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by rualca 6y ago
> I've pointed out before that the job description of "Systems Analyst" seems to have disappeared i.e. someone who's job it was to understand and describe requirements. If the role of "systems analyst" died,
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by rualca 6y ago
> I find, after creating software for 14 years, that 1) clients don't know what they want (..) I've logged in just to point out this fact, and to call out how the author of this anti-user stories rant is completely clueless and
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by rualca 6y ago
> What's wrong with Qt (and such) ?? Compared with simple html+javascript running on a webview, Qt is relatively hard to maintain and develop, relies on source code generations and processors to work, prototyping tools are subpar an
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by rualca 6y ago
> In the case of eBook readers, there's plenty of native software that fills that role in every platform, there's hardly a need for a cross-platform Electron ePUB reader. I see this sort of assertion pop up often, but it never
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by rualca 6y ago
> The statement is absolutely correct referring to the government and the Conservative party in general. It really isn't, and reeks of egocentric entitlement. It should be obvious that at-risk groups are a priority. Complaining that
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by rualca 6y ago
> Then proceeds to ignore 200 years So what? Are all mediterranean nations supposed to be a part of Syria just because the territory was under control of the Moors for over four centuries? Moreover that line of reasoning cuts both ways,
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by rualca 6y ago
> The government and media don't give a stuff about anyone under the age of 50, certainly not under 40. I find this blend of comments disheartening and disappointing, mainly because they appear to come from a place of willful ignora
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by rualca 6y ago
If you really did any serious work writing template metaprogramming code, or were aware of what happens under the hood with libraries that were developed with it, you wouldn't be criticizing recent contributions to improve it's UX
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by rualca 6y ago
Sure it's clever but adding language features just to say "look what I wrote, it's clever is no excuse for building a language that's become a train wreck. Actually, the rationale behind the language features you'r
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by rualca 6y ago
> In this case, it's also on the tool. CMake is a bad tool. Unfortunately it's the least bad one available for that task. I've rambled on this topic before. [0][1] I completely disagree. Cmake is an exemplary tool which ac
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by rualca 6y ago
> In the C++ world we have exactly the same problem with CMake. "Modern cmake" (i.e., target-based projects made possible since the release of cmake v3.0) is terribly easy and straight-forward, provided that your devteam unders
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by rualca 6y ago
React hooks disprove the hypothesis that javascript's spread operator has a negative impact on readability. Moreover, to argue against the spread operator, first you need to argue in favour of array indexing in terms of readability.
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by rualca 6y ago
> For the sake of the argument. Consider a planet inhabited exactly by two humans. They would be in extreme poverty by our standards (...) Not true. Our standards define poverty either as the inability to afford lower-tier living expens
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by rualca 6y ago
> (...) while they did indeed show that inequality is increasing, they didn't show the same for poverty. One of the main quantitative definitions of poverty is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, which is defined as 60% of the median incom
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by rualca 6y ago
> I like to keep business and charity separated. Mixing the two, in my opinion, simply adds a layer of indirection for the bastards to hide behind. That's an awful lot of words to say "screw you, I got mine". Exploiters ha
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by rualca 6y ago
> The necessity of zooming is a shortcoming of the device, not of the text format. Zooming is a very fundamental usecases, which is linked to the need to analyse some parts of a document with more detail (i.e., look at a graph, a section
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by rualca 6y ago
It should be noted that the usefulness of landscape mode is limited in some docs, such as those with multiple columns or docs which include elements like tables and graphics, specially if you need to look at them while following the text.
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by rualca 6y ago
> when I zoom in and the text reflows Zooming in/out should not trigger a reflow. Only things like changing the geometry of a page or font settings require a reflow. It seems you're blaming a document format for a UX problem cr
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by rualca 6y ago
Browser bookmarks save position when there is a position to be saved, which is represented in the form of IDs being pointed to by links with a fragment. Any other scenario doesn't even ensure that the content will continue to exist, le
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by rualca 6y ago
Epub is ok, but it has no support for math equations (practically all implementations just dump them into raster images) and HTML's typography leaves much to be desired. There are plenty of good reasons why TeX and LaTeX are still the
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by rualca 6y ago
> If the file extension is .txt, I always expect it to be opened as plain text. The file extension is, rightly or wrongly[0], the metadata declaring the file type — nobody would consider it reasonable for an .exe to remain executable if
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by rualca 6y ago
> There's one that's even closer to c-like switches: a list/tuple of functions or values, indexed by a small int. That sounds like a desperate plea to get stuck with a bug-riddled unmaintainable mess of a module. If all yo
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by rualca 6y ago
> Having a temporary variable to make code more readable is hardly a 'clever thing' Right, but if you're sprinkling your code with temp variables, specially with a language such as C++ where copy elision is far from ensure
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by rualca 6y ago
You should read the article before commenting. The blog post states that the contents of said "text file" were quite literally <!DOCTYPE HTML><html><head></head><body> This is not a mere text fil
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by rualca 6y ago
>>Anyone with networked filesystems, I should imagine? You're either missing the point made by GP or being disingenuous. Please keep in mind that you need to explicitly mount a NFS before you're able to open it, and mounting
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by rualca 6y ago
> I mean, the entire purpose of "file://" would seem to be to provide access to local/mounted files and only those. This is the only story here. Everything else sounds like clueless hyperboles.
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by rualca 6y ago
> “Everything’s a file!” I fail to see how HTTP and REST's "everything is a resource" paradigm is significantly different than UNIX's "everything is a file" paradigm, and I'm yet to see anyone claim tha
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by rualca 6y ago
> perhaps this is the worst possible abstraction to be protected by a security framework. I honestly don't understand how anyone with at least a basic understanding of how OSes are designed and operated could ever arrive at that con
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by rualca 6y ago
I agree, jamming a program in a single source file is not the best metric ever. To be fair, that's just a line in the project's Readme, which is far from the best and doesn't even provide a concise description of what the pro
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by rualca 6y ago
There's another comment showing how to use OpenSSL to setup a https web server by providing a magic cli command.

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