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by preordained 10y ago
It's a rock-solid service, with no nonsense or wonky stuff. Integral part of my everyday work/life.
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by preordained 10y ago
Gross...but that's just me. I know some people really do thrive on this kind of technical rigor and hard-nosed meritocracy type of culture...but if that's the price of progress I'd rather go back to the caves and tepees.
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by preordained 10y ago
For sure they do. But I've spent my time with Haskell and I've seen really simple things obscured under a cacophony of type noise. It's not uncommon at all to see a piece of simple logic with proportionately 3x the amount of
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by preordained 10y ago
I do some hobbyist Prolog programming in Textastic on an iPad mini. I can do it in my lazy boy and ftp the file to my desktop for testing when I get to that point. It's perfect for doing little puzzler programs where you spend much muc
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by preordained 10y ago
Nice. They got Hick's law...that's one of my favorites, not so much in development, but sports. I train Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I find substantial improvement in my reaction time by having only 2-3 well-worn options at my disposa
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by preordained 10y ago
Agreed. You have your bits of logic that are great for a functional sort of style...map and fold and transform this data...then sometimes you have a script-like area that really benefits from an imperative style...open this, save this off,
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by preordained 10y ago
It's hard, man. I think most people who call themselves programmers could write some simple programs or tinker together a really simple app that was fragile and buggy. To do programming _right_, where your software has real impact on p
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by preordained 10y ago
I think the most accessible evidence for the likelihood of anything nearing a "utopia" is right here in the discussions people have about it. You have divisions, factions, "camps"...opposing points of view on this and an
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by preordained 10y ago
Agree, you have to be careful these days not to bet on a dead horse. Or healthy and promising initially, but swiftly dead. I don't know that I need grep on windows or other powerful nix tools to find value in this. I'm not going t
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by preordained 10y ago
I know Haskell pretty well, having spent a cozy two or three years with it as my main squeeze for hobbyist programming. Now I'm doing more Prolog. I like stuff that makes me think differently. Anyhow...is there something I'm missi
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by preordained 10y ago
Disagree. For emphasis on the power of being a "webmaster" AND to capture what that meant in the cultural vernacular of various pipsqueaks who claimed that title when it was a thing, you could do little better than a qualifier lik
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by preordained 10y ago
I wouldn't call it unfocused. I think it pokes holes pretty accurately in the psychology behind the pieces (and those like it) which it was a reaction to. It shows a lot of the pot-shot-taking and one-upsmanship for what it is; namely,
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by preordained 11y ago
Am I the only one who finds it weird how articles like this seem to fetishize programming talent? How we desperately need to come up with ever more sophisticated filters (programming simulators, in this case) to extract only the purest high
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by preordained 11y ago
I work at a small software company, and too often our CEO and company will latch onto nuggets from material like this and use it to justify a "swing for the fences", "nothing ventured nothing gained" sort of mindset. All
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by preordained 11y ago
I hear that sentiment a lot. Personally I'm glad that we bring important cultural happenings and such in as topics of discussion. What is society if not the most complex project that we've ever feigned to attempt to grok on hacker
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by preordained 11y ago
>A good hobby I recommend everyone that will help you totally tune out from your work is jiu jitsu Yes! If people only knew the type of escape that was possible, both mental and physical. American blackbelt Chris Haueter once recalled ho
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by preordained 11y ago
No worries, indeed. Good to know!
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by preordained 11y ago
Something to think about from end user Joe, here: A quick search seemed to indicate that Swift support (officially) began in iOS 7. Great, that's the version I'm on. If anything coming down the pipe for Swift depends on a later ve
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by preordained 11y ago
Rinse and repeat? I could be missing something, but are we saying we should adopt the mentality that we are too good for any job we might find ourselves in? It sounds a bit arrogant to automatically assume that what you've chosen to di
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by preordained 11y ago
Getting some tomatoes thrown your way, but I think your sentiment has merit. In what other industry is it really a thing to feel deprived if you don't get to spend 20% of your working hours exercising your creativity? I think it's
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by preordained 11y ago
The 10x thing is like some weird, less quantifiable, engineer analog to Mensa.
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by preordained 11y ago
Yep. I've used a variety of different languages, and it always struck me as odd that Java was considered some uncool cumbersome language, and enterprise-y in some sort of bad way. It's not a dream to code in, but it is highly prac
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by preordained 11y ago
Good to see some effort put into making a case in the debate (for either side). I drank the Haskell koolaid pretty hard a few years back, and I wanted to believe that all the anecdotes people used to support the language had to be true. You
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by preordained 11y ago
Gold! God bless you, sir!