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by sharpercoder 8y ago
We do need better languages, but we should get rid of languages that marginally improve. Take CoffeeScript: it pushed EcmaScript forward, but does not offer enough feature today to justify pouring enourmous man-hour resources into it. And t
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
This boils down to code removeability . A few larger classes wit large methods is in general easier to remove/refactor then a large amount of small cohesive classes with an obtuse design concept behind it. Of all the codebases I refac
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
The quality of (any) mutable e-paper tablet will boil down to: 1. writing movement-to-pixel latency (should be around 5ms) 2. writing experience (tilting support, pressure levels, anti-aliasing, ...) 3. speed of apps on the device 4. sharea
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
I imagine autonomous bicycles using gyroscopes to stay stable, highly integrated camera's with environment comprehension (Waymo off-the-shelf chips) to redistribute them over the city at night.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
Please just let me pay for not seeing ads.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
One thing with reputation systems which is not accounted for I feel in many websites, is that higher reputation must translate to higher responsibility. It's nothing other then the good ol' "With power comes responsibility&qu
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
They should be included, as it simply is a valid use-case which most likely will actually be used. However, there should be many more examples or good real-world use-cases. Lack of those concerns me.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
The market should be able to handle this. Thus, the government should create the curcumstances this can occur, which means in practice that timeslot-based tarifs should be enabled.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
"Headlines are still set by hand." I now understand where the word "typesetting" comes from.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
When discussing hydrogen cars, I particularly like the blog of Mux about this topic. Part 1: https://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/11470/why-fuel-cell-ca... Part 2: https://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net&#x2F
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
I'd like to be able to specify restrictions on type usage in Javascript. For instance, in some cases I know that my array will always be 6 items larges - no smaller, no larger, never sparse. But I can't specify this, yet it allows
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
I hope to see a pluggable markdown editor sometime. Pluggable in the sense that the syntax (lexer & parser) are highly configurable and can cater to the needs of the domain. Because in effect most websites, documents, et cetera 1) use a
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
A cent is a minor currency unit; think pro cent, aka hundred in latin, or used in common international form one-hundreth.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
We don't need both. 10 toasters is more then enough to fulfill our needs.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
I guess the culture around a language matters significantly. For instance, there is quite a specific culture around the Rust community/language. The focus on the language ergonomics is also reflected in many packages. Same goes for the
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
> [...] A good programmer builds a working vocabulary. A good programmer does language design, [...] You see this more and more in "test languages" like cucumber. These languages more explicitly allow programmers to specify dom
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
All items are equal to the second sequence. Which means, no items in "items". I could have picked a better example :P
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
With many languages adopting LINQ object querying, I find it more and more suitable to start using math's set operators for them. Many languages have almost identical behavioral sequence operators (.find in js, .Where in C#, etc) but m
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
Seems entirely reasonable; using a nuclear reactor to pump vast amounts of air into the water. While you can have high volume, it is restricted to a relatively small area only. To have noticeable impact on agricultural runoff, we need simil
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
NYT seems remote friendly, but is NYT remote non-US friendly? Front-end/Full-stack engineer from The Netherlands here.
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by sharpercoder 8y ago
Typically, I would agree. Yet, I'm fairly certain Google has good reason for doing so.
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
You assume that you need to tag manually. You assume that you are forced to do so. Currently, it's perfectly possible to put all files in a single folder. Your OS will be happy about that (except maybe some technical limitation of max
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
& , & . 🡒 & = & < ️. HN apparently does not support unicode: https://imgur.com/a/Px2z5
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
Google Desktop was indeed a great solution partially solving the tag problem in Windows. A good tagging system trumps search as you can make the results much better determinate. The ability to create your own namespace and then organize eve
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
A way to see folders & tags is to treat folders as tags but with the property that items may only be of one folder. The same happens in biology where scientists try to classify animals into one folder; a cat is put into the mammals fold
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
This is strange, considering the competition going on in this industry.
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This would be a useful feature for any programming font. I can totally imagine writing exploits through zero-width characters; smart insertion into interpreted strings (scanners/parsers) can potentially insert a security leak by an att
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
In America, I predict society to realize they need much less roads. It's much better to have less but much better quality roads. I'm unsure of how this change will get traction. I suspect states will eventually explain their infra
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
Societies (and therefore roadsystems) will adapt, because speed and safety. Roads will be changed to cater to the needs of self-driving cars; smart traffic lights, clear lining, clear signage, less leveled intersections, dedicated lanes, I
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by sharpercoder 9y ago
Google translate: https://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pre...

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