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Why you can't safely and automatically refactor Python(beust.com)
2 points by incepted 5y ago|0 comments
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by incepted 10y ago
Ugh... sourceforge.net? No, thanks.
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by incepted 10y ago
On top of the weather, which is a big deal to a lot of people, the problem is exactly in what you said: there are two huge tech companies. And that's it. Basically, if you move to Seattle, you are pretty much restricted to working for
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by incepted 10y ago
> Pardon my ignorance but I thought by now everyone agreed that Multiple inheritance was the root of all evil. Hardly. How it's implemented makes the difference. I'd say the general consensus is that C++' version of it is
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by incepted 10y ago
Java (or better, Kotlin) coupled with DropWizard (or Jetty or Tomcat).
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by incepted 10y ago
Things get dated in engineering too. The writing has been on the wall for Rails for a while now, we're just seeing an increasingly large number of people publicly moving on from it.
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by incepted 10y ago
Interesting take but I disagree with one point: > This style of designing abstractions is often quite foreign in programming in the large, and other schools of thought (see Gang of Four) actively encourage weaving cryptic metaphors and a
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by incepted 10y ago
Here is a penny so you can by some more ram. You can keep the change.
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by incepted 10y ago
I have a feeling that by the time this happens, a lot of the Python developers will have moved to Go or some other language.
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by incepted 10y ago
It's always interesting to see the only people who ever talk about JavaFX are either Oracle employees or people who have a financial interest in JavaFX, such as the author of this piece whose business is based on JavaFX.
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by incepted 10y ago
This is the usual privacy hysteria knee-jerk reaction: "Watch out, the big companies are going to get data on you!". And people are going to react exactly like they've done before: if the service is worth it, they'll be
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by incepted 10y ago
Isn't it ironic to write this tool in a language that is not available on Windows[1]? [1] "Windows support is comming soon. " https://ocaml.org/docs/install.html
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by incepted 10y ago
Predicting that a company will fail without giving a date is not foreshadowing, it's stating the obvious.
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by incepted 10y ago
Interesting but since they are designing a revised syntax, I wish they had got rid of Ocaml's semi colon. These stand out in 2016.
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by incepted 10y ago
The whole article is about Gerber, it should have been called "Why Gerber can't innovate". As plenty others have already pointed out, the tech industry is currently being led by very big companies that are frighteningly effec
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by incepted 10y ago
> Too bad Google isn't more aggressive at keeping malware out of the Play Store. I don't know, how often do we hear about this kind of malware on Google Play? Not nearly as often as I would have thought a few years back, especi
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by incepted 10y ago
Ah, I stand corrected.
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by incepted 10y ago
Seriously. The fact that Picasa is in this list tells you how meaningless that list is.
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by incepted 10y ago
From my understanding, Spaces doesn't require any kind of membership anywhere. No accounts. This could become a big deal if true and possibly rival Twitter for when you suddenly have an interest in something for a few hours/days b
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by incepted 10y ago
Show us what you think is a nice DSL then, because you keep waving your hands about DSL but you're not showing a single line of code to prove your point.
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by incepted 10y ago
These are functions, it doesn't get any simpler than that and it doesn't require learning anything new once you know the language. Macros are over engineered in comparison since they force the developer to learn a whole new sectio
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by incepted 10y ago
> I'm not against GMO, but one thing that I think is a fallacy is the choice between GMO and heavily-pesticided products. You're right, I made a false dichotomy there, sorry about that. There is at least a third choice here (no
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by incepted 10y ago
> Only Monsanto is capable of arguing that the most environmentally friendly option for agriculture is GMO. No, plenty of objective scientists argue it as well. It's just common sense. You don't need a PhD to understand that fo
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by incepted 10y ago
> You cannot implement simple, modular, debuggable, composable DSLs with functions alone. We've been doing this for at least ten years. Example: [1] For someone who's convinced that DSL's are the silver bullet that everybo
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by incepted 10y ago
> Mind naming a single one? We no longer need macros to create intuitive DSL's any more.
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by incepted 10y ago
> I'd be extremely happy to be able to work on such a well designed project. You really think the project is well designed just because they use macros, without even looking at the code or knowing the engineers? Now I really think y
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by incepted 10y ago
I know.
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by incepted 10y ago
> There is no better way of doing things than macros. We have invented plenty of better ways since Lisp. Much better ones.
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by incepted 10y ago
> I personally use this approach exclusively, In my experience, most people who are so in love with macros/DSL's work on solo projects. Are you working on a team? If yes, ask your coworkers what they think about your macros and
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by incepted 10y ago
> Lisp is one of the few languages that can say it actually doesn't age; Common Lisp code that was written 20+ years ago is often used today without a single change. You can't say that about most of the popular languages. Examp

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