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by wirrbel 4y ago
Yep. It makes a lot of sense for open source where gate keeping makes sense (to reduce feature bloat, back doors and an inflated API surface that needs to be maintained almost indefinitely). Most corporate code bases are written by a smalli
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Our whole practice revolved around not pushing broken code because all code was tested locally prior to the push. In fact we practiced continuous integration as in its original meaning, integrating code multiple times per day. Releases were
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I think the sweet spot in Developer productivity was when we had SVN repos and used git-svn on the client. Commits were all rebased on git level prior to pushing. If you committed something that broke unit tests your colleagues would pass
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by wirrbel 4y ago
https://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.12.html For a lot more info on removals
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Then again, we have all seen that Asshole that destroys a whole team.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
It is all about negotiating.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I think the most annoying part about errors due to missing initialisation is that (especially with variables on the stack, so not those allocated with Malloc) they are coincidentally pre-filled with values from the functions that were calle
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by wirrbel 4y ago
It seems you didn’t negotiate hard enough on your behalf (or others negotiated at the right time). The question you should ask yourself as a manager now is not the question whether you expect others to negotiate like you did, but how can yo
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by wirrbel 4y ago
First thought I had : grandma used to clarify broth with eggs. Iirc you can also use it to prepare coffee when camping. The egg binds to ground coffee in a saucepan so it’s better separated from the coffee you pour into your mug
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by wirrbel 4y ago
You lost me at "Allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment"
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I have been professionally programming Python now since I guess 2012 and its Pypy is an interesting one. Pypy seems to be in use overall in fairly specialized Python application, like research code that is 'too big to rewrite', th
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by wirrbel 4y ago
star imports exist, don't they? its just that they are discouraged by the linters
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by wirrbel 4y ago
An interesting aspect about Fortran is, that it is remarkably high level even in its Fortran 77 incarnation and Fortran 2003 makes a fairly modern programming language if you don't touch the 'there be dragons' features. Of co
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Dunno whether I agree to this. I agree that both are acceptable ways to do statistics. However 1. Bayesian stats is an approach that tends to make model assumptions fairly explicity, whereas in frequentist approaches, many assumptions are
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by wirrbel 4y ago
How about not choosing a project name in relation to a well-established city in egypt? /s Like the space for project names is pretty much overloaded multiple times already. Unless we start to use funny words of the dictionary like &#x2
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I will never understand inflated line height. It doesn’t make Text more legible.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
A common reaction is: It cannot all be positive. Or, as a colleague of mine put it: "When I first interacted with americans, they were smiling so much I suspected they were trying to trick me in some way".
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Global warming. There is a German entomologist who thinks this is the most likely explanation (or the largest contributor). Iirc the insect population declines everywhere. Also in woodland where roundup is not applied.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
To me it appears that roundup kind of blocks an honest discussion on other causes of declining insect populations.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Fairly certain that Germany pushed for the value with an easy conversion (2 Deutsche Mark = 1 EUR) and not for dollar-similarity. Exchange rate was 1 EUR for 1,95583 DM
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Thanks for this link. A bit hard to digest more than a decade after I last did formal math but very approachable non the less
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by wirrbel 4y ago
It was explained in my physics classes over and over again
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by wirrbel 4y ago
That would also have to be inflation adjusted and would be pretty meaningless to as a value to people in Dublin. And then it would more or less only be understood without further calculation by UK inhabitants. The Pound of today is pretty m
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I live in an area of Europe that used SI units, but did use customary units before. I think that part is conveniently forgotten in discussions, it’s not like America is exceptional in having some heritage units. Other parts of the world jus
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by wirrbel 4y ago
i remember listening to a German-language podcast with the arc42 authors and they did mention volere. I forgot about the mutual history, but I think there was some resonance.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Among the options merge commit , rebase and squash merge, rebasing is the problematic one if the commits on the branch are not carefully crafted. Classical merging allows for bisecting and retains historicy. But IMHO if swash merged lead to
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Like that is the equivalent to a surgeon not washing their hands..
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Do you want to back that up with something else than the Python2-to-3 migration? Python 3.4 was released in 2014 and ever since stability was never an issue for me.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I assume this is on community management. I am not taking part in Clojure surveys so its fairly obvious to me why my opinion is not reflected in the community surveys. I got to admit that maybe community management might have improved in th
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Its been a while, I remember some strange behaviour of generic functions on sets* that differed from the behaviour in lists and bug reports about it.

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