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by vesak 10y ago
This is perhaps the real risk of AI. In the first wave, the industry is dominated by a wish to make a great product. In the second wave, the bean counters walk in and start to optimize everything. And then we start getting the behavior from
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by vesak 10y ago
If I would play games for 90% of the time I currently spend on Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter, Facebook, etc, I'd be a better man. Happier and more effective. I think I'll start doing exactly that. http://www.hackernewsle
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>I guess the performance impact of these WMs is smaller than with full blown desktop environments? Yes, although with modern processors, GPUs and memory prices that is probably not an issue.
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by vesak 10y ago
They're simpler than desktop environments in every way. I have found that I use 10% and absolutely require 0% of the larger DEs' features, so using a simpler system makes sense. Your use case seems like it would work well with til
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by vesak 10y ago
Do something with your free time. Shut down Netflix, HBO, Reddit, Hacker News and all such distractions. It doesn't have to be profitable or even remotedly useful, just as long it's something that you know that you should be doing
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by vesak 10y ago
Indeed, artisan tinker is quite close to what Rails and Django give. The REPL is a bit awkward when compared to ipython, though, but that is probably fixable. If they'd just do it :)
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by vesak 10y ago
That REPL is awesome and an actual differentiating factor. I grew to web programming with Rails and Django, and trying out PHP (where to my knowledge nothing comparable exists, or apparently even could exist) for a few years felt like I had
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by vesak 10y ago
I think my language of focus in 2017 will be Racket. It seems to be the perfect combination of optional (but somewhat static!) strong typing, highly advanced features and cool Lispness without becoming impractical. Minilanguages... for ever
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by vesak 10y ago
>Could it not be that people who have the willpower to run regularly also have the willpower to stay focused? This is just an anecdote, of course, but I notice a major boost to my ability to concentrate, avoid distractions and think af
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http://dudeism.com/
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>The problem is that programming is so attractive because the barrier for entry is so low that anybody can get into it without problems. I'd wager that it's easier to be a quack doctor or a lawyer than fake being a programmer.
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by vesak 10y ago
This is why programmers need unions! Or a guild. Or something! That employers totally dictate everything in a field that is in such high demand is absolutely unacceptable.
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Significantly?
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Difficult to even imagine a project that could fail business-wise because some developer wrote too many easy unit tests. Do you know of such cases?
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In other words "be smart, don't be stupid". Do you really need to write a test for that single expression setter? But then again, it may be easier to just set a single round goal like 100% for test coverage. Writing that test
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Arch Linux is a major one these days.
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>I'd say probably a large part of the reason PHP devs opt to use different languages in new projects (when given the choice) is because of FUD spread about PHP. Everyone wants stability in their career. If the voices on the interweb
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by vesak 10y ago
No reason really to use PHP for a new project in 2016. Then again, no huge reasons not to use it, either. Sure, it's slightly sub-standard in many small ways, but your success or failure is probably not hanging on those things. So if
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by vesak 10y ago
Be wary of Symfony if you need high performance and cannot use caching. Its runtime is not fast.
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They looked at the state of Java OOP at the time and just dumped that in PHP without considering the rather large differences between those languages.
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by vesak 10y ago
>I started my career with PHP, it really is a bummer that it seems destined for the language graveyard I don't think you should worry about it. There are so many languages and organizations out there, majority of them better than PH
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by vesak 10y ago
How are packages handled in Idris? Do they have a cargo/composer/npm analogue?
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Cassandra is not a person, so that was not ad hominem.
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>That'll make everyone stay up all night hacking to bring your lackluster platform to parity with its competition. Do you know any other platform that managed to form a foundation for org-mode? Until there is, emacs may not be calle
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by vesak 10y ago
Are engineers who work at addictive software (social media apps, some type of games, etc.) actually breaking ethics? Should we defy this as a profession, not allow our skills to be used for a thing that's borderline evil? If pushing ad
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by vesak 10y ago
Perhaps I'm doing a strawman here, sorry in advance. But you seem to imply that you implement strong type checking into all(?) your functions yourself and think that is a better solution than having your platform do it for you automati
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by vesak 10y ago
>Those you mention no. There are tools for typechecking (flow) and to be honest in years of JS programming only rarely have I had bugs caused by a variable of the wrong type being passed into a function. Are you certain that that is true
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> The syntax of your language doesn't change its performance when running. No need to bring up syntax. It's a superficial feature and has nothing to do with the actually important features I listed. > Does it make me write w
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Go and Javascript/Node.js are quite different languages in their feature lists and main implementations. To mention a big one, Go is mostly statically and strongly typed, in stark contrast to Javascript. Also it has significantly fewer
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PHP being easier to deploy stopped being a thing 5-10 years ago.

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