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by sam0x17 4y ago
Right. The whole language is held up by a bunch of "people generally" conventions that are non-obvious and frankly difficult to figure out if you haven't been watching the language for 1+ decades. It simply isn't designe
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by sam0x17 4y ago
Indeed. I would say that framework or even language-level support for putting things in "dry-run" mode is something sorely missed from many modern frameworks and languages, that old C libraries used to do.
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by sam0x17 4y ago
I agree that the new syntax approaches beauty, but there are places where it just so awkwardly dodges old skeletons, and there is no sense of stability. Imagine writing JS and having it look good and utilize best practices 5 years later wit
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by sam0x17 4y ago
Specifically, I would call the haphazard implementation of classes in JS one of these examples of a place where really true OOP should have been added, but they couldn't because they had to support existing keywords and web pages and l
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by sam0x17 4y ago
I generally agree and for one welcome our systems-language-based-backend overlords in the form of robust Rust and Crystal-based web frameworks (Go I dislike for other reasons, but its heart is in the right place). That said, I've had t
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by sam0x17 4y ago
> The future of scripting languages is browser JavaScript. No. I'd wager it's much more likely _any scripting language but JavaScript_. Statistically speaking it's probably Python, though I wouldn't love that universe
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by sam0x17 4y ago
It can work though. Living with my husband in a very rural area of a rural state, and it's going fine.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Conversely, If the vast majority of people keep commuting and building skyscrapers just to present some charts and graphs to each other in person because grandpa CEO doesn't know how to use Zoom and HR wants to monitor you at all times
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by sam0x17 5y ago
My experience has taught me this is just untrue. My various jobs have been 100% remote for the last 6 years, so being comfortable with video and voice calls is essential to that. Going back to when I was a high schooler, I was closeted and
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by sam0x17 5y ago
That said, I would say my nephew is significantly more social than most people in my generation were, because he is able to get in 5 hour calls with his friends every night, whereas that might happen only once every few weeks in my case, at
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by sam0x17 5y ago
You could flip the script right back at the people afraid of interacting with people online.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Unapologetically, yes, and I'd take it a step further. Often the online version is more fun and more interactive than a bunch of people uncomfortably thrust into the same room. There are things people suddenly become comfortable saying
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I agree with the import of this, but there is an economy to games, and if it turns out that the gamers really do just want another installment in the old style, you're missing out on that significant segment of the market until you do
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by sam0x17 5y ago
It becomes really apparent when you develop an app via the easiest possible path on every feature and then get trounced by another company that did it the hard way and in ways customers hadn't even imagined beforehand but now love. You
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by sam0x17 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote Only | Part Time | US Time Zones Role: Software Architect / Senior Software Engineer Technologies: Ruby on Rails / Ruby on Jets, Rust, Crystal, C/C++, D, HTML/CSS/JS, any SQL, ML / Deep Le
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Or you can double major computer science and philosophy like I did
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by sam0x17 5y ago
New Feature: "The delete everything button -- it deletes everything! Great for GDPR requests!"
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by sam0x17 5y ago
If cold starts are at all an issue for whatever use-case, you can just do a warming job like we do (in our case it's built into Ruby on Jets). We find invoking every 30 seconds is enough to never have a cold start. It's still quit
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Crystal's macro system is definitely worth comparing here, considering it has taken a very interesting / powerful approach to macros
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Those were greenfield developments, however
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Getting it to appear somewhere in archive.org certainly can't hurt as long as it's not something private
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by sam0x17 5y ago
A real concern right now is that the course material in both academic CS and academic SE is behind by 5-10 years in terms of tooling relevant for industry jobs. This has always been true, but the difference between circa 2010 and now is the
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Put another way, to get good at something, you have to get good at self-assessing your performance at that thing, or you have no way of advancing.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Right now I'm very in bed with AWS lambda, but I'm working towards the point where all my tooling can also deploy to something like firecracker VMs so I can have the peace of mind of knowing I could roll my own cloud with the same
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I think this goes back to the whole idea of non-CS people being the primary users of standard libraries. I agree though, there should be the ability to specify which one, and every function in the standard library should have big O notation
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Technically I'm still right. This is on a developer-oriented subdomain and not on the main Apple website ;)
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Not really. A large percentage of the world's super computers right now are using ARM-based setups. We are probably a few years away from seeing ARM-based desktop chips from a variety of manufacturers that put x86 in the dust in terms
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Good for them. Maybe someday the rest of us will get access to this kind of hardware through a less walled-garden vendor that actually lets us use it for something other than running a Mac.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Well, certainly not Apple's, because there is no way to buy it and put it in non-Apple hardware.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Why would you do something more sophisticated though, versus just using your own pixel data structures and the converting if/when you want to load/save. This is supposed to be a stand-in for image magic, not a panacea for doing im

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