wirrbel

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by wirrbel 9mo ago
i work for a for-profit owned by a non-profit. This is a weird take. You can shape a product, sure you need to bring in a profit, but there are options of working with your owner (the non-profit) that you just don't have in a publicly
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by wirrbel 10mo ago
is that like a Landau Lifshitz for Math?
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by wirrbel 1y ago
I think there was a funding campaign once where a developer offered to re-implement the missing Apple APIs, but since they basically put up a standard salary it didn't reach the funding target.
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by wirrbel 1y ago
I always wonder at these attributions. Like all windows versions gave you bluescreen and ran Microsoft excel. To me not one stood out particularly bad or good compared to the others maybe after Windows 98 service pack something
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by wirrbel 1y ago
this summarizes pretty well my first thoughts when reading the headline: "How python grew from a language to a community", because the Python community in 2000, the Python community in 2010, these are a different place to "wh
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by wirrbel 1y ago
Just reading the title. As a college student the premise of screening through the cocktail menu would have sounded like a great project. As a 30 something I am more interested of drinking my way through the mocktail menu.
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by wirrbel 1y ago
> I think this is a very lopsided way of looking at pull requests. They are about a lot more than just trust. Reviewing and being reviewed is a great way of learning from colleagues, making common practices gel in a team, and keeping up
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by wirrbel 1y ago
Indeed it was.
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by wirrbel 1y ago
I used to think this way, i.e. assuming a misunderstanding on the product development side. Nowadays I think its more of a conscious decision many times. Like "We know someone could travel to france as a tourist, but its a small fracti
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by wirrbel 1y ago
Honestly, its infuriating. There are three languages that I speak and understand sufficiently well for consuming youtube videos. I don't ever want these to be translated. And then, the translation of video titles etc. is often surprisi
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by wirrbel 1y ago
I studied at a German university where one of the prominent advocates for universal basic income, Götz Werner (the owner of a well-known German health and beauty retail chain), gave several talks. As a member of a student club, I participat
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by wirrbel 1y ago
That is an interesting example because the second amendment is I think a primary example of a law that is very creatively read by folks that consider themselves literalists. if the 2nd amendmend was literally interpreted it would be (quotin
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by wirrbel 1y ago
thank you for a well written reply, that I did not have the patience to write.
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by wirrbel 1y ago
Really cool to see Oberon / Modula retro-tech stuff on the front page. Whats somewhat interesting is how structurally similar Oberon is to Go. One could say Go is Oberon dragged halfway towards C/Unix conventions (curly braces) wi
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by wirrbel 1y ago
ah, thanks, that isn't extremely exotic.
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by wirrbel 2y ago
When I used parser combinations in rust years ago the compile times were really long. In also think it’s a strange reason to move away from rust as a language.
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by wirrbel 2y ago
Again, it is not a failure of him or his project that his development process heavily relied on him reviewing, modifying and merging patches and that he at times did not commit time to do that. He was not obliged to do more than what he did
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by wirrbel 2y ago
It’s astonishing that you can arrive at this conclusion from my comment. He did great work, his development process did not scale. I am happy that I was able to use vim for more than a decade prior to neovim. The fact that after the neovim
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by wirrbel 2y ago
Braam really took Neovim personally and got better at getting stuff into vim that he wouldn't merge before once neovim was arround as a competitor. I really lost track of vim in the last years because neovim is just a solid platform wi
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by wirrbel 2y ago
It seems they lost the first game in the gGmbH (gemeinnützige GmbH, thus "charitable Ltd") leading to a normal GmbH (similar to a Ltd.). In Germany only certain purposes qualify as "gemeinnützige" which makes the formati
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by wirrbel 2y ago
Quite often you have a sequence. There is a dance that becomes popular, music is composed for dancing and played for dancing. At one point fancy composers use the rhythmic and melodic themes and compose music reminiscent of the dance which
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by wirrbel 2y ago
There is (mechanical/optical/*) engineering, experimental and theoretical physics, and then there is maths (focussing on physical problems). I think taking these four abstraction levels could be a model for computer science. Now,
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by wirrbel 2y ago
That's a bit ... excessive? A compatibility nightmare of the same magnitude as Python 2 to Python 3 migration.
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by wirrbel 2y ago
> By reputation it produced some excellent developers It goes both ways, excellent developers, quite often people who would also have excelled in a computer science program (but failed because bad grades in foreign languages prevented th
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by wirrbel 2y ago
In Germany there are programs, its a 3 year program and one works in a company and attends classes in a school for theory aspects. So for 3 years you are apprentice, after that journeyman. I assume that you cannot become Master (Meister) f
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by wirrbel 2y ago
A local theme park as a "dutch quarter" and I as a kid was always fascinated by one booth having a letter "ÿ" in the name. I later learned that it was some kind of alternativ spelling for ij, and if you spell ij in black
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by wirrbel 2y ago
no, daykstra. In the dutch of the middle-ages it might have been deekstra
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by wirrbel 2y ago
The way traditional artists think and thought about colors is definitely not in the shape of color wheels. Traditional artists think in terms of palettes and of mixtures of colors on the palette. They also think about colors in relation to
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by wirrbel 2y ago
What's really astonishing is that no one at apple dared to fix the bug that creates these files...
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by wirrbel 2y ago
I think i once heard Neil Gaiman explain that he doesn’t think that the level of violence is what distinguishes a book for adults from a book for kids but whether or not the protagonist looses control in the novel and to which extent.

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