three-cups

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   by three-cups 10y ago

   I first read SICP 10 years into my programming career. I felt like that was a good point to read the book. Any earlier and much of it would have been lost on me. But maybe this is the kind of book that you read and re-read and always find n
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   Roll your own database migrations(ian-shafer.github.io)

   2 points by three-cups 11y ago|0 comments
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   Configuration, Part 2(ian-shafer.github.io)

   1 points by three-cups 11y ago|0 comments
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   Configuration(ian-shafer.github.io)

   1 points by three-cups 11y ago|1 comments
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   by three-cups 11y ago

   I guess I never found manual dependency resolution to be that big of a problem.
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   by three-cups 11y ago

   Fair point. But I'd say the dependency management in maven is actually more of a hassle than it's worth. For me, I understand jars in a lib directory well enough. Dependency management can become complicated pretty fast (e.g. vers
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   by three-cups 11y ago

   It may be standard for Java, but I wouldn't say it's simple. I'll give you an example. Say I want to use protobufs. There are a couple prerequisites: 1) I have to know the protobuf syntax. 2) I have to know how to compile the
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   by three-cups 11y ago

   I would love to see more projects embrace this method of development as a lowest-common-denominator. I'd be great to be able to download a library and build it using the least number of tools. For a Java project, this might just be jav