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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting the JVM was bad (on the contrary, I think it is quite good). I was just putting Java in the "crappy language" camp. The best use of Java is implementing Clojure. Of that (Clojure) I am a fan.
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by nocman 4y ago
> If sensor data were the problem, computers could easily outperform humans since we have sensors that generate much more detailed data than the human senses I believe you vastly underestimate the amount of information the human brain
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by nocman 4y ago
The selling point of Electron is that it is cross platform, but that does come at a cost. The cost is essentially running a separate instance of Chrome for every application you run that is built with it. The runtime overhead for that is
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by nocman 4y ago
again, like the JVM I am not particularly fond of Java (I know I am not alone :-D).
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by nocman 4y ago
>> All good tools need getting to know them > Wrong. Good tools don't require that. So any tool that is complicated enough to use that it requires more than 5 minutes to understand can't be a good tool? That is just fals
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by nocman 4y ago
> Vim and Emacs cannot compare to VSCode when it comes to productivity. For me you are 100% correct. In either vim or emacs I am at least 10 times more productive than I would ever be in VSCode. No comparison. > Not to mention that
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by nocman 4y ago
> Platform conventions matter because uniformity matters. There are tradeoffs to using software that has different shortcuts for similar things you might do in other software. Uniformity is nice, but I don't find it to be so essent
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by nocman 4y ago
> GPT-3 has taken away the need for programming acumen for most creators. I strongly disagree. GPT-3 is impressive technology, but it isn't even in the same universe as a team of sharp experienced developers. It is a valuable tool
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by nocman 4y ago
No. They have not. They deserve 0 stars. I am sure there is some truly 1.2 star company out there with better customer service and company policies.
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by nocman 4y ago
> If there were no advantages gained from C99, it wouldn't exist (people don't release language updates for no reason). That's not what the post said. He didn't say that C99 offered no advantages to anyone. He said
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by nocman 4y ago
I disagree that the tabbed interface makes no sense for apps. I think that's a matter of personal preference.
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by nocman 4y ago
> There is a thing called web-development, emerged in the last couple of decades. As someone who does web development, and has been doing it for longer than the last couple of decades, that statement seems unnecessarily dismissive. >
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by nocman 4y ago
> a few of the things that they say is lacking is simply not true. I would be interested in hearing precisely which things you are referring to (just out of curiosity on my part).
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by nocman 4y ago
> Web browsers are not hypertext documents viewers anymore. I disagree. They still very much fulfill that purpose. > we keep pretending that web apps are documents that need to be shown in tabs. Browsers do both web apps and docume
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by nocman 4y ago
I had just assumed that if someone was sending out 200 applications, it was pretty much the same resume going to all of them (no catering it to the individual interests of the employer) - with perhaps some exceptions to jobs the applicant w
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by nocman 4y ago
Not the OP, but your definition of "falling off trees" and mine are very different if it took 200 applications to land a job. I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying I would never use that expression to describe it
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by nocman 4y ago
I think this is another case where the fact that you can't get a person's tone of voice via text causes people to take things the wrong way. As another person said of themselves, I like the fact that people on HN point to other
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by nocman 4y ago
I don't find reaperducer's comment to be jaded or cynical. It sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
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by nocman 4y ago
Another way to avoid the ads yelling at you while you are trying to pump gas is to tap on the "Weather" or "Traffic" tabs on many gas pump interfaces. I don't know how common it is elsewhere, but the stations I use
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by nocman 4y ago
> This is a strange program of [obscure provenance] ... that somehow, still manages to survive in the 21st century. Perhaps it "survives" because people have been using it for decades for specific tasks for which it still still
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by nocman 4y ago
I disagree. It's a little more complicated (due to SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and that's annoying. However, I have set up multiple mail servers in the past 10 years, and I don't find the complexity to have increased that
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by nocman 4y ago
If you think Knuth's work is "unproductive" you obviously either don't know much about Knuth, or you just don't know what you are talking about. He has had a profound influence on the field of Computer Science - an
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by nocman 4y ago
That's not what arbitrary means. Arbitrary means there was no logical reason behind the choice, they just picked one. You can dislike the reason all you want. You can disagree with their choice, or think there are more important reas
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by nocman 4y ago
I strongly disagree. The decision was not in the least bit arbitrary. Language designers chose zero-based indexing because they believed its advantages outweighed the advantages of one-based indexing. And it still does, in my opinion.
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by nocman 4y ago
Except for elements that change enough between page loads that it can't recognize them as the same content (which happens far too often).
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by nocman 4y ago
> My point is: no one knows what is a great e-commerce website I disagree. I know what is a great e-commerce website -- in the sense the article is talking about. - loads fast - makes items easy to find quickly - has a simple,
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by nocman 4y ago
Wow, Jameco -- I haven't thought about them for a long time. When I was a kid I used to get those paper catalogs full of electronics parts and browse through them, wishing I had both 1) the money to order whatever I wanted from them a
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by nocman 4y ago
> It is not like they are great, they just are not stupid or frustrating or annoying at all. Sad to say, comparing them to most other sites where you try (or attempt to try -- yes, often it is that bad) makes a case for saying, yes i
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by nocman 4y ago
> ... because too many keep writing C in C++ I am sure for many of those people, they do this because they have decided that sufficiently understanding the complexities of C++ provides too little payout (or in some cases none at all) to
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by nocman 4y ago
Yeah, that's nice. Too bad the examples are so few and far between (especially among national chains). I've seen one or two good examples before I'm sure, just none that I can think of that I shop at now.

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