jolt42

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by jolt42 6mo ago
Heh, I knew that Coca-cola didn't still have cocaine, but TIL it doesn't have Cola (nut) either! Its name is completely ridiculous now.
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by jolt42 6mo ago
performance of Go - why not Fortran? type system of Kotlin - why not Scala/Haskell? Repl like Kotlin, why not Clojure?
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by jolt42 6mo ago
I've been meaning to get back into that, but now I'm curious about lots of personal development paths?
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by jolt42 6mo ago
I like this. I like crossword puzzles but don't like I'm just solving pre-made puzzles rather than exploring new territory. Math seems the best candidate but are there other fields with similar challenges?
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by jolt42 6mo ago
* Hot deploy * Extreme thread-safety, better than all JVM languages and on par with the best. * Macros - Other languages you have to reach for other languages to program in other paradigms, for example rules, logic programming, or writing
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by jolt42 6mo ago
Scala and Clojure were smart to ride the JVM early on. Babashka and Jank are Clojure breaking out of the JVM.
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by jolt42 6mo ago
I think by the same reasoning Qwerty keyboard is better than Dvorak. People are just used to Qwerty, although they would type faster on Dvorak, or in the case of s-expressions use structural editing.
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by jolt42 7mo ago
Yes. I agree with the problem statement, but have no idea what the solution is BUT it does involve lots of key bindings.
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by jolt42 7mo ago
Only one from Mexico, definitely need more.
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by jolt42 8mo ago
I'll try things I wouldn't otherwise try to get a better solution. I generate more throw-away code that actually gets thrown away, that's a win.
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by jolt42 8mo ago
I was impressed with how well flutter took function/react style and married it with OO, the rendering seemed to make anything possible and clean. Dart is good, just the threading model seemed awkward. Can't say I dove too deep tho
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by jolt42 8mo ago
Yeah that's a pretty blanket statement, although the day-to-day life aspect helps a lot.
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by jolt42 9mo ago
Finding red blood cells in 70 million year old bones. Still find that incomprehensible. Not sure King George didn't kill a dinosaur.
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by jolt42 9mo ago
Don't get me started on not CamelCasing acronyms, acronyms aren't more important than regular words! :)
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by jolt42 9mo ago
Very good, I wrote Pascal many years ago, but I was thinking more Kotlin/Scala (right?) vs Java.
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by jolt42 9mo ago
There's so many languages out there, I reject Raku out-of-hand simply since IMO the type should follow the variable name.
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by jolt42 9mo ago
AI taking jobs by users avoiding ads. It makes me wonder how widespread this is and what other "not so obvious" job-taking effects it has.
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by jolt42 9mo ago
Renting a car is more of a pain these days. I find I actually have to learn how that car "likes its buttons". I don't remember having to look at a physical gear shifter to know it's in drive/reverse, etc. Now I have
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by jolt42 9mo ago
Long-term maybe we won't care about code because AI will just maintain it itself. Before that day comes, don't you want a coding language that isn't opinionated, but rather able to describe the problem at hand in the most und
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by jolt42 10mo ago
I think it's a shame more real leather isn't used. It just goes to waste, but fake leather is cheaper.
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by jolt42 10mo ago
I find it annoying in Java when uppercase is used because its an acronym. URL or UUID. No man, just Url/Uuid. No need to yell just because its an acronym.
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by jolt42 10mo ago
Man I wish they'd continue The Looney Tunes Show.
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by jolt42 11mo ago
My OO projects were usually in Java with a DB. They all ran afoul of what Martin Fowler calls the Anemic Domain Model. Basically your objects are data-only, so there's no benefit. In addition Spring injection became ubiquitous, and fur
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by jolt42 11mo ago
Yes. Although something in-between works as well.
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by jolt42 11mo ago
"One can even conjecture that LISP owes its survival specifically to the fact that its programs are lists, which everyone, including me, has regarded as a disadvantage" Not the first time someone didn't realize what they had.
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by jolt42 11mo ago
Now you are backtracking (pun intended).
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by jolt42 11mo ago
Java didn't exist when I originally wrote C++ code. When it did come around it was easily 4x improvement for a good amount of development (eg. enterprise software). I think you need like 4x+ to be worth switching, and I don't see
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by jolt42 11mo ago
If Jenny's number was 555-5309 I don't think it would have worked in a song.
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by jolt42 1y ago
Work gave me a 5k monitor to use at home. I set it up dual monitor with my cheap-o monitor. Had to upgrade that as it looked awful. But now maybe better for my eyes?
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by jolt42 1y ago
They wouldn't want even the appearance of it being an Apple product running crap on it. If there was some way to completely distance themselves from it, maybe, but pretty much a non-starter.

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