Most of the effort in making a language a production language is on the tools and libraries end of things, and LSP is sort of the tip of the iceberg in terms of getting into that stuff. Before that, you probably want to…
The silver lining of this cloud is that it acts as a selection force on institutions, too: If people are harder to pacify, institutions have to step up their game and deliver, or failing that, market themselves better.…
1. Philosophers derive measures of truth from theories of truth. To accept the measure you have to accept the theory. If you question all the theories you simply arrive at well-trodden metaphysical debates within…
The thing I've seen with estimation practice last I researched it is, it works best if you can calibrate. That's something an established shop can do by extrapolating from their previous work, but it is also often as…
I believe most of the FUD is, in fact, coming from those rivals. Brave proposes cutting out a bunch of middlemen through the token market and making the browser something like an anticheat system: opt in and it does its…
I think this one is mostly reflective of the risk/reward payoffs of aggressive and unusual play in any particular game. Play to win means - force the confrontation, take gambles, push your way into a surprise advantage.…
Although I'm not intimate with the BBC hardware this kind of thing doesn't necessarily indicate a hardware mode switch - the renderer could use double width pixels in the HUD simply to lower draw times(simpler…
What you are looking for here is primarily a feedback mechanism issue. This is something that is a hard problem, since good, useful feedback is never quite as simple as just asking someone. Employees are looking for it.…
I literally sat down last spring and focused on this problem with a bit of brainstorming and philosophizing. My goal was to figure out what parts of me added up to being a coherent whole as a person, at least w/r to…
I think the devil is in the details of this one. The shop coder may have never heard of a formal method and thinks it is something that must be "slow" or "too complicated", but they inevitably come crashing into tools…
We've had runs spanning a week plus this season where the AQI never gets under 50...SF is not really safe when it's wildfire smoke from the north because it ends up recirculating. In fact we're in that kind of scenario…
Another "too many programming languages" comment. God! I have no idea - what's happening to the world? Are people not skilled enough to evaluate new languages? There are new type systems and static checks, integrated…
Lua is emerging as a "everything compiles to it" source target - you can have Lisp style syntax, you can have static types and JS style syntax with Haxe - it's designed to piggyback off C codebases well - and on its…
I took the approach of bolting a second compiler on top of Hugo(a custom Python script) to get the extra things I wanted in Hugo. It still took a while, but I did get to leverage the parts of Hugo that already work…
The folding scooters(which do come in e-form) strike a good balance between transportation and transportable: You can take them on transit, and carry them inside. Folding and unfolding - on well designed examples, with…
In short: sum types. If behavior is controlled from the top level(as is suggested by the cases where the main loop grows to 10's of thousands of lines) your behavior branching also appears there. The data is still…
In phases, this is roughly how I learned: 1. Cute hacks like using the eval function in Python and rewriting the string before passing it in. This is basically metaprogramming by macro-processing and a good stepping…
Although browbeating does have a lot of value, especially when there are already some bounds on what the problem is and how it can be solved with your product, you will hit a point where your customers say, "I don't…
The pattern of "stay silent and look dubious to make the candidate feel dumb" is a really common interview hazing strategy in my experience. I think the next time I see it, I'm just going to question whether this is how…
It's associated with an older style of "white tablecloth" dining that has faded away since the midcentury. If you go to the right kind of small-town diner you'll see liver and onions on the menu.
Although I wouldn't argue against unit testing(I use it too), I'm a little more hesitant about incentivizing test quantity. Many times when this comes up having been tried it gets attached to a anecdote that goes: "And…
In agreement. IMHO generics basically have one place where they work well: abstract containers. Your queues, linked lists, what-have-you can benefit. But most other data structures? Nope. Too much of the algorithm…
I actually had a spell the other day where I looked at alternatives to SQL, which mostly produced Tutorial D variants. And there are some nifty ones, there are query languages that will compile to specific SQL dialects…
There's a lot to be said for a "keep moving" approach to project work. I'm a worrier with a perfectionist streak, but I do better with multiple projects because I ruminate less on each one: If I cycle through them over…
The answer is pretty obvious to me: all of the above are potentially sensitive. They aren't professional. They suggest unsavory intent. They can harm people who have experienced those concepts within their personal…
Most of the effort in making a language a production language is on the tools and libraries end of things, and LSP is sort of the tip of the iceberg in terms of getting into that stuff. Before that, you probably want to…
The silver lining of this cloud is that it acts as a selection force on institutions, too: If people are harder to pacify, institutions have to step up their game and deliver, or failing that, market themselves better.…
1. Philosophers derive measures of truth from theories of truth. To accept the measure you have to accept the theory. If you question all the theories you simply arrive at well-trodden metaphysical debates within…
The thing I've seen with estimation practice last I researched it is, it works best if you can calibrate. That's something an established shop can do by extrapolating from their previous work, but it is also often as…
I believe most of the FUD is, in fact, coming from those rivals. Brave proposes cutting out a bunch of middlemen through the token market and making the browser something like an anticheat system: opt in and it does its…
I think this one is mostly reflective of the risk/reward payoffs of aggressive and unusual play in any particular game. Play to win means - force the confrontation, take gambles, push your way into a surprise advantage.…
Although I'm not intimate with the BBC hardware this kind of thing doesn't necessarily indicate a hardware mode switch - the renderer could use double width pixels in the HUD simply to lower draw times(simpler…
What you are looking for here is primarily a feedback mechanism issue. This is something that is a hard problem, since good, useful feedback is never quite as simple as just asking someone. Employees are looking for it.…
I literally sat down last spring and focused on this problem with a bit of brainstorming and philosophizing. My goal was to figure out what parts of me added up to being a coherent whole as a person, at least w/r to…
I think the devil is in the details of this one. The shop coder may have never heard of a formal method and thinks it is something that must be "slow" or "too complicated", but they inevitably come crashing into tools…
We've had runs spanning a week plus this season where the AQI never gets under 50...SF is not really safe when it's wildfire smoke from the north because it ends up recirculating. In fact we're in that kind of scenario…
Another "too many programming languages" comment. God! I have no idea - what's happening to the world? Are people not skilled enough to evaluate new languages? There are new type systems and static checks, integrated…
Lua is emerging as a "everything compiles to it" source target - you can have Lisp style syntax, you can have static types and JS style syntax with Haxe - it's designed to piggyback off C codebases well - and on its…
I took the approach of bolting a second compiler on top of Hugo(a custom Python script) to get the extra things I wanted in Hugo. It still took a while, but I did get to leverage the parts of Hugo that already work…
The folding scooters(which do come in e-form) strike a good balance between transportation and transportable: You can take them on transit, and carry them inside. Folding and unfolding - on well designed examples, with…
In short: sum types. If behavior is controlled from the top level(as is suggested by the cases where the main loop grows to 10's of thousands of lines) your behavior branching also appears there. The data is still…
In phases, this is roughly how I learned: 1. Cute hacks like using the eval function in Python and rewriting the string before passing it in. This is basically metaprogramming by macro-processing and a good stepping…
Although browbeating does have a lot of value, especially when there are already some bounds on what the problem is and how it can be solved with your product, you will hit a point where your customers say, "I don't…
The pattern of "stay silent and look dubious to make the candidate feel dumb" is a really common interview hazing strategy in my experience. I think the next time I see it, I'm just going to question whether this is how…
It's associated with an older style of "white tablecloth" dining that has faded away since the midcentury. If you go to the right kind of small-town diner you'll see liver and onions on the menu.
Although I wouldn't argue against unit testing(I use it too), I'm a little more hesitant about incentivizing test quantity. Many times when this comes up having been tried it gets attached to a anecdote that goes: "And…
In agreement. IMHO generics basically have one place where they work well: abstract containers. Your queues, linked lists, what-have-you can benefit. But most other data structures? Nope. Too much of the algorithm…
I actually had a spell the other day where I looked at alternatives to SQL, which mostly produced Tutorial D variants. And there are some nifty ones, there are query languages that will compile to specific SQL dialects…
There's a lot to be said for a "keep moving" approach to project work. I'm a worrier with a perfectionist streak, but I do better with multiple projects because I ruminate less on each one: If I cycle through them over…
The answer is pretty obvious to me: all of the above are potentially sensitive. They aren't professional. They suggest unsavory intent. They can harm people who have experienced those concepts within their personal…