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by lpapez 4y ago
Looking forward to seeing Tyler1's reaction.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this story, I laughed out loud trying to visualize the notion of someone staring at a semingly blank screen doing that in order to read the "secret text". Brilliant.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Ditto regarding Paypal: you need a sandbox API token to get started with it. Their sandbox token generator was broken for MONTHS, I could not believe it. By the time we got the token, we already fixed all bugs on our side the hard way - by
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by lpapez 4y ago
Somebody once said "the H in HN stands for hubris" and I often find it painfully accurate.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Counterexample: the fact that there is only a single official go compiler is great advantage IMO since it enables a lot of cool tooling and great new features are introduced quickly in the official implementation.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Agreed, especially software work. If you want to "do good for the world" there are far easier and more direct ways of doing it...
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by lpapez 4y ago
You are arguing on technicalities. By your logic signals are also exceptions, and so is poking a screwdriver into the RAM port. Makes no sense.
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by lpapez 4y ago
They are not even close. In Python they are a control flow mechanism (ie StopIteration), in Rust they signal a program-terminating error.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Summary of this article is that we can expect from 0 to 5% year-on-year GROWTH in asset prices, compared to 15% we saw last year. Hardly a brutal downturn in my opinion.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Agreed, if anything I think the limitations actually help me get stuff done. No need to think how best to resolve something, just do it the obvious way and move along.
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by lpapez 4y ago
> It's not 20 years ago where I'd read a shampoo bottle out of boredom. I totally forgot about this, but damn I did that regularly as well.
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by lpapez 4y ago
I don't think people downvote you because we "expect society to work out of goodwill and not through enforced regulations decided by the voters", but because your blanket statmenet denying the existince of moral requirements
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by lpapez 4y ago
And I agree, but that is not how I read your comment. If you expanded it with "There are no moral requirements... for companies to provide accessibility features" it would have been entirely different story.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Unless you're trying to be edgy (which is not obvious), this make you sound like a psychopath.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Brutally accurate comment, these are my thought exactly but I couldn't summarize it in words.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Not just the language, entire toolchain and community are like this. Yesterday I upgraded my Go compiler, everything worked straight away, got free performance improvement on my code. I still shudder when I remember upgrading to a new versi
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by lpapez 4y ago
This overlooks the fact that automation is eating jobs requiring human input *much* faster than new human jobs are being created.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Why? You could just match on word boundaries '\bRust\b' You would still get false positives with that but only regarding actual word semantics (i.e. articles mentioning Rust as oxidation process and not as programming language) bu
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by lpapez 4y ago
You can literally make that with a one-liner Userscript in your browser.
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by lpapez 4y ago
I see a lot of tinfoil theories in the comments but no one mentioning "url unfurl" capabilities. You send a link, it's encrypted end-to-end, it arrives to the other side, and the link is unfurled for display. Bam, Facebook kn
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by lpapez 4y ago
Just take the Raspberry you are using for the PiHole, slap on Firefox+uBlock on there and you are good to go.
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by lpapez 4y ago
I got a PHP gig recently (after working as a Go developer for some time), and this rings very true to me. In PHP you often have to make the most of your database, and this tends to result in a far more enjoyable codebase experience.
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by lpapez 4y ago
I do that (not just with Excel) knowing full well how ridiculous it is, but sometimes I just can't be bothered with other tools.
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by lpapez 4y ago
Why of course you open two windows one on top of another and you Alt-Tab between them rapidly to see the differences.
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by lpapez 4y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges. None of the examples you listed (Gmail, Wordpress, Electron, Android) have draconian resource constraints, and developers put a heavy emphasis on shipping new features and ease-of-use. The cost of c
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by lpapez 4y ago
revisiting an old project of mine (DNS server written in typescript + deno) Can it really be called old considering the very modern tech stack?
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by lpapez 4y ago
Sure, it is not for script kiddies, and for the usual new 'web' developers that are now living in easy dev sandboxes. But, now, most applications are really mediocre. Everything uses hundreds of MB or GB of memory just for simple
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by lpapez 4y ago
Now I wake up at 5:00 AM and basically work non-stop in the same spot (sometimes a coffee shop in the morning) until 6:30 PM. I skip breakfast and lunch altogether, because I've found that without walking around the office campus I ga
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by lpapez 4y ago
While Go is definitely fast enough for most scenarios, it is not the best language for low level code like drivers or kernel development. Go was never ever intended for this purpose.
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by lpapez 4y ago
The heated seats are already in the car, this is about paying more to unlock something you already paid for.

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