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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
Someone once asked me how to do a simple task with an iPhone— plug it into a Windows machine and copy pictures from it. It turned out to be impossible without installing iTunes on the PC. If you have an Android phone, Windows recognizes it
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
>The experience was not that my program became more safe in the sense that I could ship it without sweat on my brow. No, it was that it just worked, and I could completely skip the entire debugging process that is core to the development
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
Just because there are wheels doesn't mean you'll never need to install Rust to install Cryptography. Just this week I got a "you need Rust" build error inside of a Docker container due to Pip not being able to find a wh
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
If only branding wasn't involved.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
>The word "accessibility" is incredibly inaccessible to non-native speakers There are at least a dozen languages where the English word "accessibility" translates to the same word spelled slightly differently.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
The real nightmares will revolve around changing requirements. That's where a statistical analyzer is not going to be smart enough to know what's going on, and you're going to have to understand all this autogenerated code yo
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
SMTP doesn't reliably deliver messages, implementations of it do. A webshit could easily create an SMTP server (with the help of a library written by someone with actual programming skills) that silently drops messages when any error o
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
> I think that many of them are as good as any AWS hire. And I think they could be motivated by something besides money to create something as good or better than anything from AWS. If you think people's claims that they aren't
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
> I had the same experience from the other direction later on.. a team of smart, hard-working coders had been dealing with stability/perf issues for years on some product. I was able to root cause and straighten all of them out in a
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
If it's BSD-licensed, the encumbrance doesn't matter much.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
Wait until it's time to maintain all this autogenerated code. It's going to be a nightmare.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
Dijkstra once explained what he meant when he claimed you could "derive" correct programs mathematically: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd11xx/EWD1162.PDF In this paper, he begins with a prog
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
Maybe compared to C++. Lisp outperforms Python.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
In Go the time is spent trying to see the forest and not the trees. There's so much plumbing that you wouldn't have to write AT ALL in a high-level language.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
> if you wanted to pick a programming language based purely on expressive shininess, you'd write in OCaml. Oh no you wouldn't. OCaml has at least one pretty serious problem in common with Go, only it's worse because even t
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
> my brilliant __metaclass__ and nested decorator approach that cuts 10k of imperative bullshit down to 20 lines - or worse they will understand it enough to make a change that causes an unacceptable performance degradation and not enoug
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
The CDC had a special way of being dishonest here: They claimed and continue to claim there is zero knowledge available unless there are a dozen studies from the right institutions confirming it. This led them to be months behind on reali
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
> but fundamentally C is not a sufficiently expressive language for them to architect the code base in a compositional manner. Plan 9 would like to have a word with you.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 5y ago
All they need is to get a few large companies on board, and then to convince Web developers that it's no longer necessary to think at all about front-end performance. The rest of us will be forced to follow suit when a critical mass of
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
> "Can we see a dust storm's effects on the airframe at rest and solar panels before flight maybe?" This one in particular would have been kind of risky, since one thing that happens to airframes left to sit in windy condi
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
Yeah, but why would anyone want to write programs? Oh, wait...
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
Off-by-one errors occur frequently in programming, and static typing does nothing to prevent them, since n and n+1 are always of the same type.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
Does this mean we'll be allowed to wear valved N95 masks on flights?
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
Microsoft QuickBASIC was fully statically typed. Its successor, Visual Basic, had a VARIANT type. Then VBScript was derived from that, and it was fully dynamically typed.
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
Clojure is oriented towards functional programming, hence no loops, but because it's also a thin abstraction over the JVM, it doesn't provide tail-call elimination, so you can't write traditional functional code the way you w
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
In Guile, because it lacks an optimizing native code compiler, they write C extensions just to get their code to perform acceptably. In Common Lisp the only reason you'd use CFFI is if you needed to call some code that was written in C
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
No you don't. You call the pointer itself. It points to the first instruction in the function. It's more like Ruby's method(:foo) and .call().
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
I am aware that there have historically been other languages besides Lisp that allow resumptive exception handling (PL/I is a historical example), but I'm unaware of any modern language besides Lisp that does it. What would C++ be
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
This isn't about GCC, but GCC's behavior seems to be compatible: https://libcxxabi.llvm.org/spec.html
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by oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
How do you save and exit from Ox? I tried :wq!, but it doesn't work!

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