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by wvenable 2y ago
WASM is the easiest target because you don't have to emulate an entire computer.
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by wvenable 2y ago
It's only a deadline for feedback because after you do it, obviously, feedback can no longer be provided. Timeframe might be less aggressive than deadline.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I think the article does a disservice calling it a deadline. I had the same concerns at that point until I read the example and it clicked. It's really just the date you will do the thing, not really a deadline.
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by wvenable 2y ago
It is exactly that reasonable mix -- it's why I've stayed for as long as I have. Previously I was a contractor and so ran my own business I remember the negatives of that sort of thing. Some of the things I've built could be
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by wvenable 2y ago
I'm glad you're still doing well. I envy your position; I've always wanted to work on a single piece of software of my own. I built a few things while working for startups but nothing stuck. Now I build lots of software in
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by wvenable 2y ago
This post makes me nostalgic for the old Joel on Software forums.
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by wvenable 2y ago
The restictiveness is part of the fun. 8086 assembly isn't as much fun. If you're already going for something irrelevant (not x86-64 or RISC-V or ARM) then I don't see the advantage of 8086.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Multiplying (or even adding) two 16bit numbers is a good learning experience for assembler. I think it really depends on your goal. I learned x86 assembly way back when it was relevant but now I do 6502 assembly for fun. The simplicity a
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by wvenable 2y ago
In Visual Studio for C#, ctor creates a constructor. I use that one all the time. Other than that, no.
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Haven't you been 300 hours into the development of a system when suddenly someone springs on you, "Oh yeah, Bob has two bosses. Why should that be a problem?" And you're screaming internally, "Of course it&#x27
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Yes, correct, because SQL is awful at representing business logic, and foreign key constraints are business logic! This strikes me as a unnecessary all-or-nothing argument. I would agree that you shouldn't put all your business l
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by wvenable 2y ago
It's definitely as good as junior dev at a lot of tasks but you always have to be in the driver seat. I don't ask junior devs to write functions one at a time. I give them a task, they ping me if they need something, but otherwi
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by wvenable 2y ago
Developing the for the Pebble was a lot of fun. There was a Pebble hack-a-thon recently (recent being 2 years ago) and I finally got around to finishing a project that I started a decade earlier: https://github.com/codari
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by wvenable 2y ago
It might be time for me to upgrade my monitors (they are very old). I never thought too much about flicker, etc. Does anyone have any good recommendations for just decent 24" monitors for coding?
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by wvenable 2y ago
I also found a monitor light to be a great addition.
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by wvenable 2y ago
If you want to run your own little silo completely disconnected from your fellow human beings then it has never been easier. But that was never really all difficult in the first place. I don't think it's truly the problem that n
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by wvenable 2y ago
I'm kinda disappointed the "How We Can Reclaim Control" part isn't a bit more prescriptive. I feel like retaining control on a scale that effects the average person is basically impossible.
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by wvenable 2y ago
A lot of that was necessary for Nintendo get away from the "it's a video game console" comparison after the video game market crash. That's why the NES looks like a VCR too.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I also decided to develop my personal website in plain HTML. I looked into a bunch of static site generators and found that direction to be too complicated and slow for me. I still wanted the ability to have a common headers and footers an
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Kids prefer being IRL with other kids w/ or w/o screens. Who are these kids you speak of?
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by wvenable 2y ago
We gave less rights to part-time workers so companies just started making as many part-time as possible. If you create a loop-hole it will be exploited.
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by wvenable 2y ago
> There is a value, we just don't know what it is (yet). In all my years, I've never used null for that. If I don't have a value yet then generally I'm not writing any part of the record. I only ever use nulls for t
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by wvenable 2y ago
Ah but then how do you record that the measurement actually happened but did not produce a value? I want a record of that failure. I mean sure, you could do yet another table. But honestly that level of normalization is much more work tha
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by wvenable 2y ago
I wouldn't necessarily define `null` as "unknown" -- it's just "no value" -- which is really the same thing and also somewhat equivalent to "unset". But null pointers aren't unset as pointers a
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by wvenable 2y ago
SQL's use of "null" is probably one of the oldest instances of that concept in computing. It's exactly equivalent to unknown. That is its definition.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I rarely get back not working code but I've also internalized it's limitations so I no longer ask it for things it's not going to be able to do. As other commenters have pointed it, there also a lot of variation between diffe
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by wvenable 2y ago
> Where are the sane people in the middle? They are the quiet ones.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Teachers aren't dumb here; they know what's going on. And they're actively working to figure out how best to navigate this situation. They're not looking to grade how well ChatGPT does in their course.
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by wvenable 2y ago
He absolutely got into trouble for breaking past the downtime pin. Although, not in that much trouble because I was honestly a little impressed. Punishment and technological locks are both tools in the toolkit. Ultimately you want your c
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by wvenable 2y ago
Even for the parents who know it's extremely difficult to really know if you're doing the right or wrong thing. And it's constant, you have to be eternally vigilant. My son brute-forced the downtime pin on his iPhone -- i

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