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by mmcdermott 3y ago
That's valid. I think familiarity with Takahashi style presentations ( https://presentationpatterns.com/glossary/#takahashi ) helps. These are admittedly less common in corporate settings, though I have given one or
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
It was intended to be common whether or not it succeeded. Those examples point to a differing design philosophy at Microsoft rather than some inability to write a language on the CLR. The design philosophy was clearly to do Java-ish typing
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
JVM wasn't originally intended to support multiple languages. IIRC, Sun wasn't welcoming to new languages on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). But CLR stands for Common Language Runtime and had three official languages shortly after
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
A large Justfile ( https://just.systems/ ) of random recipes might be a way to make it both executable and searchable (at least on zsh, you can get an autocomplete list of completions from the command line).
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
Henry VIII created the Church of England in 1534 for the purposes of granting himself an annulment. Most histories count Martin Luther's 95 Theses as beginning of the Reformation in 1517 (a crisp date for a less-than-crisp event; Luthe
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
I use my wiki as a commonplace book. Every time I consider opening mine up, I consider the self-censorship likely to come from knowing that all of these half-baked thoughts will be public and decide that I gain more from my wiki by keeping
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
> ... if the reader happens to be familiar with the niche language "jq". Eh. Linux/Unix has always had an affinity for DSLs and mini-languages. If you're willing to work with bash, sed, awk, perl, lex, yacc, bc/d
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
Probably not to write the new code, but almost certainly to reverse-engineer all the requirements that no one remembers.
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The eternal paradox of tools is that they make those who don't need the tool more efficient and tend to inhibit learning in those who do need them. Take a pocket calculator for example. If you already know arithmetic, calculators make
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> Taxpayers ended up holding 30% of this company's stock Is that really surprising though? Getting a government buy-in like this generally happens after private sector investment falls through. If large swathes of the private sector
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
> Indie artists need money and the publishers that decide the winners/losers by controlling all the traditional distribution networks have no incentive to signal boost independents. A publisher may wish to control distribution, but
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
Same basic approach in that it is a Linux VM that actually runs the containers, but it is based on qemu instead of VirtualBox.
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
I think a lot of engineers say they want agile and they mean it in the sense of the ideals in the Agile Manifesto ( https://agilemanifesto.org/ ). There isn't a lot to complain about with those ideals. Working software,
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
On macOS, `cal -m 1` prints out January 2023. The man page reads "-m month Display the specified month." Googling for man pages gives other usages for the `-m` switch (like https://linux.die.net/man/1/cal
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
I found the paper a better resource than the site, oddly enough. I think they were going for simple on the site but the result was just incomplete.
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by mmcdermott 3y ago
I suspect it's more individual contributor vs. leadership, where senior developers are more likely to be in some form of technical leadership role on their teams.
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
There are undoubtedly some who enjoy killing, but where do bragging rights come from without challenge?
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
I'm not a hunter, but I imagine the challenge grabs people. If you've ever been riveted to a screen trying to find and fix a bug, it seems like you have experienced the essential draw of hunting.
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
Never played at all would be strange (it seems uncommon to watch a sport you have never played, let alone make a career of it). It's pretty common in the NFL to see coaches who were never professional players and possibly only played a
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
Just of of curiosity, how did your approach differ from Amazon's MP3 store?
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
> but let's assume that we get AI to a level it can easily translate a grunt from a domain expert to a working + fast code. That sounds equivalent to saying "what if we develop true AGI?" and the short answer is that I don
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
I first found Podman when looking for alternatives when Docker broke on my laptop in the midst of all the Docker Desktop licensing changes. Frankly, I use it because it has been more stable lately, not because of any long run marketing camp
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
I find the syllogism here a little hard to follow, because here is what the first bit looks like to me: 1. Web search is useful, both for work/productivity and recreation. 2. Running servers to index the internet is a scale of compute
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
Probably not, at least in the United States. The new texts would receive a new copyright, but the old ones would still enter the public domain at the same time as they would have before. Imagine I created an annotated critical text of Olive
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
> I guess the intention is to be better than SQL but then I was left with "under which circumstances?". The way I see it, SQL's great strength as a query language is selection and projection whereas Datalog's great st
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
Any sort of mass transit system requires a certain density of locations and passengers to make sense. While there are certainly urban centers in the United States that answer to that description, a good chunk of the country doesn't. Th
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> Why would you use Racket when it barely resembles Scheme anymore? In fairness, they stopped calling themselves a Scheme for a reason. More innovation in the Lisp space is a good thing.
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by mmcdermott 4y ago
I hadn't heard of Gerbil. The last Scheme I really hacked with was Chicken Scheme, but now I want to give Gerbil a run and see how it compares.
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When I reference Java from Clojure, I usually wind up with a thin layer of wrappers around the part of the library I need to make the main codebase feel more properly Lispy. It isn't perfect with the different mental models between the

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