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by youerbt 3y ago
Job queues in RDBMS are always so controversial here on HN, which is kinda sad. Not everybody needs insane scale or whatever else a dedicated solutions offer. Not to mention if you already have RDBMS laying around, you don't have to
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by youerbt 3y ago
> And we wonder why employers want us back in the office. I mean come on. Yes, because one can't work 4h tops while being in office... Truth is, they can't tell how much working hours this individual is putting. And maybe it&#x
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by youerbt 4y ago
I'm divided on DDD. On one hand there are some good ideas (system is model, language is important etc) that seems "obvious", but I guess still worth explicit mention. On the other hand there are implementation techniques that
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by youerbt 4y ago
Sprints actually can help to do much less. If you don't do sprints, you can always be unsure if you did enough or take on more ambitious plans. With sprints, you agree to some more or less fixed delivery, so you can get it done and chi
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by youerbt 4y ago
I have even more trivial examples: love letters, nude photos, political articles you don't intend to publish, medical records, attempts at poetry, porn collection, business plans, drawings etc Plenty to hide from basically everyone.
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by youerbt 4y ago
Yes, it is secret, same as it is secret that you spent 8h in the office, but did "only" 6h of productive work. It is an open secret [0]. Well, a lot of it is very subtle, and I guess vary from place to place, person to person. Poi
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by youerbt 4y ago
But there is always some expected body of work. If you don't pull your weight, despite working 9 to 5, you might get fired. I'm one of those "half days" people, and it's not about doing less. It's about realiza
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by youerbt 4y ago
It is not. It is just sometimes better than the alternatives.
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by youerbt 4y ago
This is such a biased view. Java doesn't have functions and you have to work around that (by treating your classes as namespaces). Python doesn't have a type system and you have to deal with that (by using your brain, I guess). So
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by youerbt 4y ago
TLA+ or Nix comes to mind. By some notion of terrible I guess.
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by youerbt 5y ago
As long as your input device is optimized for inserting text (and your keyboard certainly is) modal editing is surely something desirable for programming.
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by youerbt 5y ago
To be fair Java is an outlier here (there are few others I guess, C# comes to mind) and I would consider it a weakness of a language to require a complex IDE to do anything nontrivial comfortably. I agree with you tho, I was looking for my
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by youerbt 5y ago
Tagging was the single biggest thing I was missing in KeePassXC. Great to see it finally released. I guess it is time to clean my database a bit. KeePassXC is a great program and combined with synthing, excellent solution to managing your p
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by youerbt 5y ago
I have learned a ton of things that didn't carry over to what I do in the industry. That doesn't make those useless, unpractical theoretical BS. The issue with your POV is, IMO, that you lack imagination for how vast the industry
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by youerbt 5y ago
For your good old boring business software - ADTs and patter matching combo is, IMO, the most visible, practical benefit over "traditional" languages used in the industry. And something I miss the most when not writing in Haskell.
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by youerbt 5y ago
> And, the big one drum roll, please ... we will be integrating this into Element so you can have voice and video rooms, and hold group video calls inside the Element app natively over Matrix. I'd love to replace my teamspeak serve
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by youerbt 5y ago
> But I also admire the patience of anyone who actually manages to use it in practice Nothing you point out gets even close, in my mind, to stuff like null pointers or untyped code. So I wonder what languages you have in mind that requir
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by youerbt 5y ago
> > just from a common-sense POV, if I'm prototyping a project, looking for product-market fit, the last thing I want to care about is that my typeability is recursively enumerable or what-have-you. Then don't. It's not
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by youerbt 5y ago
AFAIK in most (all?) species where females invest more in offspring, males are required to put some extra work in exchange (for example building a nest). It can't be too much rationality if it happens all over in the nature. The questi
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by youerbt 5y ago
I don't find it especially outrageous, but I guess it may be for many. Women were actually treated slightly better through human history than men, due to them having inherent value coming from higher investment in children - pregnancy.
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by youerbt 5y ago
> Is a remote-first economy perhaps a system fundamentally at odds with human instincts? Seems like office-first, 9 to 5 economy is at odds with human instincts, if you have to physically keep humans from "gaming the system".
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by youerbt 5y ago
Ok, you are another person in this chain who decided to just drop "more practical" and call it a day. Why bother. It is especially funny in the thread about OCaml getting soon (2022 maybe) multicore support. Something this less pr
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by youerbt 5y ago
> If there are approximations And approximations are not math all of the sudden? > definitely like to use less math Is your point that they would rather work less than more? Easier than harder? Cus that is not very relevant and applie
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by youerbt 5y ago
> pure and abstract Like math? Engineers would rather not use math? > It was intended as an informal argument Maybe. But at this point it just looks like a mean dig at Haskell. A better word would be opinionated. Haskell is opinionate
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by youerbt 5y ago
There is this phenomenon, when people confuse upgrade over previous iterations, with the hottest shit ever. I think this has happened with Java style OOP. It came in existence to fix some things, became "the way to do programming"
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by youerbt 5y ago
> Anyone arguing for Haskell in 2021 (2022?) has to justify why it's a better tool for the job than Rust. You ask for a lot of reasons considering the amount you dare to provide. No, nobody has to do that, it doesn't make any s
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by youerbt 5y ago
> it's just something shitty that happens to you So you ask for people to accept some hardships in life, but somehow make a big deal with putting mask on your face from time to time?
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by youerbt 5y ago
No hate - that's an interesting perspective. Such practices, or even just results without intention, would for sure be described as hate (or something negative) if men were preferred and get slightly higher pay. Don't get me wrong
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by youerbt 5y ago
I agree, don't use vim the text editor. But please, give a try to vim the editing paradigm, supported by all those programs or a reason via plugins.
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by youerbt 5y ago
I don't get what's so funny about it. In streaming case, for whatever reason you want to make a donation to somebody, not doing it because they are richer than you seems very strange to me.

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