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by stn 8y ago
I believe there could be ORMs (or DB libraries) that makes this separation clear. Ecto gets this right although it's not an ORM: an SQL query is a composable data structure that should be explicitly passed to a separate function, belon
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by stn 10y ago
What about unwanted parts which are removed intentionally? Wisdom teeth and appendicitis come to mind. Or body parts intentionally modified by surgery. Basically, unless there is some control regarding which part to regrow, this might not a
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by stn 11y ago
I found it to be a huge productivity boost. In highly interactive apps, templates and code are connected so much, trying to pretend that they are not and switching back and forth all the time for me personally feels like fooling myself.
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by stn 11y ago
Meanwhile I find myself somewhat worrying about my unique, 32-character passwords because quantum computers
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by stn 11y ago
It might also has something to do with the fact that not all good music is simply radio-friendly. That is, it's hard to appreciated it in a similar way it's hard to appreciate a good movie unless you're watching it somewhere
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by stn 11y ago
I guess it's also amplified by the fact that people tend to accept things as true by default, until it's proven otherwise. In other words, insertion of data is the way cheaper then its invalidation and probably happen much more fr
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by stn 11y ago
That's why every time with a new piece of software is coming to my toolbox, I find myself eagerly documenting all the hoops I had to jump through.
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by stn 11y ago
Static typing doesn't have to require typing substantially more characters though (ML-family languages are good example, other examples I can think of is Nim), the syntax choice is quite orthogonal to this but it seems like C-syntax ap
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by stn 11y ago
I tried some popular quotes, there is an example: "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." was transformed to: Every time you log on to the website of the Majority, it is Time to s
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by stn 11y ago
Enjoyed the article, it describes most of the issues I had with ActiveRecord.
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by stn 11y ago
Not sure if it helps but you can always jump to the top with just the "Home" button press
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by stn 12y ago
'is' is also very cool: makes it harder to write '=' instead of '=='
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by stn 14y ago
It would be awesome to have this in Rails 4 by default.