jayceedenton

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by jayceedenton 4mo ago
How do you end crunch? Teams always work at a more relaxed pace when the deadlines are years out. You can't beat Parkinson's law no matter how generous you are with the estimates. We've all tried methodologies to counter this
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by jayceedenton 1y ago
Without the explicit recur it's far too easy to misidentify a tail call and use recursion where it's not safe. Recur has zero inconvenience. It's four letters, it verifies that you are in a tail position, and it's portab
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by jayceedenton 1y ago
> Speaking to female and male friends, both sides are seeing them as a complete shitshow In what sense?
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by jayceedenton 1y ago
It's not really surprising. Hetero sexual desire has been framed negatively for well over a decade, as at best exploitative and at worst misogynistic and perverted. Men told that if you want sex you're part of society's bigge
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by jayceedenton 1y ago
Age limits on buying cigarettes are easily thwarted by finding a corner shop that needs the sale and will sell to kids. Height restrictions on fairground rides are easily thwarted by putting bits of wood in your shoes. None of this matters.
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
10+ years ago Clojure had a fantastic introductory experience. lein new and away you go. lein was so good and effective, for both tiny hello world projects and real production apps. The experience has gotten worse and worse now for a decad
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Which of these languages is declarative? Aren't they both imperative?
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Is there any benefit to using workspaces over just introducing some variables and having an 'environment' variable? You can have a directory per environment and a directory of shared resources that are used by all environments. It
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Why was Poland so high?
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
This is a good example, I think, of why a future in which all homework is obsolete because of AI is actually not likely. If a lecturer at university sets a task for 100 students (say, write an essay about the factors that led to the first w
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
> a red headed step child Very good point, but please stop using this phrase.
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
My friends and I had great fun with Micro Machines 2 on the Mega drive (Genesis). The cartridge itself was fascinating because it had two extra controller ports on it! You had for player gaming by plugging two controllers into the console a
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
This seems pedantic, but I suppose anyone using the term 'superset' is inviting the pedantry. For almost all intents and purposes, if you are asked to create a YAML file then you can choose JSON as your syntax instead, because you
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
I guess at least their work has confirmed what we probably already knew intuitively: if you have CPU-intensive tasks, without waiting on anything, and you want to execute these concurrently, use traditional threads. The advice "don&#x2
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Not all stock photography is corporate cheese.
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Yes, please just choose a good photo. There are plenty that are free for all uses.
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
I struggle with this one because exceptions are a perfectly good solution. The compiler will tell you when you are not handling a failure case. And if exceptions are unchecked, then you won't get a compiler warning but at least failure
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
> A portion of this code implemented a SMTP client. What the...
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Does anyone know if you can use Go Henry or Hyperjar cards on the tube?
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
I think "drop in paper ticket sales" is unlikely to be misconstrued as a drop in sale in general.
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
This issue is nuanced for Microsoft . The health of PC gaming is a huge factor in the sales performance of home consoles, and of course Microsoft dominates that arena via Windows. Xbox does not have true exclusives these days, because of a
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
https://archive.ph/KFG5L
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America plunders Britain's tech economy(spectator.co.uk)
3 points by jayceedenton 2y ago|1 comments
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Amen, and if you try to keep pure parts and side-effecting parts separated, the problem of reasoning about side effects is limited to a very small part of your code. The pure typed religion and huge weight of theory that goes with it is one
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
> making me admit I smoked a joint in California (not legal on a state level) Wait, so weed is not actually legal in California? I see big billboards around the valley and SF, advertising gummies as if it is a normal part of life. Is it
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by jayceedenton 2y ago
Yes it is. Asking your waiter to wrap up the rest of your food to go almost never happens in the UK. Maybe this is creeping in due to seeing Americans doing this in movies. You start to realise how people cope with those huge portions sizes
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
I think that GitHub is a massive factor here. The emergence of distributed version control created the battle ground, but GitHub meant that the entire world of open source and sharing code online would be dominated by git. It was their exec
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
> fac n = product [1..n] This is a beautiful line of code. In all seriousness, I'd probably prefer to find the Junior or "Another junior" version if I was browsing a project.
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
My first thought was, "Needs more monads". Sure enough, in the commentary: > Monads are woefully un-represented here; I would be grateful if someone could contribute a few (progressive) examples in the spirit of the development
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by jayceedenton 3y ago
It's the 'accidentally' part that's the problem. Finding out that you need to delete something is not the same as accidentally deleting it. 'Unexpectedly' would be a little more accurate I think. Or just '

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