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by rbongers 4y ago
I definitely agree about how it may appear to young programmers that they're casting magic spells. I had the fortunate experience early on of building my own virtual CPU and RAM, then I learned assembly, then C, then algorithms, then O
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Flog v2, the first real Git branch viewer for Vim(rbong.github.io)
1 points by rbongers 4y ago|0 comments
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by rbongers 4y ago
I have been on teams that never review code and teams that always review code, and I can confidently say I never want to work on the former again. That was with a junior team, but your team is going to have new people, if not junior, at som
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by rbongers 4y ago
Check out also shellcheck. It's been an invaluable tool keeping my scripts portable.
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by rbongers 4y ago
What was the evidence that Hans COULD be cheating on top of the two incidents we know about? Was it, for example, video evidence of Hans using Stockfish on an illegal phone during an OTB tournament, or was it second hand accounts of Hans ch
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by rbongers 4y ago
It's not convincing to say that Hans was cheating because few people can beat Magnus playing black when Magnus was playing poorly in that game. I still feel like more information that could come out at any moment that could swing the s
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by rbongers 4y ago
There's a great section in The Practice of Programming where the book describes how you should structure your code to not just be structured nicely now, but to plan for the future; to structure it so that changes are easy, organized, a
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by rbongers 4y ago
Definitely ALE. Being able to use LSPs is the only reason I haven't switched.
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by rbongers 4y ago
There are lots of different perspectives on education in this thread, yours included, and I respect that. It's a complicated issue, and no two people have the same experience. This is why I always tell people not to just blindly follow
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by rbongers 4y ago
I agree completely.
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by rbongers 4y ago
>if you care about not wasting money, you would do everything, including even cheating, to pass. If you care about not wasting money, why risk everything you've spent and not even gain the education that you've purchased while
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by rbongers 4y ago
The reason I think a lot of people cheat is because they just don't appreciate the value of a good education, they don't even know what they really want to do with their lives, they don't know the value of money, and are just
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by rbongers 4y ago
Are you saying it should? I think whether that's desirable or not is a matter of preference. The nice thing about Terraform is that you don't have to go all in. I don't really want to have to tell it to ignore every resource
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by rbongers 4y ago
I don't quite follow - why would it be able to find orphaned resources if it were working with stateless objects?
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by rbongers 4y ago
Is "remained stateless" accurate? The document only indicates that they used to try storing state in tags, not that it was stateless. "Stateless", to me, would mean that it tries to compare current resources with your cu
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by rbongers 4y ago
If you'd like to hear more Amiga music, there is one channel I enjoy that puts out a lot of great mixes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQnWIt2N1hnWszI2d-j-6Aw
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by rbongers 5y ago
The problem I have with Make is that it has a syntax that most web developers I have worked with would find archaic and unfamiliar. On some projects I've worked on, it's been used as basically a command alias system that only a fe
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by rbongers 5y ago
There must be another more common term for this, but an older programmer once told me to watch out for "false parallelism" - code that is currently duplicated, but is likely to diverge in the future, and so trying to make the code
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by rbongers 7y ago
I love to use rateyourmusic for this. It is great for finding related artists and for exploring new genres.
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by rbongers 7y ago
This is one of the strategies covered in the book "Power of Habit". Highly recommend that book.
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by rbongers 7y ago
There is also a bug that is keeping me from switching, and also the handling of that bug has not been great, otherwise I would do so in a heartbeat.
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by rbongers 7y ago
There's a lot of feedback already in this thread, but if you're still reading, I wanted to share my process in case there's anything that was missed. This will help you, hopefully, fully complete issues the first time. Don&#x
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by rbongers 7y ago
But questions like this can be used to better understand the engineering decision. There have been plenty of times when questions like this have saved me typing out a long, critical response because there was something I didn't underst
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by rbongers 7y ago
I think it just depends on the person asking. I have known people who could call you an idiot to your face and still come off as the nicest human in the world, and people who could ask you to pass the salt and you would think that they didn
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by rbongers 7y ago
I like "what would happen if you used sshd"? (Not "tried sshd", that's important). They will either tell you the outcome of what they already tried or will be lead to the solution. The only way I can think of this b
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by rbongers 7y ago
Not my experience at all... Tests need to be intelligently written for the project at hand, which sometimes means testing something to freeze the API, writing tests for small functions that are easier to test in a suite than anywhere else,
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Is the Virus of the Future an Evolving Neural Network?(medium.com)
3 points by rbongers 7y ago|0 comments
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by rbongers 7y ago
This is for rooftop panels though. Having regular activity on top of something is, I would assume, very different than just letting it sit.
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by rbongers 7y ago
There is no logic behind it, only blind idealism. Unfortunately the couple who invented solar roads poured a lot of time and money into this idea and couldn't back down. Many people followed their enthusiasm. I think one of the most di
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by rbongers 7y ago
I learned in the early decade using K&R, Pike, and Petzold. It has been a great base for me, despite the age of the books.

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