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by devxpy 8y ago
The problem with code as configuration is that the config file is indeterministic and it takes longer to extract information from the file. This has long been a problem in the python/pip community, as its basically impossible for the b
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by devxpy 8y ago
Why are you ranting on packaging story, when this post is clearly about development workflow?
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by devxpy 8y ago
> Should we try to build a society that optimizes for per capita happiness Are you aware of the hedonic treadmill? > Our modern concept of egalitarianism is mostly a product of religious thinking You must be kidding. Religions promote
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by devxpy 8y ago
The problem is that religions have a reputation of tricking people into believing in stories, with a motive that might or might not be a good one. Meditation, yoga are examples of the good one's. Sacrificing babies, worshipping cows ar
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by devxpy 8y ago
That was a legit question. I'm quite interested in why you find your job not boring/easy compared to when you were younger. Is it because of the technology you work on, or is it the age factor? I've not programmed long enough
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by devxpy 8y ago
What do you do? (asking for research purposes)
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by devxpy 8y ago
No, i was just presenting a counter argument. I never had to actually implement KMP outside of uni though. Interviews that require extra knowledge outside of what the job actually asks for are definitely broken.
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by devxpy 8y ago
Have you ever tried to implement the KMP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93P... ) pattern matching algorithm yourself? I tried doing it -- even with the knowledge of how it works, it took me at
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by devxpy 8y ago
You think every programmer has a CS degree?
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by devxpy 8y ago
Its a cult, man.
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by devxpy 8y ago
> Because those are companies dominated by webdevs that can't be bothered to learn anything else. Tell me about it!
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by devxpy 8y ago
Nice point about fushsia. But isn't the point of a truly cross platform framework just that? So what if fuschia has a different native toolkit. Maybe they are trying to launch a platform specific api that's more bare metal. I mean
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by devxpy 8y ago
Can you link a specific issue that wasn't immediately a result of a problem with the user code, perhaps too much work on the main thread? I have found the perf to be just fantastic on android. Especially compared to react native, which
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by devxpy 8y ago
Yes, you are correct. I think Flutter means native in the sense that it runs at native speed, perhaps even faster in some carefully selected apps As for a look and feel thing, Flutter widgets feel alright to me..
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by devxpy 8y ago
The flutter team has announced that it is now working on desktop and web ports of flutter. What's interesting is that you can literally run the same app on all platforms, because flutter draws the whole ui in dart code, using the canva
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by devxpy 8y ago
That's very bold, considering the popularity of JavaScript, an esoteric, joke of a language in earlier times (no offence). Bottom line, Its very safe to say that dart is a much better language than JS. The language of choice has never
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by devxpy 8y ago
Speaking of "a viable, efficient, native and cross-platform GUI solution", I have high hopes for flutter.
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by devxpy 8y ago
In that case, an important question might be, whether we can actually make it 10x faster. Given a point in the Moore's law curve, can we actually make a single core that's as fast as 10 separate cores? If yes, Will that be more p
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by devxpy 8y ago
Well here’s the thing though, I don’t feel like parallelism is just about speed. I for one like the idea of being able doing 10 things at once, and all tasks running at the same speed. It’s hard to do with current software, yes. But there
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by devxpy 8y ago
Well maybe not in desktops, but don't you think that mobile devices (even micro controllers, like ESP8266) have a lot to benefit from multi-core, even for just regular apps that have nothing to do with number crunching/gaming etc.
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by devxpy 8y ago
Well, You'll be happy to know that a decorator is literally just a function that takes another function as its first argument. @app.route(...) def login(): ... Is literally the same thing as - def login():
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by devxpy 8y ago
Is it just me or does everyone just eventually resorts to "trying everything until it works" with CSS layout? > Flex seems more flexible to me than CSS Grid. Any day :)
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by devxpy 8y ago
>Need to access the request? use `req` Well, I don't see what's especially difficult about this? from flask import request @app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST']) def logi
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by devxpy 8y ago
> innovations like the amazing standard library Excuse me?
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by devxpy 8y ago
It might be plausible to consider the extremely large amount of sensory information humans are hooked up with. Computers generally only have very limited amount of sensory information, not to mention the inferiority of electronic sensors co
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by devxpy 8y ago
It's obviously a very broad topic, but one thing that I find at least my education hasn't covered yet is how to actually _learn_. By far the biggest part of computer science is learning how to learn the new stuff, and forget outda
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by devxpy 8y ago
Its weird to me that this article only discusses the social aspects of programming in a job environment, while completely ignoring the contrast between university studies and real world technicalities of programming. I feel like the latter
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by devxpy 8y ago
I've been using captainduckduck in production for a while now. It might be a little finniky for you to wrap your head around at first, but it does work well once you do that. https://captainduckduck.com
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by devxpy 8y ago
Weirdly, android has nailed text selection + navigation in 9.0
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by devxpy 8y ago
Can't agree more. Much better choice than js/ts

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