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by t43562 3y ago
To me the interest in this would be as a replacement for bash in makefiles with the hope that it could be cross platform and not require most of the utilities like sed/awk etc. It's an enormous pain to write x-platform builds wit
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by t43562 3y ago
We presume that what software does is far more important than how. There's a cost to waiting for a feature to be done your ideal way to your ideal standards - that's the cost of all the people not being able to use it while you ad
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by t43562 3y ago
You cannot rivet aluminium that you don't have presumably.
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by t43562 3y ago
Not with the same constraints. How often does your program expect to run out of memory for example? On phones at that time it was expected to be common and it was absolutely essential that it be handled gracefully. Were all your operating s
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by t43562 3y ago
C++ was a total disaster for one reason and everything came out of this: It cannot handle running out of memory safely. Handling an out of memory exception requires memory. 50% of the nastiness came out of the way Symbian tried to address
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by t43562 3y ago
Well, in the sense that it could be built by a much more available manufacturing skill and more available materials. I know that's not about ease for the workers but it made production much easier overall.
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by t43562 3y ago
I think the interesting things about the mosquito are really that it was designed for manufacture in a sense and that it was very high performance too. It was multipurpose AND high performance. I just think we might tend always to try to sp
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by t43562 3y ago
It has idiosyncracies because it's not a general purpose language. Even the things that she mentions are happening for good reasons - like the fact that set -x would break the expected behavior of || and &&. Actually what lang
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by t43562 3y ago
My experience is that tests model the expected behaviour and that type systems cannot. Therefore I get lots of value out of tests where types are an impediment. Static typing from the beginning just sets me into a big design up front proble
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by t43562 3y ago
I also don't want to get into a debate about something where there's no chance of changing an opinion. An absolute position is like a religion - it's the desire for everything to be simple, for the removal of doubt and the n
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by t43562 3y ago
You will get people who decry bashisms that pollute the bourne shell. IMO they often make things safer so I want them - like [[ ]] which works so much more expectedly than [ ]. Shells are good at starting, stopping, backgrounding processes
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by t43562 3y ago
It's more like crop rotation than a message. If you grow the same crop in a field too often then it impoverishes the soil and allows pests and diseases to build up.
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by t43562 3y ago
We have to excercise our choice whether or not we are delighted about the other options. We cannot let any party get too entrenched or feel too safe.
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by t43562 3y ago
That's how people sold communism.
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by t43562 3y ago
So far most of the objections to the article are about how being wrong has consequences. That is of course the reason why you MUST not fear being wrong: When a group of people are setting out to achieve something and succeed they must be ab
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by t43562 3y ago
You can create a less toxic bubble in work environment by effort and showing your own courage in the right settings. Some places are too bad for that to work but not all are.
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by t43562 3y ago
It has been around a long time and isn't usable for me - why should I expect it to suddenly change?
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by t43562 3y ago
I think it doesn't matter one iota - because if they won't accept lab grown meat they won't accept any other change such as making their favorite national foods out of chicken.
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by t43562 3y ago
It's useless to me as I cannot share teams desktops (at least the last time I tried). Game over totally. The idea that it's fun for some developers because they get to try things is of no use to users like me. I also question th
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by t43562 3y ago
I think its' quite common to believe that a rewrite will be wonderful and then find out that it has its own problems. The big problems are the social ones - I think the author is correct that allowing fragmentation is a big big mistake
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by t43562 3y ago
There was a time when I was working on AIX, Solaris and HPUx as well as Linux. In that situation it paid to install gnu tools everywhere (especially bash, make and sed!!) or build versions of them in my home dir so I could have them on any
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by t43562 3y ago
Flipping tools has a cost because we have to think more about it. I don't know if you've tried flipping between the windows commandline and bash several times a day but it can be quite annoying just with things like "\&quot
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by t43562 3y ago
This is the problem with all tools outside the most basic and you have to keep muscle memory for grep and ls to deal with it. Thus the fancy replacement tools have a cost. I can bear to pay that cost for "fd" (fdfind) and ripgrep
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by t43562 3y ago
Well, a sprint is a contract - people are not allowed to change the deal in the middle and if they are then the PO isn't doing their job. They're really there to defend the team from pesky customers and prioritise work so that yo
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by t43562 3y ago
Some developers are a cancer too of course - want to do things they way they choose, taking the time they choose. A lot don't want to lose their specialisation or ownership of some portion of the code. You get the senior devs who have
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by t43562 3y ago
It sounds more to me like you could have just asked for meetings to end on time and quoted why they are meant to be held standing up.
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by t43562 3y ago
Why not? I talked to customers as a dev - it's just that customers couldn't come and pester me to make me do extra work or change priorities. Is that too hard or inconvenient to understand? Scrum fits new development more than mai
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by t43562 3y ago
That's just a deliberate misinterpretation. How can you argue that way with any honesty?
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by t43562 3y ago
Well you don't know me but I am not a scrum master and I was on a team that had a great experience with it and are all still friends years after we all went to other jobs. It was the great experience of my life. I know how it worked a
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by t43562 3y ago
That argument can be used either way around so it's fairly useless. In reality we don't have good software development because people at some level or another don't want to do the things that make it possible. They're al

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