SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
Very true, but #EndSoftwarePatents can and should be a thing. I actually take a position that some software maybe should be patentable, but that it's such a tiny percentage of what actually GETS patented that it's likely better
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
Actually, in my experience using the default random implementation in games: * It's not fast enough. * It has patterns that can be seen if you are using it to, for instance, generate 2d noise. So for games you'd typically use, say
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
I was on a project-from-hell once where the project lead cared far more about getting types perfect than allowing the code to be, you know, useful . If we couldn't do something 100% type-safe then we weren't supposed to do it a
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
Totally agree with you. Some of the rebuttals below seem to be saying "But I use them differently!" Bully for them, but 99% of the time when it's not set, you don't really care why it's not set because it's not
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
PostgreSQL directly supports table sharding. https://pgdash.io/blog/postgres-11-sharding.html Schema evolution is supported by pretty much every ORM you'd care to use; it's not the job of the SQL database to
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
I felt that Abramov's article showed...nothing useful at all. Yes, he found an abstraction that turned out to be not useful. But that doesn't mean there wasn't an abstraction that could have been useful. Or even that the ju
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
I find DRY to be useful in some cases even when there's only a second copy of the code. I hate seeing any duplicate code past a certain level of complexity. Other times I'll copy a few lines of code all over the place and not wo
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
Still no Node or npm compatibility? Not even on their roadmap? Still think Deno is DOA, then. TypeScript is great, sure. I love TypeScript. But I wouldn't touch Deno for just about any serious development if I couldn't be certain
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
Maybe? It's hardly martyring to be kicked off of Twitter IMO, but even if his fans see it that way -- Trumps fans seem to predominantly posses a very short attention span. It's the only way that many of Trumps reversals make s
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
I think the extremes are straw men. The choice isn't between "duct tape" or "oven-engineering." It's between poor and good design. A well designed solution doesn't feel like duct tape, nor should it be &qu
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
> A list of banned words and opinions will never make the world progressive. Deplatforming people over truly just opinions or mannerisms is a temporary win. When people know their opinions are generally considered reprehensible, they h
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by SomeCallMeTim 6y ago
I hope you're right. The obituaries for Trump's popularity have been predicted so many times that it's hard to be confident that "This Time It's Different."
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
> GOAL encourages an imperative programming style: programs tend to consist of a sequence of events to be executed rather than the functional programming style of functions to be evaluated recursively. That alone is a pretty hard condemn
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Be careful about asking "Did you Duck yourself?" though.
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
I have a hard time trusting _any_ of the password services that host my passwords. Single point of failure. Even if they claim they're "encrypted so that even THEY can see them", it's so easy to mess up encryption, it ma
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
I'm hearing this complaint a lot about React Native in particular: That Facebook's "Move Fast And Break Things" philosophy is alive and well in the management of the project. Most recently the stories were about specific
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
ROT-8000 is only touching the first 65536 Unicode characters (UCS-2). Unicode has >1M code points. [0] Most emojis seem to be above the first 16 bits. [1] But there are a number of emojis in the first 16 bits, like the "frowning fac
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Unlike your coworker, I _always_ have a plan. Often a dozen of them. With various pros and cons for each. But also unlike your coworker, I probably _figured out how to do it right_ in the time given. It's pretty rare that I don't
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
I think it's more like the fact that my joystick cables always get tangled, no matter what I do The entropy of the creation and evolution of software gets tangled . We can do our utmost best, but unless we spend an equal (or sometimes
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
I am in Dallas at least once per year. A couple months ago I was there, and around my wife's parents' house, almost every yard had a Beto sign. So I can verify that this is true, at least for some parts of Dallas.
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
On-demand Server Side Rendering should be killed for 98% of applications. SSR->static hosting + client framework is the future.
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Framing is useful in politics, but I think the underlying limitation here isn't preconceived notions that you're trying to overcome but the inherent complexity of the system you're suggesting. Say for instance you make the un
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
This felt to me like a roundabout way of saying "we should think more about design!" I _agree_ that we should think more about systems design. And I _agree_ that the individual "units" that we're designing would ben
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Assembly is very readable with enough practice. Source: I've ported multiple assembly language games from one assembly language to another.
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
You can always "opt out" by not using the web site, unfortunately. So I don't know that they would lose any challenge on those grounds.
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
They passed a tax on plastic bags in Boulder (CO). You go to the supermarket without your reusable bags, suddenly you're _paying_ for the bags. You better believe that disposable plastic bag usage went _way_ down. People don't lik
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Just saying that both SPAs and NoSQL have had _more_ than enough time to mature. It's not like they both were invented a decade ago; they were a decade _mature_ a decade ago.
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
It's slow (execution speed [1] -- it's slower than Node.js by a lot!), and every developer that I've spoken to has given very, very long estimates (from my POV) for accomplishing even trivial API work, so it seems to be prone
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Sounds like your architect was a bad fit. Uncomfortable with Docker? Today? Or microservices? Or mixing Kotlin with Java? I haven't used gRPC myself, but it looks like a strong standard. I have used Protocol Buffers in the past, though
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by SomeCallMeTim 8y ago
Why make it either-or? I prefer NoSQL when there are scaling needs, because it _can_ scale horizontally. Sometimes it's just easier to use, too, and there are times when the feature set maps _much_ better onto the problem at hand. Not

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