that as "active G+ users".
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by jkrems 13y ago
Quote from the article: "Rendering time dropped from about 4200ms in native AngularJs to 120ms using ReactJs." So just above 4 seconds. And yes, if you have an app where only one in 10000 pages need that sort of performance it mig
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by jkrems 13y ago
If we are talking non-mobile and it takes 4 seconds off the rendering time, then I'm not sure why it's not worth 112KB? Especially since the 4 seconds are recurring costs per page and the 112KB are spread over the whole interactio
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by jkrems 13y ago
Maybe they changed the description in the meantime, it now includes the newline, saying: "Proof I have your key\n"
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by jkrems 13y ago
I think his statement strongly implied that he was speaking about session ids of site he doesn't own. If you own the site, saying that "using the session ids would be illegal" is a stretch, at least without qualifiers. So, pr
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by jkrems 13y ago
I know I didn't upvote your comment because of: > This is why those on the far left often make statements like "there's no such thing as reverse racism/sexism." They're right based on their usage--it's
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by jkrems 13y ago
From all I know about the period, I'm pretty sure no women would pretend that nature treats men and women the same.
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by jkrems 13y ago
The title is silly - but it means that when testing 3D applications (and even more so VR), it might be dangerous to only test it on males since that can lead to equipment that is not suitable for women. So depending on how much work the Ocu
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by jkrems 13y ago
To be honest when I read the title I kind of thought "okay, that'll be some bullshit". But it's actually just a really well written and interesting article with a silly/sensationalist title.
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by jkrems 13y ago
Microsoft does great work in researching static code analysis, I only remember their auto-complete ten years ago for C++ code and it was miles ahead of anything else. It pops up in just the right moment and it just feels like a genuine &quo
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by jkrems 13y ago
What is not clear about five eyes? Then you have China, maybe Russia. That's it. That leaves "rest of the world". Seems like pretty clear lines to me.
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by jkrems 13y ago
You realize that all nations you listed but China are pretty much "one and the same" as the US when it comes to NSA spying? You only underlined how disproportionally powerful that intelligence alliance is.
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by jkrems 13y ago
Ah, thanks. That clarifies things. Neat!
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by jkrems 13y ago
Topic is an incorrect statement made in the article. This statement implied that Eich's actions were promoting outlawing homosexual relationships. There are countries where such laws still exist. Mentioning them and noting that there&#
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by jkrems 13y ago
Maybe that was a misunderstanding: I didn't mean to say that interfaces should exist purely in the head of the programmer. I did say that implicit interfaces/protocols (Go, Objective-C) are better than interfaces that need shared
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by jkrems 13y ago
Can you give an actual example of the difference between composition and delegation? In my definition those two are just two different perspectives on the same thing.
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by jkrems 13y ago
The problem in Python and Ruby is less obvious because you rarely have big, nested closures. In JavaScript those are pretty common (module pattern, mocha test suites, etc.).
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by jkrems 13y ago
"objects-linked-to-other-objects" - why not use the established "composition over inheritance": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance Or does it mean something else?
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by jkrems 13y ago
What would "defining an interface" even mean in a non-type checked language? I'd say: ECMAScript already has better interface support than Java has because it supports implicit interfaces. In Java two classes can only be inte
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by jkrems 13y ago
If you write JavaScript in strict mode the probability of incidentally declaring something as global is pretty much zero. Those mistakes can also be properly linted and warned against - which is not possible for CoffeeScript's implicit
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by jkrems 13y ago
CEOs who think just throwing more developers at a problem will solve it are what natural selection is for.
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by jkrems 13y ago
"millions protested" is not a majority by a long shot. "millions" can be less than 1% of population. Even when 5 million people protested and 10 million silently disagreed, that still leaves 95%. Which is more than enoug
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by jkrems 13y ago
The examples should be the other way around. Very safe and simple to drive but slower and not that powerful: bike an a proper bike lane (Python). Reasonably safe & fast: SUV (Rust). Really fast and you can do crazy things (drive on one
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by jkrems 13y ago
Rule of thumb: Question mark in title -> answer is no.
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by jkrems 13y ago
There's socially awkward and there's openly hitting on a co-worker who is known to date another co-worker. And then not exiting as quickly as humanly possible. That's beyond "a little awkward". Saying this as a guy
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by jkrems 13y ago
If the situation with the one founder who is injecting outside people into power is resolved, I would say everyone in the company wins (assuming the picture painted in the article is accurate).

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