johnthuss

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by johnthuss 5y ago
The points about choosing index funds and putting 100% in stocks are good tips for most people (at least those who are financially secure enough to know they won't be force to sell during a downturn). But the particulars about living o
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by johnthuss 5y ago
Having the web site match the site's (dark) theme to the browser's (dark) theme is a feature, not a bug. If you are using a dark theme in your OS or browser, the web site can assume you'd prefer to match that as the default.
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by johnthuss 5y ago
For Java, Apache Cayenne [1] is an ORM library inspired by Apple's Enterprise Objects Framework (which was part of WebObjects, and preceded Core Data). It avoids a lot of the junk you have with Hibernate and JPA. If you are sympathetic
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by johnthuss 5y ago
400 vulnerabilities! Good luck getting any reasonable percentage of users to install these patches. The software update situation on Android is horrible.
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by johnthuss 5y ago
I'm hopeful that we'll get self driving capability in the next few decades, but pre-selling this feature to customers before it was even CLOSE to ready was criminal.
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by johnthuss 5y ago
One of the best things about Records is that they guide you to creating immutable data structures, which Lombok does not. This, along with the reduction of boilerplate, greatly reduces the cognitive load required to understand a lot of code
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by johnthuss 5y ago
If this gains any kind of traction I will be shocked if Google doesn't squash its ability to access YouTube videos. Google can't be ok with this.
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by johnthuss 5y ago
I’m surprised the article didn’t mention Apple’s own swift HTTP server that builds on its NIO library. If I was going to write a Swift server I’d start with that. https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2
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by johnthuss 6y ago
My favorite part was this quote: “It won’t work on Internet Explorer; it only works in Chrome.” As if that is a serious problem.
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by johnthuss 6y ago
"I am Devloper" on twitter is amusing: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper
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by johnthuss 6y ago
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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by johnthuss 6y ago
The native GUI library for the platform you are using. Or a web app if you can accept it.
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by johnthuss 7y ago
Aw, I was hoping the summary was sarcasm and this would have humorous examples of things NOT to do.
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by johnthuss 9y ago
Apple working on an HTTP server library called swift-nio-http2 [1] that they say is "coming soon", so I would wait for that before using swift on the server side. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
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by johnthuss 10y ago
Manual memory management is the weak point of Pascal. It limits functions to never returning newly constructed objects, which really limits the expressiveness of APIs both in the standard library and in custom code. The manual reference cou