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Not a tinkerer: The painful, hardly instructive story how I became an engineer(gabrielpickard.com)
5 points by werg 6y ago|0 comments
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Video conferencing fails the cocktail party effect(gabrielpickard.com)
2 points by werg 6y ago|0 comments
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by werg 6y ago
oh yeah that makes sense! I just drop people into the space -- it's supposed to be a 2D space for video chat, including a sense of distance, i.e. there are people who are in earshot and others who aren't! I'll figure out a wa
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Show HN: Spatially Embedded Video Chat(veeparty.horse)
4 points by werg 6y ago|2 comments
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A tool for comparing dev environments (diffenv)(github.com)
2 points by werg 7y ago|0 comments
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by werg 7y ago
Thanks for posting this! So happy to see some real academic interest in these topics!
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by werg 7y ago
What a cool extension! I'll give it a whirl! On impact: I've been running the numbers for a tool I'm working on and the projected savings for the industry look insane! Just by shaving off 10 minutes here or there you can cont
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by werg 7y ago
Too often, "tests are required" -- but as you say it's very hard to test anything meaningful, so developers "test something" and call it a day.
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by werg 7y ago
Interesting, what example would come to mind?
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by werg 7y ago
We need to find our equivalent of a printing press! For what it's worth, possibly that won't be just one thing, but a wide array of tools?
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by werg 7y ago
I couldn't agree more! Why doesn't every error message have a link to a specific page with discussions, instructions, etc. Or maybe even a button you can click where the machine tries a best guess at an automatic fix?
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by werg 7y ago
The question is: how do you grow up from there, in terms of expressive power? I.e. is it possible to find more middle ground between Python and Scratch?
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by werg 7y ago
Atlassian truly is the Harbor Freight of developer tools! I'm a bit hopeful that DX might finally start getting the love it deserves. -- For better or worse, Microsoft seems to understand the potential that lies in building better tool
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by werg 7y ago
You are so right, those "build a website in 15 minutes" demos hit like a bomb back in the day!
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by werg 7y ago
Yes, you are right I didn't put that very well. Modal editing really has a lot of benefits, even if I personally don't go for them (am more of an Emacs guy). What I would say is that vi really doesn't give you a lot of intera
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by werg 7y ago
Oh yes, that is certainly what we do. And there's nothing wrong about that. We are definitely in the business of building tools for professionals, i.e. a bit of a learning curve is not the issue. The "professional hazing process&q
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by werg 7y ago
This looks fantastic! What a treasure trove.
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by werg 7y ago
Haha, I agree. Sorry.
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by werg 7y ago
I was wondering about this -- but how would CAD or Photoshop be more than a Context Free language? In particular, consider Feature Structure Grammars which are equivalent to CFGs and can really capture a lot of inter-context agreement witho
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Developer Experience: Fundamentally harder than normal UX(gabrielpickard.com)
114 points by werg 7y ago|122 comments
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by werg 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area & Austin,TX | Remote OK Fullstack Data Scientist & Engineer NLP, Distributed Computing, Functional Programming I have mainly done product driven work that involves Distributed Computing and Machine Learnin
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by werg 13y ago
Exactly this is the problem with grafting visual programming interfaces onto textual programming semantics. One of the main important reasons to do VP is to be able to inspect the code, to easier see what it does, ideally at a glance. Yet a
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by werg 13y ago
Initially when I read the title my mind jumped to assume that you were doing actors distributed across multiple machines, i.e. one actor spread out, possibly in some fault-tolerant, eventually consistent way, in a cluster. But this actually
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by werg 14y ago
It's extremely new, see discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/clojure/3...
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by werg 14y ago
This is incorrect. The anthem is not Nazi, it is from a poem by Hoffman von Fallersleben, one of the early German democrats. Far from being illegal, the first two stanzas are simply not sung during official occasions and are not (no longer,
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by werg 14y ago
What I already told Esten on twitter: He outlines some aspects of a method to keep the 'good contributors' engaged, even if the community grows, by highlighting their contributions. What interests me is how to scale these good comments wit
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by werg 15y ago
:) Yes there are a few kinks. Especially if you type quickly and do mult-line replace operations. It also sometimes doesn't register newlines accurately. All this might have to do with the way my code talks to the editor. Thank you for your
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by werg 15y ago
Stypi is a more mature project with more features. Also they use the ACE-editor which arguable is more feature-rich (though poorer in documentation IMHO). My project is open source: https://github.com/werg/snucode So it's also an example
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by werg 15y ago
Done. Thanks for the input!
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by werg 15y ago
Done. not sure if it's optimal this way though... I'll have to think of a nicer interface. Just couldn't make myself put up another bootstrap toolbar.

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