Wilem82

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by Wilem82 4y ago
Correction: even if Google is down, you won’t notice, because DDG works just fine. Last time I went to any of Google websites was 4 years ago.
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by Wilem82 4y ago
> Plus all of these starting points imply the use of new languages, configurations, and programs, in particular, builds. Oh yeah, true, some people keep saying a language is just a tool trying to convince somebody to use it, but they for
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by Wilem82 5y ago
MacOS. Project scripts and software are hardcoded for Mac. The alternative is Windows, but making the project dev environment cross-platform takes time. I dislike non-standard keyboard shortcuts for everything, lack of FAR Manager (using Mi
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by Wilem82 5y ago
Java was released in 1996. It got generics in 2004, 8 years later. I don't remember anyone panicking and yelling from every corner that the world is ending. Everyone understood the benefits and it was a much awaited feature. And yes, a
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by Wilem82 5y ago
On Windows just press Win+; .
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by Wilem82 5y ago
I’m in a team where every member was forced into macOS against their will, because a lot of project scripts were hardcoded for macOS by a long-gone “architect”. My biggest gripes with macOS, after decades of Windows and Linux: - Windows has
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by Wilem82 5y ago
And how are emails any different from web articles? Both contain structured thoughts represented as structured text, both often contain code and quotations, lists and so on. Why special treatment?
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by Wilem82 5y ago
But, almost everyone does? Would you prefer all web articles to be strictly in plain text, same colour? No font changes between text and code, no colors for quotations, no indented multilevel bullet points? Basically, nothing that markdown
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by Wilem82 5y ago
I mean, how are you going to use rich text otherwise?
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by Wilem82 5y ago
Any closed community ends up as a cult, derangement reinforced through the circular patting on the backs. HN already got a bit of a loony reputation (for example, see the comment about being a think tank), and it’ll get even worse behind a
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by Wilem82 5y ago
The entire DKE paper is trash, as most papers are in psychology.
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Lol god forbid. Browser side programming is shitty enough without lisp nonsense.
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by Wilem82 6y ago
By "attacked" you probably meant "criticised"? Criticising something is not only a perfectly normal activity, it's a necessary one and is an important part of the scientific method.
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by Wilem82 6y ago
It's explicitly stated in their comment: > arguing about slight variations of the same mundanities: XML, XSD, IDL, ASN.1, Avro, JSON... Emacs vs. Vim, Weakly vs. Strongly typed, and so on... There could be a lot of valid and importa
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by Wilem82 6y ago
If you think what I said is wrong, you're welcome to explain why. Personal attacks are neither productive nor interesting. My reasoning is the following: People would only listen to you if you can prove what you say is right, because n
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Your statement implies that arguing is something bad. Arguing is presenting arguments that attempt to show (prove) why something is true or false. It's the most important tool (convincing each other) in the progress of civilization. If
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by Wilem82 6y ago
This thread made me read about conditional types in TS and in general more about its type system. I was ignorant. I agree now that it's advanced. Previously I only heard bad things about it without bothering to study it myself. Turns o
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Are you really calling this ergonomic? https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql/blob/master/src/Evaluator.... Same thing but actually readable and maintanable would've been better implemented as a com
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by Wilem82 6y ago
What compile-time guarantees does that SQL library give? I don't see any docs or explanations at that Github repo and my TS knowledge is limited to be able to infer everything from a small code example.
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Is this satire? What do you think is advanced about TS' type system and why? Duck-typing that creates a minefield instead of providing correctness? The unknown type that does the same? TS is a step forward from JS, but JS's bar is
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Learn not to give a shit about money and find a job that you enjoy.
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Hate to break it to you, but the absolute majority of devs have no idea what HN is, or are interested in reading it.
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by Wilem82 6y ago
> But what about the web browser, the GUI environment, the OS kernel? Firefox is being rewritten in Rust, which is not oop. Linux kernel is in C, which is not oop. Eclipse SWT, a very succesful java GUI, uses composition over inheritanc
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by Wilem82 6y ago
> abstractions are bad They're as good as you make them. Abstractions aren't bad by themselves. > Copying code for different business purposes is good. Only when it makes sense, ie when you can't make a good abstraction
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Javascript is a bad language period. For anything. It's used for UIs for historical reasons, not because it's good.
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by Wilem82 6y ago
> more importantly amazon probably have better conditions than all other retailers in the world That's not possible, the US has the worst worker protection laws in the world, it's really quite an undeveloped country in that reg
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by Wilem82 6y ago
Using any kind of management position as justification for anything tech-related won't have the effect you're probably aiming for. Dev going management is always downshifting.
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by Wilem82 7y ago
> Seriously, go use products like Google Hangouts Corporate standard at my place of work. I hate Hangouts with a passion. It's the worst messenger, feature- and UI- wise that I've seen for years. > Microsoft Teams (Microsoft
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by Wilem82 7y ago
> Managers are supposed to delegate tasks to you, not the other way around. In software engineering? Not really. They aren't engineers, they can't delegate anything because they have no idea what to do or how to do it. In SE, t
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by Wilem82 7y ago
Little bit of a contradiction there. You say collaboratively, yet you share your ideas one on one, instead of with the entire team. It's either one or the other. Next, assuming the challenges you speak of are technical, the manager is

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