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by pekk 10y ago
"Program in Scala" is just promotion, not an answer to the question. There are more than a few languages which advertise the possibility of using both OO and functional styles.
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by pekk 10y ago
While your humility is refreshing, why wouldn't people just use CK instead of liblfds?
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by pekk 10y ago
By this logic, anything that increases inflation is theft because anything that reduces savings is theft. This is too broad a notion of theft.
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by pekk 10y ago
If you don't want to figure out Linux, why would you want to figure out Android hacked for desktop which it was not designed to do?
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by pekk 10y ago
Stop growing gigantic monolithic repositories. This is a very stupid way to do things. Evidence: it requires you to rewrite Mercurial. Essentially nobody except Facebook has this problem, and that isn't because Facebook is so far ahead
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by pekk 10y ago
It's strange, though, because Facebook wasn't in the games business like this before, so they did have a choice of what approach they were going to take. There's no real reason they couldn't have come out swinging for op
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by pekk 10y ago
It is grossly deceptive to say that Steam has a monopoly on games distribution when a vast number of the games on Steam are also distributed by other channels. I can't name any "Steam exclusives," which is more than I can say
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by pekk 10y ago
Is there a reason to take a look at Gosu instead of Kotlin?
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by pekk 10y ago
This really doesn't show that the situation in the late 90s was more ridiculous than today. First, this is a very carefully selected story, not a representative sample, so it's anyone's guess how bad a measure it is of the ab
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by pekk 10y ago
This was Ubuntu's idea and it's telling that even Canonical has abandoned it.
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by pekk 10y ago
Microsoft dumped a lot of money into making Windows Phone succeed. Jolla has the opposite problem and has not even tried to enter the US market.
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by pekk 10y ago
The phone itself runs Linux. You can ssh into it if you want. I can't think onf any reason why you would need to use Linux for anything, but if you did then I guess you could run it in a VM.
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by pekk 10y ago
The user interface is my favorite thing about it. I find Android painful to use. This is probably because I hadn't used Android until after I had already used Sailfish. I don't see any advantage in copying N9.
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by pekk 10y ago
That's really, really strange. I don't find any of these problems to be true. Not one of them. I don't know how this could be. I can't agree that this is where phones were 5 years ago.
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by pekk 10y ago
Laminar flow might actually be faster than turbulent flow where everyone perceives they are "getting ahead". Particularly when this "getting ahead" behavior results in accidents that require road closures that back up hi
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by pekk 10y ago
Which is like saying "for humans" meaning that you want to be perceived as possessing some deep insight into what all people want products to be like.
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by pekk 10y ago
Should Gitlab allocate a whole 2 CPU 4GB RAM VM to each user for free?
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by pekk 10y ago
Why did you think Microsoft was coming around? Their legal actions hadn't improved. They just spent more on PR.
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by pekk 10y ago
None of the examples of troublemakers are management or HR. it's not that those people never cause trouble. It's that the trouble they cause is something we are forced to accept.
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by pekk 10y ago
It is part of trying to bargain people down, so it isn't pointless for the recruiter.
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by pekk 10y ago
Aside from arguing about whether there is some kind of feminist misinformation campaign regarding the size of the pay gap, does anyone want to talk about the effect of "what's your current salary" on the pay gap?
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by pekk 10y ago
Imagine you were interviewing a candidate, and you asked him what approach he'd take to a problem. Would you take his word when he said he felt that his approach had been quite effective? Hiring 15 people doesn't mean that your hi
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by pekk 10y ago
Dunning-Kruger is about competence, as in competence at the job you will be doing. Competence in CS does not translate into competence in software engineering. People who are employed to write REST APIs or most other software should not reg
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by pekk 10y ago
So interviewees are supposed to read "how to interview" books to know that they should generate a STAR format answer? What does this have to do with being able to do a job?
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by pekk 10y ago
HR isn't your friend. You can easily get fired by doing things like this.
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by pekk 10y ago
In the status quo nothing is verified or encrypted anyway. When we make the perfect the enemy of the good, we reinforce that status quo. As long as the trust model of PGP depends on everyone to get the same religion, we are stuck waiting fo
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by pekk 10y ago
How should it work? Should it work like "if," define an event handler? The word itself is very natural but assigning it a definite meaning isn't as natural.
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by pekk 10y ago
These are all interacting parts which make up a system. You can't separate the parts out so cleanly when they have so many interactions.
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by pekk 10y ago
To be fair it doesn't make a lot of sense to march into #java for the purpose of bitching about how you don't like java. That's just trolling.
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by pekk 11y ago
YAML's problem is not "significant whitespace" which really isn't a major cause of mistakes.

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