joe_fishfish

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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
The author (Katie Arnold) is British. Both names are very normal girl's names in the UK.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
They seem like common enough names, what's the issue?
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
Good luck writing an iOS app in emacs. (Well, good luck writing one in Xcode, for that matter.)
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
Kotlin does this, it's great.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
Given the context here (a World Cup awarded to _Qatar_ of all places) it's arguably more of a good faith assumption that FIFA is indeed corrupt, because the alternative assumption is that its members are mind-blowingly incompetent, to
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
Do you know anyone where that threshold has been reached? Anyone with a family? Given the way inflation is going, I know maybe one person, and they're single with their mortgage paid off.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
Honestly, the null safety and constructor initialisation of properties in Kotlin alone make it worth it.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
It targeted the front-end, which lots of programmers don't give a shit about.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. My question is, does this hyperoptimisation of preferences actually work for anyone other than children? I guess Netflix thinks it does.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
The first one, sure. But the second only applies to American sports.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
So if you make paste match the formatting of the destination not the source, both you and the tweeter are happy. Make a funky shortcut to override this if you want but this should be the default.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
Indeed, that's DuckDuckGo's main monetisation strategy right now, and it's working very well for them.
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by joe_fishfish 5y ago
Still miss my old Palm Pre 2 for exactly this reason.
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
I am a native mobile developer, and I am presuming GP is most definitely not, because I completely agree with you.
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
I'm surprised how far down I had to scroll before I found a comment like this. I was approached by a Facebook recruiter twice in the last year, both times I gave a polite "not interested", with a list of reasons why.
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
I've only dabbled in Clojure and REPL-driven development, but is there a way of easily converting a REPL sessions into a suite of tests? Coming from more of test-driven development background, I found that tinkering in the REPL was sim
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
Fourteen years later, I still think about this. I have three half-written drafts of blog posts about things this essay has inspired me to do. I think part of the mystique of it is that the authors kind of faded into the background after pub
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
Yes! This is the biggest thing I hate about Slack. It feels like it's trying to make Slack more like email, and the whole reason I use Slack in the first place is to get away from email.
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
If the developer had asked for a retainer straight off the bat I feel like MS would have just ignored him and started building WinGet earlier. All the AppGet source was right there for them to look at. They wouldn't have had the benefi
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
I like DuckDuckGo, but it's much worse than Google at localisation. It's annoying to have to search, then repeat the search with "UK" on the end to make it realise I'm not interested in buying e.g. building supplies
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by joe_fishfish 6y ago
> If these drivers are unhappy they can choose not be drivers This is oversimplified to a painful degree.
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by joe_fishfish 7y ago
What if it turns out to shorten the illness in 80% of cases but cause liver failure in the other 20%?
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by joe_fishfish 7y ago
Unfortunately the people at the top will do everything they can to stop this.
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by joe_fishfish 7y ago
If they had figured out a way to make Flutter use Kotlin back in 2015 before Android officially adopted it, I think it would have gained much more developer adoption. I don't think Kotlin is performant enough for Flutter though.
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by joe_fishfish 7y ago
Welcome to Android.
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by joe_fishfish 7y ago
Kotlin has sealed classes which are basically the same as Rust's enums. It also has async / await in the form of coroutines and a decent module system. It also doesn't need manual memory management, which while unsuitable for
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by joe_fishfish 8y ago
Kotlin is amazing for this.
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by joe_fishfish 8y ago
IMO you have this backwards. It's much easier to get a mortgage to buy property in sleepy suburbs, so people can and do buy houses there to live in them, then have to commute to work. It's almost impossible for most people working
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by joe_fishfish 8y ago
> In Pijul, for any two patches A and B, either A and B commute, (in other words, A and B can be applied in any order), or A depends on B, or B depends on A. This isn't exhaustive. What about the case where both patches A and B are
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by joe_fishfish 8y ago
I love Soulseek. I love that it's basically identical to Napster and still works great.

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