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   by pka 11y ago

   A good developer :)
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   by pka 11y ago

   > Java’s type system, while verbose at times, allows you to write code that largely “just works”. NullPointerException would like to have a word with you about that. In all seriousness, it feels unreal that people can be that impressed
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   by pka 11y ago

   Let me rephrase. I am proposing that (barring very specific requirements which webdev doesn't justify) there's no such thing as a "good PHP developer". A good developer is a good developer, period. A good developer will
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   by pka 11y ago

   2 counterpoints: * Would you hire somebody who wasn't able to learn a new language in a reasonable amount of time? * Would you let somebody who just started with PHP (by virtue of it being an easy language to start with) work on your b
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   by pka 11y ago

   I really don't want to sound negative, I'm sure a lot of thought and work went into this, but one has to wonder - would it not be easier to just use static languages instead of writing static analyzers from scratch for every dyn
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   by pka 11y ago

   Check out Elm [1], it had hot-swapping and a time travelling debugger even before React. [1] http://www.elm-lang.org
7. 307.▲
   by pka 11y ago

   So they would write a Haskell compiler in Java/Go/Python first? :)
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   by pka 11y ago

   Years ago (maybe 10) I decided to update Ubuntu on my dev machine. Everything went well, I boot into the new system and start playing around. But after some time the internet connection drops in the middle of apt-get. I am furious, start cu
9. 309.▲
   by pka 11y ago

   How can a script running in a VM be less secure than the ability to run unchecked gets() & friends?!
10. 310.▲
    by pka 11y ago

    Agreed, upvoted.
11. 311.▲
    by pka 11y ago

    Great! Now go for Haskell :)
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    by pka 11y ago

    I didn't read the whole document, but I'm amazed how modern the Z1 was. All-binary architecture, programmable, 24 bit floating point, microcoded ALUs. The author seems to come to the same conclusion: What I find most surprising i
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    by pka 11y ago

    You are right - sorry about that. The example was put together in 5mins and was meant to just convey the general idea. I'll have to check out IDEA again, thanks!
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    by pka 11y ago

    I haven't thought about enterprise, it may be direction worth pursuing, thanks!
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    by pka 11y ago

    Thanks, I've seen jsinspect. It works by comparing ASTs, which is probably than matching strings, but I guess it wouldn't be able to deal with inlined functions or reordered code segments etc.
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    by pka 11y ago

    It works on a semantic level (i.e. what the code actually means), rather than fingerprinting strings. This means that reordering code segments, renaming variables, inlining or lifting functions wouldn't affect a match, if the code is s
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    by pka 11y ago

    No, thanks for the link! Code Climate looks more like a linter though?
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    by pka 11y ago

    I've come across simian - isn't it a fuzzy matcher without semantic analysis? I'll check out the rest, thanks!
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    by pka 11y ago

    All valid concerns. I guess the best way to address the usefulness issue is to run it against popular frameworks, like React or Angular, and see what happens. If it proves useful (like say 10% of code could be replaced by existing functions
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    by pka 11y ago

    Basically by wanting to make my life easier when working on bigger, hard-to-maintain codebases :)
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    by pka 11y ago

    Would you mind sharing which, or haven't they gone public yet?
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    by pka 11y ago

    Many of the plagiarism detection tools don't work on a semantic level. There are some, I haven't found an easy, it-just-works online solution. Could you share links to the IP detection ML tools? And to answer your question, please
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    by pka 11y ago

    I would, yes - it's a form of scratching my own itch. I don't know about you, but I find myself writing boilerplate code very often. Converting between timezones, reading config files, making HTTP requests (+error handling), UI id
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    by pka 11y ago

    Clickable link for the image: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30225560/ase.png
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    Ask HN: Would you pay for a code similarity detection tool?

    33 points by pka 11y ago|45 comments
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    by pka 11y ago

    Just had to: https://xkcd.com/224
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    by pka 11y ago

    Just FYI, the author is one of the designers of LINQ.
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    by pka 11y ago

    Sounds a lot like some form of FRP. What are the differences to Elm [1] and its support for live editing and its time-travelling debugger? [1] http://elm-lang.org
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    Usercfg – remote account configuration tool for developers(pkamenarsky.github.io)

    4 points by pka 11y ago|2 comments
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    by pka 12y ago

    It would probably help to also have something like this: singleton : a -> NonEmpty a cons : a -> NonEmpty a -> NonEmpty a head : NonEmpty a -> a last : NonEmpty a -> a init : NonEmpty a -> Maybe (NonEmpty a)