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by sjamaan 1y ago
I was ranting exactly the same just yesterday. Nowadays UI designers seem to have forgotten all about affordances. Back in the day you had drop shadows below buttons to indicate that they could be pressed, big chunky scrollbars with two lin
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by sjamaan 1y ago
GPL doesn't help you one bit in this particular situation, because "regular users" would still be using the locked-down stock Android that came with their device. So they still can't install your app. Anyone who is alrea
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by sjamaan 1y ago
That really helps, indeed
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by sjamaan 1y ago
> If your parents present you with your first computer when you're five years old, and it drops you to a bash prompt, and that's all you have, then you'll probably know considerably more than everyone else just from that b
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by sjamaan 1y ago
Same for me with Dzongkha: cha (ཅ) / chha (ཆ) and tsa (ཙ) / thsa (ཚ). I can aspirate the second of these fine, so that's not the problem. Hearing the difference is. This also makes it harder to remember the spelling as I mix
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by sjamaan 1y ago
It's not really your computer anymore...
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by sjamaan 1y ago
> It's just an example, extrapolate python to everything tech that is needed for us to have a healthy relationship with tech. Perhaps that's also a reason why - tech is so large, there's no time in a traditional curriculum
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by sjamaan 2y ago
I suppose the better response is that it removes those classes of bugs where they are absolutely unnecessary. Tricky code will always be tricky, but in the straightforward 80% (or more) of your code such bugs can be completely eliminated. I
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by sjamaan 2y ago
You can always rent a conference room for an hour or so somewhere in between.
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by sjamaan 2y ago
I like this idea of making the soft skills explicit. Both to the interviewers and the candidate (i.e. in the job posting itself). This would save everyone involved a lot of time, too!
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by sjamaan 2y ago
I also had to do a double-take at the blatant falsity of this statement. Software estimation is only hard when it's the first time you're doing it. Unfortunately, most software is a first-time. There are very few specialty shops
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by sjamaan 2y ago
2. hasn't happened in Europe, where it's famously hard to fire people. Why would this happen in the US?
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by sjamaan 2y ago
If you have worked at a few companies and left on good terms, it shouldn't be that hard to contact them so you can go back. Otherwise, previous co-workers will be able to help out as well.
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by sjamaan 2y ago
It's only reckless if you go full force right away. Test the waters with a light load to get the blood flow going, then increase weight as you feel the area is healing/getting stronger. Stop adding load or deload when it starts to
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by sjamaan 2y ago
This bothered me too, reading it and the sample implementations I've found so far just bail out. I thought one of the benefits of hash tables was that they don't have a predefined size?
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by sjamaan 2y ago
It's weird. Everybody finds ads obnoxious (at least some of the time), yet it's allowed and not only that, it's proliferated in recent years. You'd think something universally disliked would be legislated away. I wish mo
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by sjamaan 2y ago
I dunno man. I just went on a tour of two schools for my daughter here in the Netherlands. They both use Chromebooks for their students as cheap machines that can be easily replaced. Those don't run Windows. Many "regular" fo
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Only if you consider web apps have become so complex that it requires a container to wrap up the complexity.
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by sjamaan 2y ago
MySQL doesn't care about your data. There are many places where it silently truncates, "helpfully" tries to "do the right thing" and so on. It used to have very impoverished data types. At least that has been mostly
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Apropos, this crossed my feedreader today: https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/mid-senior-clojure...
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Clojure is fairly popular (I'm using it at work, though I'd prefer Scheme of course)
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Crunch doesn't have any of these. That's CHICKEN you're thinking of, but CRUNCH explicitly does not require CHICKEN.
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by sjamaan 2y ago
You believe correctly
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Crunch – a Scheme compiler with a minimal runtime(more-magic.net)
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by sjamaan 2y ago
It's very similar to the situation in the nineties where Microsoft used their OS monopoly to push Internet Explorer "for free". You could make the same argument there "now consumers have free access to an internet browse
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Let's hope they just keep doing what they're doing, it's a great way to get the public to call for tearing down this ugly censorship^Wanti-piracy system.
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by sjamaan 2y ago
There is one! "The secret life of cats", see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4026336/
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Perhaps the siren song of "isomorphic JS", where you can run the same code on the server and on the client? I can see the use case for having complex model and validation code running on the client for speedy feedback and on the s
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Indeed - the luck of being born in the right family and not getting caught, respectively.
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by sjamaan 2y ago
Like the other brands are any better...

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