lillesvin

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by lillesvin 6y ago
I'm using both Ruby and Go a lot (also Elixir, PHP, Bash and others). I wouldn't even say that they solve different problems for me, it's more a matter of how I need the problem solved. If I need something that runs on othe
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by lillesvin 6y ago
As someone else said in these comments, Ruby offers multiple ways to express things, so you have more options to "write how you think" as opposed to being pushed to "think how the language wants you to write". I'm n
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by lillesvin 6y ago
It's not like Ruby has an insignificant amount of users either...
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Near the start of the corona lockdown, Will Smith published 1½ hours of chill/lofi hip-hop by various different artists on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA56B4JyTgI He even did a Will Smith/Fresh Pr
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by lillesvin 6y ago
> So you used irssi without both channel list and user list? Not the guy you asked, but isn't that the default? I've always done '/names' to see who was there and '/list' to see what channels were
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Absolutely, but you should probably only do it for development. As they write on the linked PHP manual page: > This web server was designed to aid application development. It may also be useful for testing purposes or for application dem
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Before March I never truly questioned if commuting by bus 2-3 hours a day was really worth it. (By car it's only a 30 minute drive to work but I don't drive and I have no desire to, and the bus lines here are really dumb. I just u
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Didn't two of them just pay the third to give them access and helped "market" his services? I don't see why that should land them anything.
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by lillesvin 6y ago
As I said, from my perspective they're useful for different purposes. I've worked on software (internal sales system) that the end-users were interacting directly with. They'd always be running the latest version and thus ver
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by lillesvin 6y ago
That certainly depends on who's using the code. I've worked on both APIs used by other developers and software used directly by end-users. For the latter, dates would have worked much better than version numbers since the end-user
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Honest question: How do you feel e.g. "1.2.1 => 1.6.2" is more useful than for instance incorporating dates, like: "2020.05.04 => 2020.06.20"? From my perspective both schemes provide useful information but for dif
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Reaper isn't Open Source but it runs on Linux and it's really good, IMO. And you can try the full version for free.
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Yeah, for his criteria it seems like a perfect match. He mentions it as the very last one and seems to like it but think it ought to include a file browser... I disagree, though. File browsing is a different beast, and a good file browser w
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by lillesvin 6y ago
The Reddit admins don't meddle in who moderates what. They'll take action on subreddits against the ToS but if someone's a mod on both /r/EvilShitThatsProbablyIllegal and /r/Kittens it's not something
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by lillesvin 6y ago
I'll be damn, you're right! https://repl.it/repls/NegativeLightpinkScreencast That is indeed super weird. > You can point out the most insane behavior and someone always comes by and says "Nothing to
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Yeah, alright, I understand your example now but I would argue that it's more of a problem with actually using filenames as array keys than it is a problem with PHP. Even so, wouldn't you be able to ensure that it's a string
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by lillesvin 6y ago
Yeah, I noticed after I'd missed your reply there the first time around. Sorry. I'm still confused about the array keys though. I'm not sure I understand the example you gave in your other comment. And I'm also curious w
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by lillesvin 6y ago
> Keys are sometimes strings, sometimes ints. And you don't always know which it is! Could you give an example? Because I've never had any issues with it and find it very predictable. > The fact that you can't typehint
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by lillesvin 6y ago
VS Code also uses JSON for configuration, IIRC.
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by lillesvin 6y ago
A lot of the common complaints about PHP are merely echoing the wildly outdated and misinformed "PHP: A fractal of bad design" that has been circulating for the better part of the last decade. Unfortunately people tend to uncritic
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by lillesvin 7y ago
Adam Neely (professional musician and YouTuber mostly about music theory) did a video about this with the guys behind it: https://youtu.be/sfXn_ecH5Rw
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by lillesvin 7y ago
I'm a linguist and my personal observation is that the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (in its stronger form) is mostly thriving among non-linguists; it's usually psychologists (but there's also at least one instance of an economist)
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by lillesvin 7y ago
I'm probably going to sound old and grumpy but I've been using Slack for work for 5 years now, plus I've briefly checked out Mattermost and Riot/Matrix, and I've yet to be convinced that they couldn't just be r
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by lillesvin 7y ago
By that account isn't Rust then a modern dialect of C++ and Go of C?
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by lillesvin 7y ago
I don't think age is that much of a factor because TypeScript also places higher than Rust and is two years younger, not to mention Go and Rust are only a year apart but they're pretty far apart on the chart. More data here: http
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by lillesvin 7y ago
I thought "community driven" also meant that the language itself was primarily developed by the community and not by someone with monetary interests. And in that regard both Ruby and Elixir are very much community driven — and bot
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Aren't Elixir and Ruby primarily community driven too?
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Yeah, God forbid that we actually improve on things and make them more accessible. Hell, we should all start out with punch cards and only be allowed to use a keyboard once we've punched our way through making a functioning driver for
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by lillesvin 7y ago
That's cool, but do you have any arguments for gatekeeping except for "for the sake of gatekeeping"?
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by lillesvin 7y ago
> [...] its definitely not for everyone hence the preference for sheer barriers to entry So, keeping in mind that you said you'd had your issues with exiting nano (despite the instructions being on-screen at all times), is CS for yo

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