matt2000

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by matt2000 8y ago
This is a great question and I'm having real difficulty putting together a good list that's generally applicable, but not so general that's it's useless in practice. I'll give it a try (from the perspective of defin
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by matt2000 8y ago
I'm about 20 years into my programming career, and have been programming around 30 years total. I am very fast at lots of tasks now, but it has happened in a way that would be totally surprising to my younger self: I don't waste t
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Current Tesla autopilot is sometimes blind to stopped cars(reddit.com)
49 points by matt2000 8y ago|52 comments
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by matt2000 8y ago
This is an honest question: The vast majority of malware targets Windows, so how is it acceptable security practice to run Windows as your company's main operating system? There is a second question as to whether Windows is still inher
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by matt2000 8y ago
When I started programming professionally it was the era of "Object Oriented Design" will save us all. I worked on an e-commerce site that had a class hierarchy 18 levels deep just to render a product on a page. No one knew what a
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by matt2000 8y ago
Don't feel stupid, I like Java too! Java is a memory safe language with a great standard library and amazing language stability that runs on all platforms and beats almost all other languages on performance. Seems pretty good to me! HN
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by matt2000 8y ago
This sounds exactly like me, except I didn't make it to the Falcon. I always wonder if I should have gone C64 > Amiga, there just always seemed to be more stuff available for them. I did love the ST though.
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by matt2000 8y ago
Oh! Well there's my answer then, looking forward to reading that.
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by matt2000 8y ago
I really enjoy reading these war stories, even though this sounds like a super difficult time for the author. On a technical note though, aren't these kinds of breaches a powerful reason to use memory safe languages? I know performance
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by matt2000 8y ago
Does anyone know where this system stands performance wise vs classical computers? Are there types of problems where this is known to be faster now? Or are we still waiting for more qubits for that to happen? Thanks!
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by matt2000 8y ago
Another interesting alternative is multisignature wallets, like the new Gnosis Safe: https://safe.gnosis.io/ An on-chain contract holds your funds and requires some number of signatures to authorize transactions (for person
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How two programmers from Brooklyn accidentally paved the way for blockchain art(breakermag.com)
2 points by matt2000 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt2000 8y ago
Sure, but these were languages that arrived with at least one huge improvement over the languages that existed at the time. Dart's async/await coupled with Flutter's proper support of it in their SDK is that huge improvement
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by matt2000 8y ago
This is a great writeup, wish I had it when I started with Flutter. BTW, I've written a couple Flutter apps now and this set of tools (Futures, async/await, Isolates) covers my multithreading use cases in a really nice and safe wa
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View your contribution graph from the terminal(github.com)
1 points by matt2000 8y ago|0 comments
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Inside the Raspberry Pi: The story of the $35 computer that changed the world(techrepublic.com)
31 points by matt2000 8y ago|4 comments
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Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%(igb.illinois.edu)
5 points by matt2000 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt2000 8y ago
Thanks for the heads up, I didn't realize the game had been removed from sale. Working on getting it restored now :/
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by matt2000 8y ago
This process sounds a lot better than what we did a couple years ago when we were working on that game. Our process involved Voxel Shop https://blackflux.com/node/11 and a few steps. I can dig up the notes if it's
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by matt2000 8y ago
I highly recommend people check this out if you're interested in voxel graphics, or a simple way to make 3D graphics if you're artistically challenged like me. We used it to make a whole game and it was great: https://w
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by matt2000 8y ago
I strongly object to the language that's commonly used around fusion research. Much of it unfairly frames the discussion around what would be a world-changing technology if realized. For example, in this article: "the controversia
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by matt2000 8y ago
Is anyone able to lay out some of the reasons why you might want to write web applications in rust? I was under the impression rust was designed as a safer language for low level systems programming. Thanks!
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by matt2000 8y ago
I think this is one of the things they announced today, search for "Platform Views": https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/12/flutter-10-googles...
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by matt2000 8y ago
Anyone here who is running TiDB in production that can speak to upsides and downsides? I find I only trust a database after a couple years of real usage, so it would be great to hear from someone who is currently using it. Thanks!
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by matt2000 8y ago
Flutter doesn't use javascript.
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by matt2000 8y ago
I don't quite get this. I'm a long time Heroku user and this seems to be much more limited and not much better in any dimension, why is this so popular? This is an honest question, I just don't quite get why there's so m
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Flutter RC 2 now supports background execution(medium.com)
2 points by matt2000 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt2000 8y ago
I still find there's a fair amount of value in just having most of the code be executed regularly (on every commit, for example), even if you're not perfectly testing the output.
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by matt2000 8y ago
Yes, that's pretty much where I've gotten to as well. Might as well put in the effort to move that process into unit tests as then you get to run it repeatedly for free from then on.
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by matt2000 8y ago
When making something new where you're not sure of the value yet, I've found that you can get 80% of the benefits of unit tests with around 20% of the tests you'd write to get "full coverage." My main goal is to at

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