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by jonahx 7y ago
My experience agrees with this. Another positive trait of the community (imo) is that -- unlike, say, reddit -- it explicitly opposes, and downvotes into oblivion, silly jokes, puns, and even polite or enthusiastic agreement that fails to
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What were the specific impacts awk had on Self?
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How does it compare to Jdb?
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Prior Art: "The Best Refactoring You've Never Heard Of" http://www.pathsensitive.com/2019/07/the-best-refactoring-yo...
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Just so I understand, the original question has no answer because there is not a 1-1 correspondence between code points and glyphs? If there were, it would be trivial to solve. But instead Unicode has formatting and control code points and
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This is spot on and a terrific analogy. There is human behavior and human beings' mental models of that behavior. Your advice generalizes: As an engineer or scientist, never trust the models. At least not wholesale. They're sim
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> Or maybe I just spent too much time in OllyDbg. Yes. Because if you have to use a debugger to understand a piece of code (your own or someone else's), the author has already failed. Good code can be read and understood without
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Well, fwiw, I had the same reaction. You made me laugh and at the end I thought, that was a damn well-written HN comment.
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These videos are absolutely fantastic. I've recommended them to many people, including non-technical friends.
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> The double quotes are of course technically correct, but when you're writing a shell script in a subdir 8 levels deep in the repo that only operates on 3 files in that subdir, it's overkill and makes everything ugly. Once it
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Does anything similar exist for creating responsive ascii art?
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> In that case wouldn’t it make sense to try to get your friends to use another group chat? This greatly underestimates the power of habit and default choice. I can tell you for sure that if I tried to mount such campaign among my (non-t
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Obligatory: https://youtu.be/WSLMN6g_Od4?t=85
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> The point of `age` is that when you subtract out all these use cases from PGP and leave just the file encryption problem, PGP still sucks, and sucks way out of proportion to how complicated file encryption is. For clarity: Is this an e
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by jonahx 7y ago
> Most people naturally start loving the life they live in, if it is generally positive. The platitude is directed toward those living a life they feel is negative, but who slog through for whatever reason: fear of change, obligation t
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by jonahx 7y ago
CyberArk (Conjur team) | Backend / DevOps / Security | NEWTON, MA | FULL-TIME The CyberArk Conjur team helps people write super reliable software that's hard to hack. We're building tools that make the best security prac
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by jonahx 7y ago
Wonderful term. I've been aware of the phenomenon for a while but not its name. Link for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
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Many edge cases are different. To name one: You realize after finishing your code block that the first two lines of it actually shouldn't have been part of the code block, but should have been normal text above. Go ahead and try to mak
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by jonahx 7y ago
> not to protect our Food What system would you prefer to protect your food?
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I don't recall offhand the answer to this specific question, but many common operations in J are highly optimized under the hood. So even though you are doing "conceptually expensive" things, J will often implement them effi
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> downvotes aren’t disagreement here While this may be the official intention, in practice it is not the case. Afaict, disagreement elicits downvotes the majority of the time.
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are you saying you’re against the functional options approach? can you provide an example of a testing difficulty you’ve had?
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Let's assume this is true... What do you conclude from this (I'm asking honestly)? That Popper is wrong and unlimited tolerance is the answer?
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> because they're arguing about something very basic that pretty much everybody already knows One would think... Unfortunately, many people believe that all intolerance stems from bad treatment of some kind, and that the intolerant
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If you're upfront about it, it's fine. If I'm reading a piece by an author whose 1st language is not English, I'll make adjustments in what I think mistakes say about them. Most readers will. And I'll be focusing
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CyberArk (Conjur team) | Backend / DevOps / Security | NEWTON, MA | FULL-TIME The CyberArk Conjur team helps people write super reliable software that's hard to hack. We're building tools that make the best security prac
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Looking at their homepage it seems far from dead.
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There's a lot of hate in the Go community for languages like Haskell, and a lot of pride in Go for "keeping it simple" and "staying out of your way." Yet if you watch Go conference videos or read Go blogs, you'
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The problem is, even though it reads smoothly, the names are no longer accurate. The smoothness comes from reading "CopyFile" as a verb (semantically), but "CopyFile" is actually a noun (syntactically). Source(&qu
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> Languages and APIs designed like this and get you crippled tools that simply do not allow you to express about half the shit you're gonna need to do. What problems would you see arising (either directly or indirectly) from the spe

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