peppery-idiot

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by peppery-idiot 2y ago
You can do a lot of the codeblock stuff with JavaScript's Function prototype (bind, apply, call): const someBlock = function () { console.log(this.a + 2 + this.c); } const myFunc = someBlock.bind({a: 1, c: 3}) myFunc(); // =&
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by peppery-idiot 2y ago
Their future success is heavily tied to that set of opinions being correct and drumming up further investment. Even with the best will in the world, this type of quantitative opinion will be hugely positively biased. They are CEOs, half the
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by peppery-idiot 5y ago
From my limited knowledge, Rust's type system is quite close to the ML family-- so perhaps F# would be a general-purpose GC'd language equivalent? I am mainly interested to know how much overhead time is spent appeasing the borrow
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by peppery-idiot 5y ago
For web work, are there benefits to using Rust over a garbage collected language that also benefits from a similar type system?
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
Yes, if you're an application developer that has to build the latest feature to come out of a spin-the-wheel product management meeting. E.g., you're tasked with adding arbitrary custom PDF functionality to your web app. For the m
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
I was under the impression OOP with classes is not cache performant when doing common game engine tasks like mass updating the velocity or position of objects.
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
Our industry has a few standard formats that we rolled our own for. It was a relatively large amount of work.
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
Three month notice periods are relatively common in the UK, don't worry about it -- and don't quit before you have another job lined up. Your proposed course of action is predicated on a hypothesis, that no employer wanting to mak
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
Yeah, it's great
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
Biodiversity is not about enjoying nature. It is key to the stability of how humanity currently lives on Earth. The term to research for why biodiversity is useful in a utilitarian anthropocentric way is "Ecosystem Services". The
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
I don't think anyone who uses Clojure in anger would put it on the same level as JavaScript when it comes to letting through a ton of runtime errors. The integrated tooling around editors, clojure.spec and the REPL is very good at curt
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
I disagree on Clean Code. It puts too much importance on superficial "5 easy steps" points that put too much priority on the wrong things. Reading quality open source code is a better way of getting that understanding IMO.
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by peppery-idiot 6y ago
Pretty much everything in CI is driven by YAML or JSON or YAML string as a value in a JSON property and they uniformly suck. So I think GP is correct.