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Ask HN: How many people do you know that use Linux and don't work in tech?
6 points by pvorb 8y ago|19 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
Even in a professional context it's reasonable to use the language your customer (business expert) is using. Beware of mapping technical terminology into another language! And if that means you write Swedish code, that's perfectly
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Never rewrite a software system (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
This thread already is about Asciidoctor, not Asciidoc.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I don't get this. Yes, people are lazy, but now everybody has to go to the gym, because otherwise they won't even have a little exercise.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I believe 99 percent of Alexa users wouldn't notice the increased data usage. If "three letter agencies" carefully choose who they spy on, it might go undetected for a very long time.
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by pvorb 8y ago
Maybe they actually do? For example, the 2017 version of the Nokia 3310, according to Nokia, can have calls of ~22h. And that's for a small 1300mAh battery. So it's technically possible to stream audio for a very long time. Maybe
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by pvorb 8y ago
But imagine the increased productivity of your devs if they only had to check out a single repo. Anyone has the same organization of projects on their machine. All tools are in one place...
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by pvorb 8y ago
Yes. You end up with a million index.js files in your project and finding the right one is a PITA.
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by pvorb 8y ago
But it could simply be implemented using the same routine in browsers like `import`. I don't see why `require` can't be asynchronous. There's an implicit join after the last import. Maybe it would have been enough to restrict
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by pvorb 8y ago
Can anybody explain to me why ES didn't simply adopt the require syntax from Node.js?
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by pvorb 8y ago
Let's throw everything out of the window and start from scratch. The JavaScript way of doing things is why I don't like to invest much in this ecosystem.
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by pvorb 8y ago
So if I wrote a Java program that uses OpenCV that program would be a Java-Script?
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Building Native Images of Kotlin Programs Using GraalVM(vorba.ch)
3 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
Could anyone elaborate on why he's not simply using git-svn?
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by pvorb 8y ago
Additionally, this is nothing good engineers really want to spend their time on.
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Spaghetti Sort (2018)(advent.morr.cc)
1 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
That was exactly what I thought.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I second that. Reading tests is often more efficient than trying to learn about a system through documentation.
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The JVM in Docker 2018(batey.info)
4 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
That's probably also because Times and Arial are perfectly valid defaults.
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by pvorb 8y ago
People who found a way to overcomplicate their toolchain for React will also find a way to do the same for vuejs.
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by pvorb 8y ago
Well, it some kind of is, because small/new services cannot compete with large companies anymore.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I guess its called linker to make the phrase sound like "the missing link for the JVM."
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by pvorb 8y ago
One reason could be that it might be easier for node.js devs to read and understand its source code. I don't use the software nor have read its source code, though.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I didn't critisize Haskell. I only criticized a statement about its type system. > You're also forgetting that signature includes the name of the function. That's what I wanted to point out. The name of a function is even
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by pvorb 8y ago
Alice: Hey Bob, want to try my nifty new function? Bob: Sure, Alice, what does it do? Alice: It takes a string and it returns an integer. Bob: But what does it actually do? Alice: I told you. It takes a string and it returns an integer. Bob
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by pvorb 8y ago
I regularly check out this graph on Wikipedia and wonder how thoroughly Wikipedians track the Linux distro ecosystem.
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Aeolus race: using wind energy to race against the wind(windenergyevents.com)
3 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
And you also need to know about this bug in order to make your server go down after 2^31 ms. As stated in the Github issue, the service remained otherwise functional.

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