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by vendiddy 5y ago
Understand your reaction, but I think engaging like that is more effective in dispelling a conspiracy theory than shooting it down.
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by vendiddy 5y ago
Thank you for the clear explanation. I know little about graphics, but this was easy to follow.
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by vendiddy 5y ago
Great advice. How is this managed where you are? Do you share the same code between CI and the local workstation?
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by vendiddy 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. Love Elixir, but I always found the typespecs to be a huge pain (and slow!) vs. type systems like typescript. I'd love to see experiments to replace typespecs with a more ergonomic type system.
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by vendiddy 5y ago
The diffs look beautiful. One suggestion to the author be to bundle this as a self-contained binary. This would have a huge impact on whether I want to install it. For this, I would look into Deno, which supports self contained binaries wit
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by vendiddy 5y ago
Do you have any insight into how their sales engine works? I'm curious because it's a shame that projects go to companies like Accenture when are so many qualified teams out there.
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by vendiddy 5y ago
I agree here. It feels like the popularity of git has lead us to believe that you either have to choose a clean history or the real history. But I imagine there exists a design for a source control system where you can preserve history and
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by vendiddy 5y ago
These all feel a bit indirect on how they might have a positive impact. For a job board like this, I would prefer that the companies themselves are directly working on high impact problems that are a benefit to society and the environment
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by vendiddy 6y ago
Any guides or tools for doing this? Some devs on our teams now now have M1s. I worry they won't feel the pain of slow apps if they develop with such fast computers. Meanwhile we've got a number of customers who use computers that
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by vendiddy 6y ago
I wish downvoting harder. I'd prefer a system where down voting requires selecting or writing a reason on why you are downvoting.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
This may be short-term growth at the expense of long-term sustainability. The younger generation will reach for the more affordable options like Figma, Sketch, Canva. Everyone will know how to use these tools a lot better so this these will
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by vendiddy 6y ago
If you're a leader at an organization, it's important to make people feel like it's a positive thing to make the company need you less for a particular task. At our company, we've had situations where employees automated
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by vendiddy 6y ago
Reading comments like this gives me hope. There seems to be a polarized view of "jewels are worthless, just ship" or "we need more jewels". Both perspectives are dangerous. Software-jewels have a place, but you have to b
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by vendiddy 6y ago
What makes you feel MacOS is 10x better. I am a Mac convert myself but felt like it was more of an incremental improvement for me. Maybe 1.5x?
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by vendiddy 6y ago
This 100% Better to think of these titles as "When you might need Docker" and "When you might not need Docker" so you can consider the tradeoffs rather than interpret it as a blanket statement, Docker is good/bad.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
If someone were to release an open source reference implementation with s thorough test suite, would that be able to work around the lack of a spec? And beyond that, are there any loopholes to workaround the need to pay for a spec?
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by vendiddy 6y ago
It seems like there's a lot of potential for domain specific optimization if we can improve the guessing algorithms.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
If the same class of problems need to get solved on a regular basis, could the guessing algorithm get smarter with each iteration using ML techniques? Seems like if the algorithm is applied to a particular domain, there could be efficiencie
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by vendiddy 6y ago
Interesting, is there a laymen explanation of why this might help?
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by vendiddy 6y ago
I think the selection some improvement improvements needed reach a native-feel. For example, interactions like triple-click to select a line. However I think the decision to make text selection opt-in makes sense from the context of an appl
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by vendiddy 6y ago
We are using Flutter at our company and it's far from a black box if you get stuck. For example, try going to a TextField widget and use go-to-definition view the source source code. You can go very far down the go-to-definition hole.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
And fwiw, the full quote is: We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
We use event sourcing in a business application. Event sourcing, at it's core, is making sure your source of truth is a log of events and your app state is derived from that. Beyond those constraints, there are many variations of how i
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by vendiddy 6y ago
Many who complain about tech companies using open source without giving back will also complain when they start sponsoring it.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
Are bigger optimizations to be hard in the design of the higher level languages that are easier for compilers to optimize? As an extreme example, I imagine dynamic languages are hard to optimize because the compiler can make few assumptions
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by vendiddy 6y ago
For this reason, I prefer going heavy with integration tests early in in a design. This way I'm not rewriting tests every time I need to rip apart and restructure the internals but I still have the safety net of refactoring without bre
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by vendiddy 6y ago
Agree. I also found that learning TDD rewired my brain to think top down. So in the many cases I don't do TDD, I imagine what the top level API ought to be before I dive in and start coding.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
Completely agree and I feel this every day. Half of my job is split between a functional language on the backend and a class-based language on the frontend. I have made a conscious effort to avoid shared state, but it's harder. For exa
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by vendiddy 6y ago
I've been learning to cook recently and I haven't the slightest idea how heat affects food.
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by vendiddy 6y ago
I agree that Elixir macros are far easier to understand than Ruby macros since they are defined at compile time rather than runtime. But I am against reaching for macros when the same can be accomplished using the basics: modules, functions

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