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by jtdev 7y ago
> Plus, Swift pretty much has direct compatibility with C and Python libraries without needing to wrap anything. Could you please elaborate on this point?
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by jtdev 7y ago
In my experience, the category of comp. sci. grads that these riddle based interviews select are often very smart, but have difficulty in developing novel solutions to real world problems. Not sure why the industry still relies on these met
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by jtdev 7y ago
Yup, as is evidenced by the opioid genocide... I mean epidemic. I do know some exceptional doctors, but WTF happened to cause so many to forget the hippocratic oath?
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by jtdev 7y ago
You’ve obviously never been in the position to do the former as a requirement for paying bills... sure, lifting the boxes (or nailing the shingles, or digging the trench) is easy, it’s getting up and continuing to do it day-in and day-out t
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by jtdev 7y ago
Interesting that this message is being delivered by the VP of Engineering rather than a VP of Security or another more security focused counterpart with a sufficiently senior title. Wonder if SO has an in house security team with management
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by jtdev 7y ago
I can’t believe that people actually pay for these things... Alexa has always seemed like a gimmick to me. I have an Ecobee smart thermostat that has integrated Alexa, which I promptly disabled after installation.
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by jtdev 7y ago
No, it’s actually not like that at all...
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by jtdev 7y ago
This is reflective of my experience with the ORM zealots as well... SQL is already an abstraction, and it happens to be one of the most well thought out, battle tested abstractions we have in the software world... it drives me nuts when jun
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by jtdev 7y ago
Having to spend time dealing with the MS licensing mess, rather than building software, seems wasteful and in my experience can be likened to sitting on a cactus for an extended period of time.
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by jtdev 7y ago
One of the many reasons I stopped buying Windows PCs and started buying Mac...
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by jtdev 8y ago
Same goes for J2EE, Flash, and a bunch of other technologies. Your focus on ASP.NET seems rather biased.
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by jtdev 8y ago
Regarding the payload size argument: If you’re pulling jQuery in from one of the popular CDNs (which you should be), your clients will almost certainly already have it cached locally anyway. Can you elaborate on the runtime overhead issue?
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by jtdev 8y ago
Other than supporting and working with legacy software, I cannot muster any reason to write code in Java at this point... it’s just a terrible language to work with.
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by jtdev 8y ago
It seems that FP zealots have a hard time appreciating that there’s both a value and a cost to FP adherence. I find that FP forces too many contortions in the name of some ethereal value without a consideration of cost.
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by jtdev 8y ago
Or IIS... yikes!
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by jtdev 8y ago
I often encounter this “wealth doesn’t make you happy” sentiment... and I find it to be ridiculous. Of course wealth doesn’t make you happy. Poverty however has a tendancy to wreak havoc on the mental health and well being of those who liv
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by jtdev 8y ago
I can’t imagine that the Google Play Store is a huge revenue generator, relatively speaking of course.
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by jtdev 8y ago
It allows each line to be completely independent of it’s neighbors; you can comment and/or add lines without needing to touch neighboring lines. Also, it makes it visually easy to spot missing commas. Give it a try sometime, it’s actua
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by jtdev 8y ago
Sounds...complicated.
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by jtdev 8y ago
All JDKs are GPL?
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by jtdev 8y ago
The Python speed issue in my experience is almost never a material concern. It’s fast enough using the CPython reference implementation, and there are numerous options (PyPy, Cython) to squeeze out better performance if you really need it.
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by jtdev 8y ago
Wow, so with Java, rather than developing software... I can spend my time reading through piles of legalese, trying to figure out which incantation of vague licensing/use language I’m beholden to.
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by jtdev 8y ago
Love this post from Sandi, it nicely articulates the problems with naive DRY interpretation/application. The comment section on the page exhibits the stubbornness (although well intentioned) of those who perpetuate this anti-pattern.
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by jtdev 8y ago
I agree with this comment wholeheartedly. Too often DRY is blindly applied to every little piece of code... in ways that violate SRP and lead to a tightly coupled mess of code. It seems that DRY is the most easily understood of the SOLID co
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by jtdev 8y ago
“OOP apologists will respond that it's a matter of developer skill, to keep abstractions in check.” In my experience, the proliferation and use of ORMs makes keeping abstractions in check nearly impossible... in fact, I see ORM use as