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by nobleach 6y ago
This is what I did in college! Ethernet cable under the carpet and along the wall for me. I had DSL piped into a Freesco Router (a floppy disk running Linux 2.0.36). I remember finally upgrading to an ethernet based ADSL modem that had the
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by nobleach 6y ago
I want to say this: https://framework.embarklabs.io/news/2019/11/18/nim-vs-cryst... was published on HN at one point. Regardless, it's a decent rundown.
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by nobleach 6y ago
But then you need to explain to a newcomer that you can have `int ptr;` (pointers to pointers)... It's pretty odd for someone coming from say, Python, Java, or JavaScript. (which, many go through years before realizing that pass by r
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by nobleach 6y ago
Working in the fintech has opened my eyes to how many shortcomings there really are in banking/ACH. What you describe above is both my nightmare, and my reality. Pipe-delimited flat files being SFTPed via cronjobs overnight. Getting th
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by nobleach 6y ago
Oh yeah! Microsoft released PowerToys back in the day that had clever things like this.
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by nobleach 6y ago
> I mean, who uses mysql_real_escape_string when you have PDO and bindings ? You've made my point. A person with tribal knowledge probably would NOT. Any new user coming from reading an older blog post or perhaps a PHP book would ha
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by nobleach 6y ago
Just like I tell people that buy cordless drills at Harbor Freight, "sometimes it IS the tool". Does that mean you can't build fast, meaningful, cool things with it? Of course you can. But, the deeper you get, the more proble
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by nobleach 6y ago
I've owned multiple DX-7s (only first gen... I've always wanted to buy a DX-7IIfd). While I liked the feel of the keys, I couldn't get passed the MIDI implementation not sending the full 0-127 velocity. (Yamaha implemented a
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by nobleach 6y ago
I like that Gary Bernhardt tweets every once in awhile something along the lines of "we have no actual evidence that any software methodology actually leads to better, less buggy software". We have people falling all over themselv
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by nobleach 6y ago
This definitely takes me back to the early AngularJS days where the ONLY thing one could do was read the source. Any questions on forums would result in, "did you read the source???". I personally HATED reading the source for that
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by nobleach 6y ago
I'd say that tsyringe is about the same level of "wiring" that one would see with a Nest.JS module. The major difference being it handles the implicit wiring a bit better. Nest.JS will freak out if you don't explicitly t
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by nobleach 6y ago
I absolutely get, and appreciate that. I'd never tell anyone NOT to use it. I'm simply sharing my own experience as I've been asked several times if I've ever considered Go for new services. I certainly have. I've p
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by nobleach 6y ago
Yeah, I think the charge of "clever" is often thrown out when one uses a different way of thinking. I'm not an FP zealot at all, but I do think learning to think recursively does something to one's programming. (Working
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by nobleach 6y ago
What I like about hooks: They ask us to question some long-standing "best practices". I feel like we should do this every so often as it promotes progress in our thinking. What I dislike: They promote patterns that go against long
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by nobleach 6y ago
While this philosophy has a lot of value, it just isn't for me. I did a few apps in Go, and fought my way to a decent level of proficiency. I got to a point where I could solve some problems without constantly consulting the docs. But
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by nobleach 7y ago
I just ordered a brand new Apple Macbook Air with 16 gigs for my daughter... I can't even get Apple to charge my card and ship the thing. Their estimate is mid-May... but I haven't seen any traction on it at all. It's as if I
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by nobleach 7y ago
I have to admit, this is exactly where my mind went.
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by nobleach 7y ago
Some of us replaced our GDI.EXE, GDI32.DLL, SHELL.DLL, etc and installed TweakUI.exe to get those Windows 98 features a year or so earlier.... Then again, I was a Memphis beta tester (legitimately, not the "I found these rars on a ware
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by nobleach 7y ago
Add Nav to that list.
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by nobleach 7y ago
Back in the day, Cloanto marketed a branded version of WinUAE with the Kickstart ROMs and OS and all that. I remember always wondering if it was worth buying.
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by nobleach 7y ago
Agreed. If we flood the market with programmers, the bar will most likely be raised... or salaries will simply decrease. To be clear, I still agree with teaching STEM as much as possible and bringing on the flood.
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by nobleach 7y ago
Editor story is a bit rough still. I'm using scry (the Crystal Language Server) with coc-nvim. It seems to be a little bit smarter than simple "words in buffer" completion, but not much. Sometimes it just quits and I haven&#x
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by nobleach 7y ago
I live near a bunch of "tough guy rancher" states, and that mentality is just absurd. I want to just scream at these folks sometimes, "the virus doesn't care how tough you are!!! If you infect your wife/parents&#x2F
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by nobleach 7y ago
My first language was Pascal. I'd like to think I learned good habits up front. But I'll fully admit, when I first started writing PHP, I definitely treated it as a "script". My code barely used functions at first. It wa
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by nobleach 7y ago
And this is why I argue when some refer to places like Saturn or Jupiter as "hostile toward life" or "Impossible living conditions". They are certainly hostile to they types of organisms with which we're familiar. B
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by nobleach 7y ago
I'm guessing I just upload a Spotify playlist. This is a worrying trend. The "culture" fit is a maddening moving target. Culture is grown, it evolves. If we keep "selecting" a homogeneous "culture" (if we
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by nobleach 7y ago
You can always `set -g mouse on` in your `tmux.conf`. But that has the nasty downside of stopping you from being able to right-click and copy text to your OS clipboard. It does let you pane select and scroll with a mouse though.
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by nobleach 7y ago
I also like Derek Banas videos ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRXb5dUK4cvsHbx-rGzSgw ) for this same quality. He doesn't do many "deep dives" into the languages, but he does a fantastic job getting yo
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by nobleach 7y ago
I definitely don't think Brendan "blindly" copied it. At the time, Sun was pushing Java hard. Netscape wanted in on that. So they delivered an edict to "make it look like Java". We can all say, "well I would ha
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by nobleach 7y ago
My Macbook Pro's reader has been great. But yeah, I've had readers on my PCs for the past 10 years, and every one of them has been just a notch above terrible.

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