masukomi

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by masukomi 7y ago
> With JavaScript you get method completion and debugging. a) now your QA team needs to know JavaScript b) method completion is crap when you don't know the language. c) "You can setup a DSL in scala.js and you can get the best
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by masukomi 7y ago
> FOD is absolutely unacceptable. One escape is one too many. With your help and focus, we will eliminate FOD from our production system. > We’ve already held a series of stand down meetings in Renton with teammates on the factory flo
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by masukomi 7y ago
because not everyone knows. Most lisps can handle fractional numbers as actual fractional numbers without the BS floating point rounding. 1/3 of 100 For example, is 33.333 repeating. Most languages and databases will round this off at
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by masukomi 7y ago
Another interesting related thing is Decaf https://github.com/timbaloney/decaf It is a webkit fork (not electron) that allows you to run ruby in your browser. Hasn't been updated in a while but it used to work.
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by masukomi 7y ago
Firefox's accessibility tool doesn't even see most of the text when making its calculation.
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by masukomi 7y ago
Somehow i doubt it's testing the grey on black when it is getting that number. Or if it is, it's probably being thrown off in averaging out the high contrast of the orange on black.
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by masukomi 7y ago
Thanks for that.
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by masukomi 7y ago
not sure if this is your problem but i think most shells (like bash) don't add the history in their buffer to the common history until you close the session. thus recent history in one window is different than another. That _may_ be wh
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by masukomi 7y ago
Can someone explain bashub to me? I don't get it at all. Bash history is already searchable (history | grep "foo"). Is the benefit just to be able to easily see what you ran on some other device? the pitch is "Never lose
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by masukomi 7y ago
It's now responding with An error occurred during a connection to eliot-jones.com:5690. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
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by masukomi 7y ago
It should be noted that while you can't delete / edit messages you _can_ delete blobs (binary attachments). They'll come back if you load a post that references them, but that's where the majority of size comes from and
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by masukomi 7y ago
is it "a technology on top of others"? Would you say the same about LLVM? How is it any different? I've never heard anyone say anything like "oh, well LLVM is a technology on top of ..." They're both compile ta
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by masukomi 7y ago
some folks actually create valuable newsletters worth reading. but yeah, it'll be used to spam people about your "latest offerings" and "great new features" and...
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by masukomi 7y ago
It's a hurdle for anyone who isn't a PHP developer. Why would anyone else have reason to know that?
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by masukomi 7y ago
that's because SES HATES being used. IT's very much a "If you absolutely _must_ send and email from here.. fine. we'll let you, but you _really_ ought to use some other service."
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by masukomi 7y ago
It's been commented by others, but I just wanted to chime in that when I was a tech lead I was _very_ happy if I could close one ticket a week. It took me a while to accept just how much I had to delegate because while I _knew_ how to
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by masukomi 7y ago
two things. First though, please google before getting all dismissive. 1) YES smalltalk _has_ been ported to the JVM https://www.redline.st/ AND you can also run it in the GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org/
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by masukomi 7y ago
it's still in beta testing. It works well but there is still more work to be done before it is released.
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by masukomi 7y ago
If you are not connected to me as a friend, and you are not a friend of one of my friends, I literally won't see your content. Scuttlebutt is a distributed peer to peer network so we only gather content from other peers we connect to.
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by masukomi 7y ago
that's not a logo. Those concentric rings are a depiction of network hops. It's a smaller version of a section of an infographic that I can't find at the moment. I agree it's not obvious. In ssb, by default, you get cont
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by masukomi 7y ago
Scuttlebutt is a bit different because the tools of control are in the hands of the users. Sure, there will always be abusive jerks on any platform with an uncensored text field to type in. BUT in scuttlebutt we not only have the power to b
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by masukomi 7y ago
I get the frustration but the only real "solution" to the network effect is to steal the "friend graph" from the other sites and give people an account without them asking for one. It's not realistic. It's not
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by masukomi 7y ago
Books: https://books.pharo.org/ Pharo by Example should be a good starting point. Developing in Smalltalk is unlike EVERYTHING else. As noted by seandenigris standard assumptions about things like "hello world" d
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by masukomi 7y ago
keep in mind that smalltalk is freaking ancient and like most useful but freaking ancient things in unix, most of the stuff "just works" and doesn't need constant poking. Also, Smalltalk offers a much more transparent develop
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by masukomi 7y ago
what bewildered me at the time was that they never did a google search for it before publicizing their chosen name. Or that maybe they did and said "screw it. who cares about smalltalk. we'll steal their name"
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by masukomi 7y ago
i think they were being sarcastic, because slack is JavaScript in a VM (Electron) to run a chat application.
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by masukomi 7y ago
Is this open source?
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by masukomi 7y ago
why "not including tags" i derive _so_ much value from having well tagged items in Pinboard.
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by masukomi 7y ago
Yeah, that's a big deal for me too. I want more info on what "Your Data is Your Data" really means. If I can't walk away with it, it's not really mine.
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by masukomi 7y ago
you use a boomarklet (or plugin) to bookmark things. you use a link / bookmark to retrieve them. That link to your bookmarks can be on your home screen like pocket things. It's not radically different in terms of function. It is

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