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by t43562 4y ago
Symbian was multiserver and written in C++ - I cannot compare with HelenOS but the fact that there were separate server seemed to go hand in hand with asynchronous system calls which make Linux seem a bit primitive. I'm sure it caused
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by t43562 4y ago
If a file is too big you rename it to changes.2022.md. People forget everything but you do reviews to check that presumably. with merge conflicts - if those become a problem for your project you can be more sophisticated. In one case we put
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by t43562 4y ago
It might be easier to explain things to oneself in terms of time though - we are not necessarily functional in thinking. e.g. I imagine trying to explain f(g(x)) versus g(f(x)) without using the word "first" or "then"
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by t43562 4y ago
IMO one should maintain a CHANGES.md file with whatever you would be putting in the PR description in it. There's no specific need to squash commits to do this as long as you create it just before you create the PR. Even the odd bugf
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by t43562 4y ago
I would like a stream editor that was easy to use. sed is powerful and it can work on huge files without loading them all into memory but the model it uses is very hard to understand IMO. It's such that you'll try almost anything
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by t43562 4y ago
I'm enjoying dinit in artix. I think Artix is not terribly mainstream but the dinit part of it seems easy to deal with so far. It would be interesting to see it get polished in a different distro. Living without systemd is sometimes
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by t43562 4y ago
I find collaborative debugging to be quite powerful. Whether it's duck debugging your own code or working with other people to solve a problem that isn't of your own making. It doesn't mean you are stuck in a room but it does
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by t43562 4y ago
You need the right OS underneath. Ideally something based on persistent objects like OS/400 and with the networking aspect of Plan9 so that local and remote resources can be treated the same. The GUI would need a similarly smart appro
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by t43562 4y ago
I wish I did! :-)
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by t43562 4y ago
They have done so already with their license and there's no legal reason for them to have to opt-out.
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by t43562 4y ago
There's already probation - 3 months in the UK. It doesn't make us less careful though because we don't want to waste our time.
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by t43562 4y ago
There was and still is a stigma in all countries and social security is something that had to be fought for and which is under continual attack. In the UK it's your mortgage that's the big worry - houses so expensive that you will
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by t43562 4y ago
I remember doing an exercise where a class that had just learned UML were asked to all specify the same design in it. Every diagram was completely different and many were just "wrong". It's like a language without any syntax
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by t43562 4y ago
You have already been living in the illusion that the cultural things that you consider important - artists, music, whatever - are paid much attention to in the rest of the world. Outside your own bubble you'll find that even if the m
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by t43562 4y ago
You want to be uniquely good and I think it's because we all want to feel "safe" in our tribe - as if our unique skill makes us specially valuable. Now our Tribe seems to be enormously large and it's far harder to feel s
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by t43562 4y ago
I don't want to be mean. I do notice sometimes that "small text editors" have a habit of becoming more and more "fully featured" until they're not small anymore.
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by t43562 4y ago
Zimbabwe has faced sanctions regularly - it's of little interest because it doesn't really disempower the elite.
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by t43562 4y ago
I think this just means that the UK VCs are far far far too late. And they're late for some reason - it doesn't take insight to follow a well established trend.
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by t43562 4y ago
Well, the nerds aren't the super rich here. It's still about public schools and old money and people who studied law or the classics or at least graduated from Oxbridge. The big money in software is all from the world of finance
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by t43562 4y ago
Zimbabwean here: our elite will take money from whoever will give it and make nice noises and when the time comes to pay it back in some way that involves and actual cost to themselves..........will find the next donor. The Chinese (and any
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by t43562 4y ago
AC is Alternating Current to some of us ;-)
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by t43562 4y ago
I feel this is a profound statement - I'm unreligious and yet that aspect of some religions (forgive others that you may be forgiven) seems highly sensible and you have effectively completed the explanation of why it is sensible.
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by t43562 4y ago
It's just as well to produce releases every so often to prove that its' still possible. That is an aspect of safety - lets say some security problem arises in a library that your code uses - the more uptodate your code the greater
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by t43562 4y ago
Very much so. I've spent a lot of time trying to decipher code and the biggest questions are usually "why is it doing this" and "what's this large piece of code indended to do". Reverse-engineering all that can
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by t43562 4y ago
I would have enjoyed this but didn't understand it. I think the main problem is that I didn't understand what they meant by tyres "being flat" so the rest of it was impossible to grok.
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by t43562 4y ago
I really do think it's unfortunate that the OS cannot keep something like a "write count" for each file. That would be enough. Possibly it would even be good enough to know the number of times a file had been opened for writ
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by t43562 4y ago
I think the obvious bullshit in this is in companies which outsource overseas. Somehow it's fine to work remotely with people in India or China but it's not ok to work with someone in your own timezone....
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by t43562 4y ago
Firstly it would be persistent - so you'd never need to write SQL or file handling code again. Want to save a map or list or object of some kind? Just reference it from the root object (can be indirectly) and it is magically there the
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by t43562 4y ago
There are programmers and there are apps that people are using in large numbers so work will graduate to wherever it has a chance of getting eyeballed. Whether or not this is desirable is immaterial. We work to get paid and we have to find
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by t43562 4y ago
Bad developers write code that has a negative impact on team prouctivity. e.g. by insisting on a wildly overcomplicated implementation or writing poor tests and being aggressive to anyone that questions them, or being highly negative about

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