joesb

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by joesb 2y ago
Either the package does or the developers do. And only one of them has compilation checks.
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by joesb 2y ago
And what does DOS attacker want you to do? Not crashing the whole service to deny others of the service?
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by joesb 2y ago
When a process is used to serve multiple requests, I don't think you need to let the whole process terminate just because there is a bug dealing with a single request. Just because we can not reason about the current request does not m
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by joesb 2y ago
I'm lost on how should I integrate all these "languages" of Racket into a single application. Like, I can see there are `typed/racket`, `racket/gui` and `scribble/base` languages. But how do I write a GUI appli
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by joesb 3y ago
The game doesn't have to be started from scratch. For example, get him to write game on top of Roblox. Or any other game that allow simple mod. If you want to get more hands on, there are plenty of game engines that is simple to write,
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by joesb 3y ago
It's not completely about handling unplanned failure, but handling alternative path when the condition for one path is not met. For example, when you perform `withdrawMoney()` it can fail because there's not enough money in the ac
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by joesb 3y ago
> If my code works out of the box in an unmodified browser, then it is Vanilla JS. If I have to load a framework for it to work, then it isn't, period. Minor nitpick, third party library and framework does not modify your browser. T
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by joesb 4y ago
What is this article's obsession with things being "processed" food? Is "processed" the new "chemical"? It's like the article trying to keep repeating the words "processed", "ultra-proc
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by joesb 5y ago
Which is fine if your company and teams use React a lot. Why introduce inconsistency in everyone's workflow just because this specific page is a simple contact form? The fact that it is just a simple contact form is exactly why you sho
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by joesb 5y ago
Why not? At that size, it takes less than your client can blink to load it.
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by joesb 5y ago
Why is it relevant? The point is you are not the one needing to remember. One day React could change from using Virtual Dom to the Svelte way and most user of library wouldn't notice. The point of the article is that React remember w
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by joesb 6y ago
I think OP was just saying that even if the article were true, it didn't mean that someone who claim to be one of those people actually were.
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by joesb 6y ago
And that's a problem because?
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by joesb 6y ago
> But our low-level motor actions and perceptions, coordinated by the brain, require a lot of precise computation. But we don't actually do that precise computation though. try repeating any action exactly and you will see some inac
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by joesb 6y ago
> (1) I have no leaks and (2) I don't know how to create them -- These don't really square with each other. If he runs his service for a long time and the memory usage doesn't keep growing, no resource exhaustion problem o
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by joesb 6y ago
I don't think anyone is argue for one instead of the other. Why not a little bit of both? Can we not think about system and data driven improvement while also at the same time apologize for our mistake?
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by joesb 6y ago
While I agree with not "blaming" people for the mistake as if it's their fault as a person. I disagree with all of his reasoning and the action he choose not to do in this case. I also take the position of "criticizing t
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by joesb 6y ago
> Unless you've invented a mind-reading device I'm pretty sure you're talking out of your ass. You may feel that. But you can't know what other smokers feel, either.
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by joesb 7y ago
You can use HTTP client to contact any HTTP compatible service. You can only use Kafka client to connect to Kafka. That sounds like a tautology but it's practical. There is way higher chance that you can make any of your future service
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by joesb 7y ago
That reminds me of the villian robot in I, Robot movie. They don't want to harm human, they just want to keep them in the house, so that there is less crime, and less people die. It may take away freedom. But freedom should not be a re
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by joesb 7y ago
Honestly I don't care that much about such case. The system is not there to babysit you. In other transportation system if you get on the wrong car/bus, it's your problem. So you should check your flight and gate number for y
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by joesb 7y ago
Why are people assuming that they don't use feature detection just because they have a warning based on UA-sniffing? Saying that an unknown browser is "unsupported browser" is not the same as saying that "it will break.
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by joesb 7y ago
Way to kill businesses that relying on subcontracting and surviving on small margin.
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by joesb 7y ago
> But more honest language ("What does this line mean?") would erase the veneer of objectivity; hermeneutical questions do not have "right" answers "When you say it honestly, it looks bad. So don't say it th
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by joesb 7y ago
On the other hand, if the static optimizer can figure out that a certain call will always work at compile time, it can remove the runtime check for that part.
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by joesb 7y ago
As if only evil CEO can remember things differently. "This CEO rewrites history! My friend's memory is more trustworthy!"
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by joesb 7y ago
It depends on if the library will sue you for trying to make a copy of those law so that not everyone has to comes to the library in the future.
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by joesb 7y ago
New species will arise. That's how evolution works.
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by joesb 7y ago
Lots and lots, I might even say majority, of people who bought iPhones don't have Mac or any other Apple device but iPhones. It's also only recently that the Apple ecosystem is relevant with Continuity stuffs. Before that, iPods,
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by joesb 7y ago
Did they lie, though. Providing homes as in places to stays during disasters does not neccessary means "permanent" homes.

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