cake-rusk

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by cake-rusk 6d ago
Sure, if that is what you like. I for one did not get into this field because I wanted to hire people (artificial or natural) to write the programs for me. Programming as an activity / art is what I enjoyed the most. Managing people &#
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by cake-rusk 6d ago
This is precisely what the word quote means!
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by cake-rusk 6d ago
> I can prototype working projects in possibly 1/30th the time, and I can do them simultaneously. This takes all the fun out of programming for me.
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by cake-rusk 27d ago
Some say this war was started to distract from the Epstein files issue.
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by cake-rusk 1mo ago
Most laypeople I know haven't seen an ad blocker in action ever.
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by cake-rusk 2mo ago
Is there a name for the phenomenon in which you look at something and know that there is something wrong with it but struggle to identify the problem? I got this feeling looking at the (non)word cantine.
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by cake-rusk 3mo ago
How do you run this thing? What kind of hardware do you need?
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by cake-rusk 3mo ago
Isn't this like the P vs NP problems? Once you have a solution it is easy to verify?
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by cake-rusk 3mo ago
Strangely, I knew this one. Once you hear this word it refuses to leave your head.
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by cake-rusk 3mo ago
Apparently I am Stephen Fry in disguise :D My score: 78,000 words, 20/20/19/18/18.
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by cake-rusk 3mo ago
Windows Vista / 7 was peak UI for me.
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by cake-rusk 3mo ago
I have an RTX 5090 card but it only has 32 GB RAM, can something like this work on my machine?
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by cake-rusk 4mo ago
What are some good alternatives (to Xilinx/AMD) for hobbyists / small outfits?
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by cake-rusk 5mo ago
English is a "romance" language then.
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by cake-rusk 6mo ago
Cringe?
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by cake-rusk 6mo ago
Here's a quote from the article. Hopefully this helps the people with rose tinted glasses get some perspective... >Lotus Notes is used by millions of people, but almost all of them seem to hate it. How can a program be so bad, yet t
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by cake-rusk 6mo ago
It was bad. There was a dedicated site called lotusnotessucks.com or something like that. It does not exist anymore but here is an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/09/guar
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by cake-rusk 6mo ago
Where's the rest of it?
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by cake-rusk 7mo ago
India went through something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India) .
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by cake-rusk 7mo ago
It will use robots to replace pesky humans. The robots can refuel and maintain the power plant etc.
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by cake-rusk 7mo ago
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/carpente... a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures
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by cake-rusk 7mo ago
I think you have misunderstood what a carpenter is. A carpenter is someone who makes wooden furniture (among other things).
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by cake-rusk 7mo ago
I am not sure I if I can speak to that in general but personally I discovered functional programming late. Object oriented programming was all the rage when I got initiated and that is all that was taught in colleges.
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by cake-rusk 8mo ago
IMO the ELM architecture only works with pure functions. It doesn't work with languages which cannot provide this compile time guarantee. Also functional programming needs a different mindset / training. You won't benefit fro
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by cake-rusk 8mo ago
I agree. Doesn't contradict anything I said. So I will assume you posted the link in support of my argument :)
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by cake-rusk 8mo ago
> Some common design patterns are so flexible that if you really implemented them in full generality as, say, some library function, its interface would be so complex that it likely wouldn't be a net win Then I would say you have no
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by cake-rusk 8mo ago
Here you go: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/fppatterns/
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by cake-rusk 8mo ago
> I'm using MVC design patterns for some codebases, I'm using DDD plus Event sourcing and Event Driven for others. All examples of OO nonsense. There is only one pattern you need (functions) (tongue-in-cheek): https:/&#x2
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by cake-rusk 8mo ago
Design patterns exist to paper over language deficiencies. Use a language which is not deficient.
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by cake-rusk 8mo ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. What you said makes sense to me but I understand I know very little about how companies think. Can someone with a differing point of view elaborate?

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