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by zogrodea 2mo ago
"Big Sky Dev Con", not "Better Software Conference" for those who were (like me) initially confused. :) Someone commented in the past few days that the most impressive demo they saw in a conference was LibreOffice runnin
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by zogrodea 2mo ago
Happy to learn about the concept today. It resonates with me. I sometimes think of something Kant wrote, about how friction (hardship, etc.) elevates us. In Kant's own words: "Without those in themselves unamiable characteristics
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Feeling the force of argument (2009) [pdf](uhra.herts.ac.uk)
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by zogrodea 10mo ago
As programmers and as engineers, we often seek objective metrics to judge the value of things, neglecting aesthetic value and value that cannot easily be reduced to objective metrics. This accessible paper reminds us that reasoning is not d
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by zogrodea 2y ago
That's an interesting feature I didn't know F# had. It sounds similar to row polymorphism (which I found a good description of here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829766 ).
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I'm just putting this Alan Kay question (from Stack Overflow) here because of relevance. In that question, he's considered not with implementation or how good the execution of an idea is (which is certainly one type of progress),
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by zogrodea 2y ago
That looks pretty great! I would love to use this at work if functional programming idioms were already familiar to the team and I didn't face resistance introducing them. Thank you for sharing and developing the library.
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I think you're right. People describe Java as being colourless.
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by zogrodea 2y ago
My experience with this is in .NET, which has methods like readFile (which is async) and readFileSync. .NET doesn't really need to provide two separate utility methods like this though, because you can use Task.wait to block until the
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I had the same opinion with async/await, that it's nice to know a function performs IO and will wait before continuing. Makes it clearer when to use Promise.all to make multiple requests in parallel and wait for all of them to fin
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Integrating Defender sounds like it would create an antitrust issue? If I remember correctly, MS was in the past taken to court and forced to sell some product or other separately, when they previously provided it for free. No comment about
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I'm not doubting, but can you give a few examples of Microsoft trouncing others? I do recall Disney (a main reason copyright laws last so long, and who didn't want Steamboat Willie to enter public domain). I also think of Amazon (
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Great article. Reminds me of this quote from RG Collingwood about how pervasive copying has been throughout history, and how the famous names we know to have copied would be baffled about us being shocked. "Individualism would have it
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I remember you describing Ropey's author as a "lovely human" too, and want to say that "it takes one to know one/real recognises real". :)
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by zogrodea 2y ago
This made me think of part of RG Collingwood's Autobiography, when he spoke of growing up while many around him were artists of one kind or another. "During the same years I was constantly watching the work of my father and mother
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I'm inclined to agree with your sentiment, but the example given doesn't quite sit right with me. "Often a sentence fragment missing a verb (like this)." vs "Often a sentence fragment is missing a verb (like this)
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Thanks for enumerating; I never heard of any of that except for the pandemic (and I honestly don't know either way how much better/worse someone else would have done in that position). I think this is the best comment for helping
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I mentioned I never saw a difference in my daily life specifically, in response to a Trump presidency being called "dystopian". I was of course alive when Labour was in charge and have memories of that time, but people still went
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by zogrodea 2y ago
That's a legitimate point. The referendum was 8 years ago and I was 18 back then so there might be some myopia on my part.
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Thanks for the reply. I suppose I have a hard time seeing much happening that will be too bad for ordinary citizens either way. I recall people panicking about a Trump presidency in 2016, but I never saw or heard many negative outcomes (for
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Would you mind explaining what the negative practical consequences would be in the event of a Trump nomination? The worst thing I remember from him (an action which was truly horrible) was related to ICE separating children from their famil
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I remember my CS course using web tech (Codio) to teach coding, which doesn't seem like a bad option for educators, as far as dealing with cross-platform differences goes.
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I think the FSF bent of open source is easier to identify as explicitly political because it tries to force developers to do something they may or may not want (disclose source code). There's some anti-corporate messaging there, becaus
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Nice article that reminds me of that one Sherlock Holmes quote. “I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Value speculation is a neat trick. I was also surprised a low-level hack like this worked in a high-level language like OCaml. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35844078
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I didn't downvote this comment, but it's a bit funny that a comment complaining about downvotes is itself being downvoted.
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by zogrodea 2y ago
As someone trying to carve out a (non-commercial, for me personally) space for desktop apps, the author raises very good points and I believe they are right. (Although I still prefer working on non-web tech when I can.)
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by zogrodea 2y ago
Your comment reminds of Haskell's motto, which may apply here as well. "Avoid success at all costs" meaning, not to intentionally avoid success, but if you try to gain success/widespread adoption by compromising your oth
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by zogrodea 2y ago
I remember this quote from a 1930s book when the topic of book reviews come up, and I think it applies to NYT in particular. "There are critics and reviewers, literary and artistic journals, which ought to be at work mitigating these e
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by zogrodea 2y ago
My understanding of the comment is that it’s in the context of saving an enumeration-object into a database. Like Typescript might (for example) represent enums as integers like 1, 2, 3... at runtime. What happens if you decide to store a “

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