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by z9znz 4y ago
I'm sorry to be meta, but geez. You make some reasonable points, and while some of your opinions differ from mine, I think they are valid for your experiences. And yet, you had been downvoted. (I tried to help you back up :) ). And
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What is a Golang person... a Goist? A Goer (hehe, Monty Python). Since I am a goer, I'll use Goist here. I'm not a Goist, but I agree with TFA in general. Don't complicate a language for error handling purposes. My reason
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by z9znz 4y ago
There's a lot to your reply, much of which I agree with and some I do not, but we cannot afford the space or time to expand this much :). Trying to keep this brief, I think the issue is a matter of scale. Many of the roles or professi
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I think you are just feeling impostor syndrome or attributing it to the general developer population. In reality, there's a lot of boring software which does its job and has meaningful value in companies. I am not a great developer; I
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Hardware engineers are absolutely necessary. However, they make tools, not solutions. No question, their tools are incredibly complex, and their job is important. However, it doesn't scale in the way that a software need does. And t
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> they use excel Indeed, many companies make great progress because of this. But inevitably they reach a point where it is unamanageable or unmaintainable. Then who do they depend on to keep their business operating (as it is now overl
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by z9znz 4y ago
Every employee of every modern company is dependent upon software built by developers of that company or integrated/managed by developers. Most of the productivity gains of the last 20 years can be attributed to software, and the only
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Nah, sorry. Like it or not, virtually every aspect of life now is dependent on software. A CEO without developers is nothing. A manager without developers is nothing. In fact, I would argue that we are paid comparatively more than other c
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by z9znz 4y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I have a hard time either understanding your meaning or imagining the scenario you describe. Can you give an example? OOP functions are usually harder to test because they expect complete objects as argument
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Ask HN: Remote or Cloud Hosted Macs?
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If the world did not exist outside your echo chamber, then it wouldn't be a problem. The problem with echo chambers is they trend away from information and knowledge and toward whatever is most often repeated. Add some malicious disin
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I get that. I am familiar with the common usage of that word, although I have never seen the spelling with 'o'. The spelling with 'a' appears in dictionaries with definitions including both meanings. I'm just obje
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I imagine that given the low resolution, 3D would have been much harder to understand (identify) for most viewers. Unless you happened to be facing the "front" of the 3D representation, it would probably just look like a bunch of
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by z9znz 4y ago
Hi. Twatwatcher and lover here. I resent the implication that a twat is a bad thing which need policing. Yeah, one meaning of the word is synonymous with "fool", but let's not encourage overloading the word since one of the
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I'm skeptical that using a wikipedia-like approach will work for small, essentially ephemeral content. There's just not enough time to debate each tweet, especially now that so many people (with large followings) tweet so much de
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Testing is hard when the code it tests is OOP, has mutations everywhere, and has big functions that do too many things. It's practically impossible to thoroughly test such code with one assertion per test; it would mean having dozens o
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I'm not sure they need to advertise at this point. Surely anyone with a phone has seen the game or has seen someone else playing the game. Sometimes celebrations really are just celebrations of the "life" of a thing. 10 yea
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Unless there is regulation against it, it will happen. It has crept into virtually every other place - your TV, the sides of football pitches, the (virtual) turf on american football fields, etc. etc. In this case at least, fleets of drones
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I care a lot about nature, and I don't like any creature to be unnecessarily harmed... But the visuals here are pretty awesome.
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More details: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/10/01/trump-says-h...
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You're welcome to scroll thru https://twitter.com/whitehouse45 if you can stand it. Granted most of it is about every holiday, the decorations for that holiday, the holiday decoration preparations, and the occasional
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I'm objecting to the parent post starting with 2021 as the year to note that the whitehouse account was posting stupid things. That implies that it was not being stupid prior to 2021, when in contrast the most historically asinine twe
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by z9znz 4y ago
Are you implying that the whitehouse twitter only got stupid starting in 2021? Granted, that account was not so loud in 2016-2020 as perhaps now (maybe... I haven't counted tweets) because the president of that time was tweeting 10+ t
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by z9znz 4y ago
You may be referring to this page: https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy If you scroll down, below the benchmarks, it lists features and comparisons with other options.
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Thanks! I had not heard of this one. The more the merrier, because it will get us there faster.
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It's not about being afraid to define a struct/record (rigid type). It's about being afraid of being stuck with something that doesn't meet your needs later or elsewhere, if only by a little bit. That Range type is grea
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At the last two places I worked, I gradually led my teams from traditional OOP Ruby or Python behaviors to at least partially functional (if you'll pardon the pun). The immediate value I was able to demonstrate was in testing. Three b
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It's just a matter of time. All our tech gets smaller and lighter with each generation. One of these days the display glasses will be barely more than regular eyeglasses. And just maybe in my lifetime we'll get a neural link so
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by z9znz 4y ago
At home I have a quality 32" 4k monitor parked just above my laptop (so one big screen and then the small laptop screen below). That works fine. Of course I would like a LOT more screen real estate, but I don't want to radically
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Ask HN: Anyone using a Quest Pro instead of monitors?
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