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by ubertaco 4y ago
I realize that "Guido van Possum" was almost certainly a typo here, but it _does_ make for an amusing mental image. I wonder what other forest creatures might have built programming languages? C++ built by Björn "the bear&quo
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by ubertaco 4y ago
For folks employed by Salesforce, the phrase "Trust is our number 1 value" only comes up in two contexts: 1. company all-hands meetings, which are basically pep rallies with no actual content 2. when someone working at Salesforce
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by ubertaco 4y ago
This article resonates pretty deeply with me, an engineer at a different company Salesforce acquired years ago that, like Heroku, "had resisted integration into the larger Salesforce organization and as a result was really really starv
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I don't think the author is quite saying "this is wrong". It seems like he's more saying "this is an oversimplification, and the reality is a more-nuanced version of that statement" -- specifically, that rather
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by ubertaco 5y ago
I did a `curl https://plaintextsports.com/mls/standings ` and, to my surprise, got an HTML response back (rather than just plaintext data). Seems like this isn't actually plaintext (as in the mimetype `text/pl
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by ubertaco 5y ago
I wonder if it's a "raised barrier to entry" to prevent low-effort drive-by PRs. I have a couple of extremely-small OSS libs that are available in public package repos and are hosted on Github, and even those have gotten the
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by ubertaco 5y ago
This is probably the best description I've seen of any sort of "metaverse for businesses" nonsense.
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by ubertaco 5y ago
Mozilla, committed to carbon-neutrality in specific ways, mentioned accepting Bitcoin as a donation currency, and her conclusions were: 1. Mozilla doesn't care about the environment, and 2. I should drop Firefox and use Apple's br
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by ubertaco 5y ago
Depends on how long the time is between commit and live-in-production, and on how severe the impact is. And also on the number of developers committing changes to the same codebase/app. If it takes you >20 minutes from when you comm
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by ubertaco 5y ago
My workplace uses LastPass as the "blessed" password manager that's recommended by the security team. It's a nightmare. I've given up on it entirely and would never trust it again, after encountering this flow sever
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by ubertaco 5y ago
>I doubt Tesla managed to game GlassDoor but no one else has. Uh, gaming GlassDoor is pretty common practice. A not-insignificant number of companies tie either carrots (small bonuses) or sticks (a condition of continued employment) to e
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by ubertaco 5y ago
I've had the opposite experience; I've used the same Bluetooth headphones, mouse, and keyboard with two work machines (a MacBook and a Linux tower) and my personal Windows machine. Windows is rock-solid, just works with no problem
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by ubertaco 5y ago
>The clock doesn't remove the local times and replace them with UTC You're right, this clock doesn't remove the local times and replace them with UTC; instead this clock overlays the local times with a replacement "A-
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by ubertaco 5y ago
The thing about the hour -- the part that's being abstracted away here -- is that (in most cases) it carries semantic meaning about daylight and thus about "waking-world" and circadian-rhythm expectations. Yes, with timezones
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by ubertaco 5y ago
>Hopefully, OCaml 5.0 will then be released between March and April 2022. Just to call out expectation-setting here in the comments: yes, the MVP of multicore will ship in OCaml 5.0, but OCaml 5.0 will ship no sooner than March 2022 (and
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by ubertaco 5y ago
The fact that all three examples you listed are iOS Safari is giving me flashbacks to a previous job where we had way more time spent coming up with ugly hacks to make iOS Safari like something behave closer to a decent browser than we spen
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by ubertaco 5y ago
> There is no interpreter or VM, all of the code is converted directly into native machine code. This means you can expect better efficiency than Lua. However, this also means that Nelua cannot load code generated at runtime. The user is
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by ubertaco 5y ago
Does Scala still have "the Scala problem" where learning a new Scala codebase is roughly equivalent to learning an entirely new programming language?
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by ubertaco 5y ago
"Featherwing" is a bit more unambiguous to google than "Wingfeather"[0] at this point. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wingfeather_Saga
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by ubertaco 5y ago
Though the Steam Deck notably doesn't come with a dock. The dock isn't for sale yet, but will be sold separately later.
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by ubertaco 5y ago
I very recently (last week) applied some of the "how do I unbreak my system" lessons I learned from back when I was a teenager messing around with AMD's old proprietary fglrx drivers (and screwing things up on my personal mac
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by ubertaco 5y ago
Oh, is this that "next-gen Storm" project that Twitter built? Seems like they've finally given it to Apache, like they did with Storm after buying the company that built it. Based on a quick Wikipedia skim, looks like the ans
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by ubertaco 5y ago
Maybe a hot take here, but as someone who works for Salesforce, if the Salesforce acquisition goes through, my guess is that most of Slack's time for a while will be occupied on pushing through tight coupling to Salesforce systems in t
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by ubertaco 5y ago
More broadly, it sounds to me like the general principle is "are you engaging in some activity which is a shameful secret for you, and which could thus be used to gain leverage over you by threatening to expose that secret?" Part
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by ubertaco 6y ago
As a heads up, on the front page for the language ( https://clio-lang.org/ ), there's a "Visit our tutorial page" link that 404's. There is a tutorial though, if you go to the "Learn" link, so
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by ubertaco 6y ago
The antivaxxers of the world might be a counterexample here; for example, here's [0] a newspaper cartoon from the 30s showing "misinformation" as a cliff which "antivax" and "anti-fad" and others willingly
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by ubertaco 6y ago
Yeah, based on the really awful cases of my wife's family, the problem exists between the keyboard and the chair. When faced with fact-checking or truth that refutes their insane conspiracies, they double down and call the fact-checker
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by ubertaco 6y ago
Not trying to niptick: the web address for Advent of Code is https://adventofcode.com Thanks for posting how you get everything set up for AoC! It's always neat to see how folks tackle the problems and set up their dev envi
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by ubertaco 6y ago
Returning an object and returning an array aren't exactly new concepts in Javascript? The only relatively-new part is destructuring assignment, but that's been around since 2015, since it was added in ES6.
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by ubertaco 6y ago
As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, I think this is an inaccurate statement, as somehow numerous other mainstream languages have had ecosystems with libraries that provide backwards-compatibility, because they have real package m

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