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by sjellis 9y ago
If anyone is interested in SICP, I strongly recommend finding videos of the lectures (which are free online) and watching those, then going back to the book for reference and exercises. I found the SICP book very hard work until I discovere
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We are luckier than we deserve that Mozilla exists. If it was necessary to re-implement a modern Web browser completely from scratch today, it would probably take someone with the level of commitment of Richard Stallman to make it happen.
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Awesome. I literally started writing a small tool for managing state yesterday, because we really do need smarter ways to move application datasets around.
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"Pipenv solved the most annoying problem Python had before: inconvenient version isolation. Dependencies were installed globally by default, and virtualenv was too cumbersome to use easily. Pipenv solves all of those headaches." I
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"Right now I'm probably using a bunch of language features in different projects that are still proposals. I have a few handwoven .babelrc's in different projects that use all manner of things." This is one of the main r
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"In VB.net I feel like I'm slowly reexperiencing the joy I've felt in my earlier days of programming." Ruby was the first language that I experienced that got out of the way, so I felt like I could think about what I was
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"Linux on a laptop still seems like an endless stupid time hole - I had the Ubuntu installer reliably kernel panic on me the other day." Reading comments like this, I can't help but feeling that somebody is missing a trick he
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This is probably the single most useful post that I have ever seen.
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"Programming isn't just for programmers, but useful for everybody who has to use a computer as any a part of their job (which is verging on everybody)." VBA does not get much respect, but there are probably a vast number of a
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"I vehemently disagree. The whole SWE/DevOps trend isn't super popular once you leave Silicon Valley. At the end of the day, most businesses still use Windows, and most IT staff are telling people how to print correctly and r
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"When Microsoft abandons a platform you better as well." This is one of the reasons why I am deeply skeptical of UWP. It looks like a Microsoft-only show, and Microsoft frequently strongly support a platform right until they chang
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If you are referring to the package management stuff in PowerShell, that's just a unified interface to several different package management systems, each of which handles specific types of packages. Windows has MSI, VSIX, PowerShell mo
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"It's like they're trying to get a record by not doing that. For years I've been baffled why Notepad at the very least couldn't understand unix line endings." Probably the same reason that the CMD shell is so b
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"The web has seen more transformations in terms of what is an "app" or a "website" in 8-10 years than ANY OTHER area in programming. It is only natural that widely different tasks need widely different tools to work
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> Tools that let people leverage what they already know will always do better than those that require a whole bunch of learning up-front to use. Electron is just the latest example. Yes. In "Code Complete", Steve McConnell argu
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From the release notes, arguably the best feature: "There are no substantive changes to the language." Seriously, Go is not a perfect language, but I have come to really appreciate the stance that the Go team have taken on stabili
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"I wish they launched an OS that has bare minimum interruption with things I do not care about. I seriously do not need anything from an OS than just a super lightweight interface to interact with applications and filesystems. Why is i
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To be honest, I think that it hurts Microsoft more than anyone else. It means that corporate desktops using VDI, and presumably Web kiosks, now have to use a third-party browser. In some cases, Edge literally can't be an organization-w
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The situation with Microsoft Edge is strange. Not only is Microsoft Edge not available for older versions of Windows, it is not supported on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Windows 10 LTSB, or, most importantly, Windows Server editions. Virtual
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"I do have a github account, but the publicly available stuff is just a bunch of garbage from me tinkering with new technologies or whatever." Speaking as an interviewer, that's actually still pretty valuable: it tells me a l
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> Why can't the industry finally just drop stupid whiteboard coding and move on to more practically focused questions? Cynically, I wonder if it's sometimes because it's a crutch for the interviewers. Like anything else, i
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There's a lot of really interesting things in this post, but I'm only going to pick up one point: "As you move up the sophistication spectrum, developers begin to experience "cognitive dissonance" when considering h
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"Perhaps Azure needs to work on marketing? Is there a legitimate reason Azure isn't getting more traction in the non-enterprise world? I mean that as a totally serious question, not in a dickish way. Is it because it has the Micro
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> If your only experience with CloudFormation is hand-written JSON, it's worth another look. Strongly agree. YAML and sensible formatting conventions really do transform the usability of CloudFormation.
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"I don't know why people compare MVC-framework-X-that's-inspired-by-Rails'-foundations-and-fundamentals to Rails. Rails isn't great because MVC. Rails is great the vast and mature tooling and ecosystem that exists i
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"As an aside, one silly thing that tarnished Mozilla's brand for me was the treatment of Brendan Eich. I may not agree with his donation of money but I think impinging on his rights is a far more fundamental immorality than what h
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I've been wondering if there would ever be a killer feature that would make ARM-based servers really compelling, and now I'm starting to think that we have one. Intel are handing ARM a massive opportunity with the IME issues.
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"Google/Amazon/Microsoft have the muscle to actually do something about this, but no motivation. I'm surprised that they even trust Intel - it would take one high-profile security breach to turn their respective Cloud Co
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Speaking as an ops person, my first thought is that you have technical or architecture debt. Obviously, big and/or very rapidly growing systems will hit limits and need constant attention, but these days designing most applications to
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Packaging Rust for Fedora/RH distributions is a work in progress ATM: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Packaging_Rust_applic...

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