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by pekk 11y ago
Type safety does not mean static typing.
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by pekk 11y ago
> You can declare structs as static in C and provide public helper functions that internally create data types, apply other static functions to them, and the produce results from them. You can do that, with training and careful effort. B
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by pekk 11y ago
> Maybe that's an indication that his homegrown [...] language was a crappy language, rather than exposing some fundamental truth about [...] languages in general? Can you come around and make this same argument any time someone mak
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by pekk 11y ago
With static types, refactorings can break your code if not supervised by humans. Dynamic typing doesn't mean there are no types, by the way.
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by pekk 11y ago
To represent the case for dynamic languages as "the speed at which you can physically type code" is a straw man.
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by pekk 11y ago
If you aren't in the cool second generation, that just means you are in the even cooler first generation. Actually, that applies to a lot of "first world" people too. We aren't all multigenerational tech dynasties over h
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by pekk 11y ago
Good luck getting paid on gun.io, if the buyer just decides they want the work for free then they can take it and wander off. Gun.io doesn't care because who is bringing them money?
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by pekk 11y ago
> since there are so many low-bar contributors. That's because there are so many low-bar employers. Many of whom are also hanging out places like HN, complaining that there are no good developers while praising anything which drives
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by pekk 11y ago
Okay, so we decide that we are our art, and now we are shooting jazz CDs to Mars. Or other art, sent to other places where there is no audience. What then? Why? The logical conclusion of this thinking seems to be that we really have no busi
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by pekk 11y ago
Not a Trump fan, but I think this is a cheap cash-in. If I want to laugh, I guess I can just go back and read the INTERCAL documentation again, because this isn't funny. If you want to write a funny esoteric language, ask yourself whet
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by pekk 11y ago
As a user of a self-hosted web service, how it's written affects details about the pain of deployment and administration. How it's written also affects whether it has satisfactory performance and how many nasty security problems a
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by pekk 11y ago
Maybe you didn't notice, but this already happened for some projects.
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by pekk 11y ago
How long has the entire universe been using only Solaris and Illumos based systems like SmartOS?
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by pekk 11y ago
What percentage of CS graduates are capable of writing code to any useful extent? 40% seems like an optimistic estimate, from my experience.
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by pekk 11y ago
Despite its problems, it is an approximation to a packaging standard which provides enough isolation to manage dependencies successfully. Does anyone not remember what it was like to fight shared library versioning conflicts? Do you want to
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by pekk 11y ago
It doesn't matter what the TPP actually says, or how that relates to the status quo. All that matters is that you are outraged about it, and you're angry and you're not going to take it for one more second. Whatever it is.
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by pekk 11y ago
If one particular language suffers so much from all its programmers being incompetent, it should raise the question of what about the language makes it so hard. You can't reasonably dispute that C++ is a gigantic language full of optio
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by pekk 11y ago
The first rule of getting hired is never to show any sign of humility or weakness. Pity that once you are actually in the job, it's not very helpful to have a bunch of egomaniacal Dunning-Kruger cases running around.
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by pekk 11y ago
a 3:1 ratio of sales/marketing to developers isn't at all unusual.
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by pekk 11y ago
You aren't the only one. I always wonder what we could do today to synthesize new environments which capture some of that feeling and will actually be interesting to people who aren't just suffering a fit of nostalgia.
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by pekk 11y ago
Seconded. Things have changed not just technologically, but socially. The "hacker" thing is just about dead. A horde of people who do startups to get rich and act like hotshots are consuming its stiffening corpse. It's a comp
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by pekk 11y ago
What does measure that? An interview where someone gauges whether you love Node.js and can spout dogmatic gibberish about MVC?
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by pekk 11y ago
It is okay in the industry to discriminate employees based on whether they just graduated from a top tier school like Stanford. Or whether they have years of experience at a top tier company like Google. Or answer absurdly irrelevant puzzle
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by pekk 11y ago
If it is too hard to train anybody, if you don't have time to train anybody, that's okay. Just don't hire, and make sure you retain your current employees. But if you want to grow, it's not reasonable to expect to walk d
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by pekk 11y ago
Even if you don't have anything against Github relating to the Horvath incident, there are other things like Github shutting down people's projects because they wrote a doc containing the word "retard." In other words, n
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by pekk 11y ago
For example, any web developer on here could implement 'delete an issue' in a few days, with unit tests. It's not rocket science.
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by pekk 11y ago
Truthfully, lot of people just don't know how to use Bitbucket and aren't really aware of Gitlab. It isn't even entirely about Github being better in social terms, it's just that people aren't strongly aware of thei
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by pekk 11y ago
It's my project, why can't I just delete issues like any other bug tracker?
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by pekk 11y ago
GitHub also does not allow deletion of bullshit issues.
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by pekk 11y ago
What do you use to polyfill the browser to support RPM? :)

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