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by valbaca 5y ago
To be fair, the versions incremented at a faster rate after Java 7; one every 6 months. Java 1.0 to 5 was 8 years 5 to 8 was 10 years 8 to 11 was 4 years 11 to 17 was 3 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_h
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Dagger 2 is a fantastic lightweight DI framework that gets out of your way and keeps the errors to compile-time https://github.com/google/dagger After that you can throw in whatever libraries you want, dagger doesn&#x2
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log.txt I KISS with just a text file. I've tried other methods but only this one stuck. I like Sublime and VS Code b/c hyperlinks can be command+clicked to open. They've also never lost a single character of information, whic
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Shower thoughts are great b/c you know nearly exactly how long a shower takes, you're relaxed, doing something basically automatic, and can take longer if you need to. You can also talk to yourself. I guess what I'm saying is
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> The most insidious pattern of mindless engagement is when you're bored at the checkout line, waiting in-between meetings with nothing to do, sitting on the toilet. Just curious, why is this considered the "most insidious&quot
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> How did you first get into programming? Were any books, blogs, forums, or people particularly helpful for your growth? What is it about coding that got you hooked? First, first started with a web-page summer class in middle-school. We
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by valbaca 5y ago
Reminds me a lot of Rich Hickey's "Open Source is not about you" gist: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95... The first few paragraphs really stuck with me in how I think about t
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by valbaca 5y ago
The video has a conversation (around 54:00) about the Apple approval implications around something like a REPL. There are other apps with REPLs or coding features. Pythonista is mentioned. Figured I'd drop a link to the actual policy:
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It's pretty close with Clojure & Obj-C interop: https://github.com/phronmophobic/mobiletest/blob/main/exampl...
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That is accurate and that they chose to ignore how successful Washington state's mandates have been is very cherry-picking
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> I had given myself a project of writing my interview phone screen coding question in as many languages as I could, more as a lark, but also in 'prep' for a candidate being 'funny' when I say 'use whatever langu
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> but that aside strikes me as high praise for SQLite It's intended to be and is deserved.
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What a beautiful example of false equivalence. Union literature has special protection because it's a certain type of literature. You cannot just "replace" with what you want. Certain things are protected by law. That's
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by valbaca 5y ago
Reminders on Mac/iPhone/etc does just this. make a list and you can easily drag and drop between items to create items sub-items, collapse sublists, move them between different lists, etc.
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The sum-of-squares isn't a continuation, rather it just loops through the squared-ints generator up to the bound. call/cc is used to allow some form control and allow the loop to exit > Before the sum-of-square function does an
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by valbaca 5y ago
You might benefit from a Kinesis Freestyle Pro keyboard. The spacebar is split (the whole keyboard is actually) and all the buttons are completely configurable: remap and macros. If you don't use home and end keys, or the left-side spa
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tl;dr of the article is that the pandemic caused a major hiccup in the new-car pipeline: first people halted buying, that caused manufacturing to pause. Even when the manufacturing started again, the chip shortage came in. In general, it se
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According to the article, people who typically buy new cards started buying used.
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I'm sure online resources abound...but do you have a favorite descriptor or implementation of them? Or a particular use-case?
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by valbaca 5y ago
Author seems to have just backed into rediscovering B-trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree > To conclude, binary trees are optimal when we ignore the cost of accessing a node, but they aren’t when it becomes c
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You're right, the name of the company or FAANG-ness doesn't matter. I didn't claim only FAANG sponsorship matters, but it is important and even more important, the amount of $ does. I also never said it wasn't "real
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by valbaca 5y ago
BLUF: I love crystal and can't wait for it to get the attention I think it deserves. To give a bit of history of myself and programming languages, I first started as an EE/CS major working with ASM/C/C++/Matlab for
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by valbaca 5y ago
The old slogan used to be "Slick as Ruby, Fast as C" but I'm guessing that just invites people to constantly compare runtimes to C and be like "look! it's 50% slower when blahblahblah" when comparing 10ns to 15
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by valbaca 5y ago
Compared to the Google sponsorship of Go and the Amazon sponsorship of Rust, a few thousand from unknown vaporware companies isn't really a level comparison. (disclaimer: I was once a coffee sponsor of Crystal myself)
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The "Why?" is literally right there, in a big bold heading, directly under the goals: https://crystal-lang.org/api/1.1.0/ Crystal is a programming language with the following goals: Have a syntax similar
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"Algorithms to Live By" "The Phoenix Project" / "The Unicorn Project"
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> A bookworm has gnawed through (perpendicular to the pages) from the first page of volume 1 to the last page of volume 2. How would a worm eat perpendicular to the pages and go from the first page of volume 1 to the last page of volume
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by valbaca 5y ago
what book has no pages? Also the problems states: > The pages of each volume are 2 cm thick
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by valbaca 5y ago
Yeah, this was confusing b/c to "be short" does imply that you have some money, otherwise you're 100% short of buying anything!
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by valbaca 5y ago
Exactly. It would read better as "The weight of a brick is equal to one pound plus the weight of half an equivalent brick" i.e. x = 1 + x/2

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