lectrick

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by lectrick 12y ago
Something like https://www.workingon.co might be more efficient.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Is it time yet for a new OS that emphasizes immutability, security, concurrency and other functional-language paradigms? I feel like even today, we are not seeing the true possible performance of our hardware due to all the "sediment l
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by lectrick 12y ago
Sorry, but what a fucking surprise.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Had the exact same idea. Never finished it. He's on to something here. Take note. This will still force you to run most of the test suite if you make changes to a "god object"
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by lectrick 12y ago
That might be because Rust might not eat its own dogfood in that department, and build some of its own functionality out of its macro system. But I can see just "knowing" at a glance if it's a macro or not. I think the answer
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by lectrick 12y ago
> I strongly dislike macros that can hide in code. I get really frustrated when I open a source file and see (foo ...) and can’t tell whether it’s a function or a macro until I read documentation. Well... that's just, like, your opi
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by lectrick 12y ago
> I could speculate why, but I don't need to. I will. There's a pattern out there and it goes something like this: 1) Most programming classes still teach procedural 2) New, typical real-world programmer looks at procedural and
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by lectrick 12y ago
How will you keep your code simple with all those manual error checks? How will you keep your code simple if your procedural bent causes you to create dependencies/coupling at will? How will you keep your code simple if your variables
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by lectrick 12y ago
> The quicker I can find that logical explanation The quicker your test suite can find that logical explanation... ;)
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by lectrick 12y ago
There's other rare talent coming online all the time.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Isn't your government incredibly conservative at the moment?
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by lectrick 12y ago
The parasite is money, isn't it? The ant is FDB and the bovine is of course Apple
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by lectrick 12y ago
There is bad judgment, and then there is bad judgment that results in lost limbs and death. While it is arguable that this process will likely just add 1 more needless death to the ever-increasing pile and waste whatever potential was in fa
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by lectrick 12y ago
This was already submitted here today and has 157 comments (at last count): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9243169
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by lectrick 12y ago
I'd just run a *nix VM. If your corporate policy even allowed that. :P
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by lectrick 12y ago
I wouldn't say "problems"... just different motivations. We can start an entire conversation about how some people care more about their careers than their paychecks and about how some people don't, and about how still O
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by lectrick 12y ago
I was going to revisit use of that word but going back... yeah, it was seriously at least a little like that. I started to dread going into work. I perhaps wasn't full-on going to retch, but it was definitely inducing. It was also my f
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by lectrick 12y ago
Dude you know YOU will take the heat in that case. NOT your boss. This is why I had to quit. If I can't stand behind my damn work and you not get out of my damn way, I'm leaving. And if you've never clashed with your boss ove
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by lectrick 12y ago
I am a really opinionated/principled developer who cares deeply about my work. I quit my last job because I could tell my boss had perverse incentives that he wouldn't admit to. I knew the codebase needed a refactor desperately an
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by lectrick 12y ago
You're a fool if you honestly believe that you can't be put into a situation that would cause you to at least consider offing someone. Especially someone who was trying to extort/blackmail you. The most drastic realization we
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by lectrick 12y ago
I don't know about other people, but as an early web developer who worked in an all-Microsoft shop, learning about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish literally caused me nausea and I quit
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by lectrick 12y ago
> Instead, they come from groups that cause a lot of harm in order to acquire the money from selling those drugs. Yes, legalizing responsible production would largely fix this problem, but a current purchase still funds a horrible group.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Absolutely. Startup developer :) I am (mostly) self-taught.
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by lectrick 12y ago
I'll put it this way- My first job out of college was one of the few that DID NOT want my GPA, and I ended up doing awesome, I'm fairly successful now.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Doesn't shorting also help stabilize the value of a security?
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by lectrick 12y ago
Is it legal and ethical to deeply research a firm until you find very serious problems, then short their stock, then announce your findings? It feels... OK to me. For some reason this strikes me as a surprising way to make money. Never hear
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by lectrick 12y ago
All hail your new human overlords.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Is there a free or cheap way to run NX/NoMachine on just a couple of my own machines, to have a look? Their "enterprisey" server products have enterprisey prices.
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by lectrick 12y ago
I guess this sort of gets at the crux of the issue: Do you want it to be more like a scripting language (which would basically give you the mathematical equivalent of "integer" including unlimited size) at the cost of speed, or do
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by lectrick 12y ago
Found it! (My view was too wide to show it.) Thanks!

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