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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I think the big one is that it's written in Java so it runs seamlessly on the JVM. While JNI allows you to wrap native libraries for the JVM, it tends to mix poorly with the common artifact management and deployment pipelines. The main
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The tweaks have a purpose, though. Generally when we talk about taxes we are thinking about funding the core services that everyone (yes, everyone) agrees on. But the system is used to do two other semi-related things. One is to reward one&
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I think this is a good one. Most recent Java/C# systems would have a full IoC container, but have no dynamically selected components (which is how frameworks like Dagger - https://dagger.dev/ - can exist). A lot of runt
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I'm a little torn on this one. On the one hand I see it, because it feels like patterns books made the limitations of C++/Java/C# seem respectable, even desirable. Norvig observed this with his talk on patterns in dynamic lan
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
In addition to some of the other recommendations here, I really enjoyed "Building on Quicksand" by Pat Helland and Dave Campbell. A lot of eventual consistency made more sense to me after I read it.
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What I tend to find is that importance itself is a shifting concept. I've been at the same company for a few years and worked on many projects in different areas. When I start a new project, I tend to forget a lot of the details of the
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I guess I would argue that, for the purposes of ethics, corporations don't exist. They are just people-groups organized (more in a flocking sense than a regiment) around some particular goal. So, to rephrase the question, can an arbitr
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
While I'm sure this is being used as a "gentler" term for being fired (and I'm sure perception will catch up as it did for terms like "opportunity"), I can think of one case where this is different from being f
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
Sounds like a small scale EA. It's sad how commonplace that seems to be in the games industry.
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True, it is more self-describing and that has some real benefits. What I typically found was that I didn't like writing in LaTeX for the same reason I don't like writing in HTML -- the syntax occupies more space and so it gets mor
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
Lightweight text markup (Asciidoc or Pandoc) seem to be getting there.
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I hadn't heard about this and I have the game sitting in my backlog. Do you have a link about what happened?
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
Can you use Proton for games you've purchased on GOG? I've been funneling more (not all) of my purchases to the DRM-free store front lately.
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I've done a mixture of Scheme, Common Lisp and Clojure for fun. I've skimmed the Racket docs, but never took the plunge, in part because the license weirds me out a bit. Scheme always struck me as the better designed language, but
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I think what gets overlooked about Jobs, even among his admirers, is that he did start with an audience. Particularly by the macOS X and iOS days, Jobs was fundamentally driving the product design towards what he wanted with the implicit id
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
From the outside in, there are a lot of aspects of the legal system that look like this - welfare for lawyers. Unfortunately, fixing it requires changing the law and we've made of practice of sending a lot of lawyers to Capitol Hill wh
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I really like this sort of "what is X" because I've often wondered what role TikTok fills. The funny thing is that, insofar as the description is accurate, it sounds like the kind of thing I would intentionally avoid using. A
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I agree that they were obvious and, as you say, the HN conversations show that they occurred to many technologists. That said, I think there is an argument to say that the EFF was better qualified to write the letter. The reason being that
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I suspect Valve's interest is more in pushing PC gaming as a hardware platform. You saw some of that with the Steam Link and Steam Controller. I suspect they want to resurrect the Steam Machine and sell it with Linux OEM. If they start
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I'm no expert on the code, but vacuum comes up a lot when grepping the source. For example, it looks like it always runs vacuum after a remote clone (clone_cmd in https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/file?name=src/
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
I've been fiddling with Fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org ) lately and the fact that it includes Wiki, forum and bug lists in the core source control project is looking better and better with all of this.
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by mmcdermott 6y ago
> The hype has gotten ahead of its current abilities, but I simultaneously think that it will be one of the most impactful inventions we’ve ever created. This statement is one of the things I find most fascinating about the current state
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I've found that with most things (not everything), rejecting artificial urgency is a good heuristic. Sure, there are exceptions when you really do have to act now, but most exploding deals aren't worth taking.
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That's kind of where my headspace is as well. I tend to view subscription services as a way to look for stuff I like and when I've found stuff I like, I want to add it to my own library. Luna may be technically superior, but I wil
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I've described it as the "disappointment of knowledge" in the past. It's like hearing all the microservices hype, sitting down to read it and thinking that it's "just" SOA slimmed down with some of the mor
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by mmcdermott 7y ago
I find lots of little utilities fit the bill. They are oftentimes sufficiently narrow in scope to be of little use to anyone but the author, but that shouldn't necessarily eliminate their use. For example, here is a Gist with a shell s