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by pianoben 2y ago
This solution reminds me of an old blog post, where two members of the F# team at Microsoft battled back and forth on making the best solver for some word game. Cloudflare's solution here looks a lot like the second-to-last solution;
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by pianoben 2y ago
Maybe it's just my skill level, but I've used both hand-rolled recursive-descent and ANTLR for the same project (Thrift parser), and hoo boy I would never go back to recursive-descent for that. ANTLR shrank my code by an order
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by pianoben 2y ago
Wow, what a rug-pull! Good luck to Cockroach Labs, but I doubt their product is entrenched-enough to make this strategy sustainable - it's going to _kill_ growth.
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by pianoben 2y ago
For an alternative (but still very valid) interpretation, Wanda Landowska playing BWV 903 on a harpsichord in 1935 totally blew my mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-tsbumcyVc My piano teacher pointed me to this record
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by pianoben 2y ago
I love this guy's channel! It's interesting, unpretentious, and he has such a wealth of chemical and metallurgical knowledge. The reactions and processes he shows are amazing.
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by pianoben 2y ago
Office for iOS wasn't _built_ under Ballmer. Outlook for iOS was _bought_ under Nadella, in the form of the startup Acompli. The rest of the office-for-iOS suite took heavy inspiration from that, and didn't take a decent shape
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by pianoben 2y ago
I used to work right next door to Amdocs, and knew a few people who worked there. It's a legitimate business, or at least it was back in the mid-aughts, and worked on "digital transformation" projects for legacy BigCos. Bumm
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by pianoben 2y ago
Better (30 years too) late than never!
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by pianoben 3y ago
Despite misgivings about the language as a whole, I think that Go does interfaces extremely well, and made the right choice to discard "implementation inheritance". That said, in my time with obj-c I never really encountered the p
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by pianoben 3y ago
I've done some C/C++ with Bazel before. It's nice, except that you end up having to vendor all your dependencies if you want repeatable builds :). Had more success sharing projects and building a community with CMake, horri
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by pianoben 3y ago
Wow! It looks obvious when you point it out, but I'd stared for probably 10 minutes and likely would never have noticed it.
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by pianoben 3y ago
I can't tell what the disabling element is - is it the variable rename from HAVE_LINUX_LANDLOCK_H to HAVE_LINUX_LANDLOCK? That seems the most suspicious to me, an uneducated bystander. Or, does the snippet just never compile?
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by pianoben 3y ago
Works great if you follow Google's style of vendoring all of your dependencies. If you try to rely on third-party package managers like Maven or Ivy or whatever C++ uses, you're in for some serious pain. The more you venture i
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by pianoben 3y ago
A static site should be _free_, on Github Pages at least. If all you're doing is hosting static assets, what more do you need?
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by pianoben 3y ago
100% - OSS IP licensing is exclusively the provenance of public companies, companies about to go public, and companies about to be purchased.
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by pianoben 3y ago
Blazer is amazing software. Simple, robust, useful , and non-technical people can easily get the data they need, by themselves. Blazer Checks are a whole added dimension! The only downside is that, by virtue of its simplicity, it's
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by pianoben 3y ago
Oh my goodness, what a blast from the past! Didn't you have to define forms using XML and XSLT? If I recall right, you had to host it either in SharePoint or InfoPath forms server. Don't get me wrong, it was an amazing tool for
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by pianoben 3y ago
I don't really agree that it's an antipattern for a library to create a goroutine. If you consider that starting a worker is, in a sense, an entry point , you can even claim to otherwise conform to The Rules. Why would I want to
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by pianoben 3y ago
> a waiver stating your need for a window In my area, building codes require two exits for every bedroom. It's not a "nice-to-have", it's a life-saving requirement in case of a fire. With two exits for 4,500 people,
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by pianoben 3y ago
I'd be off of Chrome in a heartbeat if it weren't for all the Google properties required by my work, which themselves cripple non-Chromium browsers. (Looking at you , Meet!) Firefox, for all of Mozilla's faults, stands head
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by pianoben 3y ago
At my company, one must be a VP to have an admin, and even then, the admins are shared across the VPs. Only some of the C-suite have dedicated personal admins, in fact. It's a dying luxury.
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by pianoben 3y ago
> cancelling after you've binge watch the shows you're interested in comes with no penalty. ...for now. We'll certainly see these kinds of shenanigans before too much longer. Take ads. They're creeping in to paid
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by pianoben 3y ago
Wasn't that Peter Thiel? Or did Sam do the same thing too?
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by pianoben 3y ago
This article describes the efforts of organizers from both major parties to ensure that election laws were respected, that votes were counted, that processes were not subverted, and that the will of the people was respected. This paragraph,
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by pianoben 3y ago
Admitted by who, exactly? And unfair in what ways?
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by pianoben 3y ago
I did not know any of that, that's amazing! I remember the beta coming to an end, but don't remember whether I bought the game or not. My friend group moved on to other things, and I never bothered to look it up. Too bad to mi
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by pianoben 3y ago
I think about SubSpace every month or so. 1997-1998 was a pretty special time for the Internet and its denizens!
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by pianoben 3y ago
I take it that Balaji is a thought-leader for crypto? Once again, it strikes me as sound and fury, signifying nothing. > millions of people around the world were able to independently fact check him by testing their ability to withdraw
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by pianoben 3y ago
I've worked in several JVM backend projects, and Kotlin has been a stark improvement over Java (at least up through version 17, the most recent with which I've worked directly). Compose, and Compose UI, are tremendously promising
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by pianoben 3y ago
Levono service is the best I've experienced. Anecdotally of course - when my tower PC that I bought in 2019 started crapping out this year, they sent a repair person to my home several times, each time replacing parts without question

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