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by ludamad 7y ago
I agree, generally. For that, I like Python's "repr" concept. A debug format should, in my opinion, match the definition syntax and be largely be handled by the language.
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by ludamad 7y ago
There's a lot of talk here that is about the Catholic Church, but I appreciate this just as a statement from a highly influential figure that is not off base. There's a ring of truth that merciless optimization applied to human pe
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by ludamad 7y ago
"3% probability we're just seeing a pattern by accident" in fact still sounds a lot better than it is if there is a positive result bias, as you'll miss the "but 99 percent of scientists who attempted this did not s
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by ludamad 7y ago
"small indie company" is a frequent meme by disgruntled gamers
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by ludamad 7y ago
But it's not the first systems language, so it does need to carve a niche in that space
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by ludamad 7y ago
General purpose languages are a tough sell these days. Rust is tailored towards a niche and that's OK
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by ludamad 7y ago
I feel like Herb Sutter has always written favourably about compile time tricks, and it's reflected in his audience
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by ludamad 7y ago
I would love that feature, and the ability to have a function that takes name + value pairs from a struct. However I suppose once you go down that rabbit hole, you may as well have all the features of annotating members and accessing that d
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by ludamad 10y ago
Can anyone chime in on potential negative repercussions of this tax holiday?
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by ludamad 10y ago
Seems like a fair question. Dogs seem very versatile. Dogs are apparently like neonatal wolves, can we breed neonatal humans?
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by ludamad 10y ago
A fairly poetic use of the word 'massacre', not what I was expecting :P I have to wonder about the economics here
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by ludamad 10y ago
What additions that TypeScript has do you find offensive? And that's why I gave my second option, which allows you to use modern JavaScript natively (without the additional features TypeScript has, if so opposed) and cross-compile when
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by ludamad 10y ago
Not true, you can use typescript and have it along with stays-out-of-your-way static typing, or only test in modern browsers and cross compile later.
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by ludamad 10y ago
Is it ever in a company's interest to admit wrong-doing? I feel it should almost be parsed as "company X settled, but was not forced to admit wrong-doing".
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by ludamad 10y ago
I'm inclined to agree that in practice you just can't ignore open source contributions if you want to remain the official version. The moment the community is patching faster than you your changes start to become ported to the &#x
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by ludamad 10y ago
Would having them compressed not work?`
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by ludamad 10y ago
JSON isn't just about human readability, it's about being a 'good enough' standard for data exchange. What binary format would you use that people could parse as reliably as JSON?
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by ludamad 10y ago
I'm not quite seeing who you think would be encouraged here. Bad JSON output is usually created in a rush by someone who didn't test their output. It's unlikely that someone who does test their JSON output would become lazy b
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by ludamad 10y ago
Or this is an innocent question leading up a civil discussion of US law :)
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by ludamad 10y ago
APIs is a weird unit of complexity. Is 1 API more mental overhead than 12 APIs? It's hard to say.
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by ludamad 10y ago
What about forcing everything to be in the same compilation unit? Is this ever worth it?
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by ludamad 10y ago
Can't you just set up a simple filter?
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by ludamad 10y ago
Making a reasonable wage with a game is a lot of stress and luck. What if you approached it differently? A reasonable engineer could take a 50% pay cut and still have a living wage. Why not take a personal year now and then?
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by ludamad 10y ago
Standard syntax sugar is good not because syntax sugar is hard to accomplish, but it's something everyone implicitly agrees to understand. Custom schemes are not as maintainable
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by ludamad 10y ago
I'm not sure if it's documented, but for WSJ you can click the 'web' link, or do the equivalent of what the web link does.
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by ludamad 10y ago
What I read is that he develops kernel patches entirely on a Windows desktop, which is a relevant anecdote.
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by ludamad 10y ago
"Some systems, like Outlook, will uniformly corrupt patches; as a result, companies doing kernel development tend to keep a Linux machine that they can use to send patches in a corner somewhere." Isn't a Linux desktop also co
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by ludamad 10y ago
Why do you think that's a better title?
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by ludamad 10y ago
Can't you just bias for people with personal projects in any language?
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by ludamad 10y ago
This is my main reservation with doing things like mapping number keys to be symbols by default. With great customization comes great configuration burden.

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