robertlagrant

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by robertlagrant 3d ago
> I suspect that the number of people that use and know Groovy is steadily declining One big surprise for me at a genomics/bioinformatics company was that of the three main technologies for orchestating bioinformatics workflows, Sna
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by robertlagrant 3d ago
Plot twist: that's what happened in this case.
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by robertlagrant 3d ago
It's not hero worship to think he knew what a customer was. It's pretty basic, and given he won the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, he probably knew more than the basics.
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by robertlagrant 4d ago
Friedman was a very smart man. I think he knew what a customer is.
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by robertlagrant 4d ago
> What's more, they're a publicly traded company. That means their primary product is no longer what they sell. Their primary product is stock dividends. That is their primary business now. Whether you're buying a service
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by robertlagrant 5d ago
I might have to have another look. It always felt a bit magical, but maybe it's not so magical any more.
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by robertlagrant 6d ago
Hello! As I'm on Android, thank you for your service.
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by robertlagrant 6d ago
It can be the case that people don't want to accidentally mis-state the problem, or get into a debate about the problem because they know people will chime in about nonessentials. I would recommend "Have we written down the proble
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by robertlagrant 6d ago
I think people do say a hash table is O(1). It's the average time complexity (for some value of average) though, not the worst case.
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by robertlagrant 6d ago
You always still needed a specialist per-platform even if most of the code was RN or KMM[0]. But I agree - a thousand not-great mobile apps sprang from this idea. [0] I always thought the best answer was something like KMM to do all the bac
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by robertlagrant 6d ago
The criticism of Cloudflare here is reasonable, I think. I really like the CF building blocks - they're neat and conceptually useful and quite unusual. I think they could have a better developer experience though (though it probably is
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by robertlagrant 8d ago
What I always liked about mobile app development, or Docker-based development is that it increases the value of the garage programmer - they can now produce a complete shrink-wrapped piece of working software ready to go.
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by robertlagrant 13d ago
That aligns with your goals of analysing problems, admitting fault and surfacing that through use of clear and concise language. Not just simply wrong — this screams finessed, nuanced, polished communication after an understandable mistake
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by robertlagrant 13d ago
I think moving the error around is a good idea. E.g. integer division would end up with five cases: Int / 0 -> DivisionByZeroError PositiveInt / PositiveInt -> PositiveFloat PositiveInt / NegativeInt -> Neg
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by robertlagrant 13d ago
That sounds like Cloudflare indeed (or an API copy of same!)
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by robertlagrant 20d ago
What we need is a numeric type that cannot be zero.
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by robertlagrant 21d ago
I spend more time writing tests than writing code. Saying "You don't need to write code any more, only think, design, and write 'verification'" is interesting of course, but compacts a smaller percentage of the tota
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by robertlagrant 23d ago
It's the second worst.
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Fixes to Windows Phone(101fixes.blogspot.com)
1 points by robertlagrant 23d ago|1 comments
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by robertlagrant 23d ago
I wrote these ideas - only 55 in the end, not 101 - on Windows Phone long ago, back when Blackberries were still around and Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 were the grand strategy. I dig them out for you now.
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by robertlagrant 25d ago
It's 2026 and I'm running more cat-6 in my home to all my static devices. My theory is using wires lowers wireless contention, leaving more WiFi for the mobile devices.
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by robertlagrant 26d ago
Your short post in full: > In another comment, I asked why people chose to use the symbol τ over just writing turn or "rev(olution)" (defined to be the constant ≈ 6.28318530718) given how unambiguous the latter is as a name for
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by robertlagrant 27d ago
I think it's Tau[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_(mathematics)
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by robertlagrant 28d ago
It was amazing being able to fit a full length movie on a CD-ROM though.
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by robertlagrant 1mo ago
> anyone can use false information pretending to be a telemarketer I suppose many people would wonder what the difference is between a legitimate caller you don't want and a fake one.
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by robertlagrant 1mo ago
This is a bit of a false dichotomy. The thing that isn't code (at least in some people's minds) isn't "requirements analysis". It's architecture, data modeling, deployment, inter/intra-team communication,
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by robertlagrant 1mo ago
As a veteran of JSF - it is similar, but done better, I think. It's only the frontend. Those technologies were more heavyweight, where each component had a lifecycle it went though on each render, and you needed the backend and fronten
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by robertlagrant 2mo ago
Fair point, yes.
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by robertlagrant 2mo ago
> That's the definition, I didn't made it up. Your prior claim was that they only solve one problem, not about a definition. They solve several problems: - less data can move over the wire compared to sending a full page every
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by robertlagrant 2mo ago
I could be wrong, but this looks to be designed by AI. It's quite confusing.

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