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by ldh 16y ago
Lack of docs is to be expected, it's early days. That may be a turn-off for some people. On the other hand, it's a great time to get your own preferred features and changes added. As far as I know, nothing is stopping you from using any of
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by ldh 16y ago
>> Also visual studio has a free edition these days. >Unfortunately running Windows takes away many nice things for developers. This. Having essentially one choice in monolithic IDE which doesn't really provide anything novel yo
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by ldh 16y ago
There are plenty of examples of real world, non-trivial situations in which a web app will need to employ caching. For example, to fulfill a user request data needs to be fetched from an expensive web service call, but one which is likely t
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by ldh 16y ago
I agree with your characterization of programming, but I think a lot of people are taking this too seriously. Obviously programming isn't a superhero ability, as superheroes do not exist. It's exciting and awesome to learn to be able to d
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by ldh 16y ago
I guess my reading HN is a bit incongruous with this opinion, but I'm kind of sick of the fetishization of startups in general.
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by ldh 16y ago
I get your point, but syntax ceases to be superficial if it prevents you from expressing what you want to say cleanly. As a daytime Java programmer, discovering the freedom from syntax that Lisps allow you has been revelatory.
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by ldh 16y ago
Kudos to the Rdio team for being responsive and thoughtful rather than defensive.
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by ldh 16y ago
Yes. I've even heard people justify their haphazard, random formatting by parroting the old "the compiler doesn't care about formatting" line they heard from the instructor at the technical college on the first day of their language course.
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by ldh 16y ago
Coding standards are helpful and not uncommon when collaborating within a team. As much as you don't like using 4 spaces, it's much worse to have a codebase littered with some sections using 4 spaces, some sections using tabs, some sections
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by ldh 16y ago
I should be able to drive whatever car I want, free from unwanted control Even if that car is a coal-fired chariot with whirling spikes extending from the axles? I agree with your sentiment entirely, but also recognize that so long as I l
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by ldh 16y ago
Exactly. If you've pigeonholed yourself into only one specific previous-generation language on a single platform, you're already digging yourself a hole as a developer. The author should start exploring other languages regardless of whether
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by ldh 16y ago
It's one thing to take advantage of a large corpus of examples and using those to understand concepts and tailor them to your needs. That's fine. But I think it's important to distinguish that from blindly copying and pasting code throughou
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by ldh 16y ago
Seems fairly unlikely. I'm gonna go with Occam's Razor on this one.
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by ldh 16y ago
I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio Not to be overly pedantic, but your favorite IDE is Visual Studio, and you just happen to use whatever crappy editor component comes bundled with it. If we could have fu
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by ldh 16y ago
I recall working on one project where those customer-specific exceptions became the rule, and the core business logic was pretty well obfuscated by the time I got there. If your project makes one exception, a whole bunch more are likely to
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by ldh 16y ago
That's fair, but I think many of us are used to seeing this come from the Java world so the specific example he gives (in Java) is apt.
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by ldh 16y ago
Agreed - and worse than that, the list of services seemed mostly like a list of hip ways to waste your time than what I'd expect from the title.
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by ldh 16y ago
The fun thing about lightweight, painless branching is that once you start to incorporate that into your workflow, it's never too early in a project to use it. Lately every new feature or fix I start to work on begins its life in a topic br
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by ldh 16y ago
Being the lone developer at an small frontend-y design shop, we haven’t really needed a version control system, FTP suits our needs pretty well. Sure you can play Git by yourself, but its boring and unfulfilling. Git is really better when
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by ldh 16y ago
You can install it using MacPorts.
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by ldh 16y ago
From "inflammatory" to "so far beyond obvious that it ventures back into the patently false".
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by ldh 16y ago
Meetings can most definitely be a huge time-waster, but not always. Sometimes a few minutes of face-to-face will resolve issues faster than an extended email/im/campfire exchange. They're usually about words and abstract concepts, not real
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by ldh 16y ago
There are fine solutions within any single browser. But that's just a non-starter for those who don't want to be restricted to one browser across all environments.
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by ldh 16y ago
Java the language != JVM
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by ldh 16y ago
Ok, agreed. The use of the same word as used to describe groundless religious belief just makes me a bit nervous about the connotation.
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by ldh 16y ago
A lot of physics is built around faith. I would take issue with this, at least when speaking of "faith" as "a belief that is not based on proof". For example, the belief that a god created the world in 7 days is based on faith since there
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by ldh 16y ago
The mystical experience is remarkably consistent. What do you mean by this? To my mind, some definition of "the mystical experience" may be internally consistent, but I highly doubt what you're hinting at makes any testable claims.
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by ldh 16y ago
isn't it reasonable to assume that a project Foo written in C or C++ is faster than an equivalent written in Java simply because the author writing project Foo in C/C++ likely understands performance by choosing C/C++ in the first place?
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by ldh 16y ago
It's awful, but my impression is that although this is an unusually high-profile example, it's not entirely uncommon. As much as it pained me to witness, I think any kind of retroactive change affecting the outcome of the match would be muc
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by ldh 16y ago
At one point I was evaluating open source UML software for creating an overall diagram of our project to aid in understanding all the different moving parts at an overview level, but found most of them lacking. Especially in the area of gen

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