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by sidlls 4y ago
Good lord no, just no. Computer Science is not going to be the method to "complete physics." "Complete physics" isn't even a sensible phrase. Source: me, (former) physicist.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Readability and the ability to comprehend code with poor readability aren’t really related. I was having a bit of fun at the expense of FP zealots.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yes, it’s far too readable to be actual functional programming.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I like these kinds of replies that minimize the dangers China presents to the world while implying people concerned about the same are just ignorant xenophobes and racists.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I didn't. Anyone who gets any level of clearance (or it used to be this way) has to go through training and they go over all this stuff in it. They try to push the "leverage" narrative hard in them, but it's pretty clear
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by sidlls 4y ago
Most spies and subversives of this sort do it for the thrill, and because they think they can get away with it. The "leverage" you describe is sometimes employed, but it's not usually the critical factor in their decision to
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by sidlls 4y ago
The problem of which DB to use is one that can be figured out ahead of time with even modest attention to more rigorous engineering practice. But that’s not what webdevs the subject of this article do. They play guess-and-check games like t
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by sidlls 4y ago
Hopefully it doesn't turn into the dreck that the Wheel of Time series has turned out to be. And no, I'm not referring to the garbage "anti-woke" drivel that racists have peddled about the show. I'm simply referring
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by sidlls 4y ago
The “webdev” kind of person you’re talking about likely doesn’t have the same education as even a relatively unskilled “enterprise Java dev.” I think you’re overselling the complexity of using the tooling at FAANG type companies. The tech
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by sidlls 4y ago
I work at such a "tier 3" company. It's not about the complexity of the tooling or the code. Most of that is stuff the typical Enterprise Java Dev can "grok" easily enough with just a bit of a learning curve. The pr
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by sidlls 4y ago
Sorry, but no. Publishing open source software incurs a self-imposed obligation to the community to support it--and that means most of what Mr. Hickey claims aren't entitlements--or else explicitly abdicate responsibility (and thus con
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by sidlls 4y ago
I disagree with a good part of the substance of the article. Publishing open source software incurs a self-imposed obligation to do much of what Mr. Hickey says nobody is entitled to, in my opinion. If you don't want that responsibilit
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by sidlls 4y ago
Even if it did run afoul of labor regulations, it's damn near trivial for a business to find a justification ("new information", "changing market conditions", etc.) for a change of plans.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Email filters don’t work if the senders don’t respect convention, don’t use context-appropriate content, etc. I consider my work email to be spam, basically.
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by sidlls 4y ago
There's a great way to work in software without hurting for money: stop giving away labor for free. I can and will judge them, especially the ones who complain about this money specifically because of their choices.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I couldn't lose any more respect: I have almost none for people who devalue my labor the way these people do. To see them then complain when one of the corporations they give their labor to for free offers them a pittance in return is
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yes, like PHP. In so many ways.
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by sidlls 4y ago
People try to use JavaScript for so many things because it's (surface-level) inexpensive, not because it's good at anything.
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by sidlls 4y ago
It's not an assumption , it's an assertion . I don't necessarily agree with it, but it's not ludditism to oppose the use of technology (new or old) in a way one believes is exploitative or harmful.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I think you underestimate the ability of Fortune 500 IT departments to lock down laptops and workstations. It's difficult, but far from too difficult.
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by sidlls 4y ago
It's a little disingenuous, in my opinion, to compare earnest opposition to exploitative or dangerous use of new technology to a ludditism.
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by sidlls 4y ago
In the US? Almost everything.
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by sidlls 4y ago
It can’t be that simple. The function in the GP is not an original idea and is far too simple to merit protection just by slapping a license on it.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Even api docstring comments are generally terrible. They aren’t sufficient and the infatuation with automatic documentation in our industry is terrible.
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by sidlls 4y ago
You must have been using some alternate-universe Jira. The Jira installations I've had to suffer with fall over bulk editing a handful of issues. I've never seen a "bulk edit" like feature implemented as poorly as it is
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by sidlls 4y ago
Regulations can be made that prohibit ownership of residential properties by companies with certain structures, require that these companies list the true beneficial owner(s), etc. There will always be loopholes and attempts to find them, b
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by sidlls 4y ago
The more low-level access browsers are required to expose for application development, the worse things will be in almost every dimension, but especially security and performance.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Every comment suggesting it brings browsers closer to feature parity with apps is a great argument against the feature. Browsers aren't operating systems. Stop trying to make them be that. It has been a terrible disaster so far, and li
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by sidlls 4y ago
I have a secret heresy, in that I still prefer older systems like Perforce and even svn or, horror of horrors, cvs. I’m a bit of a dinosaur I guess.
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by sidlls 4y ago
I'm no fan of go, although I think it's better than many other languages for services, but the argument here is against the label "append", not the operation. It's a poor name for the operation, but the documentatio

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