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by tarkin2 6y ago
That's my experience. At the start I followed design patterns religiously. I was proud that I'd use those patterns. I wrote about them. I told employers. They employers were impressed. The code was an over-engineered mess. But it
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Came to say that - ctrl-a [ - move to the text you want - press space to start selection - press space to end selection - go to another screen, ctrl-a ] to paste copy mode and scrollback in gnu screen is great to quickly scan tail -f comman
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by tarkin2 6y ago
After all the crazy engineering ideas they used a load of tugboats when the tide was good? Not as sexy as a nuclear warhead though, eh. I feel like there's something to be learnt about computer engineering. We naturally go towards ego-
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by tarkin2 6y ago
git subtree They came about because everyone hates submodules.
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Killing Google Reader has to be one of the worst developer relations disasters at Google. It killed A LOT of goodwill.
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Vaguely off topic, but why do so many programmers use substack and medium to write about programming? Why not use their own programming skills to create their own website, rather than consume a service? I used to love visiting programmers&#
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Do you think the "Run anywhere" marketing behind Java is rarely important? Java programs normally sit on a server, or many servers of the same arch. The decent thing is that someone can build a JVM for a new architecture and lots
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Java is rarely used for sexy stuff like front-ends or (increasingly) apps. Java is, however, used for services. Bank logins, search engines (Google originally used it), insurance systems. C#, C++ and Rust are in the same area. But Java, for
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Yeah. This is my interest. I don't want to a cluster of likes and tweets. But I do want link notifications. I need to rely to Google for this currently.
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by tarkin2 6y ago
By being part of a group, or likely groups, their individual actions can be ascertained.
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I failed to see how flocks (cohorts) change the dangers of tracking or targeting. Cambridge Analytica didn't want to target a person. They wanted to track people. Flocks of people.
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Why not just say: There is the symbol '*'. And when there's two integers it does one thing, and you can think about it as repeated addition. But when there's something different, it works differently. But now we're
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by tarkin2 6y ago
The only third party js I have is disqus. Is this a good alternative? I guess it doesn’t allow comments unless you mention it from your site?
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Aye. I have one. I'd just like to read other people's. And that doesn't seem so easy. The thought has been thought to death, but Google Reader really had this ability and nothing has replaced it well.
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Ask HN: How do you find personal tech blogs?
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Is the title confusing? On first read, I thought it was something that neutralizes antibodies, rather than antibodies that neutralize the virus. My layman's assumption was that the antibodies would always neturalize, so adding the adje
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by tarkin2 6y ago
And what happens when another dev can’t think of a name for their clone? What do they do then? Name it Neoneomc? The dev should have gone down the less-more-most route. Midnight commander, Twilight commander, Dusk commander, Midnight Admira
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by tarkin2 6y ago
I did part one of two of nand2tetris online. The biggest part they omitted was how flip flops work. They talk about it briefly in a end of unit video, however. They don't really talk about clock cycles in any depth, and their interacti
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by tarkin2 6y ago
How long did he wait for the signal forum to approve his account? The guy, or girl, seems rather aggressive. It's mentioned they've not slept in a while...
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Yes. They are a private company. Yes they can do what they want. And people can critizise. It was the same with Trump and it is the same now.
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Developing a pleasant community, and developing the skills and environment to deal with angry people who use the project as their punchbag, is more valuable than the code. People who nice, pleasant and diplomatic are gold, and can help shap
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Can you see what IPs are watching what videos, as with bittorrent?
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by tarkin2 6y ago
> It must feel pretty surreal to be someone that is constantly moving to different communication apps and instantly finding them pulled by anyone and everyone. It will feel exhilarating. It will enhance their victimhood, increase emotio
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Yes. But with the new contacts, when I message them, will fb see that number? (I’m guessing yes, since all the address book does it match names to numbers)
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Question about WhatsApp and contact access: I’ve turned off contact access. I can’t see the names behind the numbers. Will fb still see the numbers of the new contacts I message?
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Signal because it has better security. And Telegram because more of my friends use it. At least with telegram, I can use it, turn off contact access in WhatsApp, and not give fb my address book.
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by tarkin2 6y ago
So this is a safer alternative to Golang with smaller binaries, generics and no GC? [edit] Sorry, edited before there was a reply. You're very fast!
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Good and pithy advice. I’d expand it slightly: “Until you’re making it a third time, don’t abstract, because you won’t yet know the what or the how.”
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Abstractions, I think, should not be forced. They should evolve, parameter by parameter, as more and more configuration is needed in the original application, until they can be effortlessly lifted to another application. Everytime I've
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by tarkin2 6y ago
Agree. And that makes it worse. The government washed their hands of responsibility - in the name of their favourite mantra "shrinking the state" - and the results are horrific to see. If government, and those who profit from thes

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