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by loxs 7y ago
In my experience, it's close to impossible (or maybe even totally impossible) to get the basics across. I have been trying with many non-programmers for years and I have followed many people who tried to become programmers. At this poi
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by loxs 7y ago
It would probably be less painful and much better (for other reasons) to migrate to some other language. Some projects did that successfully, or are in the process of doing so. Most notably reposurgeon: https://gitlab.com/es
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by loxs 7y ago
I am luckier, I was able to read it :D
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by loxs 7y ago
I am building a data visualisation software. Colors is all they are asking for and the hardest to implement in a "satisfy all constraints" way.
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by loxs 7y ago
Apple's software is the worst when you need to configure something. Especially on iOS. Most people tend to use the default because usually they can't find, let alone configure the settings.
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by loxs 7y ago
Government with what? Hahaha!
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by loxs 7y ago
Neither 800LoC nor ~5kLoc qualifies as a large codebase. In my experience sh*t starts to get real when you go beyond 30-50kLoC, at least that's when I start losing the needle in the haystack. I've done that with Erlang and it&#x2
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by loxs 7y ago
I used to be the opposite. For a good part of my first 10 years as a programmer, I used to always go for the wildest and coolest solution, architecture, language, etc. Coupled with me being a good salesman (able to sell to management) it co
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by loxs 7y ago
Didn't say "never use", just "never rely". Have a second plan to the extent practical.
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by loxs 7y ago
Property, physical gold and other valuables, appreciating or slowly depreciating physical goods. Financial instruments in various countries (I am not US based) etc. Of course, also on Wall Street
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by loxs 7y ago
Because everything is bound to power and not to morals or law. The latter two are only sometimes and to a varying extent hurdles to the first. This is true in every social and political climate. Socialism doesn't make it better (actual
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by loxs 7y ago
For a senior dev, anywhere in the range between 2 and 5k EUR net monthly (after taxes).
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by loxs 7y ago
The price comparison reads like a joke from my $500 a month, 2 bedroom, nice neighbourhood apartment in Sofia, Bulgaria. Also, probably saving more money than I would in Switzerland. "If you are a Software Developer living in Europe th
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by loxs 7y ago
It's only because the events got out of hand, not because of the action per se. The same person has been doing this for many more cases where it was just fine and this is perfectly clear by the tone of the CTO.
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by loxs 7y ago
Because the person responsible for firing Monica is "just doing their job", which is aligned with the political agenda.
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by loxs 7y ago
Stack Exchange is now a political battleground and long are gone the days when it was a tool for sharing technological knowledge. They are now competing who is more oppressed instead of who knows more. That's what you get when you let
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by loxs 7y ago
Used to do this when I was young, not any more. It's not that I can't I just refuse work with "hackish" languages, tools and projects.
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by loxs 7y ago
One of my goals in life is to never be susceptible to this kind of situation (been there some years ago). So far I manage to have as big a financial buffer as needed to be able to quit instantly in that situation without batting an eye. Ind
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by loxs 7y ago
Yeah, and the author may actually acquire some common sense in 80 years, but probably will not.
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by loxs 7y ago
I disagree. My iPhone 7 usually takes better shots than my Canon 800D unless I actually put my photography knowledge to work. I'm scared. It's just better at calculating exposure, aperture and ISO sensitivity than the DSLR. And do
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by loxs 7y ago
Yeah, I always use strict and specify return type. IMO, still counts.
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by loxs 7y ago
This, and also proper out-of-the-box IDE for refactoring, completion etc. Reason/OCaml do have the proper IDE, just not out-of-the-box.
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by loxs 7y ago
This isn't needed any more. Modern TS enforces switch exhaustiveness out-of-the box (if you provide the proper union type, of course).
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by loxs 7y ago
I know. It was not a comment to your words, but to OPs, just to give more info to people not familiar.
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by loxs 7y ago
"it will take time for ReasonML to match them" Nope, it will never match them if they both keep their current speed. The contrary - the rift will become bigger and bigger.
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by loxs 7y ago
After one year of OCaml/ReasonML and after that one year of TypeScript, I will not go back to Reason. 1. TypeScript has a better (more practical) type system (for the task of writing a WEB UI and interop with JS). 2. TypeScript is actu
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by loxs 7y ago
In my case it's about CSS and WEB UI/UX, so it's a bit hard to do what you say but the problem is still the same.
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by loxs 7y ago
IMO Papers Please falls in that category. It has pretty graphics but almost no gameplay. Definitely nothing close to Jeff's games. It's a hit because it captivates you with art and dystopia, but in my book, definitely has no real
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by loxs 7y ago
As someone who lacks aesthetic sense for what works together on a screen but is interested to improve, could you recommend how to do it with "minimal effort" as you say?
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by loxs 7y ago
Tapenade, you mean even without putting any kind of fish eggs inside? Or do you put something cheap?

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