tarkin2

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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   Browsers have improved to the point where VirtualDOM is basically unneeded.
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   It’s gone from £0 £1000 £3000 £9000 in my lifetime. The education hasn’t improved. Nor has the job prospects. Outside about three outstanding universities, and a few with good specialties, the rest are average at best.
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   Edit. I shouldn’t post on waking up!
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   The more code/less code debate can be seen in language learning. Initially, you're happy you can use a large amount of language well. Later, you're happy if you can articulate yourself in as few words as possible. I would pre
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   Panics, Manias and Crashes [1] tells a good story about him and his schemes. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367596.Manias_Panics_and...
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   I used to say Computer Science is not about computing, nor is it about science. But Nand2Tetris changed that slightly. When you realise the fundamentals are loops, data, comparisons, addition, negative numbers and instructions of those then
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   Between working for a startup and a corp, I can't say I have massive emotions either way now. I'd definitely suggest working for a startup at one point, but not for too long, while taking care of your physical and emotional state.
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   There’s something about giving someone op. It’s like the electric shock power experiment: people generally end up abusing it. This, though, doesn’t seem as pronounced in online forums. I have a lot of good memories from IRC but it did creat
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   by tarkin2 5y ago

   IRC seems like drama central. I can’t say I understand the detail of this takeover and split. But the tone of all the messages are very dramatic. Why is that? Is it something inherent in the aggregated community of mods, channels and server
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    It's not a public square. It's a private house open to the public.
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    I read the wikipedia page on shellcodes a few days ago. It said the first thing they do is find a way of phoning home.
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    Override support, no? function f() { function g() { return 1 } return { g } } function f1(f) { function g() { return f.g() + 1 } return { g } } f1(f())
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    I agree copying values is not massively smart. (Used for simplicity of example) But copying function pointers seems negligible. I can’t see this being avoided even in traditional oops.
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    If you want to understand how a distribution works, I can't think many better distributions. I have a lot of fond memories of slackware. I eventually switched to debian when, I think, I had troubles getting vmware to work. I'm hap
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    Inheritance in the OOP sense can be simply implemented in most languages without OOP. In Javascript: var o1 = { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3 } var o2 = { x: 1, y: 2, z: 3 } o1 = Object.assign(o1, o2) o1.z // 3 o1 has now inherite
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    UML died alongside the waterfall method. UML, especially defining the method names et al, before you coded anything was an extreme of the waterfall method. I think generating UML from code could have been useful. But I was much more likely
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    If I had a mental s/Daily Mail/Reputable Newspaper/g I'd be able to give this article a little more time. The Daily Mail do seems, from my anecdotia, to be gaming the system. I suspect few would care if Google gave manip
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    You can also log requests and filter out obvious bots. Reading the logs, and using basic filters, gives you a decent idea very quickly. I suspect Google Analytics became so popular because people stopped running their own servers. And these
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    by tarkin2 5y ago

    Proper language support? But it's CPS passing functions rather than returning values, no? So lookup( "key", table, result => { ... }, error => { ... } ) or lookup( "key", table ).the
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    And time. Let's not forget time. Years of Django's ORMs has given our app over a hundred tables. Complex and /fast/ queries are next to impossible. Django's ORM made app development lightening quick for the first de
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    I have one of those queries. It's the most important in the database sadly. As django bloats and bloats the table space, over the years, more and more do I need those queries, and slower and slower becomes my app.
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    First there was Ant. Ant was bad. Then there was Maven. Maven bad less bad. But still bad. Then there was Gradle. Gradle was even less bad. But still bad. Show me the build tool - I'll show you the bad. My main gripe is that it changed
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    I want to concentrate on my code, and only my code. I only split the coding window since an entire line is too long.
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    I use both gnu screen and dwm as full screen managers. The only exception is vim, where I have a split term: code one side - running program with error output on the other. If I split the screen anymore it becomes both too fiddly and the pa
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    Something more like “And now you can do this” rather than “And now you know how it works “. The docs for using nix as a package manager are decent. But the rest, less so. They’re a recursive rabbit hole of confusion.
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    I tried to learn before. But the docs made it incredibly hard. They went into excruciating detail of how it works. I still never made my own nix package. I’m wondering as a solo dev, who uses his personal machine, and two servers, if the ha
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    A very good point. Signal's tying encrypted messages and phone numbers to a publicly available ledge of transactions?
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    * NAND2Tetris - https://www.nand2tetris.org/ Teaches you how computers, languages and operating systems work from basic principles * Little Schemer, Seasoned Schemer Teaches you about the power of functions, recursion, vari
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    I'm sure tmux is great. But I've never seen the need to change. I'd happily read an article that shows me the benefits of changing.
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    by tarkin2 6y ago

    Publicly reprimanding past, present and future colleagues in order to boost your own standing by setting goal posts may be a bit of red flag, for my money at least. Writing about specific issues, with examples, to teach a general-rule, idea