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by snapdaddy 1y ago
How many editors can you think of that don't do any (strictly) unnecessary file operations, e.g. renaming files? The author's problem is that Emacs is just really good at it, so he wants to use it more.
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by snapdaddy 1y ago
I feel like this is a wild mis-characterisation. American isn't in danger of becoming a victim; America is trying to suppress academic pursuits and intellectualism. It is politically inconvenient, which means it needs to be eradicated.
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
to come up with and advocate for paired programming before the concept existed _is_ pretty brilliant. And you also don't understand how much those practices improved software engineering, presumably because when you started programming
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
I was completely ready to agree with you, but the code that I browsed actually looked really good. https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse/blob/master/src/fitness... Yup, OK, got it. The FitnessContext
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
Yo! What's wrong with chess? ;-)
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
FWIW (not a lot), I do believe in a lot of these principles. For example, even with widescreen monitors, it is still useful to limit line length. Why? Because many people will have multiple source files side-by-side on one of those widescre
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
It would be good if we could create a digital fortress around the US that stopped unwanted things from coming in. Like a firewall for the country. . . .
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
As a senior developer of 30+ years experience, I agree and was going to post the same thing. If code is difficult to understand, I consider that to be a bug. And if, for some reason, the section of code actually is difficult to implement, I
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
That's a really interesting data point about your experience with TypeScript. I'm going to have to file that away as something that I'm not sure what to do with right now, but also as an interesting thought to keep in mind go
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
I acknowledge that there are passionate users of most programming languages, but I also 100% agree that the FP crowd are something different. I feel like most other languages have some nuance at least; if you're writing transpilers or
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by snapdaddy 2y ago
As others have commented, most people have specialised knowledge. For example, I've been programming professionally for about 30 years; let me share my knowledge of game programming: Most people use Unity these days. I'm pretty su
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by snapdaddy 3y ago
The opposite viewpoint is that you are being included in these meetings so that you can prevent bad decisions by management. What if you aren't in a meeting where it is decided that you should implement feature x because they imagine i
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by snapdaddy 3y ago
I agree completely. I tend to do 'UML light', where I don't worry about the finer details (e.g. marking fields public or private). The best solution is one where I can sketch out the outlines of a class and have some tool aut
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by snapdaddy 3y ago
I don't think it was software architecture, UML or design patterns that was bad. I think the 'Open-Closed Principle' is one of the worst ideas to ever gain popular acceptance. For anyone who didn't live through that time
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by snapdaddy 3y ago
I will treat your comment as serious and explain why I personally use emacs. The thing I love most about emacs is that it is joyously consistent. The same key combination to jump ahead by a word works everywhere, such as when you're op
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
If you were asked to provide guidance for companies who wished to avoid using nicespeak, what recommendations would you provide? And do you have advice for situations where a company might want to emphasise/de-emphasise aspects of the
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
As an emacs user, I support this comment. I think the main point is that there is a long-term benefit to learning multi-use text editors. Yes, it is painful at first, but the dividends are repaid over time. As for VI vs emacs - both are goo
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
Hey Cole, I think the site looks great and is very useful. The one suggestion I have would be to add a bit of space to everything to give it some breathing room. These are the changes I made: try them out and see what you think. body { pa
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
I've been programming for approximately 20 years, and there was a period where I was definitely burnt out. I can remember thinking to myself, 'who would ever read a blog about programming outside of their work?' But, that pas
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
Yeah, this description doesn't sit with me very well, either. I fully support the argument that Angular is not a good choice because React is more popular and has a larger pool of developers, but not that it is more complex. I too woul
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
I feel like I am the odd one out in that I don't hate MBTI. I would not use them as a measurement of performance or individual worth, but I do think they might have some value as a team-building exercise. Imagine everyone on a team doe
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
The first time I tried this simulator, it looked like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrB5sQtrvA Of course, that was not on an RTX 3090.
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
I disagree with nearly every response in this thread (not yours). The 'cutesy' error messages are step 1 to providing a better user experience. 'This is awkward! Something went wrong and it's probably our fault :-('
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
My recollection of the time was that it was the port of Microsoft Office that made Apple viable as an alternative operating system (which was a result of the DOJ pressure, and not because Bill Gates was feeling charitable). Without office c
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
Looking at the page code, it appears that their main 'secret' is pre-loading the images for the page that are one-level deeper.
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
I agree that dependency graphs are the way to go - they show the structure of the code better than anything else. And yes, the problem is that the graphs show all of the details, whether they are important for gaining a good, overall pictur
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
Have you tried using k3s? How do the two compare?
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The Australian election map has been lying to you(abc.net.au)
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
People in the comments are so quick to be snarky, but this is all really good advice.
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by snapdaddy 4y ago
The reason for choosing monolithic architecture is simple: velocity. You need to move fast and be nimble until you are able to find a product that people want and/or need to use. The people who (at least initially) advocated for micros

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