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by wiremine 11y ago
I'm a bit disappointed how pessimistic this thread is. They're bringing Star Trek back! There are 1000 reasons it might fail, but it's GREAT to see them trying. The ideals are timeless.
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by wiremine 11y ago
I had a follow up question: Are things at the point where you could reasonable write a modern 3D engine using Rust 1.0? [1] What would be the tradeoffs at this point vs. C++? [1] Ignoring all the tooling involved with art, music, etc.
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by wiremine 11y ago
Yeah, but how would they fund the development of their self-driving electric car that will only turn left? (because, you know, it's going to be opinionated. I can just see the the Jony Ive ad now: "We rethought everything, took ev
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by wiremine 11y ago
It's definitely brain work, but it is concrete, physical 3D space kind of thinking. Programming, and especially software architecture, tends to be more abstract thinking. FWIW, the Kolbe test methodology [1] has a good way of quantifyi
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by wiremine 11y ago
> Would you work for a company that used a different tool? Of course.
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by wiremine 11y ago
> In industry its almost unknown. Maybe I'm in a microcosm, but everybody in industry I work with switched to git years ago. And I'm definitely not in the valley. :-)
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by wiremine 11y ago
> What has git so fundamentally changed that SVN/CVS don't count as knowledge / experience? I think git (and other distributed source control systems) changed the culture around branching and forking. So, if you're co
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by wiremine 11y ago
> But there are still plenty of problems that aren't technological and perhaps those are the most interesting. 100% agree. A lot of problems involve navigating a particular business domain or learning how to work with people.
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by wiremine 11y ago
> exposure to these hidden problems I think this is a key to experience. I spent a large part of my 20s diving into problems and totally screwing up the solution. I learned a ton from this. On the flip side, maybe 50% of those problems d
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by wiremine 11y ago
One of the best summaries of Perl I've seen. Thanks!
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by wiremine 11y ago
Of course microservices are just another tool in the toolbox. I think what's frustrating is the lack of support in moving from a monolith to a microservice architecture. I haven't built a lot of them myself, but it feels like you&
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by wiremine 11y ago
Nice to see Perl 6 coming along! Even if it doesn't garner the developer base Perl 5 had back in the 90s, I think Perl 6 is important to push the art of programming along. Kudos to the Perl 6 team. - Would be nice to make the intro cop
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by wiremine 11y ago
Movement? That isn't the problem. Cost and interoperability are the problem. On the cost side of IoT, the rent is just too damn high: I don't want to pay $50 for a fancy light bulb. I want to pay _maybe_ an extra 50 cents or $1 ex
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by wiremine 11y ago
> interactive diagram editors have been around a while and, unfortunately, are just faster to use and are more flexible Agreed. I think what is more helpful is taking a shorthand version of a diagram and generate it into a graph (flowcha
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by wiremine 11y ago
> Apple has not, at least since Jobs took over again, really been slow and methodical in entering big markets. Depends on how you look at it: - They've been fairly slow to enter the TV market. - Homekit is out there but hasn't
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by wiremine 11y ago
> so depreciating questions isn't as likely as someone coming around and updating the answers True, but I think it would be helpful for two reasons: a. Someone looking for an answer might not realize it is out of date. b. It would h
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by wiremine 11y ago
Was just thinking what it was like to develop before Stack Overflow... and before github... Yikes! Kudos to the team over at SO to continue to iterate the business. I do wish they'd add an "out of date" button to flag questio
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by wiremine 11y ago
I understand the business logic, but as a non-hardware guy, I've often wondered at how this would look in reality: - Apple has proven they can switch out hardware stacks, so that part seems straight forward enough. Especially given how
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by wiremine 11y ago
I actually think it's pretty good advice. If you haven't used a language [1] before, park the opinion and get to work learning it. [1] or database or framework or whatever...
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by wiremine 11y ago
Totally unrelated, but I saw Steve present at OSCON probably 10 years ago, and it was amazing to see him present on his feet: The video for his presentation was totally messed up, so his slides didn't load up. He just said "screw
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by wiremine 11y ago
If you're new to Elixir, I highly recommend Dave Thomas' book "Programming Elixir" https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir From the website: "You want to explore functional pro
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by wiremine 11y ago
> Jobs lost in the early depression haven't returned There are actually more jobs now then there were in 2005: - January 2005: 132,752,000 - January 2015: 140,793,000 Source: http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutput
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by wiremine 11y ago
> Millenials are a far larger generation than the boomers Depends on your definition of "far larger". - The Millennial cohort is 83.1 million - The Boomer cohort is 75.4 million, 90% the size of the Millennials. Source: https
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by wiremine 11y ago
The participation rate is down 3.3% from 2005 [1]. Given the huge shift in demographics over the last 10 years [2], I don't think that's a data point that screams "smashed." [1] http://data.bls.gov/timese
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by wiremine 11y ago
The question I have: what's the advertisers' next move after iOS 9 drops? Feels like there are a few possibilities: - Nothing: the impact of users who install these plugins is minor. - They sue Apple. Feels like a short game. - Tr
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by wiremine 11y ago
> Why phone? What is it that the phone offers that IM doesn't? We're on IM almost constantly for a few hours, but we then mostly go into our caves to get stuff done. I've found the phone (and video calls) are critical for
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by wiremine 11y ago
> But with 2 kids in home, Can you say to them that you're working? they respect you? I spoke with some people that had success working from home, but when kids born they couldn't follow working from home. My kids grew up with
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by wiremine 11y ago
I've worked 100% remote for 7+ years, and it is awesome. - I've had the opportunity to see my kids grow up (they're 6 and 9 now). - I get to see my wife for lunch and a coffee break every single day (she also works from home)
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by wiremine 11y ago
> I would be interested to know if there are reasons Go is a better teaching language than Python. I don't know if it is _better_, but Go has a number of programming concepts you don't see in Python: - Static typing - dealing w
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by wiremine 11y ago
Thanks! I saw the benchmarks compare Crystal to Python, C, Ruby and C++, but I didn't see anything about Go. Which is fine, I guess, but it makes the title feel a bit link baity.

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