rvdginste

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by rvdginste 4y ago
My current desktop is an i7-970: first generation i7, but hexa-core. It was the first time I bought a higher-end cpu and I've never regretted that. I also got it with 24GB RAM. Since then I upgraded both the graphics card and the dis
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I don't believe in this: if you follow through on that, you will end up with a low-code or no-code platform. Or basically, you are creating a programmable platform where your "configuration" is actually gonna be code. When y
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I used an iBook G3/G4 12" for several years with linux. I remember the G3 was supported completely out of the box. I loved it: it was small, battery lasted pretty long (I did spend some time fine tuning laptop-mode-tools), suspe
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by rvdginste 4y ago
It looks interesting, so I'll keep an eye on it, but currently there is not that much information available. What kind of output formats to you target? I assume PDF, but aside from that? HTML? epub? Will you maintain a history of a d
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I don't know if any company is exploring what you are mentioning, but battery swapping for electrical scooters (Gogoro) is in common use in Taiwan. Instead of you charge your scooter, you drive to a battery swap station and exchange y
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I have wondered about that too. But when I think about a file system transaction, I immediately think about a file system transaction enlisting in an ambient transaction, together with a database transaction. This would make code much mor
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by rvdginste 4y ago
With these kinds of really cheap devices, it always makes me wonder whether you are not better off buying older used hardware instead... especially if you are looking for a cheap linux laptop. For example, some time ago I got a Thinkpad X20
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I think people who think that commit messages don't matter, should be forced to maintain a code base written by colleagues of the same opinion for the next 5 years.
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by rvdginste 4y ago
As a team lead I insist on a link to a ticket for stuff that is related to a ticket. When moving to another ticket system, I insist either on keeping older projects on the old system, or alternatively on migrating old tickets to the new sy
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by rvdginste 4y ago
> I'll consider ceasing to write "good" commit messages when I'm confident the code I check in doesn't contain any bugs. Please don't. As much as it is useful to fix buggy code at a later point, it is the s
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by rvdginste 4y ago
That's convincing :) Good to know, thanks!
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by rvdginste 4y ago
Do you think the Tex Shinobi is worth its price? I'm familiar with the Thinkpad X200 keyboard and interested in the Tex Shinobi, but find it a bit hard to justify spending that much on a keyboard. (I am a software engineer and do spe
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by rvdginste 4y ago
Thank you for the references to those languages.. interesting!
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by rvdginste 4y ago
Exactly! A couple of years ago, we invested in using the libraries from Microsoft Code Contracts for a couple of projects. It was a really promising and interesting project. With the libraries you could follow the design-by-contract parad
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I used the Terminus bitmap font until a year ago because I found it really clear and sharp even on small sizes. Since bitmap fonts are not that well supported anymore, I switched to JetBrains Mono for both terminal and IDE. I started usin
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by rvdginste 4y ago
> Yes, hardware has limits and you just cannot have a single machine with unlimited number of cores and disks. Ok, but it still makes me wonder how far you can go today with a good old-fashioned RDBMS, running native on modern server har
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by rvdginste 4y ago
> ...and you never really grasp before moving on to the next thing. Then why do you move on to the next thing? Not a frontend dev, but I notice that a lot of frontend devs seem to be really eager to jump to the next hot thing when it bec
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I think it's a bit naive to think that a given developer will produce better code when using an editor instead of an IDE. I believe that a certain developer will produce the same quality code whether he uses an editor or an IDE. If yo
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by rvdginste 4y ago
I use the convention that an 'null' value is a value that was not explicitly set by the user. So in C#, I would always use a nullable boolean in this case (choices yes and no). If the field is a required value, I would annotate th
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by rvdginste 4y ago
Yes, I understand, but I've searched for this before and it is hard to find a list of the utilities that people typically use with i3wm or any other barebones window manager.
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by rvdginste 4y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to know. Thanks!
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by rvdginste 4y ago
Do you use i3 all by itself, or do you add base services from a desktop environment? In the context of a laptop, I am thinking about things like: mounting external drives, power management configuration, network configuration (access to wir
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by rvdginste 5y ago
One of the things I always found fun in programming, is anything related to graphics. The main reason is that you get immediate feedback while you are working on it. If you are into computer graphics, you might be interested in the followi
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by rvdginste 5y ago
> The fundamental problem is the difference between Curated and Uncurated packaging systems Exactly this! It is expected from linux distros that they have curated packaging. I think that is good and I really expect it to stay that way. W
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by rvdginste 5y ago
Regarding PGP's 'Web of Trust', I thought the purpose of this was to validate the link between the key and the owner of that key. This is not what you get from retrieving a public key from github... that only gives you the l
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by rvdginste 5y ago
The way you setup branches and how you work with them, is your own choice and is not directly tied to a specific version control system. I used to work with feature branches on subversion before I moved to git. Git does support more types
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by rvdginste 5y ago
Completely agree with parent and grand-parent. For me, a nice clean commit history is an investment in future maintenance. Following the rules described above means that you get a lot of context on why code was changed: * the invidivual com
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by rvdginste 5y ago
If you use left-inclusive, right-exclusive intervals [), then then the overlap condition is: meeting_a.starts_at <= meeting_b.ends_at && meeting_b.starts_at <= meeting_a.ends_at So, indeed, the scenario as described in the art
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by rvdginste 5y ago
For backends, I typically use ID generation in the application layer (the backend). And with ID generation I mean the HiLo generator from Hibernate (or NHibernate). By default the HiLo generator will still use a monotonic increasing number
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by rvdginste 5y ago
Uh... well, it would be even more embarassing to admit how long I've been telling myself that I'd start learning emacs-lisp in earnest... so I won't. :)

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