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by kinjba11 5y ago
Laptops are still a thing. I imagine the age group of TikTok users includes a lot of students. A phone won't cut it for anything like schoolwork. The Surface line of Windows PCs and the multitudes of 2-in-1s are very touch-centric and
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I'm reminded of the 'Information Bubble' section in Wait But Why's 'A Sick Giant's essay. Essentially, once upon a time the big media outlets had an incentive to reach a broad audience. The biggest megaphone ha
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by kinjba11 5y ago
I hope the .NET Foundation can step things up. It's a real shame when useful projects like dnSpy and Accord.NET are archived. https://github.com/dnSpy/dnSpy https://github.com/accord-net/frame
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by kinjba11 5y ago
It feels to me that this blog post is pointing out the obvious. The examples are a bit forced in my opinion. I would expect it to be about badly designed or architected code, but. Iterating works. SQL works. Windshield wipers work. The iter
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by kinjba11 5y ago
For what it's worth, OCaml is a great under-appreciated language forever dented by ugly (in my opinion) syntax and oddities like different operators for floats and ints. There's a good reason the folks behind the Reason ML fork ch
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by kinjba11 5y ago
Nim compiles to C (through C?), so at least leveraging the C/C++ ecosystem is straightforward/first class. It is certainly difficult to justify breaking away from the huge established multiple decade ecosystems and standard librar
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by kinjba11 5y ago
Briefly: solar and wind energy requires sun or wind and tons of space relative to fossil/nuclear. Not every place has those. "A reality check on renewables" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0W1ZZYIV8o
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by kinjba11 5y ago
What do you mean by "not first class"? https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/#man-anony...
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by kinjba11 5y ago
See also for more discussion on LiveView: Phoenix LiveDashboard (April 16, 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892401
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by kinjba11 6y ago
I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, but there billions of lines of JavaScript code that can't "just go away". Being able to use e.g. 'window.crypto' without worrying about whether I'm in Node, D
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by kinjba11 6y ago
> What changed? Very briefly: Satya Nadella running Microsoft since 2014. Microsoft's cloud offering, Azure, is now a core part of the Microsoft's business. There's a lot of competition in the cloud business. Azure runs a
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by kinjba11 6y ago
The word you're looking for is "IntelliSense". https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense
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by kinjba11 6y ago
I recently watched an interesting video* on the phenomena of extreme cold events increased by climate change. To massively simplify, one theory is the jet stream around the Polar vortex is being destabilized by climate change. While the Nor
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by kinjba11 6y ago
Short variable names make code more readable in some scenarios, not less. fooBarBazThings.each(t => t.DoThing()) for (int i = 0; i < len(things); i++) { // i used here } Some local code patterns are seen so often yo
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by kinjba11 6y ago
Why do you need two devices? iPhone hardware is faster than many laptops. In 2020 I should be able to trivially attach a external monitor, keyboard, trackpad, etc. to my phone and compile code on iOS for iOS. The fact that I can't is n
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by kinjba11 6y ago
Beliefs don't exist in a vacuum - hoax memes spread much like COVID itself. Media literacy is scarily low among most people, even those who are brilliant in other ways. Metaphorically we are failing to vaccinate against misinformation
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by kinjba11 6y ago
A lot of this thread feels like Microsoft's terrible naming having not surprising negative consequences. "ASP.NET" can mean so many things to so many people. To me it's usually a synonym to the full-fat MVC with controll
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by kinjba11 6y ago
> constant pain with reading and debugging C++ templates C++ templates are a nightmare agreed. What C++ does is just one way, a poor way, to implement generics. Please do not conflate generics with C++. If you've ever worked with C#
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by kinjba11 6y ago
I have experienced a flaky connection for an iPhone as well - plug it in and Catalina would spin endlessly, and when it did manage to connect, it'd fail soon after. Yet other devices were fine. Sometimes QA can't catch every failu
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by kinjba11 6y ago
Technically you can use Gradle from the command line. Gradle isn't pretty though. `gradle init` for a simple Kotlin hello-world application generates 20+ files and folders, which to me is an incredible amount of bloat. Not exactly Unix
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by kinjba11 6y ago
> I want a language that's as versatile as Kotlin, with the ease of use of Go You can do that today with C# and .NET Core - initialize and build your project straight from the command line with standard tooling bundled with the lang
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by kinjba11 6y ago
It feels like .NET focuses primarily on the library and language side of things. In C# you can write surprisingly low-level optimized code. See the introduction of Span<T> for instance: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us
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It is expensive to wire rural areas up. That is why the [government is paying for it]( https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/att-g... ). Why isn't this a utility again? Comcast and Charter
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Just off the top of my head, there are .NET copies of: - Akka https://github.com/akka/akka - Lucene https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr - Aeron https://github.com/real-logic&#x2F
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This is correct. What happened to Wilson, NC is fairly illuminating. Big ISPs convinced governments to pass laws that make it illegal to make an ISP as a utility. Planet Money - Small America vs Big Internet https://www.npr.org&#
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by kinjba11 6y ago
This reminds me of Evolution of Trust ( https://ncase.me/trust/ ). A little way through the game you can see this play out over time. It's a great demonstration of how the winning strategy changes (or evolves) over
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by kinjba11 6y ago
I think most can agree the OS should sandbox apps appropriately, and allow access via permissions and such. But like most things, it can be taken too far. The fact is you can't buy a console or iPhone of the shelf and easily (or legall
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by kinjba11 6y ago
People and systems are deciding what you see and do not see every day. From moderators on HN to the algorithms on every Facebook and Google product. When you search on Google and get a trillion results, you are letting Google choose for you
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by kinjba11 6y ago
GitLens is great, if you like it use it. When I use VS Code I do, but VS Code is not the only tool I use in my work. You are free to your opinion of course, I am just not a fan of statements like "X is better than Y because Y costs mon
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by kinjba11 6y ago
You can use both Sublime Text and Sublime Merge without paying if you choose to (as I did when I was a broke student). Unlike VS Code, not all software can be open sourced and provided for free while many paid software engineers are employe

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