SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I use it with TypeScript, and I find the wrapped lines to be far more readable. You get used to it. Many people do, though I understand it's a point of religion for some to Not Wrap Lines. Had a short contract recently with a company t
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
As someone who started out in the game industry in 1990, I can say that being able to choose between competently-built game engines is a HUGE bonus. At last count I'd written six (!!) game engines. Nothing huge; mostly "casual&quo
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Agree on all points...except Prettier, which is manna from the gods. Better to get used to it than to fight it.
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I have a Brother inkjet all-in-one, and it works great, BUT... Problem is that it needs to "clean" the print heads frequently. It uses up ink every time it cleans. So if you're not printing frequently, 95% of your ink will be
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
In Colorado at least it's not that high. $50 plus a small amount (today) that goes up over time to no more than $96 in the 2031-2032 fiscal year. It's CERTAINLY a lot less than you'd be paying in gas tax if you used your car
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
The biggest downside to Python's popularity is the uber-fans' tendency to think it's a Good Idea to wreck other languages with significant whitespace. Like CoffeeScript. So far I believe every such attempt has ultimately fail
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Roughly: Say you have a relational database with a dozen tables that all connect to each other using foreign keys: A user table has a user id, a message table refers to a user, a log table refers to the user and a message, a comment table r
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
My first job out of college was a practically fly-by-night video game development house that had primarily D-team members except for a couple of contractors and me. After my first successful project for them, their biggest client started de
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Yup. Regretfully we seem to be in the minority, though. I expect more of the HN readership, but apparently the instant gratification culture permeates it here as well.
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I 100% agree, and I don't see why you're being downvoted. I frankly see this approach as the Wrong Way at this point. I hate that every new framework comes out with its own take on HTML attributes. And zero TypeScript support? Ser
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Good question! To which I respond with another question: Why not both? ;) Actual example code from my current project (with the actual object type anonymized by renaming it to "thing"): const result = await prisma.thingInsta
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Awesome...maybe? Does it support TypeScript? Because I'm not going back to dynamic types for nontrivial code. Ever. Does it support debugging? Because having a real interactive debugger with source mapping, ideally integrated into VS C
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I'm actually using Prisma.io right now. TypeORM has another similar solution. Postgraphile looks cool, but ... you're writing your custom handler in PostgreSQL script . This strikes me as suboptimal for debugging and general deve
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
OK, that's awesome. But type safety is only part of the equation. Automatic CRUD or GraphQL code generation and/or other abstraction such that you never need to write basic CRUD code ever again? That should be a minimal software e
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I've been doing this as my $DAYJOB for the last five years. Your examples/predicted catastrophes are straw men that I've never seen in reality myself--though I've heard reports of Rails/ActiveRecord having issues si
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Pgtyped looks really cool. So does Zapatos. But my current gig has an absolute non-negotiable business requirement to support multiple database backends. Specifically SQL Server and MySQL in addition to PostgreSQL. Additionally: Not seeing
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Writing, what, a couple dozen (at most) SQL statements that are custom designed for a single application? Not really a big deal. Sure, write your SQLite queries by hand. Fine. Whatever; I wouldn't even say it's inefficient if it&#
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Because "getting to know your data storage technology better" isn't the business goal. On the surface, that's a great goal to have, but taking an approach that requires you to do 100x as much work so you can learn SQL be
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Yeah, and we already have TypeORM in Node, which is an excellent ORM (despite some clear haters here in the comments). This is why Deno is a dead-end. We have tons of excellent solutions in the Node-verse, and they need to build everythin
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Wow. See this other comment I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27551288 TypeORM in particular is well designed and quite awesome. A huge benefit of TypeORM is that you get full static type support in all of your
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I am super happy and comfortable reading and writing SQL. Give me the slightest excuse and I'll write up a wicked complex query that does exactly what we need to solve a particular problem. I simply also feel that having 100% type sa
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
> Since we're taking Silicon Valley metrics seriously Umm... Colorado? We're more than a thousand miles as the crow flies or 20 hours of driving away from Silicon Valley. More to the point: If the rest of the team is in US time
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
Understood. Thanks for the specifics.
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I don't live in Silicon Valley. I live in Colorado, in a Denver/Boulder suburb. Not one of the most expensive places to live, though prices have been skyrocketing during the pandemic. I see jobs all around me every week that go to
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I was on a jury for a trial where they had crap on the kid accused of conspiracy to create meth. He drove an old high school friend, who he hadn't seen for years, to a park. He drove into a parking lot on the way and turned around &q
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
There is zero evidence that the death penalty is useful for deterrence. Zero points for using a distraction from the argument at hand which is whether the death penalty is justified.
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I managed four concurrent "half-time" gigs once. Probably my most lucrative month ever .
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> If staff are functionally lying to their company about their output, something has gone wrong. Problem is that productivity gains are extreme across most industries over the past fifty years, and except at the FAANG end of the income
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by SomeCallMeTim 5y ago
I'd be curious to know if that maps onto the lowest energy use in an electric car. Because I've been wanting that feature for long-distance EV trips for a while now.
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
Agreed. My first instinct was the same: *scanf is never the right tool for pretty much any job. I learned this 20+ years ago. As far as I'm concerned it should have been considered deprecated along with gets; it was considered dangerou

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