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by l0b0 7y ago
If you don't need a calendar, PGP support or [censored list of broken features so that the trolls don't descend], then it's certainly one of the most popular ones. But how would you even quantify "best"? I persona
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by l0b0 7y ago
Reality check: what is your budget for documentation? "As little as possible" says the vast majority. OK then, Markdown it is. For anyone else, sure, spend a few days setting up LaTeX to actually produce PDFs (no, PostScript is no
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by l0b0 7y ago
I can't count the number of times when download + rendering time has been the difference between a useful and a useless response to a "do I still have time?" query. Imagine being in that situation in an emergency.
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by l0b0 7y ago
This is the sort of poisonous waters where basically anything this officer has ever said as part of their job should be instantly discounted. Anyone convicted based solely on the testimony of this officer should be released, their record st
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by l0b0 7y ago
Yep. The fact that XHTML lost to HTML is all the proof I ever needed of this. XHTML wasn't perfect, but it sure as hell was easier to process than HTML. I guess this is the new Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: Embrace, Expand, Monopolize.
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by l0b0 7y ago
A Reuters article is flagged? Can we have some context as to why?
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by l0b0 7y ago
Without a time zone the time of day is meaningless.
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by l0b0 7y ago
This requires an existing buy-in from the team. How do you establish that buy-in in the first place? I know trying to be a good citizen isn't enough, because the worst offenders simply aren't interested in the revision history.
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by l0b0 7y ago
Interesting idea. I expect it would be a hell of a lot more impactful if the demo used some well-known commands like `tar`, `find` or `grep`, though, all of which have absolutely heaps of options and complex command structures.
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Pyup.io Is Defunct
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by l0b0 7y ago
You mean "machines can now give you an answer more confident than any human would dare, with additional uncertainty information you'll be unable to grasp, and with a basis in solid pseudoscience.
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by l0b0 7y ago
As much as I love unit tests (being simpler and running more than 1000 times faster than web tests) there is a place for basically all types of tests in a CRUD application. 100% unit test coverage isn't going to help you if you can&#x2
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by l0b0 7y ago
To be universally applicable it would have to support at least date, time, time zone and time zone database version (since time zone definitions keep changing). You would then have to define how each of these look in a backward- and forwa
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by l0b0 7y ago
This is basically learned helplessness - the idea that you're powerless to change your own situation for the better. I suspect it happens to most of us, but yes, it's holding humanity back in many ways.
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by l0b0 7y ago
PowerShell was on my mind when writing it, because it's the closest thing I've seen to this. But the .NET framework is also full of clunk, and I'm sure we could do even better on UX.
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by l0b0 7y ago
Replace POSIX shell with something reasonable. Anyone trying to bring in a feature or name "because history" is temporarily banned from the working group. Other than that I've no idea how it should be done or what will emerge
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by l0b0 7y ago
Cross-platform, low latency, FOSS graphics and audio stacks. Basically something combining the best desktop frameworks of the last 30 years, rather than the last six months. Let's have some actual UX rather than 10 different ways of to
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by l0b0 7y ago
Next frame responses for any action which could reasonably be computed within a frame. Basically caching at every level of the system and aggressively precomputing and preloading anything the user could reasonably do from the current state.
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by l0b0 7y ago
I thought this was just going to be another humblebrag like all that cringeworthy impostor syndrome stuff last year, but this has some good advice. If it did something useful, then certainly someone else can learn from it and you can be pro
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by l0b0 7y ago
> Being aligned with teammates on what you're building is more important than building the right thing. It's important to define the terms here. Does "important" mean important to you or the company? I could underst
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by l0b0 7y ago
And Thunderbird's configuration system. I tried getting back to Mutt a couple years ago, but gave up configuring it after a few hours. I believe the biggest pain points were multi-server configuration and enabling as much caching as po
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by l0b0 7y ago
Handy patterns, which could probably fairly easily be implemented as a high-level linter.
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by l0b0 7y ago
This just sounds like a classic case of perfect being the enemy of good. A bunch of "purists" unironically lamenting the fact the device isn't 100.00% FOSS while typing on much more closed platforms. Or maybe just planted mis
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by l0b0 7y ago
*The Devil's Dictionary[1] by Ambrose Bierce, a collection of sarcastic definitions, some of which are still funny today: > LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of th
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by l0b0 7y ago
Is it time for paid search engines? Make users vote with their wallets and pay for the eternal arms race. Problem is, whoever is behind something like that would have to start with an already sufficiently superior experience (or massive g
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by l0b0 7y ago
SEO is the new spam. We solved spam pretty well, but it was a very different solution space to what is available for the web: - Spammers had basically two ways to verify their efficacy – they could either sign up to every provider under the
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by l0b0 7y ago
No, trains in the UK are not "OK", they are crap compared to most of Western Europe. Fewer trains and more cancellations than any other country I've ever used trains in, stupid connections and pricing structure, all because o
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by l0b0 7y ago
The amount of work to know anything in meatspace with any certainty is huge. And this is why everyone trusts their favourite anecdotes: the alternative is not getting anything done.
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by l0b0 7y ago
> You may want to check out Nix. Nix is a fantastic concept, and I hope it takes over the world. But the NixOS packages are a mess. I tried it for a few months last year before giving up after several packages and even whole collections
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by l0b0 7y ago
Balancing thinking and doing is one of the Hard Problems™ of software development. I suspect successful methodologies work because they formalize the act of thinking about the code before implementing it. And that when methodologies fail th

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