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by laumars 4y ago
In most of the last two decades of my career, the OS has been abstracted away from developers by their sysadmins. And things have only gotten more extreme with the emergence/resurgence of managed hosts in the form of cloud computing “s
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by laumars 4y ago
> there were also many that could that weren't made by Microsoft - e.g. Borland Delphi, Power BASIC, a bunch of Smalltalk implementations, etc. I know. I’m not saying “only Microsoft languages” could. I’m responding to your absolute
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by laumars 4y ago
> If you are more experienced on this, on the complexity of ecosystems, you will start to figure the direct loss of production they can cause is relatively small and very well compensated by the role their indirect role in the ecosystem
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by laumars 4y ago
I’m British and I still think the original title reads better. “Fuck it” is ambiguous without context. “Fuck off” isn’t.
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by laumars 4y ago
None of what you put contradicts what I said.
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by laumars 4y ago
I’ve read plenty on this. I also live next door to a bee keeper on one side, and a farm on the other. So have first hand experience too.
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by laumars 4y ago
Some wasps are, but unfortunately not the ones that are pests to humans. Plus it’s ironic to talk about wasps being good pollinators when they attack bees and other pollinators.
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by laumars 4y ago
Whisky from the barrel is considerably stronger than the stuff that’s bottled (which is diluted). Add to that the shorter drinking period too (the urgency of drinking it while the river is still flowing). So I can fully believe people liter
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by laumars 4y ago
glibc and the file system update were both horrible updates in Arch. The systemd transition was annoying as I liked Arch’s unit system but it was just an annoyance rather than breaking change. Recently I ran into an issue were I had to reve
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by laumars 4y ago
> You could do that from pretty much any Windows language, Visual Basic wasn't special in that regard You mean “Microsoft” language surely? You couldn’t access DLLs from Perl, PHP, Java, and a bunch other other languages that had
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by laumars 4y ago
There’s also hammerfs. I’ve not used that though. I think the complaints levelled against ZFS is a little unfair though. I agree that there are more elegant ways to implement ZFS but actually what we have already works really damn well. And
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by laumars 4y ago
> ideally VB6 should have been able to use VC6 headers or even C sources directly just by making them part of the project You could access compiled DLLs from C and C++ projects within Visual Basic. Not quite the same thing as headers I k
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by laumars 4y ago
Same reason he doesn’t mention BtrFS and a bunch of other file systems: Because he’s running OpenBSD which doesn’t support ZFS.
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by laumars 4y ago
He’s talking about his field. Clearly gdb isn’t going to cut it for all fields within programming. You wouldn’t use gdb for HTML nor PL/SQL, for example. But these fields have their own debugging tools too. As does working on server fl
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by laumars 4y ago
He’s done plenty of work in FP too. His point wasn’t that good programmers couldn’t work the way you describe but rather “why wouldn’t you want to make programming easier for yourself by using these tools?” It’s a really pragmatic opinion a
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by laumars 4y ago
I’ve recently started using node for a new client and it’s been a horrible experience. I’ve found bugs in PGP implementations. Bugs in SSH implementations. And bugs in certificate handling for TLS too. It really doesn’t feel like the ecosys
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by laumars 4y ago
Putting aside discussions about Gos error handing and opinions about try and catch blocks, this specific problem (wrt the HTTP handler) can emulate the same code you’ve got above using a defer block. var err error defer func() { i
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by laumars 4y ago
There are Go HTTP libraries that behave that way too. This article only refers to the one in standard library.
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by laumars 4y ago
Your first point is fair too. Commands are useless if nobody documents their usage.
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by laumars 4y ago
Reading the Wikipedia entry for that game ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_Noir ) I’m rather tempted to find a copy of that game and give it a play through myself. Thanks for the tip.
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by laumars 4y ago
I think all the points there are true: The latter example is more noisy, you do learn precedence in high school yet the latter example is also more clear because it is the most accurate way of conveying intent.
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by laumars 4y ago
The problem is capturing more data for ad targeting. Security is just a way of tricking users into sharing their phone number. It’s basically the ad industry equivalent of the “think of the children” argument governments make against secure
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by laumars 4y ago
I’m not being emotional. That phrase was chosen because, as I’ve posted already, my opinion of your comments is that the differentiator here is nott technology but rather your preferences in technology. You then go on to argue your preferen
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by laumars 4y ago
I’ve seen plenty of people round my way sporting those phones.
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by laumars 4y ago
I’m not getting emotional. I’m simply tell you that you’re wrong. If you feel there is an emotional component to this discussion then that is something you are injecting yourself.
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by laumars 4y ago
I understand your point perfectly fine. What you’re doing is cherry picking examples to suit a personal bias and ignoring the fact that some of your examples of “unready technology” not only sell well but are hugely loved by those who own i
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by laumars 4y ago
The stuff you’re critiquing does have mainstream appeal though. If it didn’t they wouldn’t sell well. Yet they do. Honestly, the views here smack more of elitism than any deep understanding of what the mainstream like.
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by laumars 4y ago
Rise tinted glasses much? Apple have had more than their fair share of bad tech. Such as fanless computers overheating, keyboards that break, monitor hinges that tear the monitor cable, and the first iPhone had fewer features than many of t
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by laumars 4y ago
I don’t work with binary files much these days but I still use hex editors a lot just to debug any weird rendering glitches in terminal emulators. The ability to see the exact character codes being generated rather than the terminal emulato
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by laumars 4y ago
In case anyone is unaware of the reference, that’s taken from Star Trek Deep Space 9 https://youtu.be/UaPkSU8DNfY

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