robsws

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by robsws 1y ago
Maybe I should read the book again making notes like the author did. I finished it understanding how novel this would have been when it was released and impressed with how much worldbuilding was fit into a relatively short book, but ultimat
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by robsws 2y ago
As much as I understand that checked exceptions (the general term for the 'throws' feature) can lead to a bit of a maintenance nightmare and doesn't necessarily scale well with deeper call stacks, I have found python document
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by robsws 4y ago
I can just about tolerate this for brand names, as there's an additional set of requirements there, but for everything else, it's just gatekeeping and unnecessary obfuscation. If the purpose of something changes, fork it off into
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by robsws 4y ago
I'm not saying other languages don't have the same problems, but this just hasn't been as much of an issue in my experience when working with other languages. C# for example - I had some compatibility issues between versions
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by robsws 4y ago
The article is kind of hyperbolic, but I feel like it echoes how I am beginning to feel about Python. Just last week, I spent a whole afternoon getting a particular repository of Python code running on my laptop, even with the help of virtu
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by robsws 4y ago
I agree thoroughly with this - it's fantastic for building something quickly. If I need a quick script to do one-off data processing there's nothing better. My biggest problems with it IMO with respect to maintainable software are
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by robsws 4y ago
Hard agree on AI, hard disagree on Tech Debt. The sheer force of opinion saturated into so few words made me smile :) My highlights: - OOP 'modules, but using the word class' - Agile 'It used to mean “not waterfall” and now m
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by robsws 4y ago
I don't really know Swift, but does the following line from that site make any sense? "And with Swift concurrency, it’s easy to request weather data with just a few lines of code."
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by robsws 5y ago
I figured that was just a convenient way to avoid all the security problems that come with exposing a shell online whilst also limiting the inputs, although I'm sure there's other ways to do that. Might be nice to have the option
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by robsws 5y ago
This looks cool and all, but why is it called Icecream? I know naming abstract stuff is hard but it feels like this lends itself to a more descriptive name. "ic()" tells me nothing about what the function does.
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by robsws 6y ago
Interesting he thought it was tedious - I thought this one was actually the closest to being like a real world software engineering task! No mathematical tricks or lateral thinking, just a gnarly problem that requires planning and breaking
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by robsws 6y ago
The MySQL documentation suggests using it to store a time interval: "The hours part may be so large because the TIME type can be used not only to represent a time of day (which must be less than 24 hours), but also elapsed time or a ti
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by robsws 6y ago
I was surprised they didn't mention that after clicking 'Leave Meeting', a popup comes up with a 'Leave Meeting' button in it, that actually leaves the meeting. This inevitably means in every single Zoom meeting tha
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by robsws 6y ago
It is dynamically typed, because the typing is checked at runtime. Unlike a lot of other dynamically typed languages though it is strongly typed, because it does enforce type rules as you pointed out. That's not to say there's not
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by robsws 6y ago
An array by definition is fixed length and contiguous in memory. A list is variable length and not necessarily contiguous in memory.