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by nnq 7y ago
...great, Kotlin for Android, Dart for Flutter, on the ML side they're starting to adopt Swift, for networking infra code Go. What the heck is with this "tower of babel"?! Are other people not bothered by the overlapping fe
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by nnq 7y ago
Ofc, wrt software, in the sense that new hardware still runs old software. But not in the sense that one can just upgrade/replace a cpu, or just add some ram etc.
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by nnq 7y ago
...even by forcing them to play, it's still a win because there is some cost in playing the game.
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by nnq 7y ago
Yeah, I guess the `backwards-compatibility (historically very important at MS)` thing is the root cause for most of the things I violently dislike about the MS platform... But I get the biz reasoning behind it... dropping backwards-compat
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by nnq 7y ago
...another point in the favor of legally forcing governments and public institutions to use open-source software and open data formats. This should be as plain and simple as stating that "if there exists a fully functional open-sour
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by nnq 7y ago
> a major internal architecture change. It simply wasn’t possible to write a proper console before. Really curious why this would be so. On Linux there's dozen's of terminals/consoles. On MacOS quite a few too. Why would
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by nnq 7y ago
...higher salaries in one place tend to pull up salaries elsewhere too. And conversely, if you push down the top, you also push down the middle (under the optimistic assumption that the bottom can't go any further down...). Also, it&#x
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40 Years of C++ with Bjarne Stroustrup [video](youtube.com)
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by nnq 7y ago
That's really cool. But if only care about English + French + Spanish and similar languages just using US-Standard layout on a Mac gives you similar benefits, and instead of the norther-European languages you get more common math symbo
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by nnq 7y ago
Any keyboard used by a programmer should have direct one-key access to `[` and to all the 0-9 numbers... For every shortcut you can imagine you can find at least one keyboard layout out there where it's inconvenient. Just get over
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by nnq 7y ago
Ctr+[ Vim-ing on devices with not physical Esc key makes you get used to this (default configured, no extra keymapping required) Esc alternative :P
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by nnq 7y ago
> giving your biometric info away ...you do realize that "biometric info" is the most easily accessible / stealable type of information. Anyone can grab your biometric infos easily if you become a person of interest, so
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by nnq 7y ago
That was funny :) If I were American it would have been less funny though. There was another more famous leader that thought of himself as talented at multiple things: like painting... and architecture/construction. And, in a quirk of
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by nnq 8y ago
...the Overton window is sliding to a place where we'll soon see the POTUS tweet about his dreams of Cthulhu and it will not even seem weird anymore :P
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by nnq 8y ago
...none of that makes any sense! There's a lot of open source tech out there with 90% centralized design and decision making. Most open-source databases. Haskell and OCaml programming languages also have small groups of core devs... I
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by nnq 8y ago
220% also works fine if each one of the projects is "practically unique" to you / the team... this happens >50% of the time in the real world, imo, because some fields have very little transferable skills/experience f
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by nnq 8y ago
...what Microsoft really owns is Github! Each editor appeals to a different class of users. As long as they make sure they both integrate better with Github than with competition (GitLab, Butbucket etc.), then they bring and keep users t
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by nnq 8y ago
...or the other way around: get a self-sufficient backup-colony up somewhere else before we totally loose our shit on this one!
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by nnq 8y ago
THIS 100%! ...I'm an extremely undisciplined never-finish-even-starting-almost-antyhing ADHD-I crazed squirrel-brain that never has enough out of learning "just a tiny bit" of some new programming language, new tech, or even
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by nnq 8y ago
In retrospect I'd delete it if I could. I was imagining it inside a Dilbert cartoon in my head and it seemed funnier than it was. Again, I'm sorry for it, mental health issues are not a joke, I should know that. And I should also
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by nnq 8y ago
..that's like saying: "We're proud to have the best the anti-suicide-by-jumping building meshes system and workplace psychiatric counseling in the world! The world record rate of suicide amongst our employees prompted us to
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by nnq 8y ago
> a strong argument against [...] things that require you to run a build on your front-end code Not really, if it's your own code that requires a build step, then you control that build step and the tools and all and you can have
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by nnq 8y ago
...10x more frustrating when you see that there are >1 y old bug reports about this but it's always delegated as lower priority than smth else and after (I think, not sure anymore...) someone fixed some underlying functionality that
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by nnq 8y ago
Maybe people should realize that the problem is with the JS libraries ecosystem and how most are build in a way that "just jumping into a lib/framework to read its code and see what it does" can't seam to be feasible
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by nnq 8y ago
Maybe forcing separation of content providing companies and advertising companies should be the modern equivalent of separating State from Church. An advertising company would always want to get more and more infos about the users tha
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by nnq 8y ago
...ever tried actually using it on Windows? Like a year ago it got to ok-ish usable. A bit before that even on most Linuxes it had crappy performance. Again, I like Atom's hackability, and mainly avoid it because the ecosystem of plu
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by nnq 8y ago
> the Red Queen effect ("running just to stand still") It would be good if it were actually and deliberately properly designed this way to create an arms race of "who can get more general-purpose computing power for less
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by nnq 8y ago
Last service that I remember asking me for the signup email password was ...wait for it ... MySpace! It was years ago, but it sounds a bit like a swan song pattern to my ears despite the lack of any rational connection... ...they should
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by nnq 8y ago
It has no depth, but it's crisp / tactile in a way. You can feel when it actually actuates, and you can rest you fingers on the keys without actually pressing them by accident too. Much nicer compare to things like HPs with more
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by nnq 8y ago
Well, ignoring Apple s ecosystem uniqueness, being an Obj C successor is kinda the same as a C++ successor

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