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by s3cur3 6y ago
This is a really important distinction. The media really buried the lede calling it a Predator, which I associate with recon/surveillance only. The fact that it’s MQ-9, capable of carrying all manner of weaponry including 4 air-to-grou
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by s3cur3 6y ago
I’m primarily a C++ dev, so that colors a lot of what I think about the 3rd party library situation in Elixir. Because of the abysmal state of package management in C++, it’s usually easier to implement stuff yourself (tailored exactly to y
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by s3cur3 6y ago
If you'd like a summary of the book, my study notes are here: https://tylerayoung.com/2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming...
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by s3cur3 6y ago
This is what we do with X-Plane. It’s really, really nice to be able to debug code destined for mobile on the desktop sim first. It cuts the iteration time down by a huge factor.
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by s3cur3 6y ago
This is a calm, measured perspective on a hot-button emotional issue. Thanks for that. :)
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Agreed. I got a lot out of Game Programming Patterns. My notes, if anyone wants a summary, are here: https://tylerayoung.com/2017/01/23/notes-on-game-programming...
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I’d be interested to know which company (if you’re free to say). IIUC, this is very different from the way Coverity (the biggest commercial player I’m aware of in this space) operates.
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I have to think that as a society, we’re going to be introducing a lot of slack that never existed before. Consider commercial real estate: there are going to be loads of small businesses that can’t make rent in the next 3 months... but fro
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Pandemic “will last 18 months or longer,” leaked US gov’t report warns(arstechnica.com)
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I've been toying around with a macOS app idea for awhile. This looks like a great starting point for someone like me with no macOS native dev experience. Thanks!
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I mostly agree, but for areas that haven’t been hit yet, this kind of up-to-the-minute info can help you decide when you need to put you/your family “on lockdown.” Here in Kansas City, we only got our first confirmed case on Saturday—p
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I _wish_ I could have this good an attitude about people being assholes over tiny mistakes I make in public. One rude comment like the GP’s can easily ruin my mood for hours. People forget that the person on the other side of the keyboard i
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by s3cur3 7y ago
In general, arguments by analogy tend to get hung up on the aptness of the analogy. I find it helps short-circuit a lot of long, unproductive discussions at work by just straightforwardly stating my thoughts—“we should do x because y,” rat
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Replacing Make in “your” project is relatively easy. Replacing it in all your dependencies is both a technical pain in the ass and a massive political problem if you want to upstream the change. If you have a lot of dependencies, it’s proba
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by s3cur3 7y ago
There are just so, so many problems with these benchmarks. (This comment from the author of Servant, a Haskell framework, nicely sums up a lot of the criticism: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/6b3dlt
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Erlang's type checker Dialyzer has an Elixir wrapper called Dialyxir ( https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir ). As someone coming from C++, Dialyzer leaves a lot to be desired—I still miss C++ type checking—but it&#x
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Even if you prefer the Erlang syntax, you might choose Elixir for the libraries. E.g., as far as I know, Phoenix isn't available from "plain" Erlang.
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I've been writing Elixir professionally for about a month now. I previously had zero experience with Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, or even any functional languages (though I have read quite a bit about functional programming, and adopted a lot
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Elixir (really, the Erlang VM it's built on) is designed for highly concurrent, reliable systems. For my org, building a distributed webapp, we chose it over the languages you listed because of how much you get "out of the box&quo
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Agreed. Most of my Windows-using family members wouldn't be able to tell the difference between WordPad and Word... until they go to share the file and discover that RTF looks different on every other person's machine. This is ent
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by s3cur3 7y ago
> all work is valuable, otherwise it wouldn’t be desired. Have you had such a good experience with managers that you a) have never been assigned bullshit work that should have never been done, or b) have never seen a manager invent work
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by s3cur3 7y ago
My experience with small content producers is that their decisions surrounding stopping piracy have almost nothing to do with the economics of it; it’s an emotional decision. I’ve seen people spend 25%+ of their content’s revenue on DRM. No
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I was an early, enthusiastic adopter of Yubikeys at my work. Above and beyond the other issues people have mentioned, though, the one that kills the product for me is the frankly stupid OS integration. The key behaves like “just” a specia
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by s3cur3 7y ago
A more generous interpretation of the article’s claim interprets “BS” to not necessarily mean it is false. For instance, if I were to speak condescendingly on a topic I know nothing at all about, I might (unbeknownst to me) actually say som
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Question for people who have nuked Facebook: what do you do about a job that needs you to have Facebook for, e.g., API keys or group moderation? Did you just create a new, “friend-less” account and transfer the credentials over to it?
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by s3cur3 7y ago
No, rather they had a good “I’m a freelance developer” web site that showed two things: 1) Some amount of professional experience in the technology we were looking for a contractor in. 2) An attitude that boiled down to “I write software to
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by s3cur3 7y ago
I hired someone from one of these threads a few months ago. I chose them over other candidates based on a strong “portfolio” web site, showing me the person understood their code existed to serve business values (not the other way around).
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by s3cur3 7y ago
Previous discussion, with the official source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817
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by s3cur3 8y ago
> Most people . . . Citation needed? If we’re just swapping anecdotes, my experience has been that the vast majority of people I talk to are fine with being tracked on the internet, and think it’s a reasonable exchange for what they get
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by s3cur3 8y ago
The issue with the present system is that we have one numbering scheme trying to satisfy two very different roles: - automated dependency management (“can I safely update to this version?”) - marketing (“do I care about this new version?”)

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