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by tmcb 7y ago
My impression is that he meant Gen Z did not have the chance to witness the alleged deterioration of the software industry, hence, can't tell how bad is it.
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by tmcb 7y ago
I was thinking about that over the weekend and it crossed my mind that the software industry doesn't the "blue-collar buffers" that other industries have. This may sound elitist, but it is just the contrary. We are systematic
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by tmcb 7y ago
That specific case may seem too radical, but there is some logic in moving to a different country with less promising job prospects if, say, your home country is ravaged by war or by systemic violence. Also, citizens of countries with fickl
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by tmcb 7y ago
Let me know if that is what you are looking for: https://web.hypothes.is/ As an example, WikiWikiWeb ( http://wiki.c2.com/ ) has integration with it. I've never used it, but it seems quite powerful.
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by tmcb 7y ago
I don’t have any compelling evidence at hand, but professionals on STEM fields usually seem compelled to engage on career-related activities off their work hours, which is pretty much impossible during childbearing years.
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by tmcb 7y ago
> The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reported on Jan 6th 2020: "The Desert Locust situation remains extremely serious in the Horn of Africa where it threatens pastures and crops in Ethiopia, Somalia and
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by tmcb 7y ago
Not too far from my personal experience, but it seems to me that all these mismatch scenarios arise when you are programming in the large, either directly or indirectly, i.e., by using third-party libraries, code snippets or even RESTful AP
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by tmcb 7y ago
Not really, I think. "[O]utside of the browser on the host computer" implies that there are other possible ways in which JavaScript could execute, one of those inside of the browser on the host computer, which is pretty much the e
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by tmcb 7y ago
This covers so much more things than you actual question, but let me try. You must realize that self confidence is not about thinking you are the best on what you do, but making sure that you are trying to do your best at every opportunity
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by tmcb 7y ago
Not a very original suggestion, but the original book (“A Programming Language”, by Ken Iverson) would probably fit in.
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by tmcb 7y ago
This is partly what I was trying to convey with the "turning this aphorism into a question" fragment. Sometimes it is just not possible, or it is too expensive, to increase hardware performance. Premature optimization, or at least
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by tmcb 7y ago
I read somewhere else yesterday that “it’s easier to throw hardware at a problem than people.” It certainly does not hold true for all cases, but turning this aphorism into a question seems to give us some good heuristics---provided you do
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by tmcb 7y ago
Somebody with better knowledge of that will hopefully chime in. My impression is that most of the distributions either don't patch upstream besides the build recipes, and upstream maintainers turn a blind eye to that. The ones that do,
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by tmcb 7y ago
It is not about having the right to fork under the same name only, but also having the ability to apply small patches to the code without going to the great lengths of rebranding everything---of course we can discuss if changing a single bi
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by tmcb 7y ago
> Surely this is different from a stateless pipeline of functions where data is put into the front of the pipe And a new value pops out of the other end of the pipe. By no means I want to sound inquisitive, but, if it is different, how i
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by tmcb 7y ago
Mutable state is an implementation detail. It is tricky, it induces confusion, maybe it should be avoided whenever possible. But if you are using a physical computer, that is all that you have. And, in those very same computer implementatio
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by tmcb 7y ago
I don’t think so. My hopes here are that, in having two orthogonal code bases in extremely different languages, there would be no chance that typed and untyped code intertwine, hence compromising typing accuracy. I regard this possibility
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by tmcb 7y ago
I can't see how they do, sorry. In fact, they complement each other. The usual static typing mechanisms I mentioned force you to approach a problem with their specific mindset, very much like math problems that add unreasonable const
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by tmcb 7y ago
Static typing is not at all bad; usual static typing mechanisms are, due to the fact that most of them force you into designing your types before you even have a working prototype. (If you should first understand your problem before you wri
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Software Faults in Evolving a Large, Real-Time System: A Case Study (1992) [pdf](users.ece.utexas.edu)
1 points by tmcb 7y ago|0 comments
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by tmcb 7y ago
I see. In that case, the output is right and the comment is misleading.
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by tmcb 7y ago
Looks like the comment is zero-indexed as well. I wouldn't consider that a typo.
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by tmcb 7y ago
I would like to recommend Kona[1] as well. It is an open-source K implementation, with some small differences. [1] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
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by tmcb 7y ago
You shouldn't feel intimidated by their density. Both J and K are extremely approachable languages, but you need to try them an open mind and act as if you didn't know a thing about good coding practices. With time you will realiz
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by tmcb 8y ago
On the same line, let me recommend you a book: "The Design of the Unix Operating System," by Maurice J. Bach. If I am not mistaken, Mr. Bach was a member at Bell Labs. My personal take on the book is that the kernel was meant to b
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Against Librarization(write.as)
3 points by tmcb 8y ago|1 comments
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From the archives: Douglas Engelbart profile, 1994(mercurynews.com)
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WhatsApp to limit message forwarding to stop the spread of fake news(fastcompany.com)
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Engineering and Software Engineering (2010) [pdf](mcs.open.ac.uk)
63 points by tmcb 8y ago|13 comments
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Is duolingo using linguist applicants to develop free content?(reddit.com)
4 points by tmcb 9y ago|0 comments

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