Fun is not measured objectively. Different people find different things fun. I enjoy writing code very much (in addition to solving big problems; one can enjoy both).
> And that's on you. Sorry I have to defend my pride here a little bit. When I joined my previous company, the entire company was on Java 8. When I left every app in every team there was up-to-date on the latest LTS…
Yeah javac is pretty great. I was doing Kotlin for some time and I was getting very annoying by how much slower and slower running tests and doing full builds became. I thought it was some issue with the JVM ecosystem.…
Kotlin coroutines don't really exist. They're a (very neat) programming trick to support coroutine-like behavior on the JVM which doesn't support coroutines. If you look at the bytecode it produces, it honestly is a…
Reddit didn't (yet). Another tech focused community site did though... So I stopped participating in the community.
You can build quite an extensive profile of someone given enough post history. More post history means more details. Especially nowadays with LLMs it's trivial. This can lead to all sorts of issues. One is people I know…
Thanks, I was not aware. They seem to be guidelines, and not rules. I find my privacy and the prevention of anyone to build a full profile of me (especially how easy that is now in the age of LLMs) a bit more important…
I cannot identify with this at all. We have Python and Go applications in production, and for Go the vibe is mostly "standard library plus a few dependencies" (e.g. SQL driver, opentelemetry) whereas with Python it's…
Can you explain it for those out of the loop?
Thanks, ChatGPT.
All I can think about is how much power this takes, how many un-renewable resources have been consumed to make this happen. Sure, we all need a funny thing here or there in our lives. But is this stuff really worth it?
Yep. On Mac (and Linux, actually) I know of some applications that do that. I also know that on Windows most applications don't do that. I would also never leave un-saved work open on Windows. I was replying to: "The…
Of course, everyone has their own workflow. I won't tell anyone to adjust their workflow. But the exact point I was trying to make is that it's not random apps. It's specific apps that one knows about and how they…
More and more desktop apps are just becoming websites. More and more desktop apps are using Electron rather than some native app. Windows is slowly becoming a dumpster fire in terms of usability and issues. Most games…
Honestly, it feels like straight up plagiarism. When I saw the title, I thought I knew which website was posted because I had seen it before. When I clicked, I saw an unfamiliar website and was surprised that it was…
Correct. Although the performance characteristics are different. An exception in Java generates a stack trace, which is relatively expensive. So not a great idea in un-exceptional code paths that need to perform well.
The biggest problem is that people treat it as a dichotomy: either exceptions or error values. But that's a false dichotomy. There would be real value in a language which would have both. Error values are perfect for…
> Rust and Go call these panics but they are implemented like exceptions. I don't know about Rust, but a very important difference between Java exceptions and Go panics, is that a Go panic kills the entirely process…
Is there any backend component? How do you know it's secure and you won't be hacked? Can you comment on the maintainability of the code?
All your stuff would be historical artifacts a century from now. Do you ever just throw anything away? You should consider preserving it instead, for the generations that come after you. How will they feel if they knew…
The fact that you personally haven't encountered an issue, doesn't mean that no issue existed.
Just last week at my job we apparently converged on a Kubernetes deployment to host a static site, due to company security policies related to publicly exposing buckets to the internet... I died a little inside that day.
It helps if you actually qualify statements such as "Containers are absolutely miserable things". I'm in a world where were using containers extensively, and I don't experience any issues whatsoever about which one…
Can you be more specific? E.g. refute something specific that the article mentions. Or are you only reacting to the title, not the article's contents?
What were you using before that? I never see any ad in Firefox with uBlock Origin. I can't imagine it's much of a difference experience than with Brave.
Fun is not measured objectively. Different people find different things fun. I enjoy writing code very much (in addition to solving big problems; one can enjoy both).
> And that's on you. Sorry I have to defend my pride here a little bit. When I joined my previous company, the entire company was on Java 8. When I left every app in every team there was up-to-date on the latest LTS…
Yeah javac is pretty great. I was doing Kotlin for some time and I was getting very annoying by how much slower and slower running tests and doing full builds became. I thought it was some issue with the JVM ecosystem.…
Kotlin coroutines don't really exist. They're a (very neat) programming trick to support coroutine-like behavior on the JVM which doesn't support coroutines. If you look at the bytecode it produces, it honestly is a…
Reddit didn't (yet). Another tech focused community site did though... So I stopped participating in the community.
You can build quite an extensive profile of someone given enough post history. More post history means more details. Especially nowadays with LLMs it's trivial. This can lead to all sorts of issues. One is people I know…
Thanks, I was not aware. They seem to be guidelines, and not rules. I find my privacy and the prevention of anyone to build a full profile of me (especially how easy that is now in the age of LLMs) a bit more important…
I cannot identify with this at all. We have Python and Go applications in production, and for Go the vibe is mostly "standard library plus a few dependencies" (e.g. SQL driver, opentelemetry) whereas with Python it's…
Can you explain it for those out of the loop?
Thanks, ChatGPT.
All I can think about is how much power this takes, how many un-renewable resources have been consumed to make this happen. Sure, we all need a funny thing here or there in our lives. But is this stuff really worth it?
Yep. On Mac (and Linux, actually) I know of some applications that do that. I also know that on Windows most applications don't do that. I would also never leave un-saved work open on Windows. I was replying to: "The…
Of course, everyone has their own workflow. I won't tell anyone to adjust their workflow. But the exact point I was trying to make is that it's not random apps. It's specific apps that one knows about and how they…
More and more desktop apps are just becoming websites. More and more desktop apps are using Electron rather than some native app. Windows is slowly becoming a dumpster fire in terms of usability and issues. Most games…
Honestly, it feels like straight up plagiarism. When I saw the title, I thought I knew which website was posted because I had seen it before. When I clicked, I saw an unfamiliar website and was surprised that it was…
Correct. Although the performance characteristics are different. An exception in Java generates a stack trace, which is relatively expensive. So not a great idea in un-exceptional code paths that need to perform well.
The biggest problem is that people treat it as a dichotomy: either exceptions or error values. But that's a false dichotomy. There would be real value in a language which would have both. Error values are perfect for…
> Rust and Go call these panics but they are implemented like exceptions. I don't know about Rust, but a very important difference between Java exceptions and Go panics, is that a Go panic kills the entirely process…
Is there any backend component? How do you know it's secure and you won't be hacked? Can you comment on the maintainability of the code?
All your stuff would be historical artifacts a century from now. Do you ever just throw anything away? You should consider preserving it instead, for the generations that come after you. How will they feel if they knew…
The fact that you personally haven't encountered an issue, doesn't mean that no issue existed.
Just last week at my job we apparently converged on a Kubernetes deployment to host a static site, due to company security policies related to publicly exposing buckets to the internet... I died a little inside that day.
It helps if you actually qualify statements such as "Containers are absolutely miserable things". I'm in a world where were using containers extensively, and I don't experience any issues whatsoever about which one…
Can you be more specific? E.g. refute something specific that the article mentions. Or are you only reacting to the title, not the article's contents?
What were you using before that? I never see any ad in Firefox with uBlock Origin. I can't imagine it's much of a difference experience than with Brave.