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by t43562 4y ago
Passion is, I think, where you want something. Perhaps you're looking for the feeling of achievement or validation or whatever - and you're prepared to make an extra effort to get it. We have to work to get money live but since w
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by t43562 4y ago
The class struggle is the favorite argument for every form of ill in the UK. It's a culture war if you like. Once someone gets to the point of blaming something on the evil rich or the feckless layabouts then you cannot get any furth
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by t43562 4y ago
So the differences: https://docs.exaloop.io/codon/general/differences So more limited types (integers) and more type checking and collections have to have one kind of thing in them. There are other python compiler
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by t43562 4y ago
I find it quite amusing that I read the pgrok and ngrok websites (at least the front page) and cannot understand what the hell either of them do. It's like they can do almost anything...what exactly? .... well whatever you can think of
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by t43562 4y ago
My company cannot afford to demand that we are in-office. We aren't super-rich and cannot afford planet-busting salaries. So to get people we have to cast a wide net. We get people in other cities. Part of our team is in India anyhow.
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You often cannot do anything on the commute because you have walk, train, walk, bus, walk and no period is long enough to get anything useful done.
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It takes a lot of time - often with multiple changes and also costs a great deal. The only solution is to live quite close in and pay the exorbitant rent. Then during the day you're working with people in India anyhow so what's th
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by t43562 4y ago
GNU make is the only variant that matters. It's not arcane - you just don't want to learn it. You can write your own system and rediscover all the issues and resolve them if you like. If you started from understanding make, thou
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by t43562 4y ago
Well as I pointed out, it does happen e.g. in Meson. Make doesn't do any of the things you mention - it just works out what targets need to be rebuilt and the code to do it is in the rules that you have to write in a shell language lik
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Meson is a build system written in python: https://mesonbuild.com/index.html Getting python bootstrapped is less easy than getting make bootstrapped, plus python isn't a GNU tool so I don't see them adding a depen
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by t43562 4y ago
Perl was very popular and I think Python got its boost from being seen as the more sane replacement to it. At that time nothing else really offered to solve the pain of Perl in the same way except Ruby and Ruby was even slower
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by t43562 4y ago
I learned Perl first and found it incredibly useful just because of regexps but Perl programs got messy as they got larger. Python regexps are just that bit less convenient and that trivial amount matters but in python I feel that once you
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by t43562 4y ago
If adding an operation is the common case then optimise for that. If adding new shapes is the common case then ... You might feel that there are infinities of potential shapes out there but not really infinities of operations.
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by t43562 4y ago
One can be tempted to like any assault on "Uncle Bob"'s insulting videos in the light of working on a codebase where every 2nd line forces you to jump somewhere else to understand what it does. That sort of thing generates a
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by t43562 4y ago
What about documented APIs that are flawed? I'm not an iOS programmer but let's imagine an API that requires an SHA-1 signature ... so those become insecure and the API is dropped - or an API that offers an SSLv1 connection and th
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by t43562 4y ago
OK, but how many people soldier on with the old version? Programmers have to be paid every month whether or not people decide to renew.
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The companies just do what people want - new phones, more capabilities. People will pay up for new physical gadget but not support, so the money is only coming from making new models. The number of old models gets bigger all the time but
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by t43562 4y ago
The point of fixing security holes is sometimes to make it not possible to do certain things which applications may have been written to "expect". There's a bit of not being able to have your cake and eat it.
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by t43562 4y ago
I learned go and that was unusual enough in London to make me more attractive to a company that needed it. I took a few steps back in salary from where I had been to get a job in a new technology area. Now I earn more. I don't have an
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by t43562 4y ago
California has a bill right now to do with preventing hidden pricing so you cannot argue that its' not an issue. We also have those problems so we don't need to "be scared by stories in the US" as we experience them. As
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I think the easiest definition of Software is the stuff you can change without a soldering iron.
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Possibly but maybe only if the conflicts were ones in which NATO was involved. Some French involvement in Mali or whatever might not count and might even conflict with the national interests of other Nato members.
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There is a fabulous TV Series with Michael Gambon as Maigret which has an wonderful atmosphere. Given that they're not actually speaking French the whole thing creates a very appealing and world to imagine them in and I get the feelin
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by t43562 4y ago
That is a spin which leaves out the moralising I think. This is a newspaper quote: "A senior Ukrainian presidential aide has reacted with anger after Elon Musk’s SpaceX said it had taken steps to prevent its Starlink satellite communic
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The flip side of it is exploitative large commercial almost-monopolies which do their best to make you spend money you shouldn't on things you don't need. Markets full of almost exactly the same deal dressed up so many different w
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It's not good enough for them because Musk seems to be limiting its use in line with his political views.
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Science fiction becoming reality. By the time it's in use on the moon nobody will be amazed by it. The same way nobody is amazed to hold a tiny world-communicator in their hand and communicate with people on the other side of the plane
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by t43562 4y ago
I don't want to like tcl at all but it's asbsurdly easy to embed in C and has very powerful constructs once you get used to them and no Global Interpreter Lock like python. So there was a discussion about why people still use C or
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Stderr output does not indicate that a program has failed. It's just a communication channel to the user that's not affected when you pipe or redirect stdout. So useful for programs where to want to make sure that data doesn&#x2
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What's important to me is that I can feed a huge amount of data generated by one process into another process without ever having to write it to disc. This is important in a practical rather than theoretical way. As for structured data

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