wildjim

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by wildjim 17y ago
ok, not quite as hard-core as to write my own assembler, but i grew-up with ZX-81's and C-64's, and like-wise: if you wanted speed, BASIC couldn't do it, and a C-compiler couldn't fit in the memory (IIRC, games writers cross-compiled any C
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by wildjim 17y ago
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!! I work as a release engineer, and the sheer number of f *-ups that could be avoided by dev's understanding version control better is truly astonishing. It doesn't matter very much which version control syste
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by wildjim 17y ago
I hope it never happens. There are certain Americanisms that have infected other countries patent systems over the years (e.g. software patents) that have done far, far more harm than good AFAICT, especially to the smaller countries that ha
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by wildjim 17y ago
The thing that really scares me is that you could easily argue that everyone has a "little bit" of psychopathy in them -- see how car drivers in big cities treat others on the road, see how some people go "too far" during war. What threshol
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by wildjim 17y ago
More "long-winded and painful" compared with Ruby, Perl, LISP, Haskell, among others.
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by wildjim 17y ago
I'm also confused by your dislike of operators and syntax sugar. These are some of the things that made Ruby so popular, and the sort of ham-stringing that make Python and Java so long-winded and painful... If you're worried about n00bs sh
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by wildjim 17y ago
I think this was semi-confirmed by a London paper recently as council parking surveillance vehicles; several defendants in a parking-fine case successfully got their fines overturned as there were no signs nearby warning of CCTV or Traffic
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by wildjim 17y ago
"If a foreign national..." Do you really mean "if"? It won't even be "when", it will be "for some time, now".
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by wildjim 17y ago
Except that almost all these comments seem to assume a long-running / web process. Start-up times and memory requirements for the JVM are just horrendous; I can't write a serious command-line tool in Java because of these constraints. Eve
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Charles Stross: Business as usual(antipope.org)
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by wildjim 17y ago
Re: "5" 2 == "55" vs. 2 * "5" == Exception* You need to remember that EVERYTHING is an object, there are no basic/literal types at all; in this case, "5" is really just syntactic sugar for creating a "5" String object, 2 is syntactic su
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by wildjim 17y ago
People should be careful how much they quote Google as their reason for preferring Python. The main reason was when they were standardising on the core-languages they could support, Python was enormously far ahead cf. the competition, so it
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by wildjim 17y ago
I totally agree about picking the languages you want to learn. There's only so many hours in the day, and you will have different pref's on style and language design, anyway. I'd love to learn Scala (after being a Haskell and Ruby fan fo
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by wildjim 17y ago
To be fair, "Pythonista's" were renowned for slagging-off most other languages, and in the same breath, claiming how very like LISP their Python is. Hopefully this attitude has died off... Ruby developers (Rubyons?) were renowned for typic
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by wildjim 17y ago
Everything is an object in Ruby, including the blocks. I'm not clear how you can't pass around a block -- or is it the block + iterator metadata you're talking about? I suspect that's just an experience problem, where Python promotes it
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by wildjim 17y ago
My family used to do similarly, even though "modern" medicines like neosporin were popular then, but IIRC bark and sap from the Manuka tree is supposed to be good, too. +1 for raw honey being better, but it's pretty hard to get it in big ci
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by wildjim 18y ago
That's kind-of the point: emphasis should be on readability, not "this long, and no longer!", and that applies to all points in any style-guide, i.e. it's a "guide" not a rule-book.
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by wildjim 18y ago
This is explicitly disallowed within some companies...
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by wildjim 18y ago
I really hate other people's style-guides. Most of it is common-sense, but there's always some aspect or another that really grates against my preferences, e.g. "Keep lines fewer than 80 characters" is a pet hate; when did we return to G
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by wildjim 18y ago
I've heard all sorts of arguments for and against, but in the end it only matters that you consistently choose only tabs or spaces, and that you use whatever header-settings your IDE provides to enforce the decision across all the coders,
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by wildjim 18y ago
I'd agree with the comment "it depends", except that I've always considered myself a generalist, and it seems to be the main reason I've managed to avoid employment problems over the last several employment "bubbles".