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by norir 2y ago
For me the real lesson is that simple is hard.
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by norir 2y ago
I find it very unlikely that we return to prepandemic work culture. Too many people value more flexible arrangements and so many people will trade compensation for quality of life and many companies will find it a competitive edge that give
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by norir 2y ago
For me, it is a national security risk to allow an unelected, largely unaccountable, private individual to have this much control over crucial areas of national interest.
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by norir 2y ago
I don't fully agree with how neutral is defined. The US has always been a right leaning country for better and worse. I might be able to agree with Allsides on a relative scale but I think all corporate media has a right leaning bias r
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by norir 2y ago
So I'm not the only one with a bad habit of typing funciton.
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by norir 2y ago
In my opinion, ai tools followed blindly are far worse than astrology and numerology. The latter deal in archetypes and almost never give concrete answers like "do exactly $THING". There is widespread understanding that they are n
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by norir 2y ago
I believe there is some truth to what you are saying, but this interpretation is far too extreme. We do not fully understand how any animal works, let alone humans.
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by norir 2y ago
I have a philosophical objection to this approach, while respecting the technical achievement. For me, the ideal distribution of software is always by source. The only reason I wouldn't want this is if compilation is prohibitively expe
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by norir 2y ago
It is really awe inspiring to be in the presence of a great mountain like that. I was once driving up to Bend, Oregon (where I'd never been) at night with a friend and didn't notice Mt. Shasta on the horizon as we approached. At s
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by norir 2y ago
While learning to write compilers, I would memorize small, but critical, programs like converting a char range, like [a-zA-Z_], in string format into a table or reporting an error if the range was invalid. At my peak, I could implement the
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by norir 2y ago
I can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic or not.
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by norir 2y ago
> Databases that are built into the application by default are the future. Our computers are definitely big enough. Interesting point. It's easy to forget that in the past local storage was small and expensive so that it was necessa
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by norir 2y ago
25% is a completely arbitrary number and context dependent. I can guarantee you can find many communities that have majority views that you find abhorrent and would not want to be a part of your community discourse. The problem is that soci
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by norir 2y ago
> I have to wonder if people are just that bad at programming or if they have a financial incentive here. I have similar feelings to you, but I want to be careful about making assumptions. That being said, I see so many people making hyp
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by norir 2y ago
There are many disadvantages to writing a compiler in c (and I have done it). For me, the biggest is simply that it is very verbose for the type of things that you do commonly in a compiler. I have written a self-hosting compiler that trans
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by norir 2y ago
Vim modes allow you to keep your hands on the home row most of the time and make a mouse unnecessary for editing. That keeps my hands, wrists and forearms healthy and for that I am grateful. Of course a great programmer is not defined by th
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by norir 2y ago
The nice thing about a mantra like no modes is that you're right 9/10 times. But I won't go back to non-modal text editing.
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by norir 2y ago
in lua: local fib do local impl impl = function(n, n1, n2) if n == 0 then return n1 end return impl(n - 1, n1 + n2, n1) end fib = function(n) return impl(n - 1, 1, 0) end end for i = 1, 10 do print(fib(i)) en
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by norir 2y ago
> All of these controversies over Supreme Court decisions really come down to people who are advocating for positions and regulations which are unachievable through the normal political, legislative process in the US getting upset that t
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by norir 2y ago
I think many people underestimate how easy it is to get started writing a language. It is a bit like improvising music: it's just one note followed by another note followed by another. Almost any intermediate level programmer can write
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by norir 2y ago
> the "transpiler" term is trying to draw a line where there isn't even a seam in the landscape. I don't think you have proven that it is a seamless landscape. In fact, I think that people's definitions have been
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by norir 2y ago
This is an aspect of the internet archive that I don't use at all. It is disturbing to me that we could lose the actual internet archive, by which I mean the snapshotted history of the public internet over this. These two aspects of th
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by norir 2y ago
If it's turtles all the way down and at every level you use utf-8, it's hard to see how any input with a different encoding (for the same underlying text) will not be detected before any unintended side effects were invoked. At th
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by norir 2y ago
Do you utterly reject essentially every mainstream language? Which languages do you use that do not use a handwritten parser?
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by norir 2y ago
I see the appeal of adding error nodes, but I'm not a huge fan. If you do this rather than either bombing out immediately on the first error or storing a stack of errors, then the syntax errors pollute the generated tree. This will req
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by norir 2y ago
There is a part of me that feels we should just forget that LR ever existed and insist on LL(k) for k <= 2 for all new languages. The supposed expressivity benefits are not worth the complexity cost in my not so humble opinion. For me, t
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by norir 2y ago
How does this not create perverse incentives? I have noticed that Musk has repeatedly made fraudulent claims about Tesla. I can't help but wonder how many of his fantastical claims are precisely in service of boosting the stock price.
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by norir 3y ago
If you want to optimize for hiring the median engineer, this is great advice.
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by norir 3y ago
Yes. I hadn't heard the term tree of life inheritance, but that is the heart of the problem. I think this could be somewhat mitigated by banning access to non-abstract parent methods and all grandparent methods (as well as all relation
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by norir 3y ago
I came here to post that I think this game is an evil ddos attack.

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