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by sephware 8y ago
> I think it looks way worse to just let it limp along and slowly die. Fail fast, learn your lesson, and move on. The benefit of limping along and dying slowly is that it can be relatively quiet and uneventful, and at least the project d
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by sephware 8y ago
1) It probably makes them at least a noticeable percentage of revenue, if not much, so that cutting it out completely would maybe cut funding for a dozen employees. They'll need to dwindle sales down first, probably by deprecating it,
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by sephware 8y ago
One of my favorite phrases is “a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” because it reminds me of the ever-useful principle that if someone has personal (and maybe even irrational ) reasons to keep believing somethin
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by sephware 8y ago
That sounds similar to Wirth’s Law. In general the more efficient a computer’s hardware is, the more bloated its software will be, so the slower the whole system will run.
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by sephware 8y ago
Here's a comparison between Molten and Hug by the author of the former: https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8ta3ve/molten_a_mod...
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by sephware 8y ago
> Go is also flexible in that it does not enforce a particular style of programming That’s actually kind of a main theme of Go, that it’s very opinionated about what the right way to program is, and doesn’t do you any favors if you try t
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by sephware 8y ago
The title says NoSQL and the first paragraph on the page confirms that it's more than just a KV store: > UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQ
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by sephware 8y ago
That one seems straight forward: when you want SQL use SQLite, when you want NoSQL use UnQLite
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Safari vs. Chrome on the Mac(daringfireball.net)
1 points by sephware 8y ago|0 comments
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by sephware 8y ago
Also, there are many classes of errors that Rust doesn't help solve, but which people seem to get the impression that it does aim to solve, which can be confusing and counterproductive when choosing a language because of the classes
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by sephware 8y ago
Thanks for that. So far Zig sounds amazing. They should have something like this on their home page.
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by sephware 8y ago
Can anyone with more experience/understanding of Zig give an elevator pitch about why and when I would use Zig? I love the concept of a low level language that's not C, but the home page doesn't paint a clear picture to me ab
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by sephware 8y ago
> Reading values from Workers KV is designed to have the same reliability as reading static files, making it much less likely to become unavailable than a traditional database. It’s designed to have the same performance as reading a fil
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by sephware 8y ago
For years I remember their about page offering an explanation of how they scrape the web and score links, and a phrase something like “this might sound a bit recursive; that’s because it is!” But I haven’t been able to find it on archive.or
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by sephware 8y ago
The first two situations where he recommends avoiding lambda I would agree with. But when he assigns `colors_by_length`, that's a perfectly valid usage of lambda. It's actually an ideal example of why it exists. His `length_and_al
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Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting, a Visual Studio Code Story(code.visualstudio.com)
1 points by sephware 8y ago|0 comments
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by sephware 8y ago
Nim is fantastic, I especially like that it takes a pragmatic approach to all its features, so that it doesn't get bogged down in theory but lets you get productive with it right away. One example is that even though it says it's
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by sephware 8y ago
One thing I think CSS frameworks got wrong is mixing layout with style. At the time, maybe it was justified due to lack of layout options. But today, especially with grid, but even flexbox, layout can entirely be done by the framework'