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by sdegutis 7y ago
More likely the 7 years straight of full time development I've done on this laptop, constantly running compilers and image editors and browsers. I could complain about those too but in the end, laptop batteries have to support the soft
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Really I was just thinking of VS Code and a vague memory of some other Electron apps I've used in the past, excepting one in particular which I will not name. But VS Code is just great.
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* I’m practically never so productive that I’m counting seconds for an app to open. * VS Code is just as quick to use as Xcode, actually more responsive in many actions, demonstrating effectively that it’s the algorithm which must change fo
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Plus the experience of Electron apps is generally superior lately. Look and feel may not be as consistent as the ideal but it generally never was in the first place, even among native Cocoa apps. The web has won on desktop.
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Well HN is more of an advertisement for YC companies and their products/services. It draws in people who are more likely to be their customers, people who love trying new stuff and thinking something new might be the solution they were
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Explains the “playing the straight man” story recently in another thread.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
My guess is that he meant "play the devil's advocate" and got it mixed up half way through. That happens to people all the time with metaphors, especially when our minds are hard at work on the actual problem at hand, sometim
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by sdegutis 7y ago
We try to teach them to resolve problems on their own. But when one of them is negligent to the point of hurting another, then we have to administer justice. Usually writing a sentence a few dozen times to instill the idea for a need of bei
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At night time, coming over a hill, coming up to a crosswalk, being met with oncoming headlights, it’s reasonable to expect a little more caution than just driving the speed limit as if it’s broad daylight on a flat road. The report seems to
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by sdegutis 7y ago
They might feel self conscious. Or maybe they think they understand it fine even though they’ve misunderstood it. That seems to be what happened to the man who was ostracized for using the perfectly legitimate ”play the straight man” phrase
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Not having everyone on the team be as familiar with English, especially its idioms and figures of speech, is a great reason to avoid using them and stick to (legalistically) simplistic vocabulary. Unfortunately it also makes its usage feel
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If the google translation wasn’t too faulty, one was still lying down, one was getting up and probably trying to get out of the way. The main impediment to seeing them seems to be the headlights of oncoming cars, possibly while coming over
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I said the judgment is reasonable but reserve my judgment on the sentence. I’m saying people should drive safer. That’s all. A good portion of my reasoning comes from my daily dealings with my kids. This case bears many strong resemblances
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Yes but assuming negligent driving is the cause of death of another person, it seems that just not being able to drive for a while is not taking into account the seriousness of the permanence or the consequences of the events. I am no fan
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I don’t think anyone is accusing the defender of malice. But it is reasonable to expect that people can at least try to drive cautiously. Especially at night, near cross walks. I’ve seen far too many reckless drivers even in suburban street
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by sdegutis 7y ago
After reading the whole translation linked in the GitHub issue, and being a father of 6 kids who love to make me practice being a judge every day as if I have nothing better to do, I’m convinced the judgment is reasonable. Even in our tiny
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by sdegutis 7y ago
They pop up this often because it's an unpopular opinion, so it's a fun pastime to read explanations for these things. But that also implies that it's not a serious threat to the common belief, otherwise it wouldn't need
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It makes sense. Version numbers should be intuitive. Constantly changing software should update by whole numbers, so that the more it has changed, the more the number is different. Whereas "3.11" seems almost identical to "3.
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Mac OS, then Mac OS X, then OS X, and now macOS. Probably Mac OS again some time soon to go full circle.
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I've been wanting to make a Windows app for my specific budgeting needs so that I can uninstall LibreOffice since that's all I use it for. So my plan was to use React + Electron since it's easy and quick, but it feels like ov
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by sdegutis 7y ago
Think for example of implementing a list interpreter. In certain situations, you know for a fact that an AST node is a given type. So you just want to cast from Node to Node::Symbol(s) to extract that std::string::String out of it. RFC #259
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by sdegutis 7y ago
A similar macro the stdlib should have is poor_mans_cast!(foo as Bar::Qux) which expands to match foo { Bar::Qux(x) => Some(x), _ => None }.unwrap() which is a questionably-hacky way to cast to a specific enum variant. I've had t
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And by writing Clojure, you lose a lot of type safety and compile-time efficiency. Not that that's a bad thing, just pointing out that there's a trade-off that it makes in favor of a simpler language to learn and implement. There&
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I doubt it's any more complicated to add S-Expressions than to change list parsing to take either [] or () and set a type flag based on which one it finds. Semantically, it's not more complex either, just giving one extra piece of
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I've become particularly fond of Ion[1]. The main benefit JSON has over Ion is its ubiquity, even in many standard libraries. [1] https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/
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I always thought ReasonML was just a more JavaScript-ish syntax on top of OCaml, not necessarily better but just different. In what ways is it an actual improvement ?
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I think the fact that Haskell is more math than programming might also be related to that. I've been programming for a decade and still don't understand Haskell.
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Building on top of WebGL would mean completely custom renderers that have to reimplement everything else too, such as scrolling and context menus and text selection. This has been tried dozens and dozens of times by big players, and never w
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by sdegutis 7y ago
I wonder what would happen if all major OS & Browser vendors decided to agreed on a long-term plan to migrate/evolve the HTML, CSS, and JS specs & implementations towards a functional equivalent variation that could be efficien

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