bloblaw

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by bloblaw 6mo ago
That framing makes more sense to me. I agree there's a difference between publishing code under an OSS license and actively maintaining a project while fielding the flood of low-quality AI issues and PRs. Someone in the latter category
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by bloblaw 6mo ago
This sounds to me like the "No True Scotsman" argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman I break down what you said as: "Sure, he's released code with an open-source license, but that&
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by bloblaw 2y ago
I presume we are talking about GUI programs: A. Delphi --- easy choice (or C++ Builder if I had to use C++) B. Also Delphi --- it supports macOS (arm64 + x64), Linux, and Windows If I have to write a CLI app, I'm probably picking Go or
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by bloblaw 2y ago
That article is from 2011. I can imagine that in 13 years this may no longer be true.
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by bloblaw 3y ago
The open-source Hidden Bar is my current solution to this problem, but I think I prefer this native fix. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden brew install --cask hiddenbar
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by bloblaw 3y ago
Perl's still got a special place in my heart, but honestly, I don't use it much these days. I mainly bring it out when I'm processing a lot of text or writing scripts to be used by Perl-savvy teammates. But here's a cool
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by bloblaw 3y ago
> After Heilsberg moved to MS, a lot of improvements were made in VB that utlimately made Delphi less attractive Well, not actually. With Anders' move to Microsoft, VB6 (aka, VB "classic") was discontinued. Microsoft suppo
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by bloblaw 3y ago
Having worked with both Delphi and Visual Basic, I've found that Delphi had the edge, especially for professional apps. Its use of Object Pascal meant you got compiled, efficient code right out of the box, and it didn't need an ex
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by bloblaw 3y ago
Without an understanding of their motive, I think tying "google" to a person's mental health crisis is clickbait. Folks dealing with mental health issues might end their lives for a variety of factors. This is very sad to hea
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by bloblaw 3y ago
THIS!! A high-quality cross-platform GUI toolkit that can be built using Delphi's RAD designer would be a huge hit in the market, IMHO. There is literally nothing that does this now.
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by bloblaw 3y ago
This is true, I did not use the platform as a user. I know it solves business problems and theyve built a big moat. My commentary is on the company culture and focus on sales over quality. I just don’t think this is a company that knows how
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by bloblaw 3y ago
Salesforce is a sales and marketing company that was founded (and is led) by a brilliant sales and marketing person in Marc Benioff. They are not now, and never have been, and engineering focused company. The creation of the Salesforce plat
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by bloblaw 4y ago
The number of them isn't as relevant as their usage. Lots of data science related modules are effectively wrappers around C code. Here's a few: NumPy pandas Matplotlib TensorFlow PyTorch These modules are crit
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by bloblaw 4y ago
Similar statements have been made about most dominant technology when it was in its infancy. You are not wrong, but it can quickly go from novelty to necessity once folks start to rely on it.
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by bloblaw 4y ago
All good points. Windows still very much dominates desktops / laptops sold (especially large corp environments)...so the default installed Edge browser + Bing is a significant share of users. And with Edge being "basically chrome&
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by bloblaw 4y ago
> Good luck running a jar built with JDK19 on JRE8, or an executable linked against glibc2.36 on Ubuntu 18, or a Python file written for Python 3.10 on a system that comes with Python 3.6. Yes, you are starting to see the problem. This i
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by bloblaw 4y ago
But what if you just write a Python3 script and want to run it? Not a full blown application, but just a script. I mean the Python ecosystem is such that now I have to "package" up this script to potentially tell the user with Pyt
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by bloblaw 4y ago
> Take some ownership of your problems, even if the ecosystem provides them -- they are chosen, and can be managed. Huh? This has a strong "No, it's the children who are wrong" vibe. But to be more fair to your point, I th
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by bloblaw 4y ago
> I’m not trying to dispute whether it’s a problem. I agree it’s a problem. ack > I’m saying that avoiding Python because of it is illogical (to me) because the problems they’re describing aren’t unique to Python, and I don’t think th
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by bloblaw 4y ago
> I have no time for whinging snowflakes complaining 12 years (2020-2008) was not enough time to migrate their code to Python 3. Hell, even the original 7 years (2015-2008) should have been long enough for 99.999999% of the community. I&
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by bloblaw 4y ago
Yes, but *which* Python3? Are you getting one with f-strings support? Because if you aren't, now you've got to install that. How about one with dataclasses support? Again, you get to install a new interpreter everywhere. Python pa
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by bloblaw 4y ago
> Tons of other languages have version requirements as part of their end user experience. That does not dispute the original claim though. It's still a problem for Python even when other languages have the same problem. > or Perl
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by bloblaw 4y ago
"rant"? Is that what a criticism of a technology that you like is called? I feel your response is best summarized as: "I like Python. I've never had this problem and don't think it's a legitimate problem. Only
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by bloblaw 4y ago
Eevee also dismissed with this argument as well in the same article: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ > Do not tell me that Facebook and Wikipedia are built in PHP. I’m
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by bloblaw 4y ago
FTA: > Otherwise, the only thing that matters is that the tool works. Every tool comes with its own upsides and downsides, but most of them are increasingly the same. They mostly differ in workflow. But I can promise you: they all draw
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by bloblaw 4y ago
BSD grep vs GNU grep has burned me enough times that when I do anything moderately complex in a bash script, I quickly move to Perl. And since Perl is installed most everywhere (or can be bundled up easily with PAR::Packer), it's an ea
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by bloblaw 4y ago
> If you don’t (need to) care about Unicode, maybe Perl has had strong unicode support since Perl v5.12 (~2010). references: 1. http://xahlee.info/perl/perl_unicode.html 2. https://stackoverflow.com/
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by bloblaw 4y ago
Here's Google's stance on why they ban AGPL software: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl... > The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service that depe
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by bloblaw 4y ago
You can easily remove the RTTI info from your binary: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3975363/12458
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by bloblaw 4y ago
When I statically compile a C++ or Go binary, I end up with something I can copy and execute on any platform for which it was compiled for. Single file. Copy and run. Virtualenvs require every single target to reproduce your dev environment

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