somekyle

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by somekyle 2y ago
I feel similarly. I've been pure remote since COVID. I used to complain about having to come into the office just to stare at a screen quietly next to people. Being remote has been great in some ways, but I've really noticed the r
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by somekyle 3y ago
This is why I like more bottom-up approaches to coding. Code broken up sorta arbitrarily, that's compressed moreso than abstracted, is hard to follow. But, when there's a reasonably small set of solid domain abstractions (even ex
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by somekyle 3y ago
Hah! I was just remembering the exact same thing. His fingerprints are all over my development as a professional Java programmer.
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by somekyle 4y ago
This seems.. expected. Anything that makes something easier is gonna annoy some people for whom the difficulty was part of the point.
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by somekyle 4y ago
An underrated factor in this conversation is implementation effort. Javascript is arguably the most widely run interpreted language in the world. Pre-Chrome, JS was uniformly rather slow, but Google was betting on webapps being good and usa
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by somekyle 4y ago
I imagine it varies, but from most people I know, it's the very definition of "labor of love". It's certainly a big time and effort commitment and sometimes you'd rather not, but there's basically nothing in li
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by somekyle 4y ago
I have kids, and if I count their bedtime process as chores an hour or two isn't a particularly heavy evening.
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by somekyle 4y ago
it's funny, because I believe the author has contributed to at least 4 of these directly in his day job, and has published code for a few more. But I guess you can't buy bread with substantial contributions, if ability to buy brea
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by somekyle 4y ago
Is the point of this that you can do large-scale data processing without the overhead of distribution if you're willing to pay for the kind of hardware that can give you fast random access to all of it?
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by somekyle 4y ago
We've found this to be basically true. Git operations that stat() a lot are dramatically, catastrophically slower on OS X, and that's part of why my employer started doing fs watching there and mostly left Linux as is. More than o
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by somekyle 5y ago
Oh, I'm sure it's a problem; the reason I haven't been subjected to these problems is because I mostly deploy tools to an environment that has pre-existing build system and deployment solutions for this that I don't have
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by somekyle 5y ago
I_like_ writing CLI apps in Python, and for various reasons haven't been subjected to the packaging woes, but I think execution latency is an important thing for CLI tools, and I've had enough Python CLI tools spend most of their
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by somekyle 5y ago
Yes, overapplying directional advice is a problem, and channels aren't always the right choice, but mutexes/cond vars/atomics have always been part of Go and they've always been listed as viable options, just not usually
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by somekyle 5y ago
I think an interesting question is: can you support people and wish the best for them even if they've done a bad thing? With the exception of some particularly abhorrent things, I'm not sure I'd consider myself a friend to so
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by somekyle 6y ago
It's a harder problem to solve when you've moved across the country (or world) to work for years at companies that actively cultivated a world of "work and play at work"/"hang out after hours" with legitim